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Here a question.

How long do people think the N64 has left to live?

With games like Perfect Dark, Zelda: The Continuing Sage, Turok 3, A Resident Evil game, Top Gear Rally 2, and a bunch of other wicked games this year. How long will the N64 live for? Specially with the PS2 and Dolphin on the horizon how much longer can the N64 last?

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Wait for Battle of Naboo, it should really good.
You can battle in the Starfighter, and fight on land and sea. There's no mulitplayer but still it should be good

If you're a Star Wars fan and you were disappointed with the release Shadows of the Empire, but you loved the mission at Hoth, this game is for you. Inspired by that great snow speeder mission in Shadows (Hoth), Rogue Squadron is entirely based on that same type of mission: in the cockpit of an aircraft flying and ripping up Imperial ships. There are 5 great Rebel crafts to choose from: the X-Wing, A-Wing, Y-Wing, Airspeeder and V-Wing. You're one of the crafts in every mission, in planetary battles.

There are no straight space missions, all your missions take place on extensive 3D worlds and planetary surfaces. With a variety of missions like search and destroy, rescue, protect and reconnaissance with 5 ships to choose from, this game is a blast. Each mission has a default ship to start out with, then after you've beaten the mission you can choose from all the crafts available for that mission. You are awarded medals for completing a mission: gold, silver and bronze. What you get depends on the objectives you met in the missions. There are many secrets in the game that really make it fun. The AI has also been extensively improved to provide a much better opponent than in Shadows.

Graphics
Rogue Squadron provides the gamer with stunning graphics and 3D realism. From the Imperial AT-ATs, AT-STs and TIE Fighters to the extremely detailed Rebel X-Wings and Y-Wings, the realism doesn't stop. Somehow LucasArts and Factor 5 have managed to bring all the Star Wars movies down to every last detail into this great console game. But wait, there's more. If you're lucky enough to own a 4MB RAM Expansion pack the graphics look EVEN more realistic and amazing. Once you've played the game is high-res mode (640x480), you'll never want to go back. Plus, there's an amazing ship selection screen when you want to pick your craft. It's enough to make any Star Wars fan pee their pants with joy.

But with every great game there are some downfalls. As good as the graphics are in high-res, you might start to notice a small slow down in the game once you get into heavy action or high detail. This slows down the action a bit and becomes more noticeable with the detailed city stages. Another surprising thing that I found was the poor water textures. Some gamers might not notice the water textures, but compared to the awesome 3D mountain landscapes, it looks like crap. However, these two things are very minor and the graphics are still awesome.

Music and Sound
Looking for those classic Star Wars title tracks and awesome sound effects you'll find in all of the movies? They're all here and they all sound beautiful. The music is extremely well done and while your doing your missions the music changes to suit what's happening around you. The sound effects are done in full 3D surround sound and they make it 100% more realistic. You'll hear the whine of a TIE Fighter's twin engines while laser blasts are shooting through the air around you. Superbly done.

Overall Gameplay
A great story line and a large variety of missions to fly. The missions aren't as easy as most of them look, but they aren't extremely difficult. You might get frustrated with some of the later missions, but it is definitely solid gaming. The control is very easy to learn and the ships are easy to fly and very maneuverable. Even if you don't know how to play you'll learn within a few minutes of playing a mission. The one big thing I think LucasArts and Factor 5 left out of this game was the multi-player option. That would have cranked the replay value way up and this game would never get old. I can just imagine a 4 player battle with the Star Wars ships in Cloud city, boy would that have been nice. Unfortunately there is no multi-player mode, but LucasArts and Factor 5 did leave us one hell of a Star Wars game.

And after seeing those GameCube movies, it would be a good time to do it!

Link, surely is much more mature than Mario. Maybe he could be the new character symbol.

And the point of this is for..................

Speical Reserve are the best...

... I have knee difficulties meaning I cant walk for too long so I am always playing my trusty Nintendo 64. To get more games I always had to go to town.Until I saw an advertisement for Speical Reserve, I would be suffering knee pains and BIG prices. So then I joined S.R, got my free gift and ordered my game. It was MUCH cheaper and it was delivered quickly.I saved over £10! The redy idea means free stuff e.g. Turok Rage wars for 5 redies! COOL.
One more thing, they get the latest games the day their relised and you can pre order!

Thanks Special Reserve- your the best

Crash Bandicoot! If it wasn't for Mario, it wouldn't of been good! Solid Snake is not really a good choice he is no way a great character, i like many Final Fantasy characters and Link.

Hmmmm, Mario is the best, well known, longest running character ever. But we all have different opinions, which is why I prefer Solid Snake off MGS. DON'T INSULT ME, I JUST PREFER SNAKE!! I also like Crash Bandicoot and HATE Sonic the Hedgehog. I also think it might be a good idea for Nintendo to make a new, more modern character. Joanna Dark could be, but she never really succeeded brilliantly.
CAN YOU RESPECTED NINTENDO FANS THINK OF A NEW NINTENDO CHARACTER, I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR IDEAS!!

Albuquerque
by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down
the street from Jerry's Bait Shop... You know the place... Well anyway, back then life was going swell and everything was juuuuust
peachy!!! Except of course for the undeniable fact that every single morning my mother would make me a big ol' bowl of sauerkraut for
breakfast.
Dawww!! Big bowl of sauerkraut!
Every single mornin'! It was driving me crazy.

I said to my mom, I said, "Hey, mom, what's up with all the sauerkraut?" And my dear, sweet mother, she just looked at me like a cow
looks at an oncoming train. And she leaned right down next to me, and she said, "IT'S GOOD FOR YOU!" And then she tied me to
the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth and force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until I was 26 and a half years old.

That's when I swore that someday, someday I would get outta that basement and travel to a magical, far away place, where the sun is
always shining and the air smells like warm root beer, and the towels are oh so fluffy! Where the shriners and the lepers play their
ukuleles all day long, and anyone on the street will gladly shave your back for a nickel!

Wacka wacka, doo doo, yeah!

Well, let me tell you, people, it wasn't long at all before my dream came true. Because the very next day, a local radio station had this
contest to see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in Leonard Nimoy's butt. I was off by three, but I still won the grand
prize. That's right, a first class, one-way ticket...

to Albuquerque!
Albuquerque!

Oh yeah. You know, I'd never been on a real airplane before, and I gotta tell ya, it was really great... except that I had to sit between
two large Albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor. And the little kid in back of me kept throwin' up the whole time. The
flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts, and the in-flight movie was Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore...and, oh yeah, three
of the airplane engines burned out, and we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside and the plane exploded in a giant fireball and
everybody died. Except for me. You know why?

'Cause I had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position
Had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position
Had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position

Ah-ha-ha-ha. Ah-ha-ha. Aahhh. So I crawled from the twisted, burnin' wreckage, I crawled on my hands and knees for three full days,
draggin' along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag and my tenor saxophone and my 12-pound bowlin' ball and my lucky, lucky
autographed glow-in-the-dark snorkel. But finally I arrived at the world famous Albuquerque Holiday Inn where the towels are oh so
fluffy! And you can eat your soup right out of the ashtrays if you wanna. It's OK, they're clean.

Well, I checked into my room, and I turned down the A/C, and I turned on the SpectraVision, and I'm just about to eat that little
chocolate mint on my pillow that I love so very, very much, when suddenly there's a knock on the door. Well, now, who could that be?

I say, "Who is it?" No answer.
"Who is it?" There's no answer.
"WHO IS IT!?" They're not sayin' anything.

So finally, I go over and I open the door, and just as I suspected, it's some big, fat hermaphrodite with a Flock of Seagulls haircut, and
only one nostril. Oh, man, I hate it when I'm right. So, anyway, he bursts into my room, and he grabs my lucky snorkel, and I'm like,
"Hey, you can't have that! That snorkel's been just like a snorkel to me."
And he's like, "Tough!"
And I'm like, "Give it!"
And he's like, "Make me!"
And I'm like, "'kay!"
So I grabbed his leg and he grabbed my esophagus, and I bit off his ear and he chewed off my eyebrows, and I took out his appendix
and he gave me a colonic irrigation, yes indeed, you better believe it. And somehow in the middle of it all, the phone got knocked off
the hook. And twenty seconds later, I heard a familiar voice. And you know what it said? I'll tell ya what it said!

It said, "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again.
If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator.
If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again.
If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator."

In Albuquerque!
Albuquerque!

Well, to cut a long story short, he got away with my snorkel. But I made a solemn vow right then and there that I would not rest, I
would not sleep for an instant, until the one-nostrilled man was brought to justice. But first, I decided to buy some donuts. So I got in
my car, and I drove over to the donut shop, and I walked on up to the guy behind the counter and he says, "Yeah, whaddaya want??"

I said, "You got any glazed donuts?"
He said, "Nah, we're outta glazed donuts."
I say, "Well, you got any jelly donuts?"
He said, "No, we're outta jelly donuts."
I said, "You got any Bavarian cream-filled donuts?"
He said, "No, we're outta Bavarian cream-filled donuts."
I said, "You got any cinnamon rolls?"
He said, "No, we're outta cinnamon rolls!"
I said, "You got any apple fritters?"
He said, "No, we're outta apple fritters!"
I said, "You got any bear claws?"
He said, "Wait a minute, I'll go check."

"No, we're outta bear claws!"
I said, "Well, in that case... in that case, what do you have?"
He says, "All I got right now is this box of one dozen starving crazed weasels."
I said, "OK, I'll take that."
So he hands me the box, and I open up the lid, and the weasels jump out and they immediately latch onto my face and start bitin' me all
over. Oh, man, they were just goin' nuts! They were tearin' me apart! You know, I think it was just about that time that a little ditty
started goin' through my head. I believe it went a little somethin' like this:

DOH! Get 'em off me! Get 'em off me! Ohhh! No, get 'em off, get 'em off! Oh, oh God, oh God! Oh, get 'em off me! Oh, oh God!
Ah,
AaaaaaahhhhhhhhhOhhhhhhhhhh!

I ran out into the street with these flesh-eating weasels all over my face, wavin' my arms all around and just runnin', runnin', runnin' like a
constipated wiener dog. And as luck would have it, that's exactly when I ran into the girl of my dreams. Her name was Zelda. She was
a calligraphy enthusiast, with a slight overbite, and hair the color of strained peaches. I'll never forget the very first thing she said to me.
She said, "Hey, you've got weasels on your face."

That's when I knew it was true love. We were inseparable after that. Aw, we ate together, we bathed together, we even shared the
same piece of mint-flavored dental floss. The world was our burrito. So we got married, and we bought us a house and had two
beautiful children, Nathaniel and Superfly. Oh we were so very, very, very happy, aw yeah. But then, one fateful night, Zelda said to
me, she said, "Sweetie pumpkin? Do you wanna join the Columbia Record Club?" I said, "Woah! Hold on now, baby! I'm just not
ready for that kind of a commitment!"

So we broke up, and I never saw her again, but that's just the way things go...

in Albuquerque!
Albuquerque!

Anyway, things really started lookin' up for me, because about a week later, I finally achieved my lifelong dream. That's right, I got me
a part-time job at the Sizzler! I even made employee of the month after I put out that grease fire with my face. Aw yeah, everybody
was pretty jealous of me after that. I was gettin' a lot of attitude.

OK, like one time, I was out in the parkin' lot, tryin' to remove my excess earwax with a golf pencil, when I see this guy Marty tryin' to
carry a big ol' sofa up the stairs all by himself. So I-I say to him, I say, "Hey, you want me to help you with that?" And Marty, he just
rolls his eyes, and goes, "No, I want you to cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw!" So I did.

And then he gets all indignant on me. He's like, "Hey, man, I was just being sarcastic!" Well, that's just great. How was I supposed to
know that? I'm not a mind reader, for cryin' out loud. Besides, now he's got a really cute nickname - Torso-Boy! So what's he
complaining about?

Say, that reminds me of another amusing anecdote. This guy comes up to me on the street and he tells me he hasn't had a bite in three
days. Well, I knew what he meant, but just to be funny, I took a big bite out of his jugular vein. And he's yelling and screaming and
bleeding all over, and I'm like, "Hey, come on, don'tcha get it?" But he just keeps rolling around on the sidewalk, bleeding and
screaming, "Aaaahhhh! AaaaahhhhOhhhhh! Aaaaahhhh!" You know, completely missing the irony of the whole situation. Man, some
people just can't take a joke, you know?

Anyway, um...um...where was I? Kinda lost my train of thought.

Uh, well, uh, OK, anyway, I-I know it's kind of a roundabout way of saying it, but, I guess the whole point I'm tryin' to make here is...

I HATE SAUERKRAUT!

That's all I'm really tryin' to say. And, by the way, if one day you happen to wake up and find yourself in an existential quandry, full of
loathing and self-doubt and wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence, at least you can take a small bit of
comfort in knowing that somewhere out there in this crazy ol' mixed-up universe of ours, there's still a little place

called Albuquerque!
Albuquerque!
Albuquerque! (Albuquerque!)
Albuquerque! (Albuquerque!)
Albuquerque! (Albuquerque!)
Albuquerque! (Albuquerque!)

I said A! (A!)
L! (L!)
B! (B!)
U! (U!)

querque! (querque!)

(Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque)
(Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque)
(Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque)
(Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque)

Al...buquerque!
*burp*
heh heh heh heh

I dispise Sonic the Hedgehog. I spew at the thought of him. Excuse me (bbblllooouggghhh) Sorry about that. Anyway, nothing comes close to Mario's superiority.