I'm just gonna say Pilotwings 64 is one of the few games out there that really hasn't had a ~proper~ sequel.
Come on Nintendo.
Come on Nintendo.
As a game, Pilotwings Resort is definitely a worthy successor to the N64 version.
Also, my copy of Pilotwings the Biplane crashes, always thought it was weird that the demo would do that. Guess I'm gonna have to find a copy with the other chip.
For me the difference is 2d flight sim from the 16bit era vs the much more advanced 3d polygon driven flight sim of the later games. Think Mario World vs Mario 64. The original Pilotwings has a charm of its own that isn't in the other games.
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> I had a Genesis instead of an SNES around that time
One thing I miss from that era of gaming, households were typically one or the other, at the time I didn't know anybody that had both Nintendo and Sega. I had to sell my NES to upgrade to SNES (I was 7, it was a big deal to me).
If you called Pilotwings 64 a reboot of the original Pilotwings you wouldn't be wrong.