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1. Super Mario Sunshine

Initial release date: August 26, 2002
Composer: Koji Kondo
Developer: Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
Platform: GameCube
Designers: Shigeru Miyamoto, Koji Kondo, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka

This one is just simply on another level. There are several other games on this list that I'd rather play sooner than this one, however there is no question in my mind that my lack of playing this one makes the least sense. My earliest memory in life, period, is Super Mario World. It's like at the core of my being. Played it to heck and back. Played Yoshi's Island, Super Mario 64, Yoshi's Story, a million different Mario spinoff games, including the whole Mario Kart series, you name it. Now how in the world did I own a GameCube and never pick up Super Mario Sunshine? It's beyond my understanding. Not only have I never played it, but hell, I've spent probably 100 hours watching other people play it in the form of speedruns. It's one of the most entertaining and competitive speedrun games out there. And I've been really into speedrunning for a while now, having attended the past several GDQs. Like #2 and #3 on this list, it also is a game that literally all of my friends owned and played and talked about. So I don't have that excuse. On top of all that, it was in an era of my life where I actually had money of my own and was old enough and aware enough of the world to actually look out for new upcoming games and such, but still didn't have any "real world" responsibilities to distract me. I've never played a mainline Mario game I didn't like, and frankly there is nothing to suggest that I wouldn't like this game too. There is seriously no reason at all for me to have never played it yet.