Super Mario 64

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Super Mario 64
American Box Art
Developer	Nintendo EAD
Publisher	Nintendo
Platform	N64
Release Date(s)	JP June 23, 1996 NA September 26, 1996 PAL March 1, 1997
Genre	Platform game
Ratings	ESRB: (E) Everyone

Background

Super Mario 64 is Mario's first 3D adventure. It is often considered the game that revolutionized 3D gaming. Super Mario 64 is not like the older Mario games in 3D though. There's a lot of differences. A notable difference is that instead of simply going from the beginning to the end of each level is that each level requires to do a certain task. These can range from beating a boss to find to simply collecting 8 red coins. Once Mario does the task, he gets a star. Most levels contains multiple tasks to do (Most of the time 8, some have less). The more stars you get, the more levels you unlock and the closer you get to Bowser.

Plot

The game begins with a letter from Princess Peach. She invites Mario to visit her castle. As Mario arrives, we find out that Bowser has already kidnapped Princess Peach and her servants using the power of the castle's 120 power stars. The castle is full of many different paintings which Mario may go into to to arrive or warp to another world. It is possible to get 8 power stars in every world. As Mario gets more and more power stars, he gains access to more rooms to get even more power stars. Occasionally, you confront Bowser and have a battle with him. When defeating him the third and final time, the credit roll appears and the story is completed. Once collecting all 120 stars, a cannon will open, and you will be able to fly to the roof and you get a suprise from Yoshi.

Levels

There are four different floors in Princess Peach's Castle. They are the basement, the main floor, the second floor, and the third floor. Whenever you face Bowser, you go into a separate level.

First Floor: Requires: Nothing

• 1. Bob-Omb Battlefield
• 2. Whomp's Fortress
• 3. Jolly Roger Bay
• 4. Cool Cool Mountain

Back of the Castle: Requires: Nothing

• 5. Big Boo's Haunt

Basement: Requires: 16 Stars and the beating of Bowser (1st time)

• 6. Hazy Maze Cave
• 7. Lethal Lava Land
• 8. Shifting Sand Land
• 9. Dire Dire Docks

Second Floor: Requires: 30 Stars and the beating of Bowser (2nd time)

• 10. Snowman's Land
• 11. Wet-Dry World
• 12. Tall, Tall Mountain
• 13. Tiny-Huge Island

Third Floor: Requires: 50 Stars

• 14. Tick Tock Clock
• 15. Rainbow Ride

Bowser

Overtime, you will be forced to face Bowser to move on. To fight him, you must first find a door with a Star on it. Each of these doors requires a different amount of stars; some ranging from 16 stars to as much as 70 stars. After you have gone through a Star Door, you must go through a level. At the end of the level will be a pipe; go through this and face Bowser!

Now I will list the requirements to face each Bowser:

• 1. Bowser (In the Dark World)

Required: 8 Stars

• 2. Bowser (In the Fire Sea)

Required: 30 Stars

• 3. Bowser (In the Sky)

Required: 70 Stars (50 Using The BackWards LongJump)

Caps

There are four caps in the game obviously one being the red one that Mario wears all of the time but there is also the Metal, Wing and Invisble Caps you can wear as well. You can wear these hats by hitting certain blocks after acquiring the caps.

Invisible Cap

The Invisible Cap makes you invisible for a short amount of time so you cannot be hurt. To access this place you need to drain the water from were the moat is. After that you should be able to jump in the hole and complete the course to get the Invisible Cap. Uses of this cap can be going through wire cages and other thin walls.

Metal Cap

To be able to do this you first need access to Hazy Maze. If you take the left path at the start you should be fine on getting the Metal Cap. The Metal Cap let's you turn metal for a limited amount of time and you can walk on the bottom of the water and become invincible. Uses of this cap is sinking to the bottom of any body of water and taking a lot less damage when its equipped.

Wing Cap

After you collect 10 Stars in the main lobby of the Castle there will be a light were you have to look up to to access this. Pretty much all you have to do is hit the switch to be able to use the Wing Cap in the game. You can also collect the 8 red coins and get another star too. You are able to fly after you jump three times and instead of completing a triple jump, you will somesault into the air and fly.

Bosses

There are several bosses featured in Super Mario 64. They are:

• Big Bob-Omb (Bob-Omb Battlefield)
• Koopa the Quick (Bob-Omb Battlefield)
• Great Penguin Chanp (Cool Cool Mountain)
• Bowser (The Dark World)
• Big Boo (Big Boo's Haunt)
• Big Mr. I (Big Boo's Haunt)
• Big Bully (Lethal Lava Land)
• Klepto the Condor (Shifting Sand Land)
• Eyerok (Shifting Sands Land)
• Bowser (The Fire Sea)
• Chill Bully (Snowman's Land)
• Koopa the Quick (Tiny-Huge Island)
• Wiggler (Tiny-Huge Island)
• Bowser (The Sky)

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