- I'm gonna stay to the edge, 'cause the edge is always safe.
No, I'm lying, I'm lying!
- Hey, you sleeping? Oh, [bleep], no!
God, I was kidding!
♪ (8-bit intro) ♪
- (FBE) Today, you're playing this. - Super Mario 64.
- Oh, this is old.
- I've played Mario Kart 64. I don't know if I've
played this one, though.
- No way! This is one of my favorite
games of all time.
- (FBE) Super Mario 64 was a launch title
for the Nintendo 64 back in 1996
and was the first Mario game in 3d.
- '96, that's the year after I was born.
- It's the pinnacle of the Nintendo 64.
- Super Mario 64 was revolutionary. It was the closest to open world,
I feel like, that we had today. Let's go!
- This is cute. I don't think the graphics
are that bad.
- It looks very pixelated and boxy,
but I'm not complaining.
- I'm sure for any kid that got this on drop day in '96,
some kid was going ape [bleep] over this.
- "Ciao! You've reached Princess Toadstool's castle
via a warp pipe. Using the controller
is a piece of cake. A to jump,
B to attack."
- "Use the control stick in the center of the controller"
Right here. "To move Mario around.
Now, head for the castle."
- So, here's jump. And attacking.
Okay, that was cool. He's not just jumping
on the enemies. He's decking them.
- This is weird. It's kind of like
a Wii controller now connected to a PS3 or 4 controller
and I was using it like this. I didn't need to know
to use it like this.
- Let's do this.
- This is kind of-- oh, oh my God.
"Welcome."
- "Welcome." No one's home!
Now scram and don't come back. Gwa ha ha!"
I should leave, but obviously, I'm not gonna.
- Oh, I remember this. You have to go through each door.
You have to go through a level instead of worlds,
there's doors.
- All right. What door are we going
through, guys?
- Come on. Let's do this.
- Oh, and I go in the pictures! I remember.
- Let's go in!
- (gasps) That was cute. He just jumped--
hop, skip, and a jump.
- "Big Bob-omb on the summit." Bob-omb Battlefield.
- All right, I'm here. "Wow, you're smack in the middle
of a battlefield. You'll find the Power Stars
that Bowser stole inside the painting worlds."
- "Watch out! If you wander around here,
you're liable to be plastered by a water bomb!"
- "Can you recover the star for us?
Cross the bridge and go left up the path to find
the Big Bob-omb.
Please come back to see me after you've retrieved
the Power Star."
- Can I punch this? Oh, I can, sweet.
- Goomba, you get the [bleep] out.
Oh, [bleep]. Oh, bitch.
- No, get away. Wait, it's one of
these trees, I get a one up.
Come on. Yeah.
- Ah, ah.
- You can't get me. You think you can,
but I know you can't.
- All right, come on, bob-omb bob-omb.
Oh, what is that? Oh, it's water droplets.
- Oh, no, no, no.
This is scary.
- Oh jeez, oh jeez. Ah!
- Okay. We're good.
- I remember I died a thousand times
trying to do this when I first played.
- I'm gonna stay to the edge, 'cause the edge is always safe.
No, I'm lying, I'm lying!
- ♪ (singing along to music) ♪
- What is that? Oh, that's where I'm gonna
heal up. All right, so we're about to
reach the big battle.
- I'm almost to the top. There better be a present for me.
- ♪ (singing along to music) ♪
Yep, I'm very good at this.
- He's right there. That was really short.
- (gasps) Do I have to face off
against him?
- "I'm the Big Bob-bomb, lord of all blasting matter,
king of ka-booms the world over!"
- "Can you pick me up from the back and hurl me
to this royal turf? I think that you cannot!"
Well you just told me how to beat you.
- Basically, he tries to grab and I gotta punch him.
Oh, what the heck? How do I hurl him?
- No.
- No, no, no, no. Come on.
This is the first level. Come on.
- Ah, damn it. I can't grab on,
'cause dumbass Mario, stop sliding!
- Wait, I did it. Okay, that took a while.
- Ah! Ah, bitch.
Aw [bleep]. I got hurt 'cause I ran
into his butt?
- Camera angle sucks. There we go!
Here, bitch! There we go.
"Wha-- What?
Can it be that a pipsqueak like you has defused
the Bob-omb King?"
- "Here is your star, as I promised, Mario."
- He just burst into a star.
- (Mario impression) Here we go!
Just him saying that-- I wasn't trying for coins.
Don't be showing that.
- "You've recovered one of the stolen Power Stars!
Now you can open some of the sealed doors in the castle."
- "Save us, Mario! Keep searching for stars."
Okay, it's my job.
- So now, I should probably try this one, too.
- ♪ (humming along to music) ♪ But I also like
how the label-- whoa, are you--
oh, he's using a star to open the door.
Here we go.
(Mario impression) Let's go! Wahoo!
Ah, why can't that be real life? Why can't we just jump
into pictures?
- This is Whomp's Fortress. "Chip off Whomp's block."
- You know what? I'm starting to--
It's a sleepy little boy.
"I'm sleeping because I'm sleepy."
- "I don't like being disturbed. Please walk quietly."
Oh, sheesh. I shouldn't have done that.
- [bleep] you. Yeah!
Dead, bitch. Oh no!
It was only worth five coins. That wasn't worth it.
- Honestly, that's me in the morning.
Walk slowly. Don't wake me up.
Ah, oh my God. I need warning for these things.
- Wait, I can-- oh, crap.
Just go over here. There we go.
- Okay.
- Oh, bitch! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I was like, "Oh, I'm doing pretty good."
- I feel like this game is so simple,
it makes me-- I was gonna say
it makes me feel good that I'm not--
wait, I have a chance. I have a chance.
Aw, I thought I died.
- Huh, okay. Whoa, what the [bleep]?
What just happened? Did I discover something secret?
- Oh, here we go. What up, bitch?
Hey, you sleeping? Oh, [bleep].
Oh God, I was kidding!
- Can I go on this? Ah, oh my God.
Oh no.
- I'll probably die at this part. Oh, maybe not.
Okay. Oh, 'cause people want
to get the red coin. I ain't [bleep] with that right now.
- Come on, come at me.
- What the-- he's coming.
Please go.
- Whoa, he's huge.
- Oh, [bleep]. "It makes me so mad!"
- "We build your houses, your castles.
We pave your roads, and still you walk all over us."
- Okay, come on. Come at me.
- Don't smush me. Oh my God, oh my God.
He's fast.
- Do I have to stay still and then he'll
wiggle or something?
- Oh [bleep]! Yeah, he's gonna
[bleep] me up.
- Jump. That was good.
No! Oh God, I almost fell off.
- Oh crap, no. Okay.
- Wow, that's a record. That's the first time
I beat a boss within a minute.
- "Here, you win. Take this with you."
Sweet. Oh, he just blew up.
- I love it. It's so much fun.
- (FBE) And that's actually all we're having you play today.
- No, you're not.
- Really? No more paintings?
- Why? I could play this for days, man.
- (FBE) Sorry man, we're cutting you off.
- We can cut off the video, but don't let me--
- (FBE) No, I gotta. I gotta.
- Initially, I didn't have a fondness for it,
but now that I've played it, sat down and enjoyed it,
I get it.
- If it was on and my friends were playing it,
but I think that-- I don't think I would
go out of my way to buy it. Pretty sure it was super cool
in the '90s, though.
- A lot of people that maybe not have played it
when they were young or when it first came out
might have been like, "Oh, it doesn't hold up,"
but it plays just as good. I gotta dust off my N64
and get back to playing this game.
- (Mario) Thank you so much for playing my game.
- Thanks for watching us play Super Mario 64
on the React Channel.
- What's your favorite retro game? Let us know down in the comments.
- Bye!
- Hey everybody, Derek here, one of the React Channel producers.
You know, I've always had trouble with the N64 three handed
controllers, but I figured out a trick.
You grow a third hand. Here we go.
There we go.