Does the topic creator not know his history very well. There were SEVERAL 3D platformers that preceded Super Mario 64. The difference is Super Mario 64 was the most technically sophisticated platformer when it was released and it created a lasting formula that the entire industry borrowed from. The other games before it did not. Besides, it's not like one person or one company had the idea and everybody else just ripped off that idea. Is it no coincidence that Super Mario 64, Crash Bandicoot, and the ill-fated Sonic X-treme were in development around the same time? It was a race and while Nintendo wasn't first, they still won that race (not the console war mind you).

It reminds me of people who say Resident Evil was the first survival horror game. It wasn't. It's just the most recognizable because it was the first to revolutionize the genre. Although in Resident Evil's fairness, Capcom did coin the term survival horror even though that type of game has existed since Haunted House on the Atari 2600.

Jumping Flash! is both the first videogame I ever played (it was on the Demo 1 disk that came with our original PlayStation) and the first videogame I ever bought (we went to Toys R Us later that day to buy it because I loved the demo so much).

It has a special place in my heart.

That's all I have to add to this topic.

Geograph Seal was the very first 3D platformer and was made by the same people who made Jumping Flash and was released on the X68000 in 1994... Its amazing what alittle bit of Google searching can do huh! I fail to see what Sony has to do with any of this though because they didnt create either game? Also as most have said Super Mario 64 was never credited as the first 3D platformer just as the first one done right because back when it was released it was amazing (still is!) and everyone took notice.

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Someone already posted the Alpha Waves video  :(

Nintendo is rarely, if ever, the first at anything, and I don't think many are still under any of those delusions anymore.

Instead, Super Mario 64 is simply noteworthy for the camera, and just being an all around amazing game.

That said, I can definitely see a lot of Jumping Flash was incorporated into SM64.

Mario 64 isn't credited for being the first 3D platformer, that goes to Alpha Waves I believe.

Mario 64 is credited for being a revolutionary video game that inspired many games that came after.

Never heard of the game. But Mario 64 is my game of all time !

well since sony worked very closely with nintendo this is no surprise and the n64 got delayed several times

Did it ever occur to you that since they were working together before the PS release that Nintendo shared with them their idea for M64 and Sony took the concept and did their own game just like they took the Snes controller and made it there own thing?

There was Croc from Argonaut (the guys who made the Super FX chip and developed Star Fox) too. That was actually originally a 3D platform game with Yoshi before Nintendo betrayed them.