I remember reading about it in Nintendo Power magazine. I was into Super Mario 64, Super Mario Kart 64, and Banjo Kazooie type of games though back then. I didn't play Starcraft 64, but I did play the crap out of STARfox 64. lolz

Zallkar

United States449 Posts

February 24 2011 09:10 GMT

#22

Looking back I can't believe that it didn't dawn on me to look at my friends screen when we played. Ahh the days of innocence.

Barca

United States418 Posts

February 24 2011 09:21 GMT

#23

Just played this a month ago against my buddy who can't beat me in SC2 so he challenged me in SC64.

Let's just say micro doesn't exist, so Zealot rushes are ridiculously powerful xD

CooDu

Australia899 Posts

February 24 2011 09:43 GMT

#24

I too hired it with a friend. It was pretty Brutal compared to the PC version so while we played one of us would always link it back to the PC version and go, ohhh yeah this is so much worse

I think we ended up playing some LAN SC on PC after, hahaha, good times. Nice thread!

MaiBoA38

United States108 Posts

February 24 2011 09:53 GMT

#25

I loved this game, you could never play on any map larger than 64x64 or it fastest speed would feel like normal. Also auto mining and 150 mineral spawning pools was tight too. I remember trying to go back and muta micro on it, and thinking it was really easy lol

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

February 24 2011 10:05 GMT

#26

I heard about this, though I usually spent my childhood playing Command and Conquer, Red Alert, and Warcraft 2 on the Playstation. IMO, console RTS controls were extremely archaic back then.

Also, how was the split screen multiplayer? It seems that screenlooking completely negates proper scouting.

Befree

695 Posts

February 24 2011 10:11 GMT

#27

I played it after already having been pretty experienced in the PC version. I just loved SC so much, I wanted any game about SC. The computer was a difficult thing to get on with my family using it too, so the N64 version let me play it more.

What I loved most about it was split screen. I thought it was just the coolest thing I could play SC with a friend next to me!

Also, the campaign forced me to not cheat so it was the first time I actually went through the campaign cheat-free.

I still play it sometimes now too. Triumvirate! Great fun!

shane_danger16

United States40 Posts

February 24 2011 10:11 GMT

#28

Me and my brother used to play eachother all the time but we would agree not to attack eachother untill we were both 200 200 then we would battle it out haha. Protoss always won.

Duban

United States548 Posts

February 24 2011 13:13 GMT

#29

Ah, fun times. It feels almost embarassing that I liked the N64 version, with all its awkward controls, at the time :-). Not having a attack button or move button, only something inbetween, was so rediculous in retrospect lol. You'd have to spam the attackmove button thingy like 50 times to sucessfully disengage from a battle.

Still complaints aside my friend and I loved kicking the computer's ass on coop. We only played island maps because the computer would always crush us with its first push otherwise.

On February 24 2011 18:10 Zallkar wrote:
Looking back I can't believe that it didn't dawn on me to look at my friends screen when we played. Ahh the days of innocence.

To be fair, if you're playing on the N64 against other players, enjoying it, you probably aren't good enough to know what to look for anyways.

astroorion

United States1022 Posts

February 24 2011 13:21 GMT

#30

I found a guy selling this, and I hope that I will get it for my birthday! But it looks like a fun challenge

MrMotionPicture

United States4327 Posts

February 24 2011 13:30 GMT

#31

I had that game. It was also my only gateway to the Starcraft world. I had no PC version until SC2, but I still had a lot of fun playing against the computer on Lost Temple or something like that. Heheh

Roeder

Denmark735 Posts

February 24 2011 13:32 GMT

#32

I remember playing Red Alert for the ps1. Took me roughly half an hour to target and command my army.

GGTeMpLaR

United States7226 Posts

February 24 2011 13:34 GMT

#33

starcraft 64 is how I got into starcraft

I still remember beating the campaign missions one level at a time and playing with friends/brothers like all day

nostalgia man

iPlaY.NettleS

Australia4341 Posts

February 24 2011 13:39 GMT

#34

It wasn't the developers fault , they did the best they could.
SC on N64 was a terrible idea to begin with.

Nyovne

Netherlands19135 Posts

February 24 2011 13:44 GMT

#35

Blogged.

Altern

United States1053 Posts

February 24 2011 13:44 GMT

#36

There was a N64 emulator for the PSP and I thought it would've been cool to play sc on the PSP even though it wouldn't work well at all haha, but never got it to work

KillemallCFH

United States45 Posts

February 24 2011 15:36 GMT

#37

Heh, my friend got this for me as a kinda-joke present this past Christmas. It's not nearly as terrible as people make it out to be. It's playable, which is more than can be said for most PC -> Console ports. Obviously it's not going to play anywhere near as well as on PC, but they did the best they could with an N64 controller.

On a another note, the PlayStation Diablo port was actually really good.

xkare

Germany140 Posts

February 24 2011 17:08 GMT

#38

I played it sometimes at a friend but i can barely renember. We always ended playing Mario Kart anyway when we would play on Nintendo64.

Jonoman92

United States9104 Posts

February 24 2011 17:15 GMT

#39

I discovered Starcraft through the N64 as well. Once I realized it was a computer game and I bought the computer version I couldn't play it on the N64 anymore because the fastest setting on the N64 is like playing normal on the computer.

However, you could have 18 units in a group on the N64 instead of just 12! I think I've lost the cartridge though which makes me kind of sad.

HollowLord

United States3862 Posts

February 24 2011 20:48 GMT

#40

On February 24 2011 17:54 TyrantPotato wrote:
perfect idea.

next time get get a JvF final.

it must be played on this.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

I would so watch the HELL out of this.