It popularized split-screen couch multiplayer shooters. I don’t recall any other offering like it. A lan party was expensive and difficult to arrange, the n64 was something that only one person needed to throw in a backpack.

I played it with two controllers for dual analog controls.

Relatively certain that was novel at the time and is now the genre default.

edit: memory confirmed https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/fgco9/what_was_the_...

No but in combination, license to kill + slappers only was truly novel.

I don’t know what “truly” novel even means, but I can assure you that Goldeneye was immensely novel when it was released.