[Destructoid] Mario 64 once had a co-op mode

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JKBenchmarks

Discussion Starter · Nov 27, 2009

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Impish game designer Shigeru Miyamoto is certainly ****-of-the-walk these days with his New Super Mario Bros. Wii and all the four-player chicanery it contains, but it's taken the guy twelve years to get this far. The elven legend has been talking about Mario 64, and how that classic game once tried to do co-op.

"The screen was split and they went into the castle separately," said Miyamoto, talking about how Mario and Luigi were meant to play together. "When they meet in the corridor, I was incredibly happy! Then there was also the mode where the camera is fixed and we see Mario running away, steadily getting smaller and smaller.

"That was a remnant of an experiment we did where Mario and Luigi would run away from each other but you could still see them both. But we were unable to pull it off."

Only a fool could not love Luigi, so it's a shame that this never really worked out. It would have made capturing that annoying frigging rabbit about a hundred times easier, at any rate.

Luigi IS real!

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Epona

· #2 · Nov 27, 2009

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Originally Posted by JKBenchmarks

Luigi IS real!

They told me it was a myth!

That's so awesome, I wish they would release something like that just as freeware for the PC now. :0

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nathris

· #3 · Nov 27, 2009

The DS version has multiplayer, so its not really surprising.

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gex80

· #4 · Nov 27, 2009

I wish they make another game like luigi's mansion, boy that was fun and interesting to see the ghost hang on for dear life while being sucked in a vacuum.

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