Mario 64 is genuinely a happy accident, anything could've went wrong but they got it just *right*

Speaking of Quake though, both games came out on the same day iirc

the scariest part of the mario 64 beta was that the controls and physics were reportingly really bad

this shit is like a youtube-ism, the shit you hear in a video from the 2010s as a kid and think "yeah that sounds pretty right i guess" without really understanding it in the first place. ofc it was rough. imagine how it felt for console centered devs to go from 3 different flavors of assembly to C

mascot platformers still existed even after, id say they died around the PS3/360 era but thats kind of a different can of worms for the whys and hows of that

everything must be 3D now. and MAN did devs suffer for their art

this isn't really about sonic in particular either. a lot of games have this applied to them. for every Mario 64 there was also a Earthworm Jim 3D alongside it because thats just what the demand was

the tower of power beckons everyone

it sure is hot

literally

theres so many about beta builds. even really old ones involve beytah. i have to genuinely wonder what was patient zero for this particular theme