N64's Ridge Racer 64 Added to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 February 2025 / 2,519 Views
Nintendo announced the Nintendo 64 game - Ridge Racer 64 - have been added to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack.
View a trailer of the games below:
Read details on the games below:
Race into action with Ridge Racer 64!
It’s got all the fast-paced arcade action you’ve come to expect from the Ridge Racer name. Plus extra features you’ve never seen before! Race with up to four players simultaneously on the same screen. Compete on never-before-seen tracks and witness amazing special effects. You’ve never seen a Ridge Racer like this!
Features:
- Up to four players can race simultaneously on the same screen-a first for the Ridge Racer series!
- Incredible special effects, such as skid marks, smoking tires, working headlights. lens flares and more!
- Choose from 25 cars and race on nine different courses, including four never-before-seen tracks!
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Ok..., it's a fine addition. I remember when that game appeared: Nintendo did some effort to sell it as a big one. It was not, but was a fine arcade game. They themselves produced it in USA, with Namco just giving them the license. I suppose they believe it was "a huge deal" to get that franchise outside Playstation for the first time, and it's in fact a good Ridge Racer, but...
... the truth is in 2000, Ridge Racer already felt as a very old racing franchise and barely nobody cared. It was fine as an "arcade" game... but many believe the media overrated it, pretending it was STILL a big deal to get a Ridge Racer. Not that much.
Then, they basically reused it as one of the first titles for the Nintendo DS some years later, changing the name to RRDS and the girl in the portrait. It was just a meh game, but being in full 3D and portable... if you wanted a DS racing game when the console was released, probably you would buy it (just because it was this, or Asphalt).
And after that, Ridge Racer franchise disappeared from the radar, and just died into the oblivion. All its games for (by then) modern consoles were just increasingly ignored by the general public. The last really "Important" RR was RRV, that same 2000 of RR64, a launch game for PS2. And was very mediocre, as the rest of the first bunch of games for PS2. So much mediocrity, many REALLY started to doubt about PS2 during that first year. Thank God Sega killed Dreamcast, with no previous alert, in january 2001, right? Retards...
And Namco? was buyed by Bandai after the release of the DS port of this RR64, and basically fagocitated the last 20 years until being basically nothing more than a distant memory. Happy End XD.
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the first game I ever emulated lol
might as well revisit it and check if it holds up...
also kinda disappointed they still haven't added DK64 T_T
DK64 is an emulation nightmare if I remember correctly.
if Banjo Tooie came, then DK64 will come eventually…not sure what Nintendo’s waiting for tho. Maybe they want to save it for when the next mainline Donkey Kong game releases? No idea.
I like it. Tried it a few hours ago and once I gut the hang of it, it felt pretty good.
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