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Nintendo's Mario - 26 Years of History
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."
check the facts. the original Super Mario Brothers was released as a standalone cart. i had that, duck hunt, and of course Rob the robot. years later it was released on a combo cart.
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(Just kidding, but the parent poster is probably just unhappy that an overweight, middle-aged plumber gets more press -and play- than him.)
My other sig is funny.
umm....no. you forget about japan.
Mario's essentially the Ron Jeremy of the videogame world.
And Poland.
The correct URL is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_Ma rio.
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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. I don't think I need to read another history of Mario for a least four years. Anything else is just ridiculous.
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Besides, we all need more time to gear up for the -1th anniversary of Spore.
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26 years and still going strong, even if it's not a nice round figure like 25, that's still gotta be worth something. New Super Mario Bros. comes out soon, too, yay! (June 1 here in Australia)
I find it totally hilarious that parent is modded flamebait...
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
The article meantions a SNES mario party...
Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't the first mario party on N64?
I got to the end of the platforming section and thought they'd made a grave error and totally forgot about Mario Is Missing.
Fortunately it wasn't so. The last paragraph of the article saved us all.
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There is a game called "Mario Bros" which is not "Super Mario Bros". It was released on the NES and as a mini game in SMB3. Don't get them confused.
This is correct.
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There is a GBA version, which is like a SNES, but they said "born on the SNES" so they're 100% wrong
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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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The SMB3 version was much smoother than the original, and the Battle Game in All-Stars is even better than that (though similar)
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If you have a SNES, a copy of All-Stars, two controllers, and someone to play with, then try it out: play SMB3, and pick the Battle Game option. During the game, avoid coins (kill yourself if you get 4). It's fun. At least as far as I can remember.
Nintendo, make a new SNES game that only has the battle game, add some options (like being able to remove coins), and sell it for $1 on the virtual console
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
While we're on the subject of checking facts, Donkey Kong was released in 1981, not 1980... making Mario 25 years old, not 26.
WTF? Mario 64 had some of the worst graphics on the N64. Hey, it was the first game on it, it better not be the best!
Games like ExciteBike 64 look so good that you completely forget that you're playing on a system of that generation.
Even the Nintendo DS version of Super Mario 64 looks better!
AARGH! How dare they belittle the mighty N64's graphics!
Moderators should have to take a reading comprehension test.
There's a remake of Mario Bros for the GBA, it's included with all Super Mario Advance games and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. I'm not sure if it's much like the battle game but it does feature 4 players vs.
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Where the hell was Wrecking Crew? Tsk tsk. That game is the epitome of classic 8-bit gaming to me. One of the first games I played on the NES. I'm slowly forming a theory that will prove that "Wrecking Crew is Better than Everything". Just give me time...
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...of being at the arcade on a Friday night when I was 11 or 12, and lining up tokens 3 rows deep on the Donkey Kong machine. Do you young whipper-snappers remember arcades? We had something called Magic Castle (basically a Chucky-Cheese type place), and you had to be 18 (or was it 16) to come in by yourself. It was always fun sneaking past those "guards".
Thats funny, I only remember him being in 2 out of the announced 25 titles for the Wii, neither of them launch titles, and only one being close to launch: Super Mario Galaxy. Smash Bros. Brawl is coming out in spring 2007, and Super Mario 128 hasn't even been officially announced yet. If anything, this is looking to be one of the most Mario-free launches ever (except for maybe the GameCube, which was practically Mario-less). If anything, around the time of the SNES, Mario was out front with no other series coming anywhere close to its popularity, but now Link and Samus have become practically his equals as maskots for the big N. About 2 years ago, it seemed that Nintendo was looking to make Metroid its new lauch series, although the lukewarm reception of both Echoes and Hunters probably stifled that a bit. Corruption looks like it's shaping up to be another Prime, however, so I'm still excited.
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Well, I can't say I'm surprised. I post my opinion on the way I feel about something and someone who doesn't agree marks it as Flamebait. Ho hum.
Did I say Mario or Nintendo were shit? No. I was even playing Donkey Kong a few weeks ago and enjoying it. I just said I was sick of seeing Mario everywhere and I wasn't going to get a Wii because I expect him to be on loads of Wii games.
[shakes head and walks away]
Well, I didn't take much interest in Nintendo's E3 info because they have already alienated me with the kiddie games of past years, but if indeed they are goind to have lots of Mario-free games (and hopefully some more adult games) then I would consider getting one. I'll have to see what happens after release.
I was just commenting on the impression I get from Nintendo consoles. My opinion wasn't based on fact, just the feeling I get every time I see an advert for a Nintendo product and when people talk about it. I guess it's a marketing choice, but it's not targetted at me, so I probably get the wrong impression.
It seems to me you really haven't been paying attention then. You can calculate for yourself from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gamecube_game s
Looks to me that, in this particular generation, Mario has made an appearance in less than 5% of all games released for the system.
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