#Super mario sunshine 128 game series

It was thought that Nintendo would unveil the title at E3 2004, but Miyamoto again confirmed the existence of Super Mario 128 in an interview during February 2004, but the game failed to surface. In 2003, Nintendo's George Harrison, in an interview with CNN, 'Money that Super Mario 128 may not appear on GameCube at all.'

#Super mario sunshine 128 game series

However, Miyamoto later confirmed in an interview with Nintendo Official Magazine UK that Super Mario 128 was still in development and that the game's development team had planned to take the Mario series in a new direction. Rumors later surfaced that Nintendo did not show Super Mario 128 at E3 2003 because the game's innovation and unique likeness, Nintendo did not want other developers and rival companies stealing the ideas used for this game. On December 10, 2002, IGN reported that according to an interview in Japan's Weekly Playboy magazine Miyamoto had confirmed the continuing development of Super Mario 128. In an interview after E3 with Computer and Video Games, Miyamoto confirmed that Super Mario 128 and Super Mario Sunshine were indeed separate games. One year later, at SpaceWorld 2001, Super Mario Sunshine was unveiled as the next Mario game it was released in July 2002, one year later, in Japan and a month later in North America. The terrain in the demo was manipulated, rotated, and spun to show the physics abilities of the new system. This demo was meant to display the technical power of the GameCube by rendering additional Marios at once until the number of characters on the screen reached 128.

In the demo, a quite large 2D Mario multiplied into exactly 128 much smaller Marios across a kind of circular board. Super Mario 128 was referred to again at the SpaceWorld event in August 2000, when Nintendo showed a tech demo titled Super Mario 128 to display the power behind their then-upcoming Nintendo GameCube game console.

The name Super Mario 128 was first used by Shigeru Miyamoto during an interview for Nintendo Power as early as January 1997, as a possible name for a Super Mario 64 sequel. But we couldn't get it working in the form of a game,' echoing his statements from 1999. In an interview in the September 2006 issue of 'Nintendo Dream', Miyamoto answered some questions about Super Mario 64 2, stating that he had forgotten whether it was being made for the Nintendo 64DD, and that 'it's become other games.' When asked whether he meant that the game systems are being used in other titles, Miyamoto responded, 'From the time that we were originally making Mario 64, Mario and Luigi were moving together. Another rumor of this failed project, was that elements from Super Mario 64 2 were transferred over to the GameCube's Super Mario Sunshine and the DS's Super Mario 64 DS.Īnother basic rumor is that elements of Super Mario 64 2 were incorporated into New Super Mario Bros., such as multiplayer. Miyamoto claimed that multiplayer was the first aspect of the game that he wanted to include, however, multiplayer in a game like this wasn't done until the Nintendo DS with Super Mario 64 DS. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.' Unfortunately, the game never went beyond a simple game demo. In a ' Nintendo Power' interview with Shigeru Miyamoto in November 1999, Miyamoto said, 'Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Mario and Luigi has been running on my monitor. Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned at E3's 1997 convention that he was 'just getting started' on the project. It was said to be developed on the Nintendo 64DD, a failed project of Nintendo's design. There were rumors persisting a sequel to Super Mario 64, called Super Mario 64 2.