In 1996, Nintendo finally released the N64 and Super Mario 64. Was it worth the long wait?
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Episode Information
GTV 210 “When I’m 64″ Season 11 Episode 8
Original Airdate: September 26, 2026
Produced: Aug. 26- Sept. 26, 2026

Recorded at Butsudan Studios (while on summer vacation) and edited on my new 15” M5 MacBook Air! (purchased just 2 days before Apple raised the price… by a lot!) Edited and produced with Final Cut Pro and Photopea, which is just like Photoshop but FREE! All paid for with Gainful Employment™ which around this time of the year, I don’t have to be at…

0:00 GTV ID: Changing the System Where Available
0:03 Prologue: Mario Wings to the Sky
1:06 Act 1: Shoot Into the Wild Blue
9:12 CM 1: “The Game is Changing” (Japan, 1996)
9:44 Act 2: Tricky Triangles
19:57 CM 2: “Change the System” (U.S., 1996)
20:29 Act 3: Blast to the Lonely Mushroom
34:56 CM 3: “Someone Special is 64” (U.K., 1997)
35:38 Act 4: Plunder in the Sunken Ship
42:35 CM 4: “Shake Up Your Summer” (Japan, 1997)
43:08 Epilogue: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

This video is part of the 1996 Trilogy! Watch the others here!
Crash Bandicoot https://youtu.be/R2DmmRc9x9o
NiGHTS into dreams… https://youtu.be/18kh1M-2Dw8

Here are other GTV episodes set in the Mario Universe

What Was Yume Kojo? https://youtu.be/KL9o9zzCUsQ
Super Mario Bros Wii Coin World Arcade https://youtu.be/99soQZW4tDc
Super Mario Bros 2 Manga https://youtu.be/32y2jyLaPLY
Super Mario Bros 2 Music Bug https://youtu.be/z5Tyo6rDEsU
Dr. Mario Manga https://youtu.be/Oln2adHrUY4
The Perils of Pauline https://youtu.be/joVW22tj6Yw
Super Mario Land Manga https://youtu.be/cUBmBWGMcMo
The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3 https://youtu.be/eHxlok5cDtA
The Story of Super Mario Bros Too (AKA The Great Giana Sisters Story) https://youtu.be/s1wOfDat6rA
All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. https://youtu.be/oPYfqJbkXfw
Donkey Kong Manga https://youtu.be/vTp3IuiDHJY
Super Mario Land 2 Manga Part 1 https://youtu.be/k0H_OJX81b8
Super Mario Land 2 Manga Part 2 https://youtu.be/CvSxSHzK4dQ
Super Mario All Stars https://youtu.be/ZOfKjEa-MGw
The Year of Luigi https://youtu.be/MnoczHYxOoQ
Super Mario Land 3 Manga (Part One) https://youtu.be/6hTgFpsXf8k
Super Mario Land 3 Manga (Part Two) https://youtu.be/GG54etiTVmY
Super Mario Pixel Remasters https://youtu.be/ulLfLezlsAM
Mario & Wario Manga Adventures https://youtu.be/Aj1hg3vz2V0
The Story of Super Mario Bros. https://youtu.be/EhLY-KgAhWY
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island https://youtu.be/UUaaOdbNZjI
Super Mario RPG youtu.be/qJCAW26MiCI
The Story of Super Mario Bros. 2 https://youtu.be/6ZJDMIAMQQ4

Partial Transcript

On June 23rd, 1996, the Nintendo 64 along with Super Mario 64 debuted in Japan to a receptive audience. At the end of September, Mario 64 made its way to the U.S. and everywhere around the world by 1997. Though it took a very long time for the game to reach completion, the effort was worth the wait. With critics, fans, and the non-believers all in agreement that Mario 64 was an amazing, groundbreaking game, the start of a new era in gaming and one of, if not the greatest game of all time.
Originally, the release was planned for the fall of 1995, only to be pushed back into 1996 with the goalposts constantly shifting.
Along the way, Shigeru Miyamoto discussed the new hardware with his friend Shigesato Itoi, who was interested in bringing Mother 3 there. When the conversation steered towards the final name of this machine, Itoi rejected the use of the word Ultra. It was a leap over the Super Famicom. But what would come next? Hyper, Mega, Giga. Itoi noticed that most gamers just called the Super Famicom or Game Boy simply the Nintendo anyway. He proposed a very simple name, Nintendo 64.
It was more than just highlighting the bit count of the CPU inside. 64 has a special meaning in ancient Japanese numerology. 10 to the 64th power is known as Fukashigi and carries the meaning of something mysterious and inexplicable and the highest number possible before reaching infinity. Video game Nirvana. By August 1995, the new official name had been mentioned by the big N and the media. Yet still, the N64 and a new Mario game had yet to be seen. But that would change as the company invited the public to see the N64 in action for the first time at Shoshinkai 1995. On November 24th, Shigeru Miyamoto took the stage to announce a few things. The N64 would use cartridges, not CD-ROMs.
Maybe the long wait was worth what it delivered when the Nintendo 64 and Super Mario 64 reached their destination of millions of homes around the world in 1996.

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