/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5438774
>cheesecake

>>3350549
I have such warm feelings for this game. Playing it when I was 8 years old was mind-blowing. I remember spending many minutes in the courtyard when playing it for the first time, just having fun with the controls. Controlling Mario in three dimensions felt incredible, and it still feels very satisfying, even to this day.

There was something magical about the atmosphere in this game. The mist covering Jolly Roger's Bay before you collected your first star there, with a sunken pirate ship at the bottom. Falling down a pit in Big Boo's Mansion, being relived that you didn't lose a life, only and to discover an eerie, haunted merry-go-round. Uncovering a sunken city in Wet-Dry World, the inhabitants all gone, or even worse, drowned. Encountering Nessie at the underground lake in Hazy Mazy Cave, with her aiding you by giving you a ride on her back.

There was this genuine awe and wonder of discovery with this game. Exploring a 3D wonderland, finding wonderful things around every corner. Still to this day, the file select theme will play in the back of my head on occasion. Not because I live for Mario 64 as a game, but because it's a tune that represents the optimism of adventure, to cast aside fear of unknown, and to embrace the joy of the change.

It is with great sadness that I state that I find it a little hard to enjoy Mario 64 as a game nowadays. I greatly admire its influence on every 3D game that followed it, and I still do enjoy it on a certain level, but the same feeling of joy that I got when playing it as a kid, simply isn't there anymore.

But you know what? It's alright. Mario 64 was part of my childhood. And if there's one thing the game showed me, it was the joy of discovery. Mario 64 was a star of my childhood, but it's a star I've already collected.

I'm off to find some new stars.

Just saw a particularly... "moving" ending, so can we have an ending thread, /vr/? What are your favorite endings, or other such? I know a lot of people thought Mario 64's ending was a bit lame, but the song that plays during it is one of my favorite vidya songs of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVKj3u8JUm0

It's incredible how much difference there is in quality between v and vr.

On the topic of /vr/ birthdays and cakes:
There's lots of games which incorporate birthdays as a rite of passage thing like in RPGs where you get your first sword and stuff like that, but not so much as a traditional western birthday. Afaik harvest moon games have birthdays and birthday presents.

I know Super Mario 64 had a delicious looking cake.