Editing Super Mario 128

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'''''Super Mario 128''''', or '''''Mario 128''''',<ref name=Pikmin4>{{cite|date=July 18, 2023|url=www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/ask-the-developer-vol-10-pikmin-4-part-1|title=Ask the Developer Vol. 10, Pikmin 4—Part 1|publisher=nintendo.com|language=en-us|accessdate=July 18, 2023|archive=web.archive.org/web/20230718143305/https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/ask-the-developer-vol-10-pikmin-4-part-1}}</ref> was the name of a series of projects by [[Nintendo]] to create a sequel to ''[[Super Mario 64]]'', much like the canceled game ''[[Super Mario 64 2]]''. While initially named in January 1997,<ref>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20110927050910/http://www.miyamotoshrine.com/theman/interviews/0197.shtml|title=Miyamoto Interviews|publisher=Miyamoto Shrine|language=en|accessdate=September 19, 2018}}</ref> it was first shown as a [[tech demo]] at {{wp|Nintendo Space World#Space World 2000|Space World 2000}}. The project experimented with new technology and ideas to incorporate into later games. A demo of the project was released by Nintendo. The demo featured 128 [[Mario]]s onscreen at once. Other features of the demo included the use of "sphere-walking," later used in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'';<ref>{{cite|author=Gantayat, Anoop|date=August 21, 2006|url=www.ign.com/articles/2006/08/21/miyamoto-opens-the-vault|title=Miyamoto Opens the Vault|publisher=IGN|language=en|accessdate=July 6, 2024}}</ref> and "gravity-defying," later used for the Iron Boots in ''[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]''. ''Super Mario 128'' has been confirmed to be unrelated to ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''.<ref>{{cite|author=Davies, Paul|date=May 16, 2003|language=en-gb|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20071215114243/http://www.computerandvideogames.com:80/article.php?id=91486&site=cvg|title=E3 2003: Miyamoto: the interview|publisher=Computer and Video Games|accessdate=July 6, 2024}}</ref>

''Super Mario 128'' has been initially believed to have been the foundation for ''[[pikipedia:Pikmin (game)|Pikmin]]'', as stated by [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] during his keynote speech at the 2007 {{wp|Game Developers Conference}}.<ref>{{cite|language=en|author=Martin, Matt|date=March 9, 2007|url=www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-shigeru-miyamotos-keynote-speech|title=GDC: Shigeru Miyamoto's Keynote Speech|publisher=GamesIndustry.biz|accessdate=July 6, 2024}}</ref> However, ''Pikmin'' programmer Yuji Kando would later state in 2023 that ''Super Mario 128'' did not influence ''Pikmin'' in terms of planning and technology, as the team was not aware of its existence.<ref name=Pikmin4 />

Aside from the tech demo shown off, another ''Super Mario 128'' was secretly in development, with Shigeru Miyamoto being the director. This would have been the final game that he directed, had it been completed. He stated that the reason he wanted to make a sequel, which would have taken at least one and a half years according to an interview at {{wp|E3}} 1996, was that ''Super Mario 64'' used only 60% of the capacity of the [[Nintendo 64]].

In 1999, Miyamoto expressed his disapproval over the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] being increasingly marketed to young children, believing that players would grow out of those kinds of games when they reached middle school. He wanted to stop Mario from using his peace sign gesture and have him stop smiling and laughing for no good reason, due to those qualities factoring in what he felt was not right.<ref>{{cite|language=en|author=Bivens, Danny|date=January 23, 2014|url=www.nintendoworldreport.com/translation/36353/shigeru-miyamoto-speaks-an-interview-between-itoi-and-miyamoto-from-1999-part-4-shigeru-miyamoto-speaks-about-his-vision-of-the-future-five-years-from-now|title=Shigeru Miyamoto Speaks: An Interview Between Itoi and Miyamoto from 1999 – Part 4: Shigeru Miyamoto speaks about his vision of the future five years from now|publisher=Nintendo World Report|accessdate=April 12, 2024 (Translated from [https://www.1101.com/nintendo/nin8/nin8_4.htm this interview])|archive=web.archive.org/web/20140228193902/http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/translation/36353/shigeru-miyamoto-speaks-an-interview-between-itoi-and-miyamoto-from-1999-part-4-shigeru-miyamoto-speaks-about-his-vision-of-the-future-five-years-from-now}}</ref> He also wanted the game to have more mature graphics and a more grown-up version of the title character, even going so far as having an interview in an issue of the Japanese magazine ''Playboy Weekly'', promising that the game would have a fresh new experience.<ref>{{cite|author=Gantayat, Anoop|language=en|date=December 10, 2002|url=www.ign.com/articles/2002/12/10/nintendo-talks-pikmin-2-and-mario-128|title=Nintendo Talks Pikmin 2 and Mario 128|publisher=IGN|accessdate=April 12, 2024|archive=web.archive.org/web/20141012232148/https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/12/10/nintendo-talks-pikmin-2-and-mario-128}}</ref>

Fans expected the game to appear at E3's showings in 2003 and 2004, but the game was not shown at all due to Miyamoto's wanting to keep the new ideas for the game from being copied by other companies, even saying at E3 2005 that the game may not be released on GameCube after all. At the 2007 Game Developers Conference, where he revealed that the tech demo shown off at Space World 2000 became ''Pikmin'' in terms of gameplay, he said that it also became ''Super Mario Galaxy'' in terms of stage design. Reporters stopped asking him about the game.

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU1IML3xlp0 Super Mario 128 ft. Dunkey - DidYouKnowGaming]