

In the game, Mario explores Princess Peach's castle and must rescue her from Bowser. An enhanced remake called Super Mario 64 DS was released for the Nintendo DS in 2004. More than eleven million copies of Super Mario 64 have been sold. It was released in Japan on June 23, 1996, and later in North America, Europe, and Australia. Along with Pilotwings 64, it was one of the launch titles for the console. The Nintendo 64 was critically acclaimed and remains one of the most recognized video game consoles.Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform video game published by Nintendo and developed by its EAD division, for the Nintendo 64. The Nintendo 64 was discontinued in 2002 following the 2001 launch of its successor, the GameCube. Time named it Machine of the Year in 1996, and in 2015 IGN named it the ninth-greatest video game console of all time. The 64DD peripheral drive hosts both exclusive games and expansion content for cartridges, with many further accessories plus the defunct Internet service Randnet, but it was a commercial failure and was only released in Japan. The console mainly supports saved game storage either onboard cartridges or on the Controller Pak accessory. Some games require the Expansion Pak accessory to increase system RAM from 4MB to 8MB, for improved graphics and functionality. The charcoal-gray console was followed by a series of color variants. Its design was mostly complete by mid-1995 and launch was delayed until 1996 for the completion of the launch games Super Mario 64, Pilotwings 64, and Saikyo Habu Shogi (exclusive to Japan). The final design was named after its 64-bit CPU, which aided in the console's 3D capabilities. As a fifth-generation console, it competed primarily with the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Saturn.ĭevelopment began in 1993 in partnership with Silicon Graphics, using the codename Project Reality, then a test model and arcade platform called Ultra 64. It was the last major home console to use cartridges as its primary storage format until the Nintendo Switch in 2017. The successor to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, it was released on June 23, 1996, in Japan, on September 29, 1996, in North America, and March 1, 1997, in Europe and Australia. Nintendo 64 (abbreviated as N64) is a home video game console developed by Nintendo.
