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Woodwork dweller here, you seem to have forgotten:
Majora's Mask
Star Fox 64
Jet Force Gemini
Donkey Kong 64
Diddy Kong Racing
Excite Bike 64
Paper Mario
~~Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door~~
Pokémon Stadium
Yoshi's Story
Pokémon Snap
Mario Party
Felt at the time that there was always a high quality "AAA" release on the horizon interspersed with some of the greatest games ever made. Many of the gameplay techniques these games pioneered during the transition from 2D to 3D are still used to this day.
Obviously a lot of them don't stand the test of time a quarter of a century on but we haven't had a system with the same consistent quality of games for a long time, if ever, IMO.
Thousand Year Door was a GameCube game.
Good point.
You seem to have forgotten Shadows of the Empire too!
Star Wars Rogue Squadron?
Star Wars Episode 1 Racer?
Yes my list was not exhaustive either and tried to focus on exclusives to make the point.
Kind of sad that all of the games named were made by Nintendo or Rare (which was basically owned by Nintendo at the time)
How many third-party games were any good?
We referred to Rare as a "second-party" developer at the time. So sad when they got bought by M$.
To answer your question on third-party games, some of my favourites were...
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Vigilante 8
Extreme-G
Snowboard Kids
Turok
Bomberman 64
Resident Evil 2
San Francisco Rush
And that is when you start seeing pockets of people defend their favorites. Very hard to gauge.
But I don't see a lot of people defending the Castlevania games on the N64. If you were expecting Castlevania to hold up to it's legacy if you picked N64 over PS1 back then, you were in for a world of disappointment. And there were no released Contra games for the N64 either, there was a canceled title, but no known releases.
Pretty sure the aforementioned list makes up for one mid Castlvania game.
I don't get the hype for Castlevania. I've never liked any of them. I also haven't played one since the SNES.
Well, they took a pretty dramatic turn after that point. Still, Castlevania 1 and 3 are beloved for other reasons.