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Educational...yet entertaining!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: December 22, 1999
Author: Amazon User

For those of you parents who are sick of killing and fighting in the games your child plays, this is the game for you( and your child). Who ever thought you could grow corn on a video game or chop wood to improve your home. This is about the funnest game I have ever played. It is a cross between Sim Farm and Zelda 64. You are a farmer who has been left with the family farm and it is up to you to turn it around and make a living off the land. But there is also a chance to find a wife, raise cattle, sheep, chickens, and win the contests at the llocal town. There is also a huge forest to explore with tonnes of fun surprises awaiting you. I'm gonna leave the rest up to you to discover, but dont be surprised if your chil starts to want to grow a garden, or go foraging in the mountains for mushrooms.

Harvest Moon 64 Laughs in the Face of Other Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: July 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Once you play this game, you'll be hooked. The game controls are a tad confusing at first, but serious gamers will get the hang of it quickly. It's more than just a farming sim. It's sort of like real life. You plant crops. You raise animals. The animals and crop benefit you. If you ignore the animals, they will die. Woo your favorite village gal (Karen, the vineyard girl; Maria,the librarian; Ann, the ranch girl; Popuri, the flower shop girl; or Elli, the baker). Use the blue feather on your girl when her heart is pink (her heart will go through a series of colors; white-indifferent blue-friendy green-flirtatious yellow-enamored pink-truly in love). The blue feather propose marriage. Give your wife er favorite gifts every day for a full season, and she will declare pregnancy. Two seasons later, you will be a proud daddy. You get two and a half years to get the farm up and running, marry a girl, have a baby, andbecome a rich farmer. Collect Power Nuts, and make friends with the village guys who compete for the ladies' affections. Make friends, and you might make tem do somthing. On the first day of your third summer, the rancher (Jack) gets a visit from his father. His father evaluates his progress. By making friends with the villagers, they will come to meet your dad and comment on your friendship. The other villagers (i.e. the midwife, shipper, the fisherman) will talk to your dad an comment on you. He will look at your photo album, which you should try to fill. Whew! If you think about it, Harvest moon 64 is a challenging, yet charming new version of the NES classic. This game will leave you babbling to unsuspecting bypassers on the street, who have never heard of you or the game. Six last words: I COMMAND YOU TO BUY IT!

Harvest Moon: A Game Worth Reviewing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: August 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As a sixteen-year-old girl video game veteran (I was around when Nintendo first came out, of course), I adore this game. While you are required to play a man in Harvest Moon 64, flirting with village girls in hope of marriage to one of them, you might find that a little strange. Still, this game is fascinating. You have to care for cows, sheep, and chickens, own a horse and a dog, grow crops and grass (fodder for your animals), purchase items to benefit your farm, expand your home, chop wood, break up stones, weed the garden, power-up your tools...and when you're done, you get to do it all again the next day! Plus, there are special activities. You can marry a girl in the village, start a family with a baby of your own, register your dog and horse in local races, attend village festivals, vote for the annual Harvest Goddess (will it be your sweetheart?), and befriend over 50 silly characters in this game. I have to say that my favorite is the Gourmet chef who comes to festivals to be a taste judge of milk and vegetables (depending on the festival itself). He says, "Mmmm... These are tres bien delicious!" Okay, so the translation isn't perfect. I wouldn't even call it a flaw. I doubt this game HAS any. Good luck and happy farming!

Sleep? Who needs Sleep?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 19
Date: March 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

After buying this game, I pretty much had to give up eating and sleeping (it's 4 AM right now and I'm about to go play).

It's not a game for everyone. Nothing blows up; zombies don't raid your farm, and your wife doesn't turn out to be an evil demon. For anyone sick and tired of those things, it's a gem.

Storyline: Grandpa has croaked and after coming t the funeral, your character takes over his run-down farm on a whim. Apparently the "helpful villagers" allowed the old man to live and die in squalor, but that's beside the point. The farm is a wreck. You have a few tools, 300 coins, and a dog. Raise crops, get married, father a child, become a cattle rancher. In a few years, with hard work you can be a millionare. And that's what the game is all about.

The game has a very Japanese feel and message; laziness doesn't cut it if you want to get ahead. Miss a day feeding your animals and they'll get sick. Ignore your wife and she'll pack up your child and leave you.

This game gets the whole family involved!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: June 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Harvest Moon 64 was worth the wait! As a parent, I limit the playing time of video games. I do not limit the playing time of Harvest Moon 64. This is the neatest video game I have seen. The game is educational in the respect of the player having good work habits, good savings habits and they get to participate in festivals in the town. The player plants and tends their crops, chops wood, fishes, tends their animals (if they do not do this with care ~ it will cost them some of the earnings for medicine). Everyone that walks through the room, while this game is being played, just sits and watches and wants their turn. I highly recommend this game. Enjoy.

fun AND addictive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: January 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The goal is to build a life of a farmer... grow crops, raise animals and fall in love successfully. And if that's not enough, you have to visit all of the townspeople often to get the gossip, chop wood for additions to your one-room shack and attend village functions. It's not as easy as you might think, but that's what makes it FUN! You find yourself looking forward to each new day to find out what's going to happen next... like a soap opera that, for the most part, you control. Most addictive! So, if you're tired of the monotony of violence, sports or racing on your N64 system, this game is definitely for you.

Harvest Moon 64

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: February 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

An incredibly fun and interesting game. Not for those who like action type games because there is fairly little action and it can be hard to keep up with. The great thing is that unlike other games where you can finish the game and it is just simply over this game can go on forever and it has many possibilities and exciting events that can happen each year.

Fascinating, Educative, Fun, Addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: March 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first heard about Harvest Moon for the N64, I was thinking "this will just be another sim game." But I was totally wrong. I spent fifteen minutes at this game at a friend's house, and had been waiting for the oppertunity ever since. When I finally got the game, I was glued to it every spare moment I had. The game has limitless replayability, and you can choose from hundreds of things to do. This game does have some setbacks though, and if I were to exclude them, I would be biased. Time flies way too fast. You have like 5 minutes to do everything in a day, and that is far from enough time to do everything you need to do to be really successful. The game is very complex, and takes a while to fully understand everything in the game, comprehend the map, and learn the controls. The game is also addicting, and may take time away from other activities since you'll be wanting to play this constantly. This game is very educational too and shows you the side effects of being ignorant to some things, concentrating on some things, and the like. You can walk away from this understanding what it is really like to have to live off hard work, and the only thing you won't feel is the exhaustion of breaking up the rocks, chopping the wood, and tilling the land. This is one game that would be a great mistake of titanic proportions to pass up.

an addictive fun game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: March 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well, I got this game roughly 5 years ago when I was 12 years old and I was addicted for a while. At the age of 15 I put it down never to be touched again. Or so I thought. I recently picked this game up again and have been as addicted as I was when I was 12! First off, it is rare to find a game just as fun at 12 as you do at 17. There is alot of games that indulge in blood lust and sex etc etc. I enjoy those games but this is something different dare I even say better.

You star off as a young guy that takes over his grandfathers farm. Your job is in two years to get everything back to normal and make a profit. Either way though, the game goes on forever. Through this game you interact with friends, women, workers etc. The town is pretty small and is easy to get used to. The graphics are nothing compared to what the ps2 and xbox 360 are whipping out but are good for their time. Each character in town has their own personality which keeps the game from getting boring and even though you pretty much form a daily routine (which varies depending on player) the game never seems to get old. There is alot you can build on in this game. I recommend it for all ages. 1-100. Great game. Yo ucan't go wrong with this.

So, throw on some Iron Maiden and get down to buisness. Enjoy.

Farming Simulation with a Tint of Romance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 16
Date: December 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Most of you have played the game for SNES, GB, and GBC but now for N64! You can grow crops, raise livestock, and even date girls! This is a great game for all ages with a neat combanation of farming simulation, role playing game, and just a tint of romance added in! You must race time by making lots of money or just settling down with a family! It doesn't matter what you do make money or get a family each path always has plenty of fun!

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