Tag: Super Mario 64

Link and Mario were certainly two of the biggest names on the Nintendo 64, setting the system apart with their many classic games. Though these Nintendo icons made quite the team on the N64, not many considered what would happen if Link explored Princess Peach’s castle in Super Mario 64 or if Mario journeyed through Hyrule in Ocarina of Time. Fortunately, YouTube’s SwankyBox recently asked the very interesting question, “What if Mario and Link switched games on the Nintendo 64?”

There has always been questions of how well certain Nintendo characters might survive in eachother’s worlds. A lot of answers came from Super Smash Bros., particularly Brawl’s Subspace Emissary mode, but other than that, one can only look to fan games and videos and make a judgement themselves. YouTuber SwankyBox has taken on these questions, and looked at several logical examples of how well Link and Mario might deal with switching to eachother’s popular Nintendo 64 games. Check out the…

Remember playing old Nintendo 64 games like Banjo-Kazooie and Super Mario 64? Back when the video games coming out seemed to be based on just having a great time? Well, that ’90s charm is what this independent game company is trying to capture in their new project, A Hat in Time. Hit the jump to get the details.

One thing I think Nintendo has always done well with its franchises is being able to innovate while keeping the games faithful to their respective series. Take Mario, for instance. Nintendo’s first foray into the world of 3D gaming with the N64 was bold and risky, especially when its launch title was a game in a series which had already firmly established itself as a premier 2D, side-scrolling platformer. What fans didn’t anticipate however, was that not only was Super…

There is so much fuss about all the newest mobile devices nowadays. Everything is going mobile so it just makes sense that console games would eventually end up on our mobile devices as well. Now, if you own a Kindle Fire, you are able to play at least two Nintendo 64 games on it. Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time can be played on the Kindle Fire so you can play while you are out and about somewhere. Take…

The Legend of Zelda is the game series that we all know and love. Almost all of us hold the Super Mario series very close to us as well. For a lot of us, Super Mario 64 was our very first video game ever. I love them both, but has the Zelda series made decisions so that the games are stuck at a standstill?