Nintendo, the company who had helped transition the platforming genre to 3D years before, proved it still had faith in side-scrolling adventures with the New Super Mario Bros.
Thankfully, we’ve come to fully understand the folly of such sentiments. As players and developers alike rushed to embrace the switch from sprites to polygons, too many did so with the belief that anything with only two dimensions was no longer valuable.
It was an incredibly exciting time-but, in a way, also a sad one.
In 1996, Nintendo helped change the video game industry forever with Super Mario 64, a pivotal release in the transition from over two decades of 2D experiences to the amazing new world of 3D gaming.
