9. Pokemon Snap (1999)
Pokémon Snap, developed by HAL Laboratory and Pax Softnica, was released on March 21, 1999 for the Nintendo 64. For anyone who loved Pokémon or had a dream of one day being a famous photographer, this was the game you. I would rush home from school everyday to play this game endlessly. The story was simple and strangely addictive. You were Todd Snap, a young Pokémon photographer hired by Professor Oak, to take pictures of wild Pokémon on Pokémon Island for the Pokémon Report (Yikes, that was a lot of Pokémon in one sentence…). You hopped aboard the Zero-One vehicle and began to roll along on the railroad tracks and take as many pictures as you possibly could. As you progressed through each level you would encounter new types of Pokémon of all shapes and sizes. I can recall hours of painstakingly snapping the same Pokémon dozens of times, and finding strategies to capture new ones, and wanting to get the perfect shot before the Zero-One pulled into the goal gate to end the level. Although this was not a normal Pokémon game, it has still stood out to me as one of the most unique titles that the Nintendo 64 had to offer. – Tyler Carslen
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