

Voodoo Vince being Microsoft's (or at least funded by them) effort a bit later in life and actually not bad either. Ghouls n Ghosts had a spinoff in the Maximo series. If you are doing historical play throughs there are plenty of things I would do in preference as well, for instance Sly Cooper, Infamous and Ghost of Tsushima devs made a pretty solid little game called Rocket: Robot on Wheels for the N64 as their debut, and while most would think Crash Bandicoot the Sony answer to Sonic and Mario then I would say Ape Escape should be put forth instead. At the same time I would certainly play it over half the dross that comes out these days from people other than Nintendo (who don't do that well either as far as I am concerned, almost winning by default). it would be more of a see how games evolved over the years/part of being a well rounded gamer/know your history than outright play for fun. It is going to be above Gex and considerably above Bubsy and Earthworrm Jim 3d, further still above the horror that is Sonic Adventure.

Spyro was never good but I can see why some enjoy it.

That gets followed by Crash Bandicoot (which for the most part is an endless runner really rather than platformer like the others) and Rayman 2. Click to expand.If cream of the crop of Rare's later N64 efforts, followed by Mario 64 in a distant but not too distant place.
