Super Mario Sunshine is a 2002 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It is the second 3D game in the Super Mario series, following Super Mario 64 (1996). The game was directed by Yoshiaki Koizumi and Kenta Usui, produced by series creators Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, written by Makoto Wada, and scored by Koji Kondo and Shinobu Tanaka.
North American box art
Mario using the Hover Nozzle
Yoshiaki Koizumi directed Super Mario Sunshine after working on various other projects for Nintendo with smaller roles.
The GameCube is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on September 14, 2001, in North America on November 18, 2001, in Europe on May 3, 2002, and in Australia on May 17, 2002. It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 (N64) and the predecessor to the Wii. As a sixth-generation console, the GameCube primarily competed with the PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox.
System with controller and memory card
A group of schoolchildren exercise while playing the GameCube in Hilton, Derbyshire.
A Platinum GameCube with a WaveBird Wireless Controller and Game Boy Player attached
Indigo GameCube controller
