Super Mario 64
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Game data
Metacritic 94- Released
- 1996-06-23
- User rating
- 4.38 / 5
- Genres
- Platformer
- Platforms
- Nintendo 64
- ESRB
- Everyone
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Key facts
- Developer
- Nintendo EAD
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Director
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Producer
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Designers
- Yoichi Yamada Yasuhisa Yamamura Kenta Usui Naoki Mori Yoshiki Haruhana Makoto Miyanaga Katsuhiko Kanno
- Programmers
- Yasunari Nishida Yoshinori Tanimoto Hajime Yajima Daiki Iwamoto Toshio Iwawaki Takumi Kawagoe Giles Goddard
- Artists
- Shigefumi Hino Hisashi Nogami Yoshiaki Koizumi Hideki Fujii Satoru Takizawa Masanao Arimoto Tomoaki Kuroume Yusuke Nakano Yōichi Kotabe
- Writer
- Leslie Swan
- Composer
- Koji Kondo
- Series
- Super Mario
- Platforms
- Nintendo 64 iQue Player
- Release
- Nintendo 64 JP : June 23, 1996 NA : September 29, 1996 PAL : March 1, 1997 iQue Player CHN : November 18, 2003
Article
Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is the first Super Mario game to feature 3D gameplay, combining traditional Super Mario gameplay, visual style, and characters in a large open world. In the game, Bowser invades Princess Peach's castle, kidnaps her, and hides the castle's Power Stars in different worlds inside magical paintings. As Mario, the player traverses levels and collects Power Stars to unlock areas of the castle, reach Bowser and rescue Peach.
Director Shigeru Miyamoto conceived a 3D Super Mario game during the production of Star Fox (1993). The team spent about one year on design and twenty months on production, starting with the virtual camera system. The team continued with illustrating the 3D character models and refining sprite movements. Yoji Inagaki recorded the sound effects, and the score was composed by Koji Kondo.