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    Super Mario 64 DS

    Game » consists of 7 releases. Released Nov 21, 2004

    A remake of the original Nintendo 64 classic, Super Mario 64 DS adds 30 new stars, three new playable characters and 36 mini-games utilizing the touch screen.

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    Quadruple Wammy!

    In 1996 the N64 was out, with it was the first, successful 3-D Mario. When it was out on the DS, people where going crazy. This is one of the games that made the DS the biggest and best-selling handheld in the world. This time you've got four people to play with, Yoshi, Luigi, and Wario and off course Mario. But you start off with Yoshi. The rest are captured by Bowser. You've got to save them all!

    Each player has different abilities. There is a box (like the wing hat) that'll unlock them. Mario turns into a giant weightless fat thing that can float above everything. Yoshi turns into a hologram; you can go through blocks and stuff. Yoshi spits out fire, Nice! Wario turns into an invincible metal man! Each has their own levels. But you can only defeat Bowser, go to his level, with Mario. Not too shabby, eh?

    There are 30 more stars than the original 120 stars, so 150 stars. There are stars all over, secret ones, easy ones, the ones where you need 100 stars to complete. There is a major problem, the controls. It's hard to control the characters. This game requires an analogue stick. You could use the touch screen, but it's still annoying. Also the camera angles can piss you off. And it does get tiring going to the main room and changing in to the character you need.

    They did add a mini-game section! Yes. All over the castle there are rabbits. You've got to catch all of them, they'll unlock minigames, in the old one they where stars. Each character has different types of minigames. Yoshi has social, Mario has decision ones, Wario races, Luigi Cards. There are white rabbits all over the castle. Get all off them for a Wammy prize. The prize? It's a surprise...

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      Great update of a classic, just with poor controls 0

      Super Mario 64 was a revolutionary platformer, and in 2004 Nintendo hoped to successfully recreate it on their brand new handheld, the DS. And so SM64DS was born. This review is made to simply say how the DS game is different from the N64 game, and to say which I think is better, so here goes…One of the main differences in the DS game is the controls. There is a touch screen movement option, but it really doesn't work very well at all. Therefore you are stuck with using a control pad, which is a...

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      Epicly Ball Grabbing 0

      Every once in a great while a game comes along which captivates its players to no end, and when the end is over, continues to hold them. Seldom is this game an old quasi remake/port. However, Mario 64 DS is such a game. If you asked me around this time a little over ten years ago if I would ever be captivated my Mario 64 again, as I had finally finished collecting all 120 stars in January of 1997, my answer would probably have been a very strict “no.” Yet here we are ten years later with that sa...

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