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Super Mario 64 (Japanese: スーパーマリオ64, Hepburn: Sūpā Mario Rokujūyon) is a 1996 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. Along with Pilotwings 64, it was one of the launch titles for the console. It was released in Japan on June 23, 1996, and later in North America, Europe, and Australia. It is the best-selling game on the Nintendo 64, with more than eleven million copies sold. An enhanced remake called Super Mario 64 DS was released for the Nintendo DS in 2004.

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Super Mario 64

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  • MasterCrash MasterCrash
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    3 years ago
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    Like Slider, I also got me them 3D Mario All Stars. Contrary to him, I think, this is very much my first real rodeo with them.
    I've reached 31 Stars in Super Mario 64, which is probably 26 more than I ever did before as I only remembered the first three levels and even then, I was completely lost on most stars.
    I've been enjoying it, it's really such a massive and impressive world for 1996, and I'm amazed at the amount of jumps one can do.
    But the game can be a pain in the ass multiple times. Mario is TOO slippery and it's very easy to make a small mistake that ends up kicking you out of the entire level, making you have to re-do it all again. I can't even begin to count the amount of times I had to try to catch all the red coins in the ice level just to slip somewhere and fall to oblivion. Camera also doesn't help at all a lot of the time.
    Also, the fucking Boo Mansion has two of the most assholish stars I've met so far. Like, how am I suppose to know that there's a fucking balcony there? And the jump is insanely hard to pull off, just for you to fall when facing the big Boo... And then, if you do manage to beat it they throw the star to a place where I had no idea how to get to. Turns out you have to make another slippery sloop jump to the ceiling and pray you don't fall like I did about 5 times, making me have to climb all over again, I spent some good hour just on that star, and then, the next star is to reach the balcony... WITH A FUCKING TIMER.
    I pondered skipping straight to Sunshine after this...But I pulled through. Managed to find all the cap switches somehow and now I'm curious of what's to come.
    Also, boss room in the basement is not a boss at all and that confuses me, and there's a weird bunny there as well that looks impossible to get.

    It's weird to think that I'm probably the only guy who bought this and is experiencing most of Super Mario 64 for the first time in 2021.
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      Editing … Also, I got a Switch. That's pretty recent as well.
      3 years ago Heart 4
    • DJ_JJSlider
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      Editing … I liked playing that Boo's Mansion level back in the day, but all those camera angles are still horrible. I'm not surprised that they switched to more linear stages in the later games.
      3 years ago Heart 1
    • WoodrowShigeru
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      Editing … I would assume that there are plenty others who enjoyed SM64 in 2021. --- Reading your experience, my best advice is to revisit some early level where you can't easily fall to your death and spend some quality time with the lovable plumber: get to to know all the running, jumping, sliding, hopping controls. Hookjump, walljump, longjump, triple jump. Get a feeling for how much fun controlling Mario is. This game is best played by daringly launching him off in random directions and not looking back, rather than careful placement and tiptoeing. --- Also, the camera -- as janky as it admittedly is -- actually has more control than you probably think. It was only last year that I learned how useful the tripod mode sometimes is (togglable in Start menu inside a level).
      3 years ago Heart 1
    • DJ_JJSlider
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      Editing … I would just play tons of Shifting Sand Land. Seriously, all the best enemies and the hilarious quicksand deaths are there. And the vulture steals my hat. Lol.
      3 years ago Heart 1
  • DJ_JJSlider DJ_JJSlider
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    3 years ago
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    I bought 3D Mario All-Stars. Aw yeah baby, we back.

    ...but we still need gay Bowser.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCh2l0J1uJk
    • rockshard PhD
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      Editing … I bought it too. But I'm not sure if I will actually play it. =P I mainly just wanted it for Mario 64.
      3 years ago Heart 2
    • DJ_JJSlider
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      Editing … Well, you could always use that game's music player. I could listen to those songs all day. Especially Isle Delfino.
      3 years ago
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      Editing … Yay for portable Mario 64, btw. Took them long enough to make a good port. Remember that Super Mario 64 DS crap? I sure do. I mean, I didn't like it, but I remember that game. It was glorious crap.
      3 years ago Heart 1
    • rockshard PhD
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      Editing … The changes were stupid. I just wanted portable Mario 64. They did it now, but as a limited release. Always finding a way to screw things up..
      3 years ago Heart 2
    • DJ_JJSlider
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      Editing … I would complain more, but 3D All-Stars has three awesome 3D Mario games and their soundtracks in a music player mode. So yeah, that's still a pretty sweet deal for a limited release. It could use a cool lobby-style title screen, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWIv5o3UAeg
      3 years ago
    • DJ_JJSlider
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      Editing … I miss the version with the debug blocks in it, though. We need more copies with weird programmer errors. Yknow, for posterity's sake.
      3 years ago
    • rockshard PhD
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      Editing … I just bought the Mario 64 low poly costume in Odyssey. Neat. =P But I was far more impressed with the classic color outfit. It's nothing more than a palette swap of regular Mario to make his overalls orange, but it looks way better imo. Nintendo should make that his default color!
      3 years ago
  • DJ_JJSlider DJ_JJSlider
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    3 years ago
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    This classic(?) line was patched out of Super Mario 3D All-Stars.
    I'll miss you, gay Bowser. I mean, King Bowser. Bah-bye...
    :-P
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCh2l0J1uJk
  • Nodley Nodley
    Nodley wrote his opinion about Super Mario 64
    5 years ago
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    I just can't get to grips with a 3D Mario after the sheer awesomness of 1, 3 and World. It's good, it's just not as fun.
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      Editing … I was cool until he moved to a tropical island and talked to a hose. Then it turned to blockbuster Hollywood with space, planets and a full orchestra soundtrack and I was like huh? Maybe I'll play another one if they bring back "But our princess is in another castle."
      5 years ago
  • John Pratt John Pratt
    John Pratt wrote his opinion about Super Mario 64
    6 years ago
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    Amazing how the first 3d platformer just did it right.
  • Dr Eggnog Dr Eggnog
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    6 years ago
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    Super Mario 64 came out 40 years ago today.
  • WoodrowShigeru WoodrowShigeru
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    7 years ago
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    Glitch abuse aside: the runs of the Bowser levels are crazy-beautiful.
  • Dr Eggnog Dr Eggnog
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    8 years ago
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    I wish each stage had its own music. One reason I like the game less the farther in I go is that I'll hear music in a later stage and I feel like it only belongs in the stage it was originally in, like I identify it with that level.
    • Nodley
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      Editing … I don't like that game at all, it was a serious letdown after SMW.
      8 years ago
    • Dr Eggnog
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      Editing … I grew up with 3D platformers, so for this this is like the base building block of everything gaming. 3D platformers are the only games where I like experimenting and trying to figure out how to do things, and in Mario 64 it works how some of the stars are like puzzles cause you don't have to get all of them so it's okay if I can't figure some of them out.
      8 years ago Heart 1
    • Nodley
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      Editing … I pity you youngsters, having to spend good money on garbage and then having to play it. All good Nintendo games died out with the SNES
      8 years ago
    • Dr Eggnog
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      Editing … I wasn't young when I played Nintendo games. Grew up with a ps1 then ps2. Also my favorite game I've played since Persona 3 was Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D.
      8 years ago
    • Nodley
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      Editing … You suck
      8 years ago Heart 1
    • Dr Eggnog
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      Editing … Yo! Not even my fault that I was born in 1993! I didn't choose to come outta dat puss! I was super happy in the womb! No one told me what it was gonna be like out here! I didn't sign no fuckin contract, yo!
      8 years ago
    • Nodley
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      Editing … I know, it's not your fault you were born so late. You'd have liked being my age.
      8 years ago
    • Bob GutSmasha
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      Editing … if you were as old as nodley you could have had this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZEMb9ZW8AAqREj.jpg
      8 years ago Heart 3
    • Nodley
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      Editing … I remember Game Boys well. I played Tetris and Kid Icarus a lot.
      8 years ago Heart 2
    • WhiteSnake
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      Editing … Compared to other 3D platforming efforts around the same time (like Bubsy 3D), Super Mario 64 felt unusually ahead of its time in terms of its polished controls and gameplay.
      8 years ago
  • Salnax Salnax
    Salnax wrote his opinion about Super Mario 64
    9 years ago
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    Galaxy had some great orchestrated songs, but 64 takes the cake for diverse themes that manage to excite new players and veterans alike. The basic title, opening, and castle music set the tune of an adventure unfolding quite nicely. Bob-Omb Battlefield, the Slides, Dire Dire Docks, and Snow Mountain all have great soundtracks to emphasize their challenges and motifs. Bowser's stage and fight themes are some of the most intense Nintendo has ever done, and "Bowser's Road" sounding like a military marching song on the mostly linear path to the Koopa King is genius.
  • André Rönnbäck André Rönnbäck
    André Rönnbäck wrote his opinion about Super Mario 64
    9 years ago
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    this game is revolutionary! its the first real free roaming 3d game. i remember playing this, and that feeling was awsome!
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Sūpā Mario Rokujūyon J
Super Mario 64 d E
スーパーマリオ64 J
Super Mario 64 DS

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