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Nintendo's Mario - 26 Years of History

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let'sa-go dept.

kukyfrope writes "What started as a guy simply trying to rescue his whiny girlfriend from an angry ape 26 years ago has since grown into one of the most recognizable faces in video gaming: Mario. GameDaily explores the different types of Mario games over the years, from Jump Man to Mario Kart, to the new Wii title, Super Mario Galaxy." From the article: "Mario Bros. was released in a combination cart with the shooting game Duck Hunt, and gamers ate it up aplenty. (It was so popular, in fact, that the game was released for the Game Boy Color and remains one of its highest sellers to date.) Super Mario Bros. 2 would arrive years later and would take a drastic turn in gameplay, as it was actually based on a Japanese game called Doki Doki Panic and not the "true" sequel that was released in Japan only (at the time- it would resurface in the SNES release Super Mario All Stars). It was a hit, and would see a release alongside the launch of the Game Boy Advance years later under the name Super Mario Advance."

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  1. Re:Enough Mario by grogdamighty · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yeah, let's hear about Luigi - go green or go home!

    (Just kidding, but the parent poster is probably just unhappy that an overweight, middle-aged plumber gets more press -and play- than him.)

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  2. It had to be said... by one-eye-johnson · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mario's essentially the Ron Jeremy of the videogame world.

    1. Re:It had to be said... by Bushido+Hacks · · Score: 2, Funny

      Separated at birth? http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/pics/ma rio_-_ron_jeremy.jpg

      Redudency: It works for Mario and Ron, why can't it work for me?

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  3. Re:Is Mario and Nintendo an American thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And Poland.

  4. Communist Mario by Sigma+7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll be the first to burn Karma by posting links to Communist Mario conspiracy theories. No reason why it couldn't be - it's popular enough that it could just as easily sneak in communist propoganda on unsuspecting citizens.

    Besides, there's already a communist promotional movie using Mario already: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/307402

  5. Re:Is Mario and Nintendo an American thing? by grammar+fascist · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hear it's also popular on Alpha Centauri A-4, though they're still back on Mario 64 due to rate of information propagation issues.

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  6. Re:Twenty *six* years? by grammar+fascist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, do we really have to read an article about Mario's twenty-six year history? I read a bunch of articles last year about his twenty fifth anniversary, and I was glad to do it, but this is just too much.

    Personally, I'm really looking forward to the 26 1/365th year nostalgia articles. I don't know what's wrong with you.

    Maybe you're a Mario hater.

    Hater.

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