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Super Mario Galaxy accomplishes several impossible feats for a Mario game, with its nonstop creative game design revolving around space, and its surprisingly moving story that recontextualizes your entire adventure and taps into what I love most about stories of space.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
3:14 Development
10:20 Super Mario Galaxy
36:45 Super Mario Galaxy 2
45:20 Rosalina's Storybook and Conclusion

Sources
NASA Apollo 11 Mission Image https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/187/a...
“Earthrise” by William Anders https://www.nasa.gov/imagefeature/ap...
NASA One Small Step (1995, archives of the 1969 moon landing) https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11...
David Sheff Game Over (1993) ISBN 0679404694
Interview with Yoshiaki Koizumi on Super Mario Galaxy (2007) https://www.wired.com/2007/12/intervi...
Iwata Asks How Super Mario Was Born https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interv...
High Score (2020) https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/8101...
GameSpot’s History of Zelda (2006) https://web.archive.org/web/200607010...
Iwata Asks Super Mario Galaxy 2 https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interv...
IGN Interview with Yoshiaki Koizumi (2007) https://www.ign.com/articles/2007/11/...

Video Sources
HackerlingVODS Outer Wilds    • outer wilds for the first time :) (pa...  
Super Mario 128 Tech Demo    • Super Mario 128  Tech Demo  

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