Insert Coin: The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time

“The game opens as the fairy Navi awakens Link from a nightmare, in which Link witnesses a stormy night where a man in black armor on horseback chases after a girl on a white horse. Navi brings Link to the guardian of Link's village, the Great Deku Tree, who is cursed and near death. Link breaks the curse, but cannot stop the tree from withering. The Deku Tree tells Link a ‘wicked man of the desert’ has cursed him and seeks to conquer the land of Hyrule and that Link must stop him. Before dying, the Great Deku Tree gives Link the spiritual stone of the forest, the Kokiri's Emerald, and sends him to Hyrule Castle to speak with the ‘princess of destiny.’ As Link is leaving, his close friend Saria bids him good luck and gives him the Fairy Ocarina, a precursor to the Ocarina of Time.”

This was a very intense game. I sucked at it hard because it required too much thought and stuff. I’m not a thought kinda guy when it comes to games. So I had my ex say “Do this, this, and then that” and I would and kick ass. You had to get this giant guide book and also purchase an extension pack to make the game run smoothly. I also had to buy a Rumble Pack to feel the vibrations. Feel it, feel it! But sometimes I didn’t feel like saving everyone from the evil bastards around Hyrule. Sometimes I just felt like spending hours fishing. And I did!

Insert Coin: WCW/nWo Revenge

“At the time of the game's release, the Monday Night Wars were starting to go in favor of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Despite this WCW/nWo Revenge was generally recognized as the best wrestling game of 1998. Revenge's main competition that year was WWF War Zone by Acclaim. The Revenge grappling system is part of what ensured the game's success and popularity. The system was simple to learn and allowed for a variety of moves to be performed depending on the character.”

Screw 1998. This is still one of the best wrestling games ever created. I remember back when I first played this it seemed so damned realistic. It was the first game to feature blood. You’d hit someone in the head with a bat, chair, or trophy and they would pause, check the blood, and pass out. Some woman even screamed out loud when it happened. This was also one of the first times I played a wrestling game where people actually had most of their own real moves, not a generic move set with hopefully their real finisher. I’m looking at you Royal Rumble for Sega Genesis.

Insert Coin: Goldeneye

“GoldenEye 007 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and based on the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. It was published by Nintendo and was exclusively released for the Nintendo 64 video game console in August 1997. The game features a single player campaign in which players assume the role of British Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond as he fights to prevent a criminal syndicate from using a satellite weapon to cause a global financial meltdown, and a split-screen multiplayer mode for up to four players.”

"Then maybe you shouldn't be heeeeeere!!!"

Dun-dun! Dun! Dun-dun! Dun! Dun-dun-dun-dun! As soon as I hear that I have flashbacks of playing Goldeneye on Nintendo 64 for hours at a time. I first saw it at a party with about ten people surrounding the screen and shouting at each other. Watching actually made me feel sick so I didn’t even want to play it. Then of course I got sucked into it and feel in love with it. You can play by yourself (which is only fun if you have cheat modes on) or against three other people. There’s nothing like chasing a bunch of people around a temple of laboratory and firing at them with an assault rifle and laughing like a jackass. This game is the party killer.

Insert Coin: Super Smash Bros.

“Eight characters are playable from the beginning of the game: Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Kirby, Fox, and Pikachu. Four more characters can then be unlocked by completing different aspects of the game: Luigi, Captain Falcon, Ness and Jigglypuff.”

You know why I loved this game so much? Captain Falcon. He is one of the few characters in this game that doesn’t shoot something but its not like he even needs to. One Falcon Punch or Falcon Kick followed by “Yes!” and you’re good to go. Super Smash Brothers on the Nintendo 64 was/is one of my favorite games to play. Yeah, I still own and play this game every month or so. If I’m feeling extra speecy spicy I’ll put it on extra hard and then get mad when I have to fight Yoshi Team. Those guys are assholes. You have to beat twenty of these jerks and the whole time they make those annoying Yoshi sounds. So there’s nothing better than killing three of them at a time.