If it doesn’t make it, then there’s Iconoclasts (2018). With the shift away from the SNES era, it was surprising to find a 2D platformer on the console.Īnd this is what gamers were letting themselves in for.Ī curious graphical style kind of along the lines of Yoshi’s Story (actually released after Treasure’s game) meets… well… it’s kind of distinctive.ĭeveloper Treasure is still around, but it doesn’t seem likely we’ll be getting another Mischief Makers game anytime soon.Īlthough, with a bit of luck (updated for October 2021 here!), we’ll see the game on the Nintendo Switch’s N64 library. That’s, primarily, as developers were busy arsing about trying out 3D games at that time. There were 388 games released on the console, which is quite a small amount by modern standards.Īnd this outing was, weirdly enough, the first 2D side-scroller to appear on the console. Whereas Mischief Makers remains one of the lesser-known games from its catalogue. Kind of out of place, too, for a console pushing its 3D adventures agenda.īut over 20 years after Mischief Maker’s release, more people are remembering the SOB fondly.Ī lot of classic N64 titles have been hitting the big 20 over the last year, with the likes of Ocarina of Time and Banjo-Kazooie rapidly approaching their respective birthdays (and blasting right by them).Īnd those games are massive behemoths in the console’s legacy. However, up against titles like Goldeneye 007 it was immediately overshadowed.Īnd it was generally regarded as that quirky and chaotic entity from Nippon. Good!Īnd Treasure’s game arrived in Europe (where we’re from-England, to be precise, Manchester a bit more precise… don’t go hunting us down, now, you hear?) in January 1998 and met with strong reviews. However, Goemon and Mischief Makers did make it to the west for the N64.

Except Konami’s 1998 3D adventure is even more insane than this. Kind of like Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. Its structure is quite odd-it’s one of those warped Japanese titles publishers think westerners would just find too weird.

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