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Super Mario 64

Super Mario 64 was the first game released for the Nintendo 64 and the console's flagship. In this game Mario has to save Princess Peach Toadstool from King Bowser Koopa, as in the Mario games for the NES and SNES. This was also Mario's first 3D game. This time Mario has to find 120 power stars scattered throughout Peach's castle to succeed. The game is composed of 15 main levels and several secret ones.

The game was released in Japan on June 23, 1996, and in the US on September 29, 1996. It was produced and directed by Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. The music was composed by Koji Kondo.

Super Mario 64 is regarded by many as a milestone in gaming history. The following quote from Warren Spector, lead designer at Ion Storm, is illustrative of this view:

It's not possible to squeeze this much gameplay into a single game. Mario has, like, ten things he can do and yet there's never a moment where you feel constrained in any way. No game has done a better job of showing goals before they can be attained, allowing players to make a plan and execute on it. And the way the game allows players to explore the same spaces several times while revealing something new each time is a revelation. Any developer who wouldn't kill to have made this game is nuts. [1]

Table of contents

1 Gameplay 2 Super Mario 64 Glitches 2.1 The Inverted Rooms 2.2 The Mutated Mario Cap 2.3 Flying Mario Corpse 3 External Links

Gameplay

There are 3 different transformation blocks throughout the game that Mario can hit:

• Red Block: Winged Cap (Mario can fly)
• Green Block: Metal Cap (Mario becomes metal)
• Blue Block: Invisible Cap (Mario becomes invisible)

Super Mario 64 Glitches

The Inverted Rooms

Once you have all 120 stars, a cannon near the pond in front of the caslte will open and launch you to a roof, where Yoshi will be waiting. Also on the roof is a winged cap. There is a glitch that can be done with this:

• Get the winged cap, then fly off the roof and into the cannon on the ground.
• Launch towards the tower as high as it will go.
• Keep flying towards it until you reach it. The upper part of the castle has 8 sides, so when you land on an outcrop face away from the wall that is wall that is 2nd to the left of the one that is in front (the "front" wall is the wall that was directly in front of you when you blasted from the cannon.)
• Face away from the wall and then quickly turn around and run into it. You should fall down into a strange chamber. Remember that you'll lose half of your power.
• You'll be in a chamber that is inverted-- in other words, the door that looks like it's going outside goes into the castle and vice versa. The only way out is to leave through a hidden wall in the chamber that's inside the castle.
• When you fly to the castle outcrop, you can also walk straight up to the top of the castle instead of falling through (by walking up the 3rd left from the front wall)

The Mutated Mario Cap

• Go to course 10 (Snowman's land)
• Go to where the giant snowman is blowing and get blown off.
• Your cap will fly off as always, but don't pick it up, go to the teleporter (it is a tree in the corner of the level, stand next to it for a few seconds and it will teleport you to another place.)
• Teleport back to where the tree was.
• Go to your cap. It will be mutated and glitchy. Pick it up and instead of going on Mario's head it will go in his hand.

(The teleporting part is normal, there are teleporters in other levels too. They are not considered glitches.)

Flying Mario Corpse

• Go to course 8 (Shifting Sand Land).
• With the Pink Bomb-Omb, open up the cannon in the corner of the level.
• Go in the cannon, and aim as high as it will go and as left as it will go.
• Fire the cannon, do it 5 times.
• Eventually Mario's power will run out but he'll still be in the cannon.
• If you fire straight out into the level Mario will technically be dead but still flying. If Mario lands though he'll die and if he gets coins they won't do anything (and if Mario lands in water he'll drown automatically.)

External Links

• Super Mario 64 - Game Info - GameFAQs

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