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Banjo-Kazooie

Banjo-Kazooie is a platform video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console. It was first released on 29 June 1998 in North America and on 17 July 1998 in Europe, and later re-released as an Xbox Live Arcade game for the Xbox 360 on 3 December 2008. Banjo-Kazooie is the first installment in the Banjo-Kazooie series, and chronicles the titular characters' encounter with series antagonist Gruntilda. The game's story focuses on Banjo and Kazooie's efforts to stop Gruntilda's plans to switch her beauty with Banjo's sister Tooty. The game features nine open levels where the player must complete a number of challenges like solving puzzles, jumping over obstacles, gathering objects, and defeating opponents.
Banjo-Kazooie was under development for more than two and a half years and was originally intended to be an adventure game named Dream for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was a critical and commercial success, selling nearly two million copies in the United States and receiving aggregated scores of 92 out of 100 and 92.38% from Metacritic and GameRankings respectively.

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The greatest duos of all time can exist independently of each other, but totally shouldn&#39;t. These are combinations and famous duos whose whole value is greater than the sum of their parts. For instance, you can have cheese (and it will be glorious) and you can separately have ham (and it will be succulent), but put them together and boom: ham and cheese and delicious. These famous male and female partners in history, <a href="/list/best-sibling-duos/ranker-entertainment/" target="_blank">siblings</a>, delicious food pairings, famous movie duos, and <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-current-television-duos/ranker-tv?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">famous TV duos</a> need each other like peanut butter needs jelly. You might even say the following pairs are dynamic duos who should never be separated. But could some be considered iconic duos?

Some of the best fictional and celebrity couples that ever were find themselves among the best duos ever, but it&#39;s not just people that can make this list of the best pairings ever. Things like popcorn &amp; movies, baseball &amp; peanuts, and even Christmas &amp; snow are all better together. Among some of the best sports duos, the top TV couples, <a href="/list/best-video-game-duos/ranker-games" target="_blank">video game pairs</a>, cartoon duos, and the greatest food pairings are the top duos of all time, and they&#39;ve been compiled here in this list of the great duos for you to vote on. While fictional characters dominate the list, the tastiest food combinations are also competing for the top spot.

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Asking a group of gamers what the best video game soundtrack of all time is is like asking baseball fans who <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-pitchers-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the best pitcher</a> of all time is - there are sure to be very strong opinions and definitely a few heated arguments. For this list we&#39;ve compiled some of the greatest video game music of all time, and we&#39;re leaving it up to you to decide which is best. In recent years games like Braid and Bastion have been praised for their beautiful songs, while older favorites seem to be Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, and Final Fantasy 7.&nbsp;

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One of the largest video game companies in the world, Nintendo has brought you everything from Donkey Kong and Zelda to Animal Crossing and Wii. 

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The best Nintendo games of all time include classic NES titles, N64 gems, high tech Wii titles, and the newest Nintendo Switch games. These fan favorite Nintendo games include classic titles like Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda, a couple of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-games-of-all-time">greatest video games of all time</a>. There are also perennial favorites like Tetris, Donkey Kong, and Metroid (some of which you&#39;ll find among the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-classic-arcade-games">best classic arcade games</a>) on this list of the top Nintendo games.

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Top classic video games from the early years of gaming. This list contains the best games released on any system (arcade, home consoles, portable devices) from the 1960s through the year 2000 (which for this list would be considered the start of the &quot;modern era&quot; of gaming.) This includes all the essential games from the era of the arcade, as well as the original 8-bit consoles and their 16-bit follow-ups.Many of the retro games on this list have remained extremely popular to this present day, and are often still played by passionate fans on preserved consoles or on computers via emulator software. Some of these games are part of ongoing franchises that have remained vital to this day, such as the classic &quot;Mario Bros.&quot; games, &quot;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/a-timeline-of-the-legend-of-zelda-chronology/stephanroget?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Legend of Zelda</a>&quot; titles and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/all-fighting-games-list/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">fighting games</a> like &quot;Mortal Kombat.&quot;Experimental video games have been around since the 1950s, but it was two game breakthroughs in the early 1970s that really brought games more mainstream attention. &quot;Spacewar!,&quot; released in 1961, became popular enough to generate about 1500 individual arcade machines, but was so complicated to learn that it failed to really develop mass appeal. The same was not true of 1972's &quot;Pong,&quot; from the same creators, that recreated table tennis for arcades and eventually sold nearly 20,000 machines. By the late 1970s, <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/failed-video-game-consoles/nathan-gibson?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">video game consoles</a> for the home were becoming more commonplace, with both the Intellivision and ColecoVision competing in toy stores and introducing many of the titles we're still familiar with today (including the original &quot;Donkey Kong&quot; and &quot;Space Invaders.&quot;)1978 is traditionally considered the start of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-most-popular-golden-age-arcade-games/video-games-lists?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Golden Age of video games</a>, particularly in terms of arcade games, with the introduction of numerous beloved retro titles (including &quot;Frogger&quot; and &quot;Galaxian.&quot;) Finally, in 1985, Nintendo introduced the first Nintendo Entertainment System to stores, bundled with the game &quot;Super Mario Bros.,&quot; a landmark release in console history.

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Sometimes&nbsp;it can be tough finding the right game to either play with your kids or leave them to their own devices playing, but thankfully&nbsp;there are tons of options available on Xbox Games Pass. Some of the best games on the platform for kids are from the LEGO series with numerous versions available for play. In addition to Star Wars, fans can pick up&nbsp;LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures and take on the role of Indiana Jones and his allies in this detailed game honoring the film franchise. Other games like Sea of Thieves might be more to an older kid&#39;s liking as it lets them take command of a pirate ship as they cruise across the open world ocean to steal booty and sink ships that cross their path! All the titles on this list are kid-friendly in the sense that they&#39;re fairly easy to play and don&#39;t have gratuitous violence.

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If you have a subscription for the Xbox Game&nbsp;Pass on your Xbox One, you&#39;ve got tons of great adventure titles right at your fingertips. Let&#39;s take a look at the best adventure games available on Xbox Game&nbsp;Pass, including indie hits like Sea of Thieves, action-adventure games like Halo 5: Guardians, and all-times greats&nbsp;like Fallout 3, which has some of the most detailed gameplay and storytelling elements in any game to be released in the past 20 years.

If you&#39;ve ever wanted to take to the high seas and steal some booty but get seasick and don&#39;t really like parrots,&nbsp;Sea of Thieves&nbsp;is the game for you! This immersive action-adventure game lets players scratch their pirate itch by offering up the command of a vessel in a first-person perspective style of gameplay. Players navigate an open world via their very own pirate ship featuring every aspect of maritime piracy you can imagine. If piracy isn&#39;t your thing, why not step a little back in time and fire up an Xbox classic with&nbsp;Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic?&nbsp;This amazing entry into the&nbsp;Star Wars franchise details a grand adventure in the Old Republic, long before the&nbsp;days of the Empire. Players can navigate across the galaxy, craft their own lightsabers, and battle against the dark side of the Force!

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If you have a subscription for the Xbox Game&nbsp;Pass on your Xbox One, you&#39;ve got tons of great single-player titles right at your fingertips. Let&#39;s take a look at the best single-player games available on Xbox Game&nbsp;Pass, including shooting games like&nbsp;Sniper Elite 4 and AAA titles like&nbsp;Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 that throw players into a post-apocalyptic landscape filled with hundreds of hours of gameplay.

If you don&#39;t work and play well with others, you may prefer to take on a single player challenge like the ones offered in the many games available on Xbox Game&nbsp;Pass. Some of these games feature multiplayer in addition to a single-player campaign, but the lone wanderer is usually where the money is at when it comes to these games. If you haven&#39;t played the new Doom from 2016, you are seriously missing out. Other titles like&nbsp;The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion offer hundreds of hours of immersive gameplay that works well to suck a gamer into the detailed storyline to the point that you can sit in the game and play it all by yourself for several days without realizing it!

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From classic&nbsp;games like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and BioShock to new releases like Devil May Cry 5, this list answers the questions, &quot;What are the best action-adventure games?&quot; and &quot;What is the greatest action-adventure game of all time?&quot; Vote up all your favorites, and vote down any you think are overrated.

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