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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.
Mario's essentially the Ron Jeremy of the videogame world.
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.
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
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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No, you're right. The article has a bunch of errors in it, that was the most obvious of them. They also did the following:
* Forgot to acknowledge Donkey Kong '94, Mario Vs. DK and Mario Vs. DK 2 (Platforming or other section anyone?)
* Said Mario was a playable character in VS. Golf (This is nit-picky but Golf was the NES release, VS. Golf was arcade, and let's not forget NES Open which was pretty much a sequel to Gol [or prequel to Mario Golf if you'd rather look at it that way])
* Mario RPG for the SNES didn't have real-time battles (very nitpicky, but the game was turn based to the core)
* The DS remake of Mario 64 is Mario 64 DS, not Super Mario DS, and the "new" inflation ability is pulled right from Super Mario World
* Does anyone know if Warp Pipe was a unaffiliated branch of Gamespy? This is news to me.
* They forgot "Yoshi" in the puzzle game blurb
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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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