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Super Mario 64
Designer(s)
  • Yoichi Yamada
  • Yasuhisa Yamamura
  • Kenta Usui
  • Naoki Mori
  • Yoshiki Haruhana
  • Makoto Miyanaga
  • Katsuhiko Kanno[7]
Programmer(s)
  • Yasunari Nishida[8]
  • Yoshinori Tanimoto
  • Hajime Yajima
  • Daiki Iwamoto
  • Toshio Iwawaki
  • Takumi Kawagoe
  • Giles Goddard[7]
Artist(s)
Single-player

Super Mario 64 is a 1996

PAL regions in 1997. It is the first Super Mario game to feature 3D gameplay, combining traditional Super Mario gameplay, visual style, and characters in a large open world. In the game, Bowser, the primary antagonist of the Super Mario franchise, invades Princess Peach's castle and hides the castle's sources of protection, the Power Stars, in many different worlds inside magical paintings. As Mario
, the player collects Power Stars to unlock enough of Princess Peach's castle to get to Bowser and rescue Princess Peach.

Director Shigeru Miyamoto conceived a 3D Super Mario game during the production of Star Fox (1993). Development lasted nearly three years: about one year on design and twenty months on production, starting with designing the virtual camera system. The team continued with illustrating the 3D character models—at the time a relatively unattempted task—and refining sprite movements. The sound effects were recorded by Yoji Inagaki and the score was composed by Koji Kondo.

Super Mario 64 was highly anticipated by video game journalists and audiences, boosted by advertising campaigns and showings at the 1996 E3 trade show. It received critical acclaim, with reviewers praising its ambition, visuals, level design, and gameplay, though some criticized its virtual camera system. It is the best-selling Nintendo 64 game, with nearly twelve million copies sold by 2015.

Retrospectively, Super Mario 64 has been considered one of the

ported to other Nintendo consoles since. The game has attracted a cult following, spawning many fangames and mods, a large speedrunning
presence, and enduring rumors surrounding game features.

Gameplay

Controls

Three screenshots demonstrating the virtual camera system in Super Mario 64
From left to right clockwise, the interface shows the number of extra lives, health points remaining, coins obtained, Power Stars collected throughout the game, and the camera configuration. The three screenshots show the camera automatically rotating to show the path.

Super Mario 64 is a

Lakitu broadcasting Mario—and toggle between first-person and third-person view.[12]

Health, lives, and power-ups

Unlike many of its predecessors, Super Mario 64 uses a health point system, represented by a pie shape consisting of eight segments.[13] If Mario has taken damage, he can replenish his health either by collecting three types of coins—yellow, which replenishes one segment; red, equal to two yellow coins and which replenishes two segments; and blue, equal to five yellow coins and which replenishes five segments, by walking through a spinning heart or by jumping into water.[14] Underwater, Mario's health instead represents how long he can hold his breath, slowly diminishing while underwater and replenishing when he surfaces.[15] Finishing a course grants Mario an extra life for every 50 yellow coins the player collected,[13] and extra life mushrooms are hidden in various places such as trees and poles - they may either chase Mario through the air or fall to the ground and disappear shortly if not collected.[16]

In absence of the power-ups normally found in previous games, such as the Super Mushroom and Fire Flower, three colors of translucent blocks—red, green, and blue—appear throughout many stages. Three switches of the same colors, found in three secret areas located in either stages or the castle itself,[17][18][19] turn their corresponding blocks solid and permanently allow Mario to obtain three types of special cap power-ups throughout all of the stages. The Wing Cap allows Mario to fly after doing a triple jump or being shot from a cannon;[20] the Metal Cap makes him immune to enemies, fire, noxious gases, allows him to withstand wind and water currents, perform on-land moves underwater, and have unlimited air capacity underwater; and the Vanish Cap renders him partially immaterial and invulnerable, and allows him to walk through some obstacles.[15][21] Another implicit powerup is the shell remains after stomping a Koopa Troopa, which Mario can use to run over enemies, and surf on water, lava, and quicksand.[22]

Setting and objective

The hub world takes place in Princess Peach's Castle, which consists of three floors consisting of the castle's lobby, the main tower, and a basement, plus a moat and a courtyard outside the castle.[23] The player's main objective is to look for paintings that, when jumped into, bring them into courses containing Power Stars, which upon their collection unlock more of the castle hub world.[24] Each of the fifteen courses has seven Power Stars (six from named missions and one gained by collecting 100 coins in the level), and an additional fifteen are hidden as secrets and as bonuses, for a total of 120 Power Stars in the game.[25]

The courses are filled with enemies as well as friendly creatures that provide assistance or ask favors, such as

Shepard scale. There are many hidden mini-courses and other secrets within the castle, which may contain extra Power Stars required for the full completion of the game.[29] If the player returns to the game after collecting all 120 Power Stars, Yoshi can be found on the roof of Princess Peach's Castle, who will give the player a message from the developers, accompanied by one hundred extra lives and an improved triple jump.[25][30]

Plot

Princess Peach uses a letter to invite Mario to come to her castle for a cake she has baked for him.[31] When he arrives, Mario discovers that Bowser has invaded the castle and imprisoned the princess and her servants within its walls using the power of the castle's 120 Power Stars. The Power Stars are hidden in the castle's paintings, which serve as portals to other worlds where Bowser's minions keep watch over the Stars. Mario explores the castle and enters these worlds, gaining access to more rooms as he recovers more Stars.[32] Mario unlocks three doors to different floors of the castle with keys obtained by defeating Bowser in hidden worlds.[33] After getting at least 70 of the 120 Stars, Mario breaks the curse of the endless stairs that block the entrance to Bowser's final hiding place.[28] After Mario defeats Bowser in the final battle, and Bowser escapes, swearing revenge, he obtains a special Power Star which gives him the Wing Cap, and he flies back to the castle's courtyard. Peach is released from the stained-glass window above the castle's entrance, and she rewards Mario by kissing him on the nose and baking the cake that she had promised him.[34]

Once Mario earns all 120 stars, he is able to access the roof of the castle via a cannon on the castle grounds, where Yoshi awaits him. Yoshi congratulates Mario on securing all 120 stars and grants him 99 extra lives in order to continue playing the game.

Development

Shigeru Miyamoto at the 2007 Game Developers Conference
Yoshiaki Koizumi at the 2007 Montreal International Games Summit
Director Shigeru Miyamoto and assistant director Yoshiaki Koizumi

In the early 1990s, Super Mario creator

Consumer Electronics Show (CES), where Star Fox made its debut, Nintendo's booth demonstrated a talking 3D polygon animation of Mario's head;[38] it returned in the start screen, programmed by Giles Goddard.[39]

Production of Super Mario 64 began on September 7, 1994, at Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis & Development division, and concluded on May 20, 1996.[40] According to Miyamoto, the development team consisted of around fifteen to twenty people.[41] Development began with the characters and the camera system; months were spent selecting a view and layout.[39] The original concept involved the fixed path of an isometric game such as Super Mario RPG, which moved to a free-roaming 3D design,[39] with some linear paths, particularly to coerce the player into Bowser's lair, according to Giles Goddard.[39]

"There [were] no jumping actions in 3-D we could reference at the time, so we shared in the enjoyment of going through all the trial and error with Mr. Miyamoto and other team members. It was arguably tough work, but that feeling was overtaken by the joy of innovating in a new field."

—Yoshiaki Koizumi, 2020 The Washington Post, interview[42]

Super Mario 64 is one of the first games for which Nintendo produced its illustrations internally instead of by outsourcing.[43] The graphics were made using N-World, a Silicon Graphics (SGI)-based toolkit.[44] The development team prioritized Mario's movement and, before levels were created, tested and refined Mario's animations on a simple grid.[39] The 3D illustrations were created by Shigefumi Hino, Hisashi Nogami, Hideki Fujii, Tomoaki Kuroume, and Yusuke Nakano, and the game was animated by co-director Yoshiaki Koizumi and Satoru Takiwaza.[7] Yōichi Kotabe, illustrator and character designer for the Mario series, made a 3D drawing of Mario from various angles and directed the creation of the character models.[9] In an interview with The Washington Post, Yoshiaki Koizumi recalled that his challenge was animating the 3D models without any precedents.[42] To assist players with depth perception, the team positioned a faux shadow directly beneath each object regardless of the area's lighting. Yoshiaki Koizumi described the feature as an "iron-clad necessity" which "might not be realistic, but it's much easier to play".[45]

Miyamoto's guiding design philosophy was to include more details than earlier games by using the Nintendo 64's power to feature "all the emotions of the characters". He likened the game's style to a 3D interactive cartoon.[46] Some details were inspired by the developers' personal lives; for example, the Boos are based on assistant director Takashi Tezuka's wife, who, as Miyamoto explained, "is very quiet normally, but one day she exploded, maddened by all the time Tezuka spent at work".[35]

Super Mario 64 was first run on an

split-screen. Nevertheless, hardware constraints and the developers' inability to implement the mode satisfactorily led to its removal.[49][50]

Koji Kondo at the 2007 Game Developers Conference
Composer Koji Kondo

The music was composed by veteran composer Koji Kondo, who created new interpretations of the familiar melodies from earlier media as well as new material.[51][52] Yoji Inagaki was responsible for the sound design, tasked with producing hundreds of sound effects. He and Kondo felt that music and sound effects were equally important.[52] According to Inagaki, the average Nintendo 64 game had about 500 sound effects, and made comparisons to Ocarina of Time, with 1,200, and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, with 2,000.[52]

Super Mario 64 is one of the first games to feature Charles Martinet as the voice of Mario, and Leslie Swan—then senior editor of Nintendo Power and English localizer for Super Mario 64—as the voice of Princess Peach.[48]

Release

Super Mario 64 was first shown as a playable prototype in November 1995 at Nintendo Space World. This version was only fifty percent complete, and only about two percent of texture mapping was finished.[35][53][54] It featured thirty-two courses. Miyamoto had hoped to create more, possibly up to forty,[35] but was ultimately reduced to fifteen.[29] According to Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln, Miyamoto's desire to add more was a major factor in the decision to delay the Nintendo 64 release from Christmas 1995 to Summer 1996.[55] Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi later said: "Game creators can finish games quickly if they compromise. But users have sharp eyes. They soon know if the games are compromised. [Miyamoto] asked for two more months and I gave them to him unconditionally".[56] The game was later shown at E3 1996 with multiple Nintendo 64s set up for people to play.[57] According to Giles Goddard, the stress of the project caused some programmers to quit or move to different departments.[8]

Advertising and sales

Peter Main, Nintendo's vice president of marketing at the time, stated Super Mario 64 was meant as the

killer app for the Nintendo 64. The US$20 million[i] marketing campaign included videotapes sent to more than five hundred thousand Nintendo Power subscribers and advertisements shown on MTV, Fox, and Nickelodeon.[58][59]

Super Mario 64 was officially released in Japan in June 1996,[2] North America in September,[1] and in Europe and Australia in March 1997.[3][4] During its first three months of sale in North America, it sold more than two million copies and grossed $140 million[ii] in the United States,[60] becoming the best-selling video game of 1996.[61] It was also the best-selling game overall from 1995 to 2002. During the first three months of 1997, it was the second-best-selling console game at 523,000 units.[62] By early 2001, it had sold 5.5 million units,[63] and 5.9 million by September 2002.[64]

At the 1999 Milia festival in Cannes, Super Mario 64 won a Gold ECCSELL prize for earning revenues above €21 million[iii] in the European Union in 1998.[65] It had become the second most popular game on Wii's Virtual Console by June 2007, behind Super Mario Bros.[66] By March 2008, Super Mario 64 sold 11.8 million copies worldwide, being the best-selling Nintendo 64 game.[67] By 2015, Super Mario 64 was the 12th most sold Mario game, with 11.91 million copies sold.[68]

Re-releases

Super Mario 64 DS

Main article: Super Mario 64 DS

An enhanced remake, Super Mario 64 DS, was released for the Nintendo DS in 2004. As with the original, the plot centers on collecting Power Stars and rescuing Princess Peach from Bowser. In contrast with the original, Yoshi is the starting character, with Mario, Luigi, and Wario as unlockable characters.[69] It features improved graphics, slightly altered courses, new areas, powerups, and enemies, more Power Stars to collect, touchscreen mini-games, and a multiplayer mode.[70] Reviews were mostly positive, with critics praising the graphics and add-ons to the original game but criticizing the controls and multiplayer mode.[71][72] By September 2021, 11.06 million copies had been sold worldwide.[73]

Other re-releases

A version of Super Mario 64 was used as a

tech demo for the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (64DD) floppy drive at the 1996 Nintendo Space World trade show.[74] Like Wave Race 64, Super Mario 64 was re-released in Japan on July 18, 1997 as Super Mario 64 Rumble Pak Version[a] which fixed various bugs, added support for the Rumble Pak peripheral, included the voice acting from the English version, among other changes.[75][76][77][78]

In November 2003, it was

Super Famicom Classic controllers.[80] In September 2020, Super Mario 64 was one of the three Super Mario games to be included in the Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection on Nintendo Switch.[81] This version was based on the Rumble Pak iteration,[82] and updated the game's presentation to display at 720p resolution in both the Switch's docked and handheld configurations, in addition to using upscaled user interface assets and textures. It also features a new control scheme that accommodates the wider button array of the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con and Pro Controller, and was later patched to add compatibility for the Nintendo 64 controller used with the Nintendo Classics service.[83] It made another Nintendo Switch appearance in October 2021 as part of the Nintendo 64 lineup for the Nintendo Classics service.[84]

Reception

Critical reviews

Super Mario 64 received enthusiastic pre-release reception. GamePro commented on the 1995 prototype's smoothness, and how the action "was a blast", despite the game being only fifty percent complete at the time.[53] Ed Semrad of Electronic Gaming Monthly agreed, praising the new 3D animation of Mario characters shown in only 2D before.[54] Larry Marcus, a source analyst for Alex. Brown & Sons, recalls Super Mario 64 being the most anticipated game of E3 1996, remembering a field of teenagers "jostling for a test run".[106]

Super Mario 64 received critical acclaim, with a score of 94 out of 100 from review aggregator website Metacritic based on thirteen reviews,[86] and a score of 96% from review aggregator GameRankings, which ranked it the eighteenth best video game of all time based on twenty-two reviews.[85]

The design, variety of controls and use of 3D gameplay received praise from video game publications.[90][99][107] Maximum found its strongest points were the sense of freedom and its replayability, comparing it to Super Mario World and citing its similar gimmick of allowing access to new areas upon finding switches.[105] One of GameFan's four reviewers, E. Storm, cited the water levels as "overjoy[ing]" and showed how Super Mario 64 delved into an "entirely new realm of gaming".[94] Official Nintendo Magazine called it "beautiful in both looks and design".[102] Doug Perry of IGN agreed that it transitioned the series to 3D perfectly.[29] Electronic Gaming Monthly discussed the levels in their initial review, praising them for their size and challenge,[89] and later ranked it the fourth best console game of all time, arguing that it had breached the entire genre of 3D gaming while working virtually flawlessly.[108]

N64 Magazine likened it to an enormous playground which was a pleasure to experiment in, but opined that the exploration element was slightly brought down by how many hints and tips there were.[99] Victor Lucas of EP Daily agreed, praising the freedom, but suggesting players "skip all the sign posts".[90]

Super Mario 64 also received praise for its graphics. GameSpot praised the graphics for being "clean yet simple" and not detracting from the details of the game world.[97] GamePro particularly praised the combination of unprecedented technical performance and art design, calling it "the most visually impressive game of all time".[95] Paul Davies described the graphics as "so amazing to see, you find yourself stopping to admire [them]".[88] Jonti Davies called the visuals phenomenal, and the frame rate respectable.[87] Doug Perry found the graphics simple but magnificent,[29] a sentiment shared by Next Generation.[100] Hyper reviewer Nino Alegeropoulos called it the best-looking console game to date and opined that its high resolution and frame rate for the time made it look "infinitely better than a cartoon".[98] Total! said that the graphics' lack of pixellation and jagged edges made it look like they were from a "top of the range graphics workstation".[109]

The camera system received mixed reviews. Next Generation found that Super Mario 64 was less accessible than previous Mario games, frustrated by the camera's occasional erratic movements and lack of optimal angle.[100] Nebojsa Radakovic and Doug Perry added that the camera was sometimes blocked by or went through objects.[29][107] Electronic Gaming Monthly's Dan Hsu, Shawn Smith, and Crispin Boyer all removed half a point from their scores, claiming that the camera sometimes could not move to a wanted angle or rapidly shifted in an undesirable manner,[89] a criticism that returned in Electronic Gaming Monthly's 100 Best Games of All Time list.[108] Game Informer stated in their 2007 re-review by present-day standards the camera "would almost be considered broken".[93] Nintendo Power also noted the learning curve of the shifting camera.[110] In contrast, Corbie Dillard claimed that the camera did not have any problems, and that it succeeded at helping the player traverse complex environments.[101] This sentiment was shared by Total!, claiming that there were very few occasions where the camera was at a suboptimal angle.[111] Paul Davies acknowledged that he was critical of the camera, saying that in some occasions it was difficult to position ideally, but ultimately dismissed it as "one hiccup" of a "revolutionary" game.[88]

Awards

Super Mario 64 won numerous awards, including various "Game of the Year" honors by members of the gaming media, and in Nintendo's own best-selling Player's Choice selection. It has been placed high on "

Computer Game Developers Conference, it was given Spotlight Awards for Best Use of Innovative Technology, Best Console Game, and Best Game of 1996.[120] Maximum gave it a "Maximum Game of the Month Award" before its international release, ranking it the greatest game the magazine had ever reviewed.[105] Digitiser ranked it the best game of 1997, above Final Fantasy VII as runner-up.[104]

List of awards
Date Award publication Category Result Ref.
1996 Maximum Game of the Month (June) Won [105]
Electronic Gaming Monthly Game of the Month (September) Won [89]
Gold Award Won [118]
Nintendo 64 Game of the Year Won [119]
Adventure Game of the Year Won
Best Graphics Won
Game of the Year Won
Game Informer Won [114]
Spotlight Awards Won [120]
Best Use of Innovative Technology Won
Best Console Game Won
1997 Digitiser Game of the Year Won [104]
Computer and Video Games Won [121]
Golden Joystick Awards Won
Best Looking Game Won
Official Nintendo Magazine Best Nintendo 64 Game Won
1998 ECCSELL Awards Gold Award Won [65]

Legacy

[...] if the gaming press was to be believed, Super Mario 64 was going to be the greatest game ever released anywhere, and it might also cure cancer and feed the world's starving children.

The rule that a console must have a broad spectrum of launch titles to appeal to the North American audience was generally true, but Nintendo found the exception: a single amazing title, with well-implemented 3D gameplay that most console players had never experienced, could bear the weight of the entire system on its shoulders.

Super Mario 64 was key to the early success of and anticipation for the Nintendo 64.[93][108][123] Lee Hutchinson, a former Babbage's employee, notes how the game was spurred by a feverish video game press, and how the success of the game defied the rule that a wide variety of launch games was necessary for broad appeal.[122] Eventually, the Nintendo 64 lost much of its market share to Sony's PlayStation, partly due to its cartridge and controller design decisions, which were reportedly implemented by Miyamoto for Super Mario 64.[124]

In 2012, Super Mario 64 was among the 80 entries in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's The Art of Video Games exhibit.[125]

Influence

Super Mario 64 set many precedents for 3D platformers as one of the most influential video games.

Disney employees resulted in the creation of the Kingdom Hearts series, inspired by Super Mario 64's use of 3D environments and exploration.[132] Chris Sutherland, who served as the lead designer for Banjo-Kazooie, agreed that Super Mario 64 set the benchmark for 3D platformers and claimed that any other game in the genre on the Nintendo 64 would inevitably be compared with Super Mario 64.[57]

Super Mario 64 introduced a free-floating camera that can be controlled independently of the character.

PC Magazine's K. Thor Jensen considers Super Mario 64 to be the first truly realized 3D platformer with the integration of camera control into its core gameplay, which he called the medium's true evolutionary leap.[135]

Super Mario 64's use of the analog stick was novel, offering more precise and wide-ranging character movements than the digital D-pads of other consoles. At the time, 3D games generally only allowed the player to either control the character in relation to a fixed camera angle or in relation to the character's perspective. Super Mario 64's controls, in contrast, are fully analog and interpret a 360-degree range of motion into navigation through a 3D space relative to the camera. The analog stick allows for precise control over subtleties such as running speed.[136] In 2005, Electronic Gaming Monthly ranked Super Mario 64 the most important game since they began publication in 1989, stating that, while there were 3D games before it, "Nintendo's was the first to get the control scheme right".[137]

In July 2021, a pristine, sealed copy of Super Mario 64 was auctioned for $1,560,000, the largest amount ever paid for a video game.[138][139] Heritage Auctions's video games specialist said, "It seems impossible to overstate the importance of this title, not only to the history of Mario and Nintendo but to video games as a whole".[140]

Successors

A sequel was planned for the disk drive add-on, under the codename Super Mario 128.[141] In July 1996, Nintendo insiders stated that Miyamoto was assembling a team consisting mostly of developers who had worked on Super Mario 64.[142] Miyamoto affirmed that work on the sequel had only commenced at the time of the E3 1997 convention.[143] The project was canceled due to its lack of progress and the commercial failure of the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive.[144][145]

Super Mario 64 successors include Super Mario Sunshine for the GameCube and Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii, building on its core design of power-ups and its 3D, open-ended gameplay.[146][147] Super Mario Galaxy 2 includes a remake of Super Mario 64's Whomp's Fortress level called Throwback Galaxy.[148] Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario 3D World are departures from the open-ended design, instead focused on platforming reminiscent of 2D games.[149]

The Nintendo Switch game Super Mario Odyssey returns to Super Mario 64's open design;[150] it includes numerous references to the latter. The 'Mario 64 Suit' and 'Mario 64 Cap', which change Mario's appearance to his in Super Mario 64, can be purchased after completing the main storyline. Additionally, Mario can travel to the Mushroom Kingdom, which includes Princess Peach's Castle and its courtyard. The Kingdom's Power Moons resemble Super Mario 64's Power Stars.[151][152]

Rumors, conspiracy theories, and glitches

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Rumors spread rapidly after the game's release. The most popular was a pervasive rumor that Luigi existed as an

Nintendo Gigaleak.[156]

Satirical conspiracy theories about the game became popular in the early 2020s. These theories were grouped into an Internet meme of an iceberg known as the "Super Mario 64 iceberg", with less likely theories representing places being placed closer to the bottom of the "ocean".[157] One popular theory was the "Wario Apparition", based on an E3 1996 presentation with Charles Martinet voicing a disembodied Wario head. Some fans believed that the Wario head remained in some copies of the game. Conspiracy theorists have also spread the rumor that "every copy of Super Mario 64 is personalized", claiming that certain bizarre phenomena existed in only certain copies of the game.[157][158][159]

In the years since the game's release, players have used glitches to reach previously unreachable parts of the game, including, in 2014, a coin not possible to be collected in ordinary play.

Speedrun techniques include the Lakitu skip, a glitch that disables a dialog box explaining camera movement; the Bob-omb clip, which uses a glitch in a Bob-omb's explosion animation to clip through walls; and the backwards long jump glitch, which involves the player performing a repetitive move, the "backwards long jump" (BLJ), allowing Mario to reach very high speed values and has numerous applications in speedrunning;[161] the latter was patched in the Rumble Pak re-release in 1997 as well as the Super Mario 3D All-Stars re-release (with the 3D All-Stars version being based on the Rumble Pak version's codebase).[162] In 2013, YouTuber Vinesauce posted a compilation of various corruptions of the game, replicated with a program named naughty.[163][164] Another YouTuber, Pannenkoek2012, creates highly technical and analytical videos of Super Mario 64 glitches and mechanics, which have been covered many times by the video game press.[165][166][167] The game has also inspired challenges that attempt to beat it with certain restrictions, such as not being able to press the A button, requiring deep understanding about the game's mechanics and bugs.[168][169] In May 2024, a player named Marbler managed to beat the entire game without pressing the A button.[170]

Fan projects

Super Mario 64 has led to the creation of

fan-made remakes, modifications and ROM hacks
:

Decompilation

In 2019, fans

Windows port with support for widescreen displays and 4K resolution.[192] The port would allow for more graphical mods and forks, such as Render96, which implemented the original high-resolution source textures and created new character models and environments resembling those seen in the game's CG renders,[193] and Super Mario 64 Plus, a fork of the Windows port featuring a new permanent death option, bug fixes, and an improved camera system.[194] Fans have also created ports for several different platforms, including the Nintendo 3DS,[195] PlayStation 2, PlayStation Vita, Dreamcast, and Android.[196] Nintendo has enlisted a law firm to remove videos of the port and its listings from various websites, taking them down via copyright claims.[197]

Medical literature

In 2013, a study was conducted to see the

gray matter (a major part of the central nervous system) to increase in the right hippocampal formation and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—brain areas thought to contribute to spatial navigation, working memory, and motor planning.[198][199]

Notes

  1. ^ Japanese: スーパーマリオ64 振動パック対応バージョン (lit. Super Mario 64 Vibration Pack Compatible Version)
  2. ^ Contrary to the title, the intro to the article (on page 100) explicitly states that the list covers console video games only, meaning PC games and arcade games were not eligible.

Notes on inflation

  1. ^ equivalent to $40,097,602 in 2024
  2. ^ equivalent to $280,683,217 in 2024
  3. ^ equivalent to $30,080,400 in 2022

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