

“The industry hadn't really figured out 3D platforming yet, and here it was, a masterwork that set the standard.

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It defined the 3D platformer as a genre,” says veteran designer, Co-Founder of id Software and Senior Creative Director for VR developers Resolution Games Tom Hall. “Apart from camera criticism, everyone thought it was amazing.

Add in a camera-relative control scheme which was unparalleled at the time, an iconic soundtrack by series veteran Koji Kondo and open-ended, exploration-focused level design, and game developers were stunned. Mario himself was a smoothly-animated marvel, steered around with the analogue stick in the middle of the unusual N64 controller. Critics and players alike were astonished by the platformer, which took the world-famous plumber out of the second dimension and popped him into a vibrant, colourful 3D world. On June 23rd 1996, twenty-five years ago, Super Mario 64 was released in Japan as a launch title for Nintendo’s N64 console. “It was like an epiphany, that’s what I would say: Mario 64 was an epiphany.” To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Tim Schafer, renowned developer and President and CEO of Double Fine Productions, takes a second to think: how exactly did Super Mario 64 impact him when he first played it? “What’s the right word? It was like a milestone, or a watershed - what am I looking for here…” Twenty-five years on, we catch up with the developers inspired by Miyamoto's revolutionary platformer.
