I'm a huge James Bond fan. I would say I like James Bond as much as I like videogames. Luckily, Bond and gaming have gone hand-in-hand for a while, and while the quality of Bond games is always a roller coaster ride, there is no doubt that one Bond game changed the face of gaming forever. That game was GoldenEye, in case you just joined the world.
GoldenEye has been written and talked about ad nauseam, but since I'm such a big fan, we're going to hear about it some more. GameTrailers' "GT Anthology" series brings us lots of fun facts about games in glorious HD and is mostly a look back at classic games. This time around, they cover GoldenEye and deliver a few interesting tidbits, like where the name for the KLOBB came from and the fact that a racing version was planned for the Virtual Boy.
So if you've been yearning for a trip down FPS memory lane, and also for a few random facts, hit the jump and watch the movie. Since this is scarcely news, I'd like to suggest you use the comment space to discuss your fondest GoldenEye memories. Who knows? You might win something if you do.
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11:00 PM on 07.12.2009
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Good to know I didn't grow up being the only that saw Bond's gorilla mouth.
Regarding the factoids about Dr. Doak and the Klobb, I knew both of those. Although, I didn't realize the Klobb was designed after the Skorpion until Call of Duty 4.
I actually didn't get to multiplayer with anyone that much (but I was always Boris, and crouch+move= slide in other guy's screen, hee), but my fondest memories are actually of the music. For an N64 title movie cash-in game, it had a pretty amazing soundtrack. Caverns is probably one of my most favorite pieces in a game, but at the moment I have Runway in my head. XD
And tell me that Cradle doesn't make you think "epic final battle"!
The music was great. Aztec is still one of my favorites to this day.
@guy who didn't play the game: I wont even give you shit, that's how much i pity thee.
@game's music comments: Rare was tha muthafucking SHIT when it came to music, I still have and listen to --TO THIS DAY-- the soundtracks to KILLER INSTINCT, DONKEY KONG COUNTRY and GOLDENEYE. It's like the head honcho at Rareware said "get the music right or you're all fired," their games always had amazing music.
I wish I had cancer, so that I could go to the Make-A-Wish foundation, and use up my final wish to force the re-release of GE64. I would take one for the team like 'dat!
The game was simply one of the best games I have ever played... [i]was[i/]. It's true it hasn't aged that well. And...
@Chronic Logic, totally know what you mean! After years of dual stick FPSing the single stick and two strafe button controls on Goldeneye feel really alien, but like everything else about the game in worked great back in the day.
I recall when the game first came out, how it was neigh impossible to get. About 3 weeks later, I recall waking up hella early to go with my brother and Dad to Superstore, to line up and spend the obscenely pricey $80 (or was it $90?) for the cartridge that everyone coveted. I remember rushing home to play it with my brother, and my other friends coming over to play it.
A few weeks later, I recall going for the longest gaming session I've had in my life, of pretty much a full 48 hours of playing it with 4 other friends (we rotated one person each round), surviving off of Pizza Pops and Coke. At the ripe age of 10, playing Stacks for the majority of the night, changing up all the settings each round, from License To Kill, to Slappers Only, to The Man With The Golden Gun, so many memories. Hitting each other for being "cheap," EVERYONE goddamn fighting to be the short and therefore advantageous Oddjob, the memories of a room full of gamers can't be denied.
Then, how could one possibly forget how much of a goddamn bitch it was to get all the cheats. Particularly the Invincibility one on Facility on Double 00 Agent in under 2:05. As a 10 year old, if felt like you'd play the same level again, and again, like 100 billion times, since you had to time everything perfectly and such, and just rush like a madman, and who couldn't forget the IMMENSE amount of luck you needed to have Dr. Doak appear in the rooms at the end of the level?
Even in today's gaming world, where we're spoiled by all the graphical improvements and pinpoint accuracy and such, the "loaves of bread" that would swing into view during Slappers Only, or the ruckus' created during multiplayer, those are lasting memories that this game has given me. I still consider this game to still be one of the best First Person Shooters a person can play, even by today's standards. These are the memories that this game has given me.
Hands down: Goldeneye = best movie-based game ever.
I'm starting to understand retro gamers. That, or I'm getting old.
When I was at college I finished 6 cartridges for my brothers friends so they had all the cheats.
Still gets played on occasion, I highly reccomend tracking down an Action Replay cartridge so you can unlock all the levels for multiplayer.
Cradle + Snipers = AWESOME.
Also while at college, we hooked it up to the college cinema, no one bitched about not seeing their corner of the screen that day.
and not so sad like Jim.
Did anyone else's skull explode the fist time a friend managed to get back up the Air duct and bitch slap your camping ass in the facility toilets.
We used to play slow mo throwin knives. The most nailbiting fun ever.
I also remember Dark Sims were somehow able to break the physics of the game world and like back flip off shit and snipe you in the head. It was so ridiculous.
GoldenEye will always hold a fond memory for me... Sorry for the sob story ha
:) Ahhh those were the days.
Can you guess what me, my brother and my cousin were doing on the night of the millennium?
Playing Goldeneye from 7pm to 4am. What an amazing night.
Hahaha! I remember that! Stupid boxes, that shit was gay as hell, but totally awesome at the same time! =D Almost forgot about that, although you'd have to be careful of screen watching sons of bitches! >=[ Hahaha! 9 hours only though . . . -_-' Hahaha! I kid, I kid.