{"id":8421,"date":"2022-10-13T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/13\/review-pilotwings-64-a-real-gem-sparkling-in-the-shadow-of-mario-64\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:15:07","slug":"review-pilotwings-64-a-real-gem-sparkling-in-the-shadow-of-mario-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/13\/review-pilotwings-64-a-real-gem-sparkling-in-the-shadow-of-mario-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Pilotwings 64 &#8211; A Real Gem, Sparkling In The Shadow Of Mario 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top flight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This review originally went live in 2013, and we&#8217;re updating and republishing it to mark the game&#8217;s arrival in Switch&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/every-nintendo-switch-online-n64-game-ranked\">N64 library via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Releasing alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super-mario-64\">Super Mario 64<\/a> when the Nintendo 64 launched back in 1996 (1997 if you&#8217;re European), it was somewhat inevitable that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/pilotwings-64\">Pilotwings 64<\/a> was never going to see the same commercial or critical success. Simply put, Mario&#8217;s first 64-bit adventure was a masterpiece and proved that Nintendo could recreate its flagship franchise for the next generation of gaming. While the portly plumber delivered a much-needed killer app to Nintendo&#8217;s advanced system, its amateur flight simulator counterpart was considered little more than a glorified tech demo by many observers at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/n64\/pilotwings-64\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: Pilotwings 64 &#8211; A Real Gem, Sparkling In The Shadow Of Mario 64<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top flight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This review originally went live in 2013, and we&#8217;re updating and republishing it to mark the game&#8217;s arrival in Switch&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/every-nintendo-switch-online-n64-game-ranked\">N64 library via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Releasing alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super-mario-64\">Super Mario 64<\/a> when the Nintendo 64 launched back in 1996 (1997 if you&#8217;re European), it was somewhat inevitable that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/pilotwings-64\">Pilotwings 64<\/a> was never going to see the same commercial or critical success. Simply put, Mario&#8217;s first 64-bit adventure was a masterpiece and proved that Nintendo could recreate its flagship franchise for the next generation of gaming. While the portly plumber delivered a much-needed killer app to Nintendo&#8217;s advanced system, its amateur flight simulator counterpart was considered little more than a glorified tech demo by many observers at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/n64\/pilotwings-64\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}