Turok Rage Wars

[esteban]

HahahhahHajjahahahhaa.

[BlueBMW]

One thing I remember was the whole Expansion Pak thing.  I remember getting it for Rogue Squadron (maybe it came with it?)   But I distinctly remember Turok 2 looking WAY better with it than without.  I guess it was a resolution increase and it actually looked quite nice.

[SephirothTNH]

That's really interesting.  I didn't know turok 2 could take advantage of the expansion pack ram.

[BlueBMW]

Yeah it had the whole HI-REZ mode which I think was infact a higher resolution.  Looked a lot sharper.

[ClodBuster]

Turok 2 and Rogue Squadron might have been the reason the expansion pak was eventually released separately from the 64 disk drive at all.

[slinkyturd]

Perfect Dark required it, otherwise you played just the arena challenges. Found that out the hard way. Brought the game home and was so pissed I couldn't play the story mode.

"You're an idiot." Is the response I'd expect from a 12 year old playing Halo online. I say "Good job! You have some personal growing to do before adulthood."

[SephirothTNH]

Turok 2 and Rogue Squadron might have been the reason the expansion pak was eventually released separately from the 64 disk drive at all.

I always figured the main push behind it was DK64 and Majora's Mask.  I can't imagine Majora's mask getting canceled sitting well with nintendo's fan base at the time. 

[ClodBuster]

Well, if I remember right, Acclaim and LucasArts, or their respective developers studios Iguana and Factor 5, came up with high resolution pre-release footage of Turok 2 and Rogue Squadron, and used them to put some pressure on Nintendo, who was still stubbornly waiting for the 64 DD to be released along with the memory expansion.

DK64, MM and PD came months or even years later to the party and to me it looks like they benefitted from the initial breakthrough of the expansion pak in early '99.

Back in the day, most people I personally know couldn't get into Majora's Mask. The same people started glorifying it almost a decade later with the virtual console, GameCube and 3DS re-releases/remakes.