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I could potentially listen to these guys swap stories about the ancient video game industry all day.
I remember back before the N64 first came out; I was watching the local news with my parents, and, out of nowhere, they did a story on Super Mario 64. I was utterly blown away by the graphics. I immediately got on the phone and called my best friend in high school (I would have been heading into my senior year in HS around this time) and raved about it, like, holy fuck, Mario running around in 3D, actually making vocal noises when he jumped and shit? It was mind-blowing at the time.
Looking back on it now... I won't say that Mario 64 looks like ass now, because it doesn't, but, still... late 90s/early 2000s 3D graphics... woof. Honestly, Mario 64 is one of the few games from that era that actually kind of still holds up today, but... again, like they were talking about, there was only 6 years between Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine. Compare, too, the only 5 years between Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker. Or, hell, 8 years between OoT and Twilight Princess.
But then, before that, even crazier than that was the difference between Super Mario 64 and Super Mario World: only five years. Six years between Ocarina of Time and A Link to the Past.
