It’s little wonder that dedicated Nintendo fanboys were practically quaking in their boots.Ī member of Nintendo’s fabled ‘Dream Team’, Texas-based Paradigm wasn’t created with interactive entertainment explicitly in mind. The 3D flight simulator – which followed on from the much-loved SNES original – was to be coded in collaboration with American ‘visual technology’ studio Paradigm Simulation, a company with no prior experience of producing videogames. However, back in the mid-Nineties this kind of policy was far less common, a fact which is evidenced by the intense sceptism that surrounded the development of Pilotwings 64. The sense if freedom remains as strong as ever. We’ve seen fruitful unions with the likes of Sega (F-Zero GX), Capcom (The Legend Of Zelda: Minish Cap) and more recently Team Ninja (Metroid: Other M), illustrating that despite its lofty reputation within the industry, the modern Nintendo isn’t afraid to look outside its own internal resources to get the job done. In recent years, Nintendo has made a habit of aligning itself with external studios in order to complete notable projects. Join us as we go behind the scenes of this still brilliant arcade flight sim.
One must own title was the utterly superb Pilotwings 64, which built massively (both graphically and gameplay) upon the already great Super Nintendo game. There weren’t many games launched alongside the N64, but many of them are absolute gems.
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