@jetbougan it was the first game I got on CD-ROM.
Fuck, I'm old.
I'm imagining the player character being some unrelated non-Mario person who gets sucked into Super Myst World and gets begged by Mario and Luigi to bring them red or green pages.
@jetbougan Whoa! Nice!
Also, when I saw this my brain just played "I realized the moment I fell into the fissure that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned. It continued falling into that starry expanse of which I had only a fleeting glimpse" at me, in the Mario voice.
To this day I still can't believe the original island was so small. Still, it took my spouse and I nearly a week tag teaming after work to complete it. Also, I will always be impressed by the very intentional layout on the CD & the constraints behind it.