Simply Incredible

It's hard to even choose where to begin when talking about Super Mario 64. It was the game that I couldn't wait to play when I first read the previews for it a few years ago, and it made me want to get a Nintendo 64 so bad I didn't know what to do. I ended up getting a Nintendo 64 and of course, Super Mario 64 was my first game for the system. When I first played Super Mario 64, I was in awe over just about all the aspects of the game.

Before the Nintendo 64 came along, the most revolutionary action/adventure game (or so I heard) that I had played was Crash Bandicoot. Super Mario 64 put Crash Bandicoot to shame by being a completely 3-D game where you can explore everything in site. Of course, the main thing I was in awe over when I first played this innovative cart was the graphics, but everything else about it was just as revolutionary as the graphics were.

When it comes to graphics, at the time of Super Mario 64's release, there wasn't any mistaking that it had the most astounding graphics ever seen in a video game. The many worlds are fully explorable and very detailed. There's just about any kind of world that you can imagine in Mario's 64-bit adventure. There's everything from the kinds of worlds you would expect to see in just about all action/adventure games such as water worlds and an ice world, to the not so usual kinds of levels such as one where you climb inside a huge clock and have to meddle around with its gears, and even a high rising world set in the skies that features flying carpets. Most of the graphics are colorful and well detailed all the way through.

There are cool graphical effects such as a ship in the water that slowly creaks back and forth and a lava waterfall inside a humongous volcano. Not only are there great graphical effects, but also spectacular creature effects such as the eel's and the shark's lifelike movements and an eyeball that keeps its eye on you until you run it dizzy. Even the backgrounds look sharp and realistic, especially the ones in the ice world.