/vr/ - Retro Games

Was Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine for N64 a glorious swan song, or a buggy piece of shit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UHSVo6s1ec

Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to play this game. Not so much that I actively pursued the opportunity of purchasing it in a heartbeat. It was more like curiosity. Just wanted to see what it was like after reading about it a couple of times in magazines back in the day.

It was on a rather casual stroll down the local flea market today that I found it amongst a pile of battered and moldy cartridges. The asking price was about 5 dlls, which unfortunately I did not have with me. The cartridge itself has clearly seen better days, since the front label was very worn, and featured virtually no back label.

I'm usually not very picky with the used games I purchase. Hell, I own a DKC cart that has a nasty hole right in the middle of the label, a sunbaked copy of Chrono Trigger, and a copy of Paper Mario that has a bigass ugly sticker which I deem impossible to remove without damaging the label (amongst others). But this one... it just seems too worn, even for my rather low standards.

Granted. I'm not as much of a serious collector as the more OCD afflicted people of your lot, since I just buy the game for the sake of owning it and playing it on original hardware. But if I could, I'd like to have a copy that shows love from its previous owner.

I'd like to know how rare is this game. I've heard people say that it was a rental exclusive, and that it sits comfortably amongst the rarest games on the console. How true is that? And how feasible would it be for me to find another copy in the future?

This can't even be played on emulation since Factor 5's microcodes haven't been cracked

Does anyone have any HQ screens of this?

It seems as though none of Factor 5's N64 games have decent screenshots, possibly because they can't be emulated.

let's talk about one of the last and greatest games for the N64