When the Gamecube was unveiled at Spaceworld, the very funny technical demonstration dubbed Mario 128 did not fail to impress both press and public. In a recent interview with UK mag Edge, the ever talkative Shigeru Miyamoto talked about his current projects and the possibility of releasing Mario 128.

"I now have a bigger responsibility at Nintendo as one of the board of directors, and I have to seen the much bigger picture on the creative side of games. My responsibility now includes the Game Boy Advance, and I am supervising about 30 titles."

He continued, "I’m only deeply involved in about two or three projects – for example, Zelda and the Mario series. Now that you’ve seen the Mario 128 demo, that’s a finished, working demo, I’m hoping to release it when we release Gamecube – free of charge."