Miyamoto's Favorite Game To Develop Was Super Mario 64

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"Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka revealed their favorite games to develop during a question and answer session with kids at E3.

During a special Kid's Corner event for children, Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka discussed their favorite games to create. Watch the short video below and sorry for the poor sound quality. "

[GamersHeaven]

Awesome game ahead of its time built the building blocks for 3D gaming as we know it much respect for Miyamoto and hes still making games this guy is unrivaled.

[FriedGoat]

mario 64 is unrivalled.

[3-4-5]

Mario 64 is my favorite game of all time probably. Walking around and doing NOTHING in that game was more fun than 50% of other games up until then.

* The look, the new music, the small compact little enclosed worlds for you to explore that were big enough to have some freedom but small enough you couldn't get lost in.

It was perfect for the time.

We NEED Mario 64-2

[joab777]

Agree. Few games blew my mind like that game. It was the most amazing thing ever at the time...and remains a moment cemented in gaming history.

FF cutsenes were big, wolfenstein and doom were huge, and for some reason last gen 2 moments stuck out. Leaving the vault in Fallout 3 & arriving in Rapture.

[Jonny5isalive]

mario 64 is one of my favorite games ever and possibly the best game for its time ever. It blew me away when I saw it at a demo station and although I already loved videogames, seeing that made me a hardcore gamer. Started gatting mags and consoles like crazy. 1996-2001 was the golden age for me. PS1, n64, dreamcast, PC with voodoo 3, ps2. I became addicted to games the moment I saw mario on nes, and seeing mario 64 made me a gamer for life.

[DonDon]

Mario 64 and Zelda OOT both paved the way for their respective genres entering the 3d spectrum. Before Zelda OOT, other games didnt know how to handle battles in a wider 3d space. Miyamoto came up with the targeting system and voila--a masterpiece. Mario 64's innovation is why we have games like Sly Cooper, Ratchet & Clank, etc--and still nothing touches Mario 64. And Zelda OOT's innovations in 3d interaction are the same reasons that the action/battle portions of games like Dark Souls, Darksiders, etc are successful at capturing captivating battles.

No other designer can claim to have innovated as much as him--not even by a small fraction. He's responsible for adding to (if not creating) just about every genre except for maybe first person shooters and turn based jrpgs (does Earthbound fully count as a Miyamoto game?)

[BVFTW]

I agree with you that the guy is the "most talented game designer in gaming" but he's not in god mode like some media has made to believe, as much of the genres he's worked on already existed but he and he's team added a lot nonetheless, the targeting 3d combat system I believe I saw it first a year earlier on Megaman Legends and its a shame that that game isn't as fondly remembered as Ocarina of Time, it really is on the same league but it didn't have the same hype. Earthbound (Mother series) is Shigesato Itoi's baby and Mario 64 has a dark past as some of it's features came from a pitch by Argonaut (starfox developer)for a Yoshi 3d game and competition and jealousy killed a great partnership. Now Mr. Miyamoto where the hell is my Mario 64 2? XD

[Darkfist]

funny that he doesnt mention about croc
http://www.examiner.com/art...

[Activemessiah]

The happiest man in gaming.

[badboyz09]

Does Nintendo Have Miyamoto under Contract?

[Activemessiah]

The man IS Nintendo, all the main IPs are his creation and he has his own division within the company.

[SilentNegotiator]

"Miyamoto, if you keep making that face, it'll stick that way!"
So Miyamoto smiled for eternity.
The end.

[Geobros]

One of my favorite games too!!

[ritsuka666]

The father of video games.

[WheatBread]

SM64, OOT, and tetris are my top 3 favorite games.

[Benchm4rk]

Easily one of my favourite games of all time.

[HighResHero]

Really one of the most awe-inspiring video games I've ever played.

[Necro_559]

Then why not make another one? I know so many people who were upset with them doing Super Mario 3d World instead. Super Mario U?

[porkChop]

Yeah they really need another 3D open world Mario. Super Mario 64 is still my favourite Mario game.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

they are working on the next 3D Mario most likely coming 2016 Holiday

[Grilla]

Last year, there was a good article about mario 3d world. Said the route they took designing it was a business decision. Said mario 64 was too complicated for some ppl that like the old school 2d mario. So... To get more sales they went with a mix of 2d and 3d to make everyone happy.

We might never see a a mario64 2 if nintendo thinks it won't sell in the numbers they want. I sure hope not.

[Pozzle]

Oh man, the things I would do for a Super Mario 64 sequel on WiiU. Imagine how how many worlds there would be, how beautiful they would look, how massive they would be! It would be incredible!

[Skate-AK]

This game was the pillar of 3D adventure games.

[Imalwaysright]

It was one of the pillars. The other was TR.

[ape007]

there will never be another Mario 64

[Imalwaysright]

And one hell of a game it was.

[SliceOfTruth888]

Started gaming with atari and there have been many wow moments for me but getting an imported N64 a full 8 months ahead of the rest of the US was the best. The first 5 minutes was magical it was like nothing i have ever seen or experienced and pretty much ive never been able to experience that feeling again......now i know what crack heads feel like

[manaxknight1]

definitely one of the most exciting times of video games for me when super mario 64 was in development...i remember receiving a video from nintendo about super mario 64, pilotwings 64, and some other game i can't recall..i would watch it everyday until the n64 was released...that game set standards for how 3d platforms should be made..

[kryteris]

i got the saturn day 1, and was still but hurt that it was such a pos.

[masterfox]

of course it was, it was he's last good game.

[IQUITN4G]

As much as I respect the great things that make Galaxy, Mario had lost just all of his interaction with scenery moves and subtle linking oportunies of these moves. Certain moves linked together in a sequence opened up potentially another too if timed right- if you played it long enough to realise and most that played SM64 won't. SM64 skill set allowed for much more in the way of playground larks and that just isn't possible any more in Galaxy- great game though it clearly is. You could get particularly good at showing off in SM64 thanks to his moveset

[cyguration]

THIS!

I remember playing this game in Toys 'R' Us in front of a guy who got stuck and was about to walk away. I did the 'Z' crouch + 'A' backflip and then hopped off the wall and got him out of his funk.

I'll never forget, he widened his eyes, mouth slightly gaped, and for a moment there was silence. Then... he says with a bit of surprise in his voice "How'd you do that?!"

I smirked and walked away, feeling like a real hardcore gamer.

[Jonny5isalive]

I doubt people even knew mario could do a karate kick or leg sweep.
My favorite move was the run, turn and jump one.

Ive never been more excited to play a game everday as this one. I would play it everyday after school. One day I forgot my key, thats the day I learned the art of climbing in windows. Lucky for my the window to the room with th n64 was open so I continued my adventure on the cave level as soon as I got in. no time for spaghetti ohhs or reeses puffs.

[kryteris]

makes sense, there was a lot of innovation and new tech with the n64

[avidgamer1]

Super Mario 3d world and WaveRace 64 were such awesome launch titles for the console. I think they were launch titles, I could be wrong.

[Muadiib]

Super Mario 3d world is a WiiU game though!? Mario 64 was an N64 launch game for us in the UK. I'm not surprised it's Shigsy's fave game ever, it's his best game ever imo, yeah better than Ocarina!

[WeAreLegion]

The original framework for Super Mario 64 became Croc. Just a neat fact.

[bayonetta]

Still one of my fav game

[mochachino]

It was probably one of the most revolutionary games ever made.

[Fel08]

To this day this game is still on my top 5 favorite games of all time.

Fun fact, it's Gabe's favorite game.