Unseen E3 2006 Demo Footage Showcases Early Gameplay For Super Mario Galaxy And More

Interesting how something like this can suddenly surface 16 years after it was recorded

And that game was NOT in HD and can put to shame a lot of HD games from the era and even modern one.

We could have had star toads

Interesting stuff , I think I saw this footage on a dvd given with Nintendo magazine at the time. 3D world Friday xx

I swear i’ve seen this footage before, i remember seeing that opening star world area and the megaleg fight in a video before galaxy even came out and thinking that there was no way the game was real because it just seemed way too cool

Much as I love all Mario games, I feel MG 1&2 were the last truly stellar games of the series with that sense of pure wonder that only Nintendo can produce. Miyamoto & team have been carefully handing over the reigns to the younger generation at Nintendo for a good few years now. I just hope they can manage to retain that pure magic that the company’s known for.

@Jacadamia Same! Especially when those 3 bells appeared at the starting area memories triggered heavily.

Yeah, this is not new, just forgotten. This was the demo available for media outlets in the year the Wii launched (2006).

@Mips I think Odyssey hit those same marks for me. I have completed Galaxy and Odyssey hundreds of times and love speed running both of them. But I do agree Galaxy does have some charm that Odyssey does not.

@Vasilios Good to hear, it was a fantastic game for sure.

I don't think any of this was previously unseen? It was everywhere at the time.

@Vasilios Yes indeed Vasili ! I think SMG2 was even better! If it will be remastered, I will definitely buy it.

Can completed galaxy last week really wish they'd included galaxy 2 in 3d all stars because I loved galaxy

@Would_you_kindly Yes totally agree - I think it’s every bit as good as 1

There’s a few of these videos that have been on YouTube since that e3, a few people playing Galaxy and showed the missing star egg demo.

https://youtu.be/H4wnkLKgfgQ

Still looks so smooth and so ahead of the curve.

What so bew about it

@Jacadamia There is a video on Youtube of Matt Cassimasima who worked at IGN at the time playing through that portion of the game. Maybe that was it?

Beta Wuhu Island looks so familiar and yet not familiar at all

Wow. This brings back memories.
I've definitely seen video footage from that SMG demo.
Iirc, there were three paths, the others ending with Megaleg, and King Kalimari. I think it was official footage way back then.
I can't be bothered to see the rest rn though.

What a game it was and is

i've seen this like dozen times i believe it also leaked as a rom years ago

@Kislevi03one lol yeah that’s me! I’ve been on this site for a while but dont comment too often. And i have to update this profile picture lol

@LXP8 naw i remember the girl giving instructions too lol

Personally the Mario Galaxy series are my favourite 3D Mario games. Love em all, Odyssey is fantastic but still lacks that little bit of magic. Cant wait for 3D world this week though. Had the wii u version so looking forward to playing again.

@Mips It's odd. 3D World gets trashed for being backwards and derivative but Odyssey was literally marketed on playing like a 20 year old game.

I play Mario games to see what crazy new innovations Nintendo comes up with next. The recent Mario games felt unimpressive in comparison.