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Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.
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I remember Goldeneye but I played it on GameCube so have no idea how more traditional controllers handled input.
N64 only has 1 joystick so games had to work around that. The joystick makes you walk forward/backwards and look left/right. There are also the C buttons that act as a D-pad for your right hand. Up/down is look and left/right is strafe. There were considered advanced movements that the majority of casual players could ignore.
One of the first console shooters where you could reasonably circle strafe.
Goldeneye Rogue Agent is a very different game to 1997's Goldeneye, tho.