otherwise known as Mario RPG 2 and Mario RPG 64 while in development. Due to complications involving Square, it was reworked into Paper Mario and was released as a standard Nintendo 64 title.

In the 1980s, [Mike] was working on his own RPG for the Commodore 64, inspired by dungeon crawlers of the era like Ultima IV and Telengard, both some of his favorites. The mechanics and gameplay ...