Super Mario 64

Could be.

I, I j- I always remember 64 came out in, uh, '96, right? And so I'm always trying to think what came before Mario 64? And then I was like-

Hmm

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with a i guess the r being short for rendered is kind of the general consensus but they just put r after a lot of games back then racing anyway like there wasn't there sonic racing r i've heard that maybe they were trying to avoid that um but it's also just a terrible word rendered it just sounds terrible to say uh but i think it was short for rad so there you go um the nintendo lawyers um As far as it not being Sonic Racing R, I don't think Nintendo lawyers were feeling any fear from Sega at this point, so it probably is being short for rendered.

But Mario Kart 64 was developed alongside Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, even though that didn't come out until 1998.

All three by Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development Division.

Because Nintendo's got all sorts of division, but it makes good for intercompany competition.

So they got some game footage.

It was not playable.

uh it was intended to be released alongside the 64 itself in mid 96 as a you know council game with the system but was delayed after development resources were directed towards super mario 64 itself being that launch title for the system Good call.

Whatever might have been going on with Mario 64, all hands on deck.

And, like, three generations within a decade is unheard of now.

Because I'm just thinking, like, they go from this in 93 to 96, they release Super Mario 64.

It's insane to me, that jump.

Well, let's say, like, yeah, like, within 20 years, we went from Pong to Polygons.

Do, do you remember moments where you're like, "I'm playing this, like, on a handheld.

I'm playing Super Mario 64 on a handheld.

That's crazy"?

[laughs]

So it's not just a side-scrolling platformer, which was the majority of platformers in the... or up until that point.

Now, I know 96 was Mario 64 and its 3D mechanics are starting to get out there.

But I feel like this was really innovative because... you had your front to back or your back to front levels so you're standing and you're running away from the camera which is the first level in the intro level and I feel at the time a very different way of doing things but it changes things up so you have like Insanity Beach is the name of the first level you're going back you're going from back to front genuinely I can't get it right You're going from back to front, but then there's also levels where you're going running towards the camera, front to back.

It's a very Indiana Jones style where you have the big huge boulder running towards you.

It's really great.

If you like Banjo-Kazooie, if you like Super Mario 64, it takes inspiration from those in a really great way.

it does this incredible like texture swap mechanic that's like unreal like for an indie team you can take the uh texture of water and put it on something else to like put out a fire or vice versa you can see a volcano you can take the texture of lava and you can put it on the water to set something on fire you can take the texture of grass and put it on the waterfall to turn it into vines to climb up the waterfall.

It's like unreal.

So you're going to do YouTube and then I'm going to do Instagram and then

yeah.

So on YouTube, we've got, at itsnuki, there's Mario 64 when I was three years old.

Sweet memories.

Yes.

If you stick around after you beat Mario 64, it shows the whole thing.

So you gotta

stick around after you beat Mario 64.

Yeah, don't turn the console off.

Don't reset.

Anyway, go ahead, Fliss.

Oh, I was just saying, as far as like people saying I didn't get my time worth out of a game like Mario 64, you can beat speed run, obviously, in an hour and a half.

The original Resident Evil, you can be in an hour and a half.

Yeah.