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Alex Raisbeck

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto found it hard to watch his own kids playtest Super Mario 64: "Geez, does this kid have any brains?"

A screenshot of Mario in the Super Mario 3D All-Stars release of Super Mario 64 holding a baby penguin next to its mother.

Children take after their parents in all sorts of ways, but one of games industry icon Shigeru Miyamoto's children may not have inherited their old man's gaming pedigree as Super Mario 64 playtesting revealed.

In an interview originally featured in Japanese strategy guides and now available on Shmuplations, the legendary developer and producer of Super Mario 64 discussed the game's development at length. When discussing playtesting, Miyamoto revealed that the team had a group of 10 middle schoolers, including his own child,  play around on King Bob-omb's stage, Bob-omb Battlefield.

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