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The Nintendo 64 first-person shooter that redefined console multiplayer: four players split-screen deathmatch, and an iron-clad house rule banning Oddjob because his short stature slipped under auto-aim. Rare's landmark game sold over 8 million copies and owned living rooms until Halo arrived.
"We've got stars directing our fate" over sweeping James Bond strings — Robbie Williams' pre-2000 anthem gave him his first solo UK number one in September 1998. In America it was supposed to be his big breakthrough; it stalled at #72, which tells you the whole strange story of his career on this side of the Atlantic.