video gaming of 2001 and into the 2000s. The height of its intrigue is commemorated in the 2001 GameCube game Super Smash Bros. Melee a battle stage titled "Super Mario 128" (Event 22), where the player is assailed by a total of 128 tiny Mario figurines. The software technology and concepts within the Super Mario 128 demonstration became or inspired core components of other Nintendo games: the explosive herding and wandering behaviors of multitudinous tiny automatons in the Pikmin series since 2001; the physics of Metroid Prime in 2002; the sphere-walking gravity of the Super Mario Galaxy series since 2007 and the gravity-defying feature of the Iron Boots in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in 2006. The director of the Super Mario 128 demo, Yoshiaki Koizumi, became the director of Super Mario Galaxy. References Cancelled 64DD games Cancelled GameCube games Cancelled Mario video games Cancelled Wii games Technology demonstrations