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Forsaken 64 is the next addition to the Nintendo Switch Online retro lineup

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The Nintendo Switch Online retro library is getting a new addition soon, and one with a high enough ESRB rating that'll be exclusive to the "mature" collection, which currently includes Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, and Perfect Dark. On September 4th, Forsaken 64 will be added. The game, released originally in 1998, is a first-person shooter that takes places in an apocalyptic future.

You are a ruthless mercenary, sent to the condemned remains of Earth as part of a covert operation codenamed "Forsaken." Your mission is to infiltrate and destroy the last bastions of the mechanized terror that wiped out all life on the planet. Earth is a death trap riddled with merciless mechanoid adversaries and gangs of rival bounty hunters, and you'll have to brave them all astride your anti-grav pioncycle to make your fortune...or meet your doom. Choose between different modes in this first-person shooter title released for the Nintendo 64™ system in 1998, and enter the fight in Single Player Mode or Multi-Player Mode. Then, select your bike. Each bike has different attributes, each biker a different attitude. Pick one that suits your style, then dive into your mission. The availability of weapons, enemies, and powerups changes depending on the level you play, so stay sharp!
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I have heard my family talked about this underrated gem, and I have yet to try it out for myself. One of the benefits of finally being old is to finally play these games (even if I'm one almost two years after being the required age to play it)
 
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Honesty, why can't Nintendo just sell these games? Anyone who wants to play a Nintendo console online has to pay anyway.
 
raxadian said:
Honesty, why can't Nintendo just sell these games? Anyone who wants to play a Nintendo console online has to pay anyway.
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Because there's no profit in selling them outright. Supposedly its another thing to keep people hooked to the service.

Frankly, I'd rather have the game on hand or on my device/hard drive than pay for a "service" to temporarily have access to it while playing the equivalent cost of said games (sometimes several times over) per month, just to play it, knowing full well that when the service shuts down in the future, it won't be playable anymore...
 
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Not going to lie, never heard of this game until now. Just like I didn't know about shadowman. While most people wouldn't care about most of the games included in this services, the lesser known ones are interesting choices since it least brings awareness or curiosity. (Hope maybe they can get the 40 Winks game piko interactive managed to release) :ninja:
 
Wow that's a nostalgia trip. I had Forsaken 64. I don't think I ever finished it. I have no idea how I got the game, I don't remember my mom buying it. I just had it. I think I still have it, but it doesn't work. Yeah that was my first FPS.
 
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I remember buying Forsaken after GoldenEye to get some more multiplayer games for me and my buddies, but it didn’t quite hit the spot and we ended up dumping it and going back to GoldenEye, Mario Kart and eventually Turok Rage Wars and Perfect Dark.

The NSO service is so hit and miss. More miss than hit tbh.

This is the 42nd release for N64, and lines up with the recently “mined” games potentially coming (glover, SSB and DK64 are on that list too), but it’s so sporadic and random and the level of emulation is legitimately janky.
 
Didn't Digital Foundry make a video about this game ages ago where they praised its technical performance and called it quite different to the PS1 port?
 
i have no idea that this game existed till now but the map kinda reminds me of that gross game called scorn for some reason
 
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Leak was right! Nintendo leaked their own NSO game list. lol
 
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I literally never heard of this game. But wait, it's part of the more mature N64 titles in the lineup... so Conker's Bad Fur Day when?
 
Hippocampus_Hamster said:
Because there's no profit in selling them outright. Supposedly its another thing to keep people hooked to the service.
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How the fuck there is no profit when they are the sole license holders of most of the games being provided in their service? The cost for them would be virtually zero.
 

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