Super Mario 64 for Nintendo 3DS
About Super Mario 64 for Nintendo 3DS
Super Mario 64 is the landmark platform adventure where Mario first explored in 3D. Princess Peach invites Mario to the castle for cake, but Bowser has seized the castle Power Stars and hidden the princess away. Mario must leap into magical paintings, each one a world of mountains, deserts, snowfields and lava seas, and win back the stars one daring jump at a time. The castle itself is a playground of secrets. Few games have ever felt this joyful to simply move around in, and its influence on every 3D adventure since is impossible to overstate.
The moves are the magic. Triple jumps, long jumps, wall kicks, backflips and flying caps turn every world into a gym for playful experimentation. Each painting holds several stars behind races, puzzles, boss fights and hidden red coins, so returning to a course always reveals something new. Even now, chaining a perfect run of jumps across the opening battlefield feels wonderful. It is a game about the pure pleasure of movement, built by masters who understood that running and jumping should be fun all by themselves.
| Genre | Platformer |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Platform | Nintendo 3DS |
| Release | 1996 |
| Available on | Physical copies for Nintendo 3DS |
How does buying work for this classic today. The Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS closed in March 2023, so new digital purchases on that system have ended. Physical collecting is the wider route for Mario fans, and game retailers plus retro shops are the places to search for classic Mario releases. Players who bought Mario classics digitally on Nintendo 3DS before the closure can still access their purchased games on their own system.
It is the adventure that invented a whole dimension of fun.
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What's inside
- Leap into painting worlds full of Power Stars
- Triple jumps, wall kicks and flying caps
- A castle hub stuffed with secrets
- Stars hidden behind races and puzzles
- Movement that still feels joyful today
Best for
Great for platform fans and anyone curious where 3D gaming began.