I’ve tried to have a lot of conversations about B3313 and I keep stopping because I found out this friend has also not actually played Super Mario 64. It’s a game I’ve played in some form or fashion every few years though the times I have blasted through it are few. It’s a Rudie Poll Thread:
I played it in the 90s but never since
I played the DS Version, only
N64, DS, Emulation whatever, but only once through after 2000.
Only at a kiosk in walmart that was selling the N64 back in the 90s, Twas the extent of my experience with it, didn’t really get the feel for it, felt kinda like mario was skating.
My first experience was at the Toys R Us in Biloxi, Mississippi trying the demo kiosk before the release of the N64. I couldn’t believe a game was like that.
I’d get an N64 and Mario on my birthday get to play one world, then immediately go on a family trip for 5 days. I spent the trip staring at a full strategy guide for Mario 64 dreaming about all the fun I’d get to have. That trip would also be the one time I’d get to see Talk Soup on TV. And Mr Show! Whatever that channel was.
I would ruin that first runthrough following a guide. It taught me a lesson about spoiling myself.
I remember coming home from our step-father’s house one Sunday and there being an N64 in the living room with Mario 64. My mother’s boyfriend at the time had somehow managed to get one at launch (but he didn’t get Pilotwings 64 which, to be fair, would’ve just have made me motion sick, anyway). I didn’t like it and I’m not sure if I’ve ever really touched it since the 90s. I was much more likely to just play something on All-Stars.
Mario 64 missed so much with me that I never had any desire really to play any of the 3D Marios beyond that and can only recall a small handful of the 3D Mario games I’ve actually played.
Also, Mario 64’s music and sound effects have a very distinct sound and it reminds me probably more than anything else of like, the beginning of a long period of my childhood I don’t really like to think about (I have a hard time with WaveRace 64, too). I was pretty unhappy and anxious and Mario 64 just reminds me of being really unhappy and anxious.
Just a few hours here and there at @Flylighter 's house. I loved it - it and Starfox 64 were the only things that made me wish I had an N64 instead of a Playstation.
I played it in a friend’s basement and when I wrote about it for a school paper my english teacher said my writing was so good that people would be reading books I read when I grew up. Well that didn’t happen but, uh.
somehow i managed to be exposed to Croc, Tomb Raider, Crash, Banjo, Mario Kart 64 and even Space Station Silicon Valley but the first i saw of Mario 64 was the DS version. i was like “oh sweet, a 3D Mario, i always thought they should make one of these”
first played it at a blockbuster on a demo kiosk. i can still remember the exact feeling of joy that swimming in jolly roger bay gave me when playing at that kiosk though i have forgotten most other things from the first eight years of my life. i have probably finished 120 star runs on four different platforms, but my constantly, repeatedly vote still only means about ten or so full playthroughs (and dozens of bob-omb battlefield through cool, cool mountain runs). have not played B3313 though. my romhack experience is fairly limited.
Recently tried to play the pc port and suffered from motion sickness after an hour which never happens to me, not sure if I’m just old or what. Now I’m scared to play Mario 64.
Dawg you’re like the exact right person to try it. The file you can find in the axe is all you need. Don’t worry about the empherma until you feel like worrying about it.
The hacks when we recorded A More Mario 64 Like Mario For Wii U Podcast were jankfests. Just not worth the headache. In the face of B3313 I’m gonna try more since this is also post mario.exe (the nintendo internal mario 64 pc port not the creepy pasta I have zero interest.)
i said constantly repeatedly but for me that means four or five times total, and certainly none in the last idk 10 years. i still feel like i know pretty much the whole game in my head though. i have been thinking about checking out b3313 too…
Windows-compatible XBox controllers map really easily into de facto N64 controllers. Just sayin’.
But yeah, I get nostalgic all the time about the early N64 titles. Every few winters I’ll boot up an emulator and go to town on a few of the classics - N64, Mario Kart 64, Shadows of the Empire. The latter isn’t great, but it’s mostly just a memory lane thing at this point.
One of my favorite childhood memories is a winter (96/97) where snow kept us out of school for an extra week, and my brother’s friend who was a chill kid also got snowed in at our place for most of it. A lot of console gaming happened at that time, mostly N64 because it was new at the time. It’s not my favorite console, but that’s probably my most heavily nostalgic console memory.
My brother’s friend’s mom later got popped for arson trying to burn down a pizzeria for insurance money, and we never saw him again. Important little detail there.
I remember feeling really alienated by it the first time I saw the first level at a friend’s house in ~1997. I had played the 2d Marios to death and this was nothing like them at all. It felt like the strong silent Mario I knew had been body-snatched by Charles Martinet
I chose “Constantly, Repeatedly” only because I know I’ve played through it at least twice since 2000.
I like poking around the edges of Mario 64’s small levels. And I love that it sometimes takes just seconds to get a star before it boots you out and you just jump right back in. Moving from island to island in Bowser’s Fury or trying to get back to the top of something because maybe I can then get to something else in Odyssey feels comparatively joyless and purposeless.
I have a friend who was really into Mario 64 and he contends that it has no filler. I’m not sure that’s true, but I do remember all the levels I don’t remember feeling like it wasted my time.
I’d like to try one of the co-op mods at some point.