After 28 years, competitive GoldenEye players have documented what happens when you tie in the N64 FPS: "We experienced something that was only theorised"

GoldenEye 007
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28 years after its original launch on꧑ N64, GoldenEye still has a few mysteries left to unravel. Members of the game's competitive scene have, after all these years, just discovered what happens in the extremely unlikely event that a multiplayer match ends in a tie.

"Last night we were playing GoldenEye Netplay and we experienced something that was only theorised, never actually seen before all this time playing online," Graslu00 says . "We both shot and hit at the exact same frame when our scores were 9-9, earning both of us a 1st place!" Attached is a clip of that double death blow, recording 10 points and a win for both players simultaneously. (Update: As fellow GoldenEye exp🅰ert notes in the comments below, this discovery is specifically new for a point limit match - it's obviously easy✨ to trigger a tie in time limit matches.)

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It's certainly not impossible that somebody managed to cause a tie across the uncountable hours millions of people have spent playing GoldenEye over the decades, but it's ⭕only as of now that we have concrete, vid🍬eo proof of it happening. One more gaming mystery solved.

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Dustin Bailey
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