Super Mario 64
I watched Super Mario 64 grow from a featurette about the "future of gaming" in several mid-nineties video game magazines into a day-and-date launch product priced at $60 on the brand new Nintendo 64 console. I was thrilled to see my favorite gaming series expanding into the third dimension. My first night with the game, the week of my twelfth birthday, I stayed up until 2:30am playing "Bomb-Omb Battlefield," the first level of the game. As my introduction to 3D games, I spent much of that night sending Mario stumbling around; the Nintendo 64 controller was a beautiful thing in my hands, however, and I worked at it with great persistence.
Super Mario 64 holds a special place in my heart, not for its great game design, but because I collected every one of the 120 stars in the game and had a blast doing it - long before I knew what great game design was supposed to be. For me, Super Mario 64 is the essence of discovery and exploration, and as a kid I could not have asked for anything else.
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B3 out.
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