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Maybe Goldeneye? But yeah, there aren't a lot that come to mind.

N64 primarily shined with four player gameplay. Third parties that focused on that tended to do well. However, besides Goldeneye, Banjo-Kazooie, Blast Corps, Super Smash Bros (made by HAL Labs), Mario Party (made by Hudson Soft), Diddy Kong Racing (Rare), MLB feat Ken Griffey Jr, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, WCW vs NWO: World Tour, Wipeout 64, Excitebike 64 (Left Field), and NBA Courtside.

Not a ton of stand outs, admittedly. In the first two years of N64's existence, there were only a few dozen titles even released on the console.

Goldeneye isn't a third party exclusive. It's a game published and funded by Nintendo, just handled by an external studio (Rare).

I had some fun playing Goldeneye with friends back in the day. Though I’ll be honest, I have no desire to play it again.

On the other hand, I’d happily play SM64 and OoT through again, along with dozens of NES and SNES titles.

Well I recently learned that Goldeneye was ported to the Xbox Live Arcade but then never released, and a few years ago the ported program leaked. It's widescreen and higher resolution than the original, but otherwise the same I believe. I am still dreaming of the day I can get the Xenia emulator properly running that game on linux, which so far has been problematic for me.

Update: the latest version of Xenia for Windows runs nicely for me in proton (installed as a non-steam game in steam as that's the easiest way for me to run it with proton) and the Goldeneye XBLA remaster ran just fine! I plugged in an xbox controller over USB and it ran wonderfully. That was fun! I played through a few levels and it all went smoothly. It seems theres a couple different versions of the goldeneye leaked remaster out there so make sure to try a couple different ones if you have any issue.

It got released for Xbox and on the Switch.

It's not the same as the XBLA remaster. The current Xbox and Switch versions are basically emulated ROMs. The XBLA remaster had a lot more changes and improvements like the Perfect Dark XBLA remaster that was released.

I think your point still stands but I think Goldeneye is obviously an example of a great third party exclusive. Controls dont hold up well but that’s irrelevant.

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