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GoldenEye developer would love to see a VC release photo

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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37 comments | showing # 1 to 37

dip's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:23
dip
The game does not hold up at all after all these years, I don't think I could bring myself to pick it up.
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:27
Magnalon
Update the controls, and I will give hand-jobs on the street to pay for this (figuratively).
RAB's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:27
RAB
i always hated this game. my friends all loved it but i thought it was terrible.

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.
DaedHead8's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:31
DaedHead8
I don't understand why all the license holders can't just have money thrown at them. This game would sell like gangbusters if it were released on any system's downloadble service. I'd go as far as to call it a system seller.
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:32
Justice
@RAB

That part was the highlight for me, second level, right from the beginning. It was even cooler that you could shoot his hat off!
dip's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:33
dip
^Blasphemy. While I thought the single player was totally solid, the multiplayer is what made the game a classic. Between this and Smash Bros. there are few console games that I've put as many hours into playing with my siblings or friends.
dip's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:36
dip
My previous comment was aimed RAB, btw. The comment system needs an overhaul... or at least the ability to quote people with ease.
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:38
Magnalon
@Dip
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.

Response.

Maybe YOU need an overhaul! ;-D
CocoJambo's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:40
CocoJambo
WTF?! There has never been a good game on Nintendo consoles! Stop sucking Nintencock!


/end srcsm
Zippyduda's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:45
Zippyduda
ROFL @ all these comments they're so funny...

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
psycho terror2's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:50
psycho terror2
i still play goldeneye from time to time on my own 'virtual console' (read: project64).

no skin off my balls if they don't re-release it.
Aurain's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:55
Aurain
Once it's been seen, It cannot be unseen.

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.
Danielzilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:56
Danielzilla
There are too many good RPG's yet to be released on VC for me to worry about a horrible FPS I never liked getting released. GoldenEye has always and will always be lame. I said it.

Come to think of it the N64 kind of blows in general.
Zippyduda's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:58
Zippyduda
Haha Aurain you're right XD Please do.
RAB's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 13:59
RAB
@justice

fuck yeah, shooting that guys helmet off was hillarious
Aurain's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 14:05
Aurain
I can't find the picture. But this Handy Youtube vid does the job just fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TSw4T-44Ks
Bulkmailer's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 14:08
Bulkmailer
deformed Pierce Brosnan
pendelton21's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 14:25
pendelton21
Yeah, and so does everyone else who ever played the game as a kid, but hasn't toughed it since.

dip is right. Retro-goggles blind us to this game.
The White Light's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 14:37
The White Light
As much as I loved this game when it came out, it really doesn't hold up too well. It introduced a lot of great ideas, but compared to shooters nowadays, there's nothing that it does that hasn't been done better.
pascuz46's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 14:38
pascuz46
This just in! Golden Eye going exclusive to PSN!
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 14:39
BluDesign
@pendleton

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.
DJDuffy 's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 14:49
DJDuffy
yea DVD that was really good times....and I was way less rusty at it than I thought I'd be...owned you all bwhahahaha.

But yea cereally this would be amazing on XBLA and if it had full online multiplayer support.
mr showtime's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 15:04
mr showtime
I thing pendelton and Dip may be on to something. I've contemplated buying an N64 just so that I can play this game again, but without the memories, it probably isn't very special compared to the FPSers of today.

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.
Sentry's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 15:35
Sentry
I'ma just let the site at the other side of this link speak for me:

http://goldeneyesource.net/
H4RDC0RP5's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 16:26
H4RDC0RP5
Zippyduda's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 16:37
Zippyduda
GOD DAMN I can't get that image out of my head. Hopefully I will forget about it, but it is damn funny nevertheless.
Zippyduda's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 16:42
Zippyduda
Sentry, erm....I love you.
John B's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 16:53
John B
@Mr Showtime:

Bite your tongue!! We've always known how bad those movies are, but we love them none the less!
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 17:04
Chronic Logic
Nintendo and Microsoft doesn't want to share money with each other. Just get an emulator or something.
Steve Cebu's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 17:14
Steve Cebu
I should probably sell my N64 version of GoldenEye on Ebay since I never play it any more. It was a pretty good game before Hi-Def came along. It looks terrible on my HDTV. :(
DaedHead8's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 17:25
DaedHead8
@Mr. Showtime

I'm sorry but Short Circuit definitely doesn't suck.
RoninZero's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 17:55
RoninZero
I've played GoldenEye: Source. It's pretty fun. I played it about 8 months ago or so, when all that was available was one server and the level "Cradle". If the Dtoid community got together and played this a bunch, I might consider playing this online again. Any takers?
theredpepperofdoom's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 18:00
theredpepperofdoom
If Nintendo upscales the game and improves the controls I would buy it. But otherwise a ROM will do.
mr showtime's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 18:12
mr showtime
@ H4RDCORP5

OH SNAP!

I never noticed that before



but now I will notice it EVERY TIME
H4RDC0RP5's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2009 18:59
H4RDC0RP5
mr showtime- credit belongs to /b/. (may it rest in peace).
Arch649's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/14/2009 13:19
Arch649
I probably won't be picking this up. This game has NOT aged well. I played my N64 version recently and it's not very good anymore.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/09/2009 12:40
Holyetheline
Goldeneye was great when I was a kid. It's been years since I've played it but I'd totally download it... too bad that will never happen. At least we have Perfect Dark!
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