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Review: Super Mario 64 – The Best Launch Game Ever Made

Mario steps into a whole new dimension.

This review originally went live in 2006, and we’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of N64 games on Nintendo Switch Online.

Mario’s first foray into the world of 3D is regarded by many — most, even — as one of the greatest video games of all time, and with good reason. It ranks as the first really convincing realisation of a 3D world in a platform game and it introduced the concept of analogue control to a generation of console gamers, setting the template for hundreds of imitators that would follow, and the standard by which all 3D platformers would be judged forevermore.

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