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Yeah, but they aren't the first party games being put out to sell their console and the ones that ninty hardware can handle usually make it over a year or so late. Also there are 250+ games in the mario franchise alone ( https://www.mariowiki.com/Mari... ) not even fifa could compete with that.

Nintendo has used that sort of cross-play as a plot point. Super Mario Adventures , a graphic novel first serialized across 12 issues of Nintendo Power in 1992, has an arc where Luigi and Peach swap outfits. Scenes in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and Super Mario Odyssey call back to this swap.

There have already been animated Mario features such as this one:

https://www.mariowiki.com/Supe...!

Nintendo was right to protect their franchises after the North American live movie as well as the Philips CDi Mario and Zelda games. They do partner with others on games such as Mario + Rabbids, but they have more oversight and communicate often. That seems fair.

Nintendo did license Mario to Interplay so that it could compete in the "Fictional Character Teaches Typing" genre with with Brøderbund's Mavis Beacon games.

...sadly, no 1-up mushrooms in real life.

Do you have proof to back up this claim?

...sadly, no 1-up mushrooms in real life.

So an x86 based system is backwards compatible with programs compiled for PowerPC? In what corner of the multi-verse?

During the first years of the Apple Intel transition (late Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard), Mac OS X had an emulator to run PowerPC apps on an x86 CPU. I think it was called "Rosalina" or something.

When was this?

The SNES had Super Mario Bros. All Stars on it.

The N64 didn't have it as far as I know, but the Gameboy Color did (As Super Mario Bros. Deluxe in 1999). As did the Gameboy Advance after that.

It was an unlockable game on the GCN version of Animal Crossing in 2002, but you had to have the e-Reader accessory and a trading card, and nobody did because they weren't that popular.

In 2004 they released another GBA game, this one a compilation that included other Mario games as well.

In 2006 they released it on Virtual Console for the Wii for $5.

It was released on the 3DS and the Wii U as soon as those consoles were released as well.

When, exactly was it unavailable?

The last new NES game was released in late 1994.

The SNES versions came out in 1993 in all regions.

It looks like SNES game production continued until 1998.

The Gameboy Color edition didn't come out until 1999, this is true. Even if Nintendo stopped selling SNES games the same year they published the last new title, this is still a gap of less than a year. Comparable to the gap that used to exist between a movie coming out in the theater and being released on VHS.

It looks like they were releasing new GBA games until 2007. So that covers the gap where the Animal Crossing unlockable was the most recent version, because the first Virtual Console version on the Wii came out in 2006.

I don't think we've seen a full calendar year where you couldn't walk into a store and purchase Nintendo-made hardware and software to play Super Mario Bros. since it was released in 1985.

There *might* have been a gap in the end of 1998 into early 1999. Not sure. But it's damn close to continuous.

When was this?

The SNES had Super Mario Bros. All Stars on it.

The N64 didn't have it as far as I know, but the Gameboy Color did (As Super Mario Bros. Deluxe in 1999). As did the Gameboy Advance after that.

It was an unlockable game on the GCN version of Animal Crossing in 2002, but you had to have the e-Reader accessory and a trading card, and nobody did because they weren't that popular.

In 2004 they released another GBA game, this one a compilation that included other Mario games as well.

In 2006 they released it on Virtual Console for the Wii for $5.

It was released on the 3DS and the Wii U as soon as those consoles were released as well.

When, exactly was it unavailable?

The last new NES game was released in late 1994.

The SNES versions came out in 1993 in all regions.

It looks like SNES game production continued until 1998.

The Gameboy Color edition didn't come out until 1999, this is true. Even if Nintendo stopped selling SNES games the same year they published the last new title, this is still a gap of less than a year. Comparable to the gap that used to exist between a movie coming out in the theater and being released on VHS.

It looks like they were releasing new GBA games until 2007. So that covers the gap where the Animal Crossing unlockable was the most recent version, because the first Virtual Console version on the Wii came out in 2006.

I don't think we've seen a full calendar year where you couldn't walk into a store and purchase Nintendo-made hardware and software to play Super Mario Bros. since it was released in 1985.

There *might* have been a gap in the end of 1998 into early 1999. Not sure. But it's damn close to continuous.

When was this?

The SNES had Super Mario Bros. All Stars on it.

The N64 didn't have it as far as I know, but the Gameboy Color did (As Super Mario Bros. Deluxe in 1999). As did the Gameboy Advance after that.

It was an unlockable game on the GCN version of Animal Crossing in 2002, but you had to have the e-Reader accessory and a trading card, and nobody did because they weren't that popular.

In 2004 they released another GBA game, this one a compilation that included other Mario games as well.

In 2006 they released it on Virtual Console for the Wii for $5.

It was released on the 3DS and the Wii U as soon as those consoles were released as well.

When, exactly was it unavailable?

The last new NES game was released in late 1994.

The SNES versions came out in 1993 in all regions.

It looks like SNES game production continued until 1998.

The Gameboy Color edition didn't come out until 1999, this is true. Even if Nintendo stopped selling SNES games the same year they published the last new title, this is still a gap of less than a year. Comparable to the gap that used to exist between a movie coming out in the theater and being released on VHS.

It looks like they were releasing new GBA games until 2007. So that covers the gap where the Animal Crossing unlockable was the most recent version, because the first Virtual Console version on the Wii came out in 2006.

I don't think we've seen a full calendar year where you couldn't walk into a store and purchase Nintendo-made hardware and software to play Super Mario Bros. since it was released in 1985.

There *might* have been a gap in the end of 1998 into early 1999. Not sure. But it's damn close to continuous.

Besides, raccoon can't fly.

Of course they can!

Attending college is beyond the LCD. So is working for an employer that allows installation of games on PCs that are company property.

It's closer to the LCD than your suggestion. Again, LCD is not the same as racing to the bottom. If it's a race to the bottom, the entire concept of multiplayer is beyond the LCD. Friends? Family that actually shares your (nerdy) gaming interests? More than what I have!

Consoles have had LAN since Tetris on the Game Boy in 1989. Stationary consoles had LAN with the PlayStation's link cable

Touche, but note that handheld consoles are quite a different beast than home PCs or home consoles. The GameBoy's capabilities in other areas were relatively limited (i.e color graphics)

Also note that your home console example, the PS1, came after PCs had LAN play.

Also notice how as Internet and wireless technologies became more mature, consoles are moving towards them, instead of back to something like the Nintendo Game and Watch. So forget your GameBoy LAN. That's local multiplayer right there, each player can take one side/screen.

So for which platform should a startup develop a fighting game? Startups don't qualify for a license to develop for consoles, and gamepads don't ship with PCs.

Well, according to Extra Credits on youtube, they suggest you... don't. Don't do a fighting game first. They're usually too complex. Unless your fighting game idea itself is really simple (DiveKick could have went to PC first, and it would have if they weren't picked up and became multiplatform release), start with something simpler.

Someone who is already using satellite Internet for other things isn't already paying for gaming Internet.

That's... their problem, to be blunt. Again, LCD doesn't mean racing to the bottom. The bottom is (points to Game & Watch) that way. And there's more bottoms after that (points to go outside, points to read a book, points to blackjack and strippers)

Again, I'm not saying people can't feel the industry isn't looking after their needs. I'm just saying the industry follows the money, and for the most part they don't see money going down towards that direction.

Jar Jar wasn't supposed to be a kid-friendly character, he was supposed to be a kid-friendly cashcow. Every facet is by-committee, annoying junk. He's Poochie.

You mean he's good for getting from one part of the world to another? Poochie ain't stupid. Binks helped Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi get to Queen Amidala.

They are referring to the Tanooki suit.

4 comments and no one has yet claimed that Blue Toad is an obvious FBI front?

So it's not Nintendo testing the waters before abandoning its 3DS-exclusive portable strategy?

Smb2 was some other game that they changed the sprites to have Mario characters. The first Smb2 was released in the US as the 'Lost Levels' in All Stars.

http://www.mariowiki.com/Yume_Kojo:_Doki_Doki_Panic

Mario has been donning the skin of the tanooki since Super Mario 3 (1988). In this game he also donned the skin of a, ghasp, frog!. The horror!

Mario has been donning the skin of the tanooki since Super Mario 3 (1988). In this game he also donned the skin of a, ghasp, frog!. The horror!

For me to sit down and make a game like Supper Mario brothers

Supper Mario? Is that when he gets too close to one of those Venus flytrap things?

Being able to make games as fast as possible leads to making them as good as possible.

But making games for more capable hardware means the player will expect more eye-candy graphics, which creates more work for the artist compared to a game on something like, say, the NES, where players are more tolerant of simpler graphic design. See NESdev BBS discussion of the so-called "freeware complexity wall".

While that's cool and all, why stop with real-world environments? You can ride in the real world any day. Instead, load up Google Mars and cycle up to the summit of Olympus Mons. Or ride Mario Kart's Rainbow Road. Or heck, glide through the air on a vaguely steampunk-ish ornithropter popping balloons for points. Reality is for people with tiny imaginations.

Just don't give them wrenches. Damn moles.

http://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/d/d8/Rocky_wrench.jpg/300px-Rocky_wrench.jpg

Seems to me they discovered the FLUDD, nice.

That may have been a poison mushroom. Been hanging around the lost levels at work?

But when all else is said and done, show me another OS that'll run for instance a SAP gui, Toad

A Wii will run Toad.

Quest Space Manager

Why do these software companies have to make their products names sound so much like video games?

Business Objects, Dimension and Oracle

Wasn't Oracle moving toward Java, which "runs everywhere", and web apps, which also run everywhere?

has decent text editing, integrated network support

What desktop operating system doesn't?

spreadsheet

Apple Numbers. OpenOffice.org Calc.

and is intuitive.

No interface is intuitive; even the nipple must be learned. By "intuitive", did you mean "almost any employee that we hire will have already been trained on the software by another firm"? In that case, GNOME is close enough to Windows for it not to matter until you try to administer the system.