CREATION OF THE NINTENDO 64 AND THE GROWING SUCCESS OF MARIO GAMES

  

  The 23 June 1996, Nintendo Company made their come back by creating the "NINTENDO 64"

 32 millions of units around the world, what make it fourth of the Nintendo ranking in terms of best selling. In spite of this great results it considered like a partial failure because when the first playsation came out it put Nintendo in the shade and also abandonned by the main editors of the market. I would like to underligne the fact that the N64 is the first game console that integrates an analogic stick on controls.



I advice you to click on it for more informations.

http://www.nintendo64ever.com/Historique-Nintendo-64-Lancement-Succes.html


Games launched by the N64 are Pilotwing 64, Saikyou Habu Shogi and for sure SUPER MARIO 64.


In 1996 Super Mario 64 came out  it will be the first Mario in full 3D, this game has given to players a new gameplay and also new functionality to Mario. Sales of the game reached 11 910 000

In 1999:  The first Super smash Bros came out on Nintendo 64! 3 years after the success of  Super Mario 64.  This game has shown to all the fans around the world a new aspect of Mario like they've never seen him before. In this game all characters of Mario's Universe were gathering to fight and win the battle by using items like hammers, poké ball etc.....). The success was imminent, 5 millions and half of copy all over the world.



Here is the game box,






As you can see the quality of drawing is not very fanatstic.








Have a look at it, it's the official trailer! Judge for yourself!

 In 2000: The famous plumber decided to played tennis accompany by alls his team, In the first Mario Power Tennis on the N64, A full action game where severals others characters of Mario universe are in.
This funny game has been extremly succesful.



At that time in Japan the game was number 1 all games consoles, only in two weeks of presence Mario Tennis is going to total already 108.870 millions of copy.


Here is few photos of the game:

This video is the introduction of Super Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64.





In 2001:  It was Mario's birthday!  There! he has celebrated his 20 years in the video game industry