Super Mario 128 remains a fascinating "what if" in gaming history—a project so ambitious that it took an entire decade and three different franchises to fully realize its ideas.

Early concepts of gravity that allowed characters to walk on curved surfaces. Where Did It Go?

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The Myth, The Legend, The Tech Demo: What Was Super Mario 128?

Inherited the technology for controlling 100+ individual characters at once Pikmin Wiki .