If I were TLG and Had a Creativity Gene Series: Part 7 - An Ode to Nintendo 64

I had a lot of fun thinking up different Lego sets in part 5 when I did Mario Video games. I immediately had tons more ideas that came into my head. So this time I decided to do Nintendo 64 games. The Nintendo 64 was my favorite system of all time and houses some of the best made games ever in my opinion. I tried to take the best games and pull out the best stuff from them so that I had some good variety. I am leaving out Mario 64 since I already had written about that one. This theme can be called “Ode to the greatest system of all time: Nintendo 64”.

StarFox 64 – Arwing and Landmaster

Alright, someone here tell me they didn't play this game. Honestly you could probably have a whole theme from Starfox because there were so many memorable ships. The game had some of the most ultimate replay value of all time with the 30 different ways you could get to the end of the game, the different secret levels, and the two difficulty levels. I would say I pored at least 500 hours or more into this game, and every year or so I get it back out to play some more. It was just that good.

So what would we do? Well I think there are two important vehicles everyone would want. First, the Arwing:

This would come with the retracting wings like the plane in the game had. It could also come with flick missiles for the blasters. A stand would be included so that you could set it upright where no part of it was touching the ground. It would be holding is so that you could easily flip the ship. There would be a speaker in the stand with a sensor and you could flip the Arwing and the speaker would say “do a barrel roll”. This would be a split set, so you would also have a Landmaster - like the old Tie-fighter and Y-wing sets:

Who doesn't want a tank. It could also do a manual barrel roll – just roll it over.

Minifigures would include:

• Fox
• Slippy
• Falco – mean look on his face like “I guess I should be thankful”
• Peppy

Goldeneye – The Cradle

Its fairly safe to say that Goldeneye 64 is a near consensus “One of the greatest games of all time”. Had there been online play, I have to assume people would still be playing this game today. This really was the beginning of the first person shooter. Pretty much every game made since then has been modeled after the success this game had.

This level is pretty well known and iconic to the game and to the movie. Bond is chasing Trevelyan across the Cradle trying to catch him. In the game, this level was a race against time and it was near the end of the game itself. I remember having to play this level over and over because the Cradle kept blowing up before I made it to my getaway plane.

With the way Lego has done with Bridges and structures of that nature like the in the City theme and the Tower Bridge 10214, I think Lego would absolutely dominate this set. They could make it really large and impressive. Though it would be hard to recreate the whole thing, they could have one main bridge and several branches off of it as well as the lower place Bond jumps to safety from.

This set would come with the following minifigures:

• James Bond
• Trevelyan – he would have to be looking like his is running because that is all he does in this level
• 3 Bad guys to go after Bond.

Zelda 64 – Hyrule's Castle

I don't think there are many people who play fantasy RPGs that haven't played the Legend of Zelda. There were plenty of story games before this and there were several Zelda games as well, but nothing like this. The character development and the story of this game (Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time) were really unmatched when this came out.

If you were into the game, you know you spent quite an amount of time around Hyrule Castle – having to sneak in and deal with the townspeople inside and outside as well as the guards.

The minifigures would include:

• Link – the main character
• 2 Castle Guards
• Princess Zelda

There could also be a lot of little extras. Maybe hearts for Link to pick up after battle and diamonds to pick up for money. Also, I think the set needs a chicken. Doesn't everyone remember hurting the chickens and bringing out the swarm of chicken death?

Super Smash Brothers – Saffron City

This was another great game in the lineup and one that has really carried on since. This game was the ultimate party game – nothing was more fun than getting together with a bunch of friends and putting the lives on “99” and playing for hours.

I picked Saffron City for two reasons: it was my favorite level from the game and... if we pick that we can have minifigure Pokemon! I think they could make it look just like in the game with the main building and the two smaller buildings to the right and left. It could come with a barrel and a large box for power ups. There could also be an extra home-run bat, a bomb-omb and a poke-ball or two.

Minifigures would include:

• Mario as a battler(it's his game right?)
• Pikachu as a battler
• Hitmonlee
• Chancey - would come with eggs
• Charizard – with flames coming out from him
• Blastoise

Mario Tennis

This was the only game I ever played that I felt like I couldn't be beat at. I played tennis growing up and I loved this game because of it with all the power ups and and the animation. This would go over extremely well as a Lego set too; anyone ever looked at the CAGR on some of those sports sets?

This set would come with a full tennis court along with a linesman chair. It could also have the stands that are around the court itself. It could then come with these minifigures:

• Mario (again, it's his game)
• Bowser
• Yoshi
• Wario
• Luigi – he could be a sub-in or a linesman
• Donkey Kong – as an alternate because I couldn't cut it down enough.

Obviously it could also come with some minifigure sized tennis balls as well as the rackets for the different players.

That's all for today. What other games do you think would be good for Lego sets? Would you all buy these sets?

Note: All of the information here are my own opinions and are pulled from my experiences. You may or may not have success with these methods. Thanks for reading!