GoldenEye 007 (Nintendo 64) Review by Mike Matei 

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When we are old and decrepit, the futures retirement homes will have Goldeneye multiplayer parties.

I always thought the AK-47 looked like a giant pencil...

My mom loved this game and beat it within a few days when I was a teen. I remember I'd get so annoyed because I'd invite my guy friends over and rather than chill with me they'd want to challenge my mom in the multiplayer mode. My mom was unbeatable and despite being a 47 year old woman with zero prior experience with video games at the time she was great at Goldeneye and would beat a bunch of 15 year old boys lol. As a result she got really into video games and bought a bunch of different consoles over the years. However none have compared to the fun and hours we'd spend on Goldeneye during my high school years. Another favorite was Turok 2 seeds of evil

This game owes me the years 1997-2000 of my life back...

I strangely remember loving when the game would slow down... it felt epic lol, usually happening amid many explosions while fighting a large group. It was kind of like getting to watch it in slow motion :D Also, my favorite AI moment was whenever you'd kill one that had just started rolling and he'd complete his roll and stand up before suddenly getting knocked back lol

"there aren't that many weapons" there are literally more weapons in this game than any (at the time). lol

Its still one of my favorites I still play it in 2019

When rare was GOLD

That pp7 sound effect, it's like music to my ears!

"Never Die Twice." It's You Only Live Twice mode. Come on, it is literally named after a Bond movie. All the multiplayer modes save for Normal are. You Only Live Twice, The Living Daylights, The Man with the Golden Gun, and Licence to Kill.

"There aren't a huge line-up of weapons" ?? What?? GoldenEye has the most weapons I've ever seen in a game!

007 and Perfect Dark were so fun man. Good times looking back!

One of the best N64 games

4:02 correction, multiplayer was added by 1 guy just 1 month before release. He worked after hours on it and they didnt even tell nintendo they were doing it until it was too late for them to say no.

This game's a ton of fun. The way it aged makes it even more fun. Also, it's oddly satisfying to play with the original N64 controller.

The RC-P90, proximity mines, facility. Come at me. 😂😂😂😂

cant believe you didnt mention how enemies react when shot in the ass

="DK Mode" Meant Donkey Kong mode, hence the long arms and bigger heads.

Me and three of my old school mates still to this day occasionally hook up for a blast on goldeneye or perfect dark, Nearly 20 years still going strong, Absolute classic game one of the best.

I remember going to a friend's house and playing this... and going home and telling my roommate "Dude. We have to get an N64. This James Bond game is amazing!!"

This is certainly among the best games of all fucking time.

excellent review Mike! GoldenEye 007 playing split screen with friends having pizza and soda pulling all-nighters at sleepovers... those were the days!

I've burnt the whole GE soundtrack to cd and play it in my car. Amazing

I lived, ate and breathed this game for years and I still have my original too. I even tried to remake it using the NightFire engine which is basically HalfLife using tools from gearbox. That was a pain because of crappy hardware, still sitting on my HDD. Speed running for the cheats was always fun people used to give my their games to get all the cheats for them at school, could have made money on that haha.

Such fond memories of playing this game with friends and it ruining, I mean, enhancing our friendship. 😀 Great review as usual!

I'm a simple man, i see a goldeneye 64 video, i click it

Must have played 10000 hours of multiplayer with the kids from the block back in the days. Oh the memories

I remember being amazed that I could shoot holes in the walls. And they stayed there!!

I played the hell out of this game when I was kid, I could never get past the Jungle stage though until I was about 16 lol

the game with one of the biggest unwritten rules of gaming history: no oddjob

This is a great game that often overshadows the masterpiece Perfect Dark on the N64 by Rare in most peoples memories. I remember the combat simulator (multiplayer mode) had so much content. Many maps, weapons, bots, challenge modes, crazy number of game modes and much much more. Truly the most ambitious FPS title even to this day.

I have so many good memories of Goldeneye. Yes, the frame rate looks bad in 2018 but at the time I referred to it as slow down or lag if I remember.

I like how you guys did this review more like a documentary of the game keep it up

I got this for an early birthday present in 1997. So many awesome memories associated with this masterpiece. I got pretty good using two controllers (which is batshit stupid/crazy haha!).

Still the very best game ever around my childhood

RCP90 was the best gun

My absolute favorite game on N64. Remember the cheat codes? So much fun. Don't forget the fantastic soundtrack.

Nightfire was a pretty good Bond game too in my opinion.

Goldeneye forever. The soundtrack is also ridiculously under rated, so fucking good.

One of my favorite games of all time across all genres. Probably the most important shooting game and most influential ever. We might not have COD if it was not for Goldeneye.

Jealous of Mike's HDMI modded N64

Now do Perfect Dark as a followup!

“Never Die Twice” was the best Bond film. 😉

That intro was LIT

Oh, the nostalgia. Great job on the review Mike.

Your reviews are always high quality Mike. Keep em coming.

I always loved the silver and gold weapons. Something so classic about plastic shiny metal game guns. :P

very good review, but what often seems to happen is that reviewers almost never talk about the music and sound effect specifics. and in goldeneye's case, much care was put into those things. pretty much every track is a sort of remix of the james bond theme, for example

one of my all time favorite games, thanks for the review Mike

Automatic thumbs up with 007 for the N64.

Still one of my favorite games of all time. It's not just nostalgia speaking here. The music, the level design, the multiplayer, the sound effects...all top-notch. Even if the graphics are dated, the game is still a joy to play.

I remember playing this with my dad last year…there were so many rage episodes

Can we get more classic game reviews by Mike more often? I fully enjoyed this.

What an amazing game. Perfect Dark was awesome too.

20 years later and I can still sing the soundtracks in my head.

"I recommend getting the game for the original Nintendo 64..." *shows emulation footage the whole time*

Good review Mike. A long for the days when my cousins and I would jam 007 for hours on end. Good times.

GoldenEye has a 16:9 mode you can find in the start/watch menu in single player in case you were not aware!

One of my favorite games of all time, still play it to this day

The music at the end brought back so many memories!!!:D

Still prefer to play this over many modern shooters because of its great campaign and cool weapons. Beating the game on 00 Agent, as well as earning all the cheats, is a really rewarding experience.

007 Nightfire and 007 Everything or Nothing don't get enough credit. Those games were absolutely amazing!

remote mines and snipers where my 2 fav weapons in this game back in the day. me and my bro when we where younger did sniper games vs each other now and then at the time (simply using only snipers). we played around in an entrance of a certain area but that area had lots of snow in that outside part of that level. we always loved it

Who else would like to see a remake of this. The fan remake looks good but like to see a retail remake

The absolute best Bond game, in my opinion, because it made me feel the most like Bond.

I was 7 in '97. I'm getting chills of joy watching and hearing these sound effects/music again. As soon as this game came out I ran to my friends house down the street because he got it before I did on Christmas that year. Played it for years as a kid and young teen! Oh the Nostalgia

To this day, passing Aztec 00 agent is one of this games badges of heroism and honor.

Soon as you hear that music at the beginning ALWAYS wants me to play this again such a classic!!!

The music from this game brings so much nostalgia it’s crazy

Perfect Dark is better than Goldeneye, just straight up is. Both titles are fun, Perfect Darks multiplayer was fucking awesome. Awesome guns, bots, levels. Missions were a blast in both games, Perfect Dark soundtrack and sound effects were a blast to listen to.

Thanks for the video and the excellent & very informative review, I didn't know all of the stories in the background of the development of the Goldeneye game! Or that the game actually made more revenue than the movie itself... I didn't have N64, but I still remember playing the game at the local video game shop or at my friends who had all of those consoles you could get in the end of 1990's. Basically, there didn't exist any online shops or direct download shops for video games here in the Northern Europe, until 2000s' :) Oh, that nostalgia! The game was maybe one of the earliest fps games to introduce partly destructive environments, headshots, shell casings ejecting from weapons, clip changing animation, sniper rifles/zoom option for aiming etc. Ok, Duke3d had those environment things and shell casings visible, too. Those little details may seem to be trivial, but I have always thought that all the little details contribute to the gaming experience actually quite much. Nowadays, the game seems somewhat dated compared to the 2010s' fps genre, but in a good and funny way for some reason like the most of the shooters released in the 1990s.

great memories of that game, btw that intro switch just hit the bullseye!

Is perfect dark next?

Goldeneye 007 is low key the best game based off of a movie

Man I loved this game, played it to death back in the day. I still remember crying with laughter seeing the characters "Geddan".

Fantastic breakdown. My best friend and I spent many hours and sleepovers playing Goldeneye on the N64. We were 11 when the game came out. So much fun and so many memories. Power weapons on facility was our favorite multiplayer mode.

Yes! LOVE your reviews! Such great pacing, quality content.

My childhood.

i played this game in single player more times than i can remember. I remember thinking how amazing the graphics were and actually being able to see where your shot hit the target.

This was a really well done and comprehensive review. It's making me really want to go back and replay it. I replayed Perfect Dark doing co-op recently and it was great. I spent hundreds of hours playing 007, Perfect Dark, and Timesplitters; so many good memories!

Best fps ever.

This game is 100% nostalgia, back in the days when I use to watch fresh prince of bell air, kenan and kel, rugrats and WWF wrestling and listen to Eminem and backstreet boys, play games like Turok, F Zero X, Duke Nukem, Ocarina of time, Mario 64. Memories are just flying. I use to play this game with my brothers, how time just flies.

I have fond memories of this game. It was way ahead of its time.

This game was my childhood!! I miss the 90s and the Nintendo 64

This totally brings me back. Love it! Great review.

proximity mines I found a glicked wall I would hide and put about three or four mines in the room everyone died.

As much as I respect goldeneye, perfect dark is the masterpiece for me

I got so many great memories of playing this with my friend back in the days!

Now it's coming to Nintendo Switch online and Xbox Game Pass and that fan remake was killed by MGM.

I'll watched goldeneye in the past. when i was little i really enjoyed this james bond movie

This game is more fun than many PS4 games today

I was born in 1994 never knew this game never played it.. Sad

I've been waiting for this moment for a long time

The N64 game released AFTER the movie was out.

Please do more reviews! I love the documentary style you do on these reviews

That cut from Mario World music to Bond theme was amazing.

Awesome mike i love this game so much it brings me much memories

Thos game is a masterpiece, so many fond memories.

The capture quality in this is great, Mike! Much higher quality than the RF I used back in the day;) May I ask what hardware you used? RGB Scart? Framemeister?