S1E9 - Super Mario 64

[00:00:13] Hello, welcome to Video Games Analyzed, the one and only podcast dedicated to analyzing and reviewing classic video games to tell you whether or not they're worth playing today. I'm your host Aaron. Sorry. Can you put him in a different room? Sorry. Okay, he's good now. He's gone. Maybe mute your mic. How do I do that? It doesn't matter.

[00:00:42] Yes, I'm the host Aaron and every week I'm joined by a guest. This week's guest is Tommy. Hey, what's happening? Hip hop happening? Tommy, your mic's muted. Tommy? Sorry, folks. Oh, sorry. My mic was muted. Hello, Aaron. Thanks for having me here.

[00:01:07] Yeah, it's great to have you here. So yeah, this week we're talking about Super Mario 64. Let me get it pulled up. Please hold. We appreciate your patience. Please hold. Here we go. All right. So Super Mario 64. It's a 3D platformer developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.

[00:01:39] released in 1996. It was a launch title for the console. You play as the titular Super Mario 64. And it was the first ever 3D Mario game. Probably one of the first ever. No, I already said that. It's a 3D Mario game. No, you run, you jump, you get the stars. Wahoo! Wahoo!

[00:02:13] You collect stars. The Lakitu follows you around. He's your camera. And basically you're supposed to rescue Princess...

[00:02:26] Oh, God, what is it? Daisy? I don't know. Princess Syrup. We'll say Syrup. You have to rescue her from Bowser. The big evil dinosaur guy. And it's a cool game. Yeah, it's a cool game. So the main loop is you jump into a painting.

[00:02:49] You know, wahoo! You jump into a painting. And then you run around a level. Do a task to get a star. Once you get the star, you hop out. And you can do all sorts of stuff with Mario. You can make him triple jump. You can do a dive move. He can do a kick. There's kicking in this game. I don't know. Yeah, Tommy, what do you think about this game? Tommy, you're muted again.

[00:03:19] Oh, shoot. I was responding to you the whole time. It's alright. Just say it all again if you need to. Go ahead. Well, but it was in response to what you were saying. So it would just be responses. Well, what do you think about Super Mario 64? What did you like it? Did you enjoy it?

[00:03:44] Okay. What did you like about it, though? I enjoyed the jumping. It felt really good. What about the kicks? Did you try the kick? No. The kick was pretty cool. I mean, you can kick... There's Goombas, Bob-ombs. Oh, Tommy, you can even...

[00:04:12] You can climb up the trees. There's trees in this game, Tommy. There's trees you can climb up and then jump off. There's a butt slam move. That's, I think... This is the first Mario game to have a butt stomp move? What do you think about the butt stomp, Tommy? Oh, sorry. I was muted. This is your final warning.

[00:04:41] If this happens... I'm sorry. Okay. Sorry. I enjoyed the... Yes, I liked the butt stomp. Cool. Cool. All right. Oh, yeah. The music in this game is really good. You know, you've got the... And then you've got the... The star sound. I think it's going well. I think I'm doing good. You are doing good.

[00:05:09] Oh, I was supposed to be muted for that. I'm sorry. I was telling... I was talking to my wife. You know what? Since the last warning was technically your first warning, I'm going to give you one more. That's okay. That's okay. Let's just rank the game. What do you think about... I'm going to give it... I'm going to give it... Let's do three superstars and then like three Bob-Obs, three Goombas, three Koopa Troopas,

[00:05:37] and one Salongi Bowsy. What about you? Four. For what, Tommy? The score. Stars? Oh. Yeah. Four stars. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. All right. I guess that's it for this week's episode. Thanks again for stopping by. Yeah, thank you for being here, Tommy. Thank you. This was a lot of fun.

[00:06:07] This was a lot of fun. I'd love to guest again sometime. You sure are. All right. Happy gaming. Happy gaming.