What if Super Mario 64 was a failure?

[Frogger]

onionberry said:

spemanig said:
I wonder what ramifications it would have on gaming as a whole. 3D gaming could be way different.

yeah, video games without open environments and the camera would be static and fixed.

oh whait... 

Or someone else may have come up with a different, even better solution that could only be imagined in a world where Mario 64 didn't make the standard.