--- title: Watch Two Players Play Mario 64 Blindfolded and Beat the Game description: 62bitgaming streams their run playing Super Mario 64 while blindfolded on Twitch. Despite the game's difficulty, they beat it. canonical: https://time.com/80919/watch-a-man-play-mario-64-while-blindfolded/ author: Kyle Chayka article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-29T18:00:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:13.338Z og:title: This Is What Playing Mario 64 Blindfolded Looks Like og:description: 62bitgaming streams their run playing Super Mario 64 while blindfolded on Twitch. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Apr 29, 2014 6:00 PM UTC  62bitgaming / Twitch by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Apr 29, 2014 6:00 PM UTC The Nintendo 64 masterpiece _Super_ _Mario 64_ was the bane of my youth. It was one of the first three-dimensional platforming video games, and beyond tricky jump sequences, the game also had hundreds of puzzles to solve. But what would make a hard game even harder? [Playing it blindfolded](http://www.twitch.tv/62bitgaming/b/524093249). That’s exactly what the two guys of [62bitgaming](https://www.facebook.com/62bitgaming) attempted—and they succeeded. Last night the duo completed the game and beat Bowser. The player manning the controller covered his eyes with a standard-issue sleeping mask while the other shouted directions in his ear. Left! Right! Attack! Beating Bowser (seen in the [video here](http://www.twitch.tv/62bitgaming/c/4153728)) while blind is a huge accomplishment, but the entire game is tough, from getting the [first star](http://www.twitch.tv/62bitgaming/c/4153811) to navigating the castle. Here’s the [entire game](http://www.twitch.tv/62bitgaming/b/524093249) from start to finish, over six hours of groping. What’s next for the duo? Since it’s in 3D and slower than its predecessors, _Mario 64_ might actually be one of the easier Mario games to beat blindfolded. 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