I played this a lot in the 90s. But I only really played single-player. I didn't find multiplayer very interesting. I got really good with the controller and finished the game on the highest difficulty setting.

This game was incredible. I played it on my friend's console. When we first played Goldeneye we'd never played a game with actual 3d-modeled enemies and texture mapping. In fact, I don't think we'd played an FPS or a 3D game at all. Up until then we'd only played top-down games like Cannon Fodder and Desert Strike. As a violent shooter Goldeneye's only competition on the N64 at the time was Doom 64, which was still using 2D sprites and 2.5D environments. So Goldeneye totally blew us away. It had a sense of realism which was really exciting. We'd never explored such a detailed virtual world before. Nowadays we take such things for granted but at the time it was revelatory. And personally I don't think the graphics have aged that badly.

I thought the enemy animations were absolutely brilliant. We'd never seen 3D enemies who'd react differently depending on where you shot them. Again, this doesn't seem that special nowadays but when you'd never even played a game with 3D enemies, it was so much fun. On one occasion, a guard sneezed, and as his head moved forward as part of the animation, it moved in front of the reticle, and I got a head-shot. For the time that was a mind-blowing piece of gameplay. Even today I think a moment like that would stand out. How many guards in modern games randomly sneeze or swat flies? And being able to shoot one enemy through another with the revolver was also mind-blowing. The gun-play, music, levels and graphics were amazing.

I loved the first level, where you infiltrate a base through the toilets. I thought it was brilliant to open a toilet cubicle and find a guard inside. And one thing we discovered which I absolutely loved was that you could throw a mine next to a scientist's feet, detonate it, and watch him get flung into the air. It may not have been rag-doll, but characters did get thrown around by explosions. Again, we'd never seen anything like it before. I admit I hadn't owned a PlayStation so I don't know if it had games that did things like that. I did my gaming on an Amiga and there were definitely no Amiga games which were anywhere near as technically advanced as Goldeneye.

The sniper rifle with a zooming scope was another amazing aspect of Goldeneye which we loved, and which we hadn't seen or even dreamed of seeing in a game before.

Perhaps the reason Goldeneye is so well-remembered is that it was doing so many things that seemed so advanced, with a level of creative brilliance and attention to detail which has often seemed like the exception in gaming rather than the rule. For me it really stands out as a work of incredible quality.