Super Mario Galaxy
The software technology and concepts within the "Super Mario 128" demonstration became or inspired core components of other Nintendo games: the explosive herding and wandering behaviors of multitudinous tiny automatons in the "Pikmin" series since 2001; the physics of "Metroid Prime" in 2002; the sphere-walking gravity of the "Super Mario Galaxy" series since 2007 and "" in 2006. The director of the "Super Mario 128" demo, Yoshiaki Koizumi, became the director of "Super Mario Galaxy".