If you’re a fan of the Super Mario 64 that was released on the Nintendo 64 console, you might be interested to learn that it’s gotten a HD remake. Now before you think that Nintendo was nice enough to remake and release Super Mario 64 in HD, think again as actually this is the work of computer science student Erik Roystan Ross.
What Ross has done is remake the first level of the game using the Unity game engine, and boy do we have to say that it looks pretty amazing! In fact if we didn’t know any better and if we didn’t bother taking a closer look, upon first glance it looks like it could pass off as one of the newer Mario games, and the best part is that you don’t need a console as the game is playable right inside your browser.
We should note that if you want to take it for a spin, you will need to installed the Unity Web Player but that shouldn’t be an issue for most of you. So will we be seeing the rest of the game remade in the Unity game? Unfortunately no as Ross states that there are no plans to develop the game any further, save for any game-breaking bugs. “I currently do not have any plans to develop this any further or to resolve any bugs, unless they’re horrendously game-breaking and horrendously simple to fix.”
We’re not sure if Nintendo is too pleased with this but if you’d like to try it out, head on over to its website and enjoy!
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