Super Mario 64

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Mario is super in a whole new way! Combining the finest 3-D graphics ever developed for a video game and an explosive soundtrack, Super Mario 64 becomes a new standard for video games. It's packed with bruising battles, daunting obstacle courses, and underwater adventures. Retrieve the Power Stars from their hidden locations and confront your arch-nemesis— Bowser, King of the Koopas! • Run freely in a grassy meadow, tip-toe through a gloomy dungeon, climb to the top of a mountain, or take a swim in the moat! • Leap headfirst into a watery painting and soon you'll be searching for the surface in an underwater realm! • On-the-fly, 3-D rendered gameplay delivers the action of ruthless enemy attacks from every angle! • Find the Caps that give Mario super powers and ponder the mysteries of the pyramid; you can even race Koopas for fabulous prizes! • With the Nintendo 64 Controller and its analog Control Stick, Mario can crawl, kick down obstacles, swim, do reverse flips, and even stick the landing on his backwards somersault! • Saved game information is stored for up to four players in memory.

Series Super Mario Emulator N64 Release Year 1996

Genres

Platform Adventure

Developers

Nintendo Nintendo EAD +2

Power On

Nintendo 64 • 60Hz

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Game Controls

Default

Movement

D-Pad

D-Pad

↑ ↓ ← →
Analog Stick

Analog

W A S D

Actions

A Button

A

J
B Button

B

K
L Shoulder

L

Q
R Shoulder

R

E
Z Trigger

Z

SPACE

C-Buttons

C-Up

C↑

I
C-Right

C→

L
C-Down

C↓

K
C-Left

C←

J

System

Start

START

ENTER

About The Retro Game

Super Mario 64 revolutionizes platformers by dropping Mario into a fully 3D sandbox where precision jumps, exploration, and experimentation drive the gameplay. Each course is a self-contained playground packed with Power Stars to discover through creative objectives: racing Koopas, scaling towering mountains, solving sliding puzzles, or diving into deep underwater caverns. The combination of tight analog controls, diverse power-up Caps, and dynamic camera work makes every move—triple jumps, wall kicks, long jumps, and backflips—feel responsive and satisfying.

Released in 1996 as a Nintendo 64 launch title, Super Mario 64 is widely regarded as one of the most important games ever made. It set the template for 3D game design, showing how to translate classic 2D platforming into a free-roaming environment without losing clarity or fun. The game’s open-ended stages, multiple objectives per level, and hub-based castle design influenced countless 3D action and adventure games that followed.

Technically, Super Mario 64 was a showcase for real-time 3D rendering on home consoles, with smooth character animation, a flexible camera system, and physics-driven movement that felt unprecedented at the time. Its expressive soundtrack, memorable sound effects, and charming character animations helped cement Mario’s personality in 3D. Decades later, its speedrunning community, enduring glitches and advanced movement tech, and frequent appearances in “greatest games of all time” lists demonstrate its lasting cultural impact and continued relevance to players and designers alike.

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