Am I limited to FPSs?

I do have a lot of good memories playing the game, but it has aged very badly, as many early PS1/N64 games have.  The controls especially make it nigh unplayable.
In my opinion though, Perfect Dark was the far superior game.  Kept all of the best weapons and levels, but had a lot more options, modes and everything.  Really looking forward to the XBLA port with online play and updated controls and graphics.

Splitscreen Timesplitters 2 + 3 has my heart.

If anything its nothing more than good memories for some people at the time. It definitely doesn't stand up with their controls at all, and its entirely archaic. Anyone that was playing real shooters on the PC at that time wouldn't of gave Goldeneye a second look.

Great game, but calling any FPS the best multiplayer one ever is silly, because it seems like each year they keep rendering old FPSes useless. They just make them better and better, that's kinda the point. Old FPS games have the least hold, liek they don't stay fresh looong. 
 
For example, I liked MW2 this year, tis the best FPS multiplayer action I can find.. before it was COD4, and a month before that probably Halo 3 (now that's just xbox, and a very small selection of games, but yeah)

My advice to you is to NOT go back and try to play it as it will wreck your memories.  Your love of the game is based on who you played it with and your circumstances at the time.  Goldeneye wasn't really all that great.  
 
I had similar fond memories of playing a sci-fi robot based football game on the Genesis with my college roommates. (Cyberball?)  I made the mistake of  going back a few years ago and trying to play it.  It was not the same and destroyed a lot of my good memories of the game.   Sometimes you can't recapture the magic of a particular time and place.

Unreal Tournament is better in the department  IMO.

GoldenEye was the starting ground to good Console Multiplayer.

It may have been an unmatchable experience if you played it at the right time and right age, but it also has to be one of the worst aging games of all time.

Are we talking split-screen only? And are we talking FPS games only here?

its all about the experience. even Halo 1 was fun with friends, altho i'm not a fan of the halo series at all lol 
and i suppose my point to this post is that hanging out with friends playing is and always has been better than sitting alone in the dark with a headset on playing with a bunch of punk 12 yr olds lol
 

3 player all night sessions in the Archives. Oddjob not allowed
 
Best thing ever

Personally I hate split screen mode, I hate looking at a screen that was to small.  Although when I was growing up, my TV monitor I would be playing on would either be a 13 inch or a 19 inch so split screen sucked for that kind of thing.  Although I do prefer local multiplayer unless it is splitscreen.

Goldeneye kinda sucks now... just sayin'

Perfect Dark's coming out so that'll please us all!

Console wise... I LOVED Red Faction 2's miltiplayer on the PS2, killed tons of hours of that game with friends
 
PC wise... Unreal Tournament 2004, playing that game for entire days, skipping school to do lan parties, installing this game on the school's computer to do games in class (eventually our teacher found out, but he didn't care, as long as we finished our work)

For local multiplayer, you just can't beat CoD 2.