Super Mario 64 had some wonky ass hitboxes

A lot of these seem like lenientcies with 3D space rather than being wonky

Interesting concept for a videox starting to watch now. I also expect some may get defensive due to Mario 64's historical importance and nostalgic value, but even with old games I enjoy (and I do like Mario 64 even if I don't have the same level of nostalgia for it as others) I think it's worthwhile to do a breakdown of what worked, didn't work, the technicalities and the design done on a classic. Will post again when done watching.

I guess they created everything manually without anything that comes close to the toolsets that are avaiable years later.
Otherwise I couldn't imagine how this inconsistency came to flourish

Only watched some of the video so far, but there are tons of reasons for these other than just developers not prioritizing it. Hitboxes aren't always supposed to match visuals exactly. For example, in shmups, you typically make the player hitbox smaller than your ship, and the enemy hitboxes larger than the ships. That's just good game design.

Most of these were obviously intentional to ease the player, interesting the floor/ceiling/wall differences though.

Only half way through but what a great video! Thanks for sharing.

I think the "wonky ass" is a little unfair given that it looks like a manual job for each object but the big boo and wiggler hit box examples certainly looked funny!! And some things like the simpler geometric shapes I've always thought of as obvious, and I'd be really surprised if similar approaches aren't still used for a majority of objects.

Large hit boxes for coins makes sense to me so as to reduce frustration. Still watching.