Compare Banjo Tooie for Nintendo 64 to Ms. Pac-Man: Maze Madness for Nintendo 64

Left for worm food under a huge boulder at the conclusion of Banjo-Kazooie, Gruntilda the witch is back and boy, is she mad. Forming a coven of co-conspirators with hideous sisters Mingella and Blobbelda, Grunty has hatched a madcap plan to regain her former beauty by using the Big O'Blaster (B.O.B.) to suck the life force from B-K's island. Naturally, Banjo, the ever-cheerful bear, and Kazooie, the wise-mouthed breegull who camps out in Banjo's blue backpack, will do everything in their power to stop Grunty's nefarious plot. Developer Rare (Donkey Kong 64) has greatly extended replayability by adding 14, count 'em, 14 multiplayer games. In keeping with Banjo-Tooie's tongue-in-cheek character, the multiplayer games include daft versions of soccer and bumper cars as well as first-person shooters in which you lock-and-load an egg-shooting Kazooie. Solo players can refight bosses and replay Banjo-Tooie's myriad minigames as often as they want. Less

Dine and dash with the first lady of video games. Ms. Pac-Man first stole the hearts - and quarters - of video game fanatics way back in 1981. Now, nearly 20 years later, Namco's leading lady is gobbling ghosts again in an entertaining update of the game that made her a star. Beauty and the Beast Ms. Pac-Man: Maze Madness takes the ghost-dodging, pellet-munching fun of the original game and adds tough puzzles, new enemies and rich 3D landscapes. Instead of just feeding her face for the fun of it, this time Ms. Pac-Man is on a quest to recover the four Gems of Virtue which sustain Pac-World's most mysterious realms. After eating her way through desert wastelands and chilly crystal caverns, Ms. Pac-Man ultimately has to defeat an evil goblin named Mesmerelda who has captured the Pac-Princess and Pac-Professor. Less