Miyamoto Says He's Solved Co-op Issue In Mario Galaxy

In the fourth volume of the ongoing series of interviews between Nintendo's Iwata and the Mario Galaxy team, design legend Shigeru Miyamoto puts forth the opinion that he thinks he's nailed two-player Mario. That opinion is bolstered by Japanese sales figures, which shows the plumber doing quite well for his umpteenth outing. "Miyamoto: 'For every game I worked on, there were always times when I would keep discussing the issue of two-player simultaneous gameplay, and the staff also became conscious of the challenge, so every development team kept trying hard to solve it too. Though I think that might also have been because they thought if they didn't deal with it first, I'd come in and ask how it was coming along for sure! (laughs).'" Via Kotaku.

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I'm not lying!

[lpangelrob]

Miyamoto: Anyway, we had a lot of people play the game, and we observed them, had them write about their impressions, things like that. I analysed those reports as I read them, noting things like how people might have written "It was fun," but they didn't look like they were having fun...

As an Asian, I would just like to note that that is so Asian...

Two-player co-op is new?

[FlyByPC]

Didn't Gauntlet have four-way cooperative playing a looong time ago?

(To this day, I still sometimes catch myself thinking: "Wizard needs food -- badly.")

Re:Two-player co-op is new?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, Gauntlet was certainly the first Mario game with co-op.

Re:Do what now?

[fractoid]

Players one and two
We think you will like to play
With your two players