{"id":68888,"date":"2022-09-07T15:53:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/this-twitch-streamer-is-the-first-person-to-beat-every-n64-game\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:53:59","slug":"this-twitch-streamer-is-the-first-person-to-beat-every-n64-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/this-twitch-streamer-is-the-first-person-to-beat-every-n64-game\/","title":{"rendered":"This Twitch Streamer Is The First Person To Beat Every N64 Game"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
<\/p>\n
\n
\"Acegamersam<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

screenshot: acegamersam<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/figure>\n

Samuel \u201cAcegamersam\u201d Girarowns a lot<\/em> of videogames. The 32-year-old Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois has a vast library of classic console titles, including complete collections of North American Dreamcast and N64 games. Five years ago, with a fledgling Twitch channel<\/span>girard began streaming the Nintendo titles to a tiny audience. That audience quickly began to grow as he set out on his goal to complete<\/em> all 296 of them, a feat no one else has claimed to have done before.<\/p>\n

As of last week, half a decade later, Girard has completed this monolithic task. Based on rules agreed on by a Discord community of others attempting this completionism task, the streamer has beaten every Nintendo 64 game released to North American shelves. Yup, even including Superman<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Acegamersam’s interest in collecting retro games began in 2009, in irony: It was triggered by the first time he parted with any. \u201cI just sold a couple of retro games I wasn’t playing anymore, and I felt heartbroken to part ways with games from my childhood,\u201d he told Kotaku<\/em>. \u201cI figured I’d rather find and keep my childhood games.\u201d<\/p>\n

In attempting to refill those gaps, Girard discovered he took great pleasure in the act of seeking them out. \u201cI really enjoyed the process of looking for games online, or visiting retro game stores. Two or three years later, I already had a couple hundred games, and I kept going!\u201d<\/p>\n

Focusing on the NES, SNES, N64, Master System, Genesis and Dreamcast, the emphasis at that point was on the gathering, rather than the playing. And as with any attempt to complete a collection, there are games far harder to find than others, or at least at sensible prices. For that complete N64 shelf, Girard told me, \u201cIt took me a while to find good copies at reasonable prices for Clay Fighters Sculptor’s Cut<\/em>, Stunt Racer<\/em>, Super Bowling<\/em>, Worms Armageddon<\/em>and Transformers Beast Wars Transmetal<\/em>\u201d But once he had them all, he figured it’d be fun to play them on Twitch.<\/p>\n