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A tech demo developed by Shigeru Miyamoto over a number of years titled "Mario 128" was shown off at Nintendo's Spaceworld 2000 trade show and was designed to showcase the GameCube's ability to utilize multiple AIs. The demo featured 128 Marios dismantling a pseudo-8 bit Mario sprite composed of several blocks by picking up and carrying them away. This project had a tumultuous development cycle with little to no details coming out over the years until 2007 when he revealed at a GDC Keynote that some parts of the project were utilized in two games he produced in the 2000s. The general concept and some other parts of Mario 128 were developed into Pikmin after Miyamoto asked his team to create an entirely new game that would be nothing like a sequel to a Mario game. As for the second game, the ability to warp the terrain seen in the tech demo as well as "different sizes of spherical items" influenced the free-form gravity and ability to walk around entire planets in Super Mario Galaxy.
1Up.com article about Super Mario Galaxy influence from Mario 128:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160602184133/http://www.1up.com/news/super-mario-galaxy-derived-mario
YuriofWind video [this source and additional information provided by VinchVolt.]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uCnbDrp9o
[Below sources and information provided by Wolfen50.]
DidYouKnowGaming video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU1IML3xlp0
Shigeru Miyamoto 2007 GDC Keynote - Part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwYBSkzevw?t=66
Spaceworld 2000 video footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O2vFfS_Ok?t=1028
https://web.archive.org/web/20160602184133/http://www.1up.com/news/super-mario-galaxy-derived-mario
YuriofWind video [this source and additional information provided by VinchVolt.]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uCnbDrp9o
[Below sources and information provided by Wolfen50.]
DidYouKnowGaming video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU1IML3xlp0
Shigeru Miyamoto 2007 GDC Keynote - Part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwYBSkzevw?t=66
Spaceworld 2000 video footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O2vFfS_Ok?t=1028
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