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Wave Race 64
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Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. Our grade: Minor Wear. Look over the photos for condition, packaging and details. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Nothing else on the Nintendo 64 felt like the water in Wave Race 64. Swells roll in under your jet ski, lift you, drop you into a trough and push your line wide whether you planned for it or not, and back in 1996 that living, shifting surface was the kind of thing people crowded around a store demo just to watch. Nintendo EAD built an entire racing game around reading that water, and it still feels remarkable on original hardware.
Racing here is a slalom as much as a sprint. Red buoys go on your right and yellow on your left, each one you clear correctly charges your speed meter, and miss five and you are out of the race. Four riders, Ryota Hayami, Ayumi Stewart, Miles Jeter and David Mariner, each pilot a craft that balances top speed, acceleration and grip differently, and you can fine-tune handling and engine settings before every event. The championship runs from the bright shallows of Sunny Beach and Sunset Bay through Drake Lake, the walled harbor of Marine Fortress, Port Blue, Twilight City and the drifting ice of Glacier Coast, and it climbs through Normal, Hard and Expert difficulties that turn familiar courses into serious tests of nerve.
Stunt Mode turns the waves into a playground, scoring barrel rolls, flips, handstands and submarine dives as you thread rings across the course, while the two-player split screen made it a fixture of couch rivalries. The warm-up lagoon of Dolphin Park, Kazumi Totaka's breezy, sun-soaked soundtrack and the announcer's drawn-out "Maaarvelous!" give the whole package a personality that the more serious racers of the era never had.
Nintendo only made one more console entry, Wave Race: Blue Storm on the GameCube, so this cartridge is where most players' memories of the series live. It is the game that convinced a generation that physics could be the main event in a racer, and its technical, wave-reading courses reward practice exactly the way they did when the N64 was new.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1997
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game
This version of Wave Race 64 was released only in Japan and has Rumble Pak compatibilty.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayWave Race 64 on Nintendo 64
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Nintendo 64
Wave Race 64B · Minor Wear
$17.99
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Nintendo 64
Wave Race 64B · Minor Wear
$17.99
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