Was there a ever a kiosk demo cartridge of super mario 64, for the Nintendo 64 ? If I google image search "n64 kiosk demo" a lot of them come up, but I don't see one for Mario 64 ... Thanks.
Pretty sure there was. I remember seeing the N64 with SM64 at Toys R Us weeks before the official launch.
Yes there was. After a couple of google searches multiple people were talking on forums about it. Also, there are not for resale carts, which could only mean store demos.
Tried to search for this on eBay just now and it was SO ANNOYING. Why do they try to group together a bunch of similar shit with what you're searching for. I don't want to see every copy of SM64 on eBay. I MAD
Well, I have done searches on both ebay and google, and while I get a lot of hits for n64 super mario 64 kiosk demo, they are all *actually* hits for the nintendo DS mario 64 kiosk demo. I still have not seen one search hit for the n64 kiosk demo, although I have seen some blog posts / reminiscing about it ...
There's three on eBay right now. Search for "Super Mario 64 resale" and sort it by anything other than "best match".
I was hoping that the cart had an "attract mode" - meaning, it plays a demo of the game that loops over and over.
No N64 "not for resale" cart that I know does this. They're all normal carts with the text on the label and nothing more.
I remember playing Mario 64 at ToysRus before the release. But from what a remember the kiosk was N64 themed in general rather than themed for Mario.
Same here, they used that gamers tv thing (a tv with large dual speakers on the sides) to demo it. I actually wasn't sold on it from the demo kiosk but when I saw someone playing it and Metal Mario came out, with the reflection mapping, I had to have it.
Is this relating to the "demo" SM64 that had a different layout? I had heard about this from a friend who tried one at Toys R Us back in the day. Fact or myth?
I've played kiosks that had Super Mario 64 playing on them. There was a big 9 screen composite monitor display (basically 9 TVs connected together, each playing 1/9th of the screen) in the middle of Best Buy with a smaller TV and a controller down below it that you could play. Everyone in the store could see what you were doing; it was a bit intimidating. :S I think they installed that thing right around the launch of the N64. They never have those kinds of crazy store displays anymore. It's kinda sad. I remember they had Star Wars Pod Racer on there at one point too.
Other kiosk rom's do have a smaller file size, like donkeykong64, and JFgemini. So something must be different? Couldn't find a mario kiosk in my collection though.
I played the Toys R' Us Demo a great deal when I was younger, I cannot remember any real differences besides the reset timer on the kiosk. I wish I could dig up a video or pictures of one of those. I cannot remember if they were any different then the other n64 kiosks.
Stumbled on this thread and thought I would add to this. Sorry for the huge bump! I also played this in Toys R Us when it was being previewed. Funny when you look back at being a kid, time seemed much slower then. I see someone here saying it was "weeks" before the game came out, but I feel like it was months. I also have a memory of a really long hallway area with a couple of Toads showing up. This is somewhere that's nowhere in the final game, so I can only assume it's my mind playing tricks on me, just like how people remember a colorized ending in Sonic 2. I remember ads for Mario 64 back then used to still rely on showing very early beta shots despite the final already being out for play, so that probably got mixed into my mind somehow. Still, I remember it so clearly... Any members new here since the few years of this topic that also remember playing a demo and seeing lost areas?
