Re-Release Of N64 Classic Glover Appears To Be Taking Shape, Kickstarter Teased

I remember this... existing. Don’t think I ever saw anyone actually playing it though. Kind of always thought it was a cool character. Will probably pick it up.

The glove from glove world somehow gets a game

Huh funny, I was just playing this a few weeks ago! It’s... okay? It’s not a bad game by any means but it does seem rooted in its generation. For a few bucks and with a few Quality of Life upgrades, this might be a bit of fun, I guess.

When it came out it was real fun. But do we have to remake/revive EVERYTHING????

I, uh, don't remember this game being particularly well-liked. Haven't even heard about it since the 90s.

Fandom is weird as hell.

Who thought we'd be talking about Glover in 2020?

Love it!

I thought this one never made an official release on Nintendo Platform? Maybe it was another game. Anyway, I did play it regardless through illicit means.

Edit: Was Glover 2. Think it's still out there for emulating if anyone gives a hoot.

I wonder if this makes for a profitable venture? Honestly the fact that a Kickstarter is being considered seems like a sign that things aren't going all that well.

I still have the big box PC version of this. I've never played it properly.

Gotta love the glove!

I vaguely remember this. I may have rented it a time or two back in the day.

I loved Glover! I still have the cart on my shelf, but I'd be well up for a nostalgia-filled Switch version.

This wasn't much fun back in the day but it'll still sell because anything with a hint of nostalgia does these days regardless of whether it is good or not. Most people will play the first hour, think huh this is neat and then never touch it again.

Space station silicon valley, when?

@CEObrainz It confuses me because there was a PC release of the original. I'm not sure how difficult that would be too release on Steam considering that it doesn't look like they're remastering. My guess is the Kickstarter is just a way to see what the level of interest is in the franchise to see if they should remaster it.

Awesome! I'm actually playing this on my N64 now — an underrated hidden gem of a game!

@Vertigoat everything no, but we at least need:

Mystical Ninja (and its sequel)
Penny Racers
Quest 64
Hexen
Gauntlet 64
Bomberman 64 (best bomberman to date, imo)
Ogre Battle 64
Flying Dragon
Space Station Silicon Valley
Turok Rage Wars (probably coming soon, tbh)
Fighter's Destiny 2 (original not needed)
Snowboard Kids 2 (original optional)

I think that covers a good chunk of the obscure N64 games worth playing in 202X.

Never owned this but remember seeing the box in shops and thinking it looked interesting, but not £50 worth of interesting in late-90s money. The most adventurous I got with my N64 purchases based on my paper round wages was when I bought Tetrisphere (brilliant game!) - otherwise I just bought the classics. And Shadows of the Empire, the game that collision detection forgot.

Look, I like crappy old games a lot, but Glover ain't no classic

@RupeeClock Doesn't have to be a remake, could just be a port.

I rented it once when I was a kid. But the game was really difficult to control, if I remember correctly.

I’d personally love to see Beetle Adventure Racing as far as somewhat obscure N64 remakes go, but this’ll do ok for filling the void.

I remember renting Glover and not really liking it much.

@justin233 I loved Beetle Adventure Racing.

@Wilforce if they have access to the source code re-releasing the game is incredibly simple (look at the Mario 64 fan ports to literally everything). It's just a matter of how much resources they want to throw at the project and whether they can justify the cost.

I'm more interested in finally getting to play Glover 2. The original was good, but never really hit it's potential.

I had Glover. It was fine.
But if the Kickstarter N64 remaster gods are listening, please can we have Wetrix, Space Station Silicon Valley and Rakugakids?

Boy howdy, that's a liberal use of the word "Classic".

@Darthroseman

Fully expect this place to soon become one of those sites on Google news with headlines like, "You'll never guess which classic N64 platformer is coming to switch."

I have a copy of Glover and I can tell you that it never has been and never will be a classic.

I played this when I was a kid! Can't remember if it was any good. Now, if someone brings back Chameleon Twist, I will lose my mind.

Can't wait for the hot takes after it's re-released.

"TIME HAS NOT BEEN KIND TO GLOVER", says reviewer, while literally repeating complaints already leveled at the game back in 1998.

The word "classic" is thrown around awfully loosely these days

I loved this game as a kid but I wouldn’t call it a classic.. still- it could be fun if the price is right.

Will watch this develop closely until then.

@NotoriousWhiz Space Station Silicon Valley was made by Rockstar. I think an indie company would have a harder time getting a license from that company.

Many of the rest of the games you listed are owned by big-name companies still active in the business.
(Glover was published by Hasbro, who basically abandoned video games after they owned the Atari copyrights and then sold them to Infogrammes in 2002.)

@KingMike Most of the IPs are unused though. They can sell it or lend it if they don't want to handle development/porting process themselves. It may not be as simple as in the case of Glover, but should still be doable.

I'll pass. This game drove me insane, I felt like I was always fighting with the controls.

Hoooooooooly crap
I loved this game as a kid, excited to see if the Kickstarter works out!

I thought this was a fun game back in the day. I’ll probably get it.

Plus, I’m all for the preservation of games.

Oh man, this game took up so much of my time, and my cousin's too, on our n64. lost count of all the times we replayed this one. I'd love to see it come back.

This was a fun game on N64, very underappreciated.

I was never allowed to own a home console at this point in my life, so during the n64’s life I would always rent one for my birthday. And then proceed to rent the weirdest games because I didn’t know any better. This was one of them. And chameleon twist and clay fighter 63 1/3. Weird times

@NotoriousWhiz you’re right about bomberman 64 being the best. I still don’t get why they never iterated on the 2.5d multiplayer levels. It’s so much better than the standard 2d top down bomberman multiplayer. It’s nice not wasting time blowing up bricks to get out of a corner

@NotoriousWhiz
Nice list! But I'd also like to add:
Castlevania 64 (stuff the critics, I liked it)
Shadowman (yeah I know it's coming)
San Francisco Rush
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey
Bio Freaks (a bit of a turd, but memorable)
Putting aside all the Rare and Nintendo games of course.

@NotoriousWhiz - what about Rocket: Robot on Wheels? That game is severely under-appreciated.

@NotoriousWhiz Penny Racers was such a solid title, it would do well if it werent for the high saturation of racers.

Bomberman 64's battle and explore system really should be used again, it added a lot of options to the grib based bomber that we havent seen since.

@NotoriousWhiz and Body Harvest!

I remember this one; certainly one of the more inventive platformers of its day.

When I was a kid my family would go to this big New Year's Eve party every year with a wealthy family from our church. They had a Nintendo 64 there (all I had at the time was a SNES) and I remember being really disappointed because the only games they had were Glover and Mario Golf. Like, the N64 was the coolest thing in the world to me at the time, and it would have been super exciting going there every year if I could have played Super Smash Bros or Super Mario 64, but nah it was always just "here's Glover!" and I tried playing it and it was confusing and weird and I hated it, and I'm only now realizing that I have an irrational amount of bottled up hatred towards this game.

This and Iggys Wrecking ball! Doooo eeeeet!

@NotoriousWhiz

I would like a Port of Turok 3 with the same treatment as the first and second.

Ready for a Superman 64 re-release of the beloved classic. Might be licensing issues so they could just call it Super Duper Man 64 or something. The fans want that awful camera and for the main character to erratically fly around as if inebriated.

Do these guys take suggestions? Because I want Mercury Meltdown revived. TwT

Can’t say I ever understood glover. I just remember having an argument with friends over whether ‘it’ was Master Hand in Smash 64 baha!

@Emperor-Palpsy Yes indeed! I remember so many stupid debates of whether Glover was Master Hand.
I myself battled in cage match fights to the death over N64 vs PS1. (NINTENDO 64, OBVIOUSLY!)
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YOOOOOOOOO it's the GLOVE

I remember seeing this game. Never played it though.

@HeroponRiki Wealthy, you say?
Well, that explains why they had glove and golf games.
Maybe if there was a Yacht Racer 64 you'd have had a third choice.

Judging by the screenshot, the concept reminds me of the Disney cartoon where Chip and Dale get inside the gardening glove and trick Pluto by bouncing a ball to get him to chase it.

I was interested up until I read that it was Piko handling it. I'd rather not support a bunch of jerks who refuse to release unmodified prototypes (alongside the completed builds) for us preservationists to, uh, preserve (like they did with Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill).

EDIT: Turns out that wasn't exactly Piko for Socks, but I do recall them doing the same ***** for other games

I am more interested to see what they actually do to the unfinished sequel that they now I believe own the source code to. The leaked beta has been floating around for a while now and I believe most of the game was complete. Although I still think it would be difficult to go in to these older games using someone else's tools that they custom made as it would require a lot of trial and error to get used to them and even getting them working properly. They also picked up the unfinished Dragon Sword from the same developer at the same time and little has emerged from that either. They have yet to really add extra content to finish of games as complex as these. The only N64 game they have published was one that was already finished and all they had to do was change a bit of code so it could run on real hardware and that was something others had already done before them when the rom was dumped years before. I am not holding out hope the finish the sequel any time soon.

I vaguely remember playing this or watching my cousins play this on their PS1 in my childhood (or another family friend who had a PS1). I don't recall much else about it though.

I liked this game...I played it when i was young and didn't really know how to play it.... but I remember a section that was scary. Would love to play it again (and not on a crappy emulator)

I remember one of my family members (a distant cousin or something) playing this game and thinking whoever made it was on drugs.

@NotoriousWhiz Sign me up for Mystical Ninja, that was my first game and it was so fun to mess around in. Sadly though, I never got very far and when I tried to go back to complete it, my copy stopped working, so I need a remake.

Also you didn't mention this one, but I'd love a remake of Bomberman Hero.

@Azuris For some reason I thought they already released Turok 3.

@Bolt_Strike Never played Hero since it didn't have multiplayer, but sure, why not? And yeah, Mystical Ninja was definitely good fun.

Yes a remastered of this original N64 classic would be fantastic. If it sell well hopefully we could also get a remastered of the cancelled sequel as well.

@NotoriousWhiz

Maybe they can release Turok 3 and Rage Wars as a free Multiplayer "Addon" with online Feature
I think Rage Wars alone could lack to much nowadays to sell well (it even did back than... and was bugged^^).

Master hand as the good guy.

Leave it to 2020 to talk about sentient PPE.

All of these misinformed souls decrying the nuanced appeal of Glover. Glover is great, it was a sweet little 3D platformer from Hasbro, a rare example of a company branching out into a new genre with a new IP. It has its merit, and certainly deserves a release alongside its unreleased sequel.

I liked Glover ok. And it's neat that they are finishing up 2. Bit honestly I would wrather a remake. Same way I felt about Podracer being rereleased.
Eta: Also wish Mario 3d Allstars had come with the ds enhancements for 64.

In this case, does "classic" just mean old? I have never heard or read anyone remembering this game fondly.

@NotoriousWhiz See, I'm the opposite. I don't really like main series Bomberman games because I'm not really into multiplayer competitions, but Hero was a nice little 3D platformer that I enjoyed as a kid. I'd love to play it again.

Also, whose bright idea was it to have the ball transform into a crystal that kills you if you hit it? That's the biggest thing that makes we wonder if the creator of this game was high.