While the rumors about GoldenEye 007 on Xbox Live Arcade have gone rather quiet lately, one man would really love to see the classic N64 shooter hit Nintendo's Virtual Console, despite accepting the fact that it will probably never happen.
"There's always someone with some exclusivity agreement, so there's lots of lawyers ... I'm not going to hold my breath," admits designer Martin Hollis. "I'd love it to happen, but I can't see it."
We all like to dump on licensed games for being rubbish, and most of them are. However, the GoldenEye debacle shows what happens when a licensed game turns out to be good and can't ever get a re-release thanks to so many hands being in the legal pot. This is why we'll never see any of those awesome old Aliens games appear on any download services, and that's a real tragedy.
In a way, licensed games being terrible are a sort of blessing. At least we'll never miss them.
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1:20 PM on 05.13.2009
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i only liked how in that one level called "facility" where you climbed thru the vents and you could throw a proximity mine on that soldiers head while he was sitting in the bathroom stall.
That part was the highlight for me, second level, right from the beginning. It was even cooler that you could shoot his hat off!
Use [ i ] Example [ / i ] (without the spaces).
Dip:
My previous comment was aimed RAB, btw. The comment system needs an overhaul... or at least the ability to quote people with ease.
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Maybe YOU need an overhaul! ;-D
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As for Goldeneye on Xbox, MWAHAHAH I still have mine on my N64 suckaaaaas. Nah but seriously, I would C in my P if this happened and came to PSN also. It still is in my top ten games of all time, as it was my first N64 game that came with the console.
On the Millennium in 2000, me, my brother and my cousin stayed up from 7pm to 4am playing Goldeneye. That was our contribution to the Millennium :D
no skin off my balls if they don't re-release it.
His hand makes it look like he's got a humongus extended mouth. Scroll back up and look at his mouth.
I'll post the pic someone made if it without the gun there if I can find it.
Come to think of it the N64 kind of blows in general.
fuck yeah, shooting that guys helmet off was hillarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TSw4T-44Ks
dip is right. Retro-goggles blind us to this game.
I played this again at PAX with some CBM'ers. We had a blast playing it. I think it still holds up just fine as a FPS, if only the controls could be improved a bit it would be able to hang with more modern FPS.
But yea cereally this would be amazing on XBLA and if it had full online multiplayer support.
Try re-watching an 80's movie you always loved as a kid but haven't seen in 15-20 years. Man, I didn't realize The Last Starfighter/Flight of the Navigator/Short Circuit sucked so bad.
http://goldeneyesource.net/
Bite your tongue!! We've always known how bad those movies are, but we love them none the less!
I'm sorry but Short Circuit definitely doesn't suck.
OH SNAP!
I never noticed that before
but now I will notice it EVERY TIME