in some ways, but to me the groundbreaking 3d game was Quake 1. I played thousands of hours on that game especially on all the mods and multiplayer (3wave ctf) and it was a 3d game that looked good without hardware acceleration
Mario 64 is probably up on my second-string list, I was never a great fan of 3d platformers. The best one in my opinion was probably Metroid Prime, and I think overall Yoshi's Island (SMW2) or Mario III is the best of the Mario series I hear the Sonic 3d games were p.good
