I was in high school when this came out and I still have vivid memories of four people crowding around a little TV/VCR combo playing "Bond" at whatever house had the least adult supervision at the time.
I have vivid memories of Kyle memorizing the spawning patterns and being nothing but frustrating to play against. I have vivid memories of spawing, only to get the slow magnum, only to be pinned down by Jefe and his RC-P90, only to take him out with a lucky shot.
I think in later 007 games, they thought that 007 was the draw that made Goldeneye such an epic hit.... it wasn't. Sure, the solo missions were fun, but that wasn't the draw to the game.
The draw was gathering around with your friends and killing them. It was hanging out in a basement with not one, but three other players, on a split screen, and killing the friends you had since elementary school.
It was something we never could do before, it was new, and, most importantly it was fun. It was the game that got us all playing video games again after the video game world got too boring for Gen-X teens. And it's all because you could sit around and kill your best friends over and over again as you swear and yell at one another.
I have vivid memories of Kyle memorizing the spawning patterns and being nothing but frustrating to play against. I have vivid memories of spawing, only to get the slow magnum, only to be pinned down by Jefe and his RC-P90, only to take him out with a lucky shot.
I think in later 007 games, they thought that 007 was the draw that made Goldeneye such an epic hit.... it wasn't. Sure, the solo missions were fun, but that wasn't the draw to the game.
The draw was gathering around with your friends and killing them. It was hanging out in a basement with not one, but three other players, on a split screen, and killing the friends you had since elementary school.
It was something we never could do before, it was new, and, most importantly it was fun. It was the game that got us all playing video games again after the video game world got too boring for Gen-X teens. And it's all because you could sit around and kill your best friends over and over again as you swear and yell at one another.