The few extra worlds there were I liked, they were neat. The new mini-games were mostly good, especially at launch, but the extra 30 stars weren't really all that spectacular and some of the changes kill a bit of the nostalgia. Also, as much as I always wanted Luigi and Wario in that castle (and Yoshi, but I wanted to ride him.), I felt it just complicated things and subtracted from it. I didn't like how they tried to make the graphics more detailed, it just came off as looking ugly. Just like Animal Crossing, I thought having a ton of new stuff would make it better than ever, but the original Super Mario 64 is just better. Also, game works much much better with the Gamecube controller than with the Classic.ĭownload it if you don't already have it on a working N64 - otherwise, it's not that different and you can spend your points for something you don't have.

Why does so much of the game move like the surfaces are covered with ice, no matter what the surface Mario's running on? Sand, grass, 's all way too slippery.Īside from that (which is a BIG detraction for me - makes the game seem unpolished and goofy) the game is pretty much a fun fest. Same for some of the coins that he's collecting from the enemies. He slips and falls WAY too much and when he does there are nutty sliding physics in the game that go on for WAY too long. I have always wondered how everyone can play this and not notice that Mario always moves like the entire playing field has been covered with oil. How we loved abusing the mistakes of hapless programmers.Ī great game that I originally had on my Funtastic orange N64.Ĭontrols are a bit wonky however. If you can do all this fast enough and in the right order, you can cheat the game. You can do the same thing up the 'never-ending' looping stairs to the Bowser in the Sky course. The bunny trick, you ask? Well, you remember that one bunny in the basement that gives you a star when you catch it? If you pick it up again, you can carry it around, and if you set it against a doorway just right, it will push Mario through doors he shouldn't technically be able to open yet.Īnd the backwards long jump stairs? Once you get to the 3rd floor, you can start a long jump in front of the stairs to the 4th floor, facing away from them, and then long jump backwards up the stairs and through the door. The biggest parts of this kind of speed run were the bunny trick and the backwards long jump stairs. If they were, i have to admit it'd be a shame. I wonder if it's still possible on the VC, or if the glitches were fixed. I only ever managed to do it twice, though. We actually figured out that you could exploit a couple of glitches to beat the game in about 20 minutes with only 16 stars, if you were good enough.

I remember playing it for hours on end as a kid.

Super mario 64 different box art