Nintendo 64's Super Mario had a hidden character, 25 years later, it's finally discovered

Is there a more legendary game than Super Mario 64? The Mario license is the best-selling video game license in history, and one of the reasons is Super Mario 64, released on the Nintendo 64 in 1996 in Japan. The first 3D Mario game revolutionised the platformer genre and video games in general.

Super Mario 64, one of the cornerstones of video games

The attachment of gamers to the game remains particularly strong, even more than 25 years after the release of this masterpiece. So much so that one enthusiast managed to make an incredible discovery: a hidden character was discovered in the game. It is none other than the brother of the Italian plumber Mario, Luigi!

Luigi was hiding (very well) in Super Mario 64

For a long time, there has been an urban legend that Luigi was hidden in Super Mario 64. Back then, word of mouth and rumours were enough to spread this theory among gamers. There was no Internet to verify if this was false or, conversely, to have proof in pictures that Luigi was present in the game. Especially since Shigeru Miyamoto explains that the character was present in Super Mario 64 until a few months before the release, he will eventually be removed.

In July 2020, Mario fans discovered by digging through the game's development files (obtained after a data leak) that the Luigi character model is indeed in Super Mario 64. This is the first time we have seen what Luigi would have looked like if he had appeared in the game. A nice find, which shows us how passionate Super Mario 64 still is. Especially when you see that a copy of the game sold for over a million dollars.

This article was translated from GentsideFR.

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