For most of 1996, the conventional wisdom was that Nintendo was on the ropes. The video game giant, which had dominated the industry worldwide just a few years earlier with the SNES had fallen behind competitors like Sony and Sega. Both companies had beaten Nintendo to the world of three-dimensional gaming, developing large catalogs along the way. But one game helped Nintendo weather the storm and ride the wave to success when the Nintendo 64 launched by deviating from the developer’s typical cartoonish fare and opting for realism. That game just hit Nintendo Switch Online, so 26 years later is the perfect time to revisit this absolute nostalgia trip.
