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- LawLSUVA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Wrong fizzalex.
Mario rules; millions and millions of game sales don't lie. - Paroparo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Of course they have. New and inventive Mario games!
Mario has always been the franchise to show the way to the future. To see the current level of video games, one needs only to look at the newest Mario game. - dolson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10You forgot "Painting."
Everybody loved Mario Paint! - Zarxrax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Of course they have. They have upcoming games for the Wii like Project H.A.M.M.E.R and that disaster game. In recent years they have spawned a number of new franchises like Pikmin, Nintendogs, Animal Crossing, WarioWare, and more.
- Zarxrax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I never liked the Zelda cereal. My parents got mad that I kept buying the cereal and only ate the Mario half of it...
- MFoody, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7He is implying Mario is a communist
- TigerClaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8This article failed to mention the original Mario Bros from 1983, The game which Luigi was introduced as a 2nd player character long before Super Mario Bros came out.
- mercatfat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7JAppi, your heart is in the right place, but consistant sales don't happen on truly inferior products. Typically, there will be a two or three week period of initially quick and then slowing sales, followed by a massive slump.
Argumentum ad populum rarely applies when it comes to spending large amounts of money.
When so many people like a product and a vocal minority whines that it sucks, I can't help but wonder if they're just ***** because ***** feels good sometimes. - windex99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The article is lame and partially inaccurate.
- abiding99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6yes the Mario and Zelda split cereal box. Classic.
- UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15I don't think I would have said that I had actually played that many Mario games, particularly considering that I never owned a console or handheld myself. Do you hear me mother? You ruined my childhood!!!
- theLEGENDisBACK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7MARIO... (in the uncanny Mario voice) HERE WE GOOOOOO!
- hundrednorth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Mario Paint! The painting part was crap, but I loved the music writing and the minigame where you swat flies. Clicktastic.
- Backpacker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Great article...needs more diggs. It started to drag around page 3, but the first bit was quite interesting. They also failed to mention the NIntendo Cereal...Who else remembers that?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Plz compare Super Smash Bros Brawl Mario (2006)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mariocomparison9.jpg
with NES Super Mario Bros (1985)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Super_Mario_Bros_box.jpg
I still like old Super Mario Bros (thats a joke!) - abiding99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4good sprite history or mario http://nfggames.com/games/mariosprites/ up to a few years ago anyway, not much on the recent variations of Mario Party/Golf/Stickers/Baseball etc...
I remember reading something in the old Super Mario Wold NP guide about Mario being inspired from a turn of the century board game... anyone remember this? Or have a reference. - banjokazooie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5What about Zelda? Metroid? Pikmin?
- mattcoady, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Page 5: "No, his parties are usually of the board game variety, and Mario Party was born on the SNES and never looked back."
An error or did I miss this title? - dolson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh yeah, for sure. I was getting into industrial music at the time, and I recorded a cassette of my own music... The drums I made with mushrooms and tugboats, and I did some basslines with the hearts... in Mario Paint. :) Add guitar and distorted vocals on top of that and you've got yourself a crossbreed of Skinny Puppy, Marilyn Manson, and NIN, as best a 12-year old could do back then without a PC.
- windex99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This article was rather lame actually. Poor, predictable writing. It's like a high school project or something.
- MrObjectional, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is it just me or did they completely neglect the Cube and Super Mario Sunshine?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow, i thought i was the only person who'd ever played Mario's Time Machine
if you havn't though- don't. a subpar 'adventure' at best - TigerClaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But the article should have acknowledged the original Mario Bros from 1983 before Super Mario Bros from 1985.
- dolson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah, but Mario wasn't so super back then.
- Zarxrax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes it did.
"Believe it or not, Mario has a dark side. The only game in which he was ever featured as a villain was the game Donkey Kong Jr., where he enslaved the big ape after torturing him so much, forcing DK Jr. to do some work in saving his dad. Since then, Mario's been stuck to good and has left the evil duties to his "evil twin" Wario, who's made a name all his own with his Wario Land platforming games and his Wario Ware mini-game collections." - abiding99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Mario (originally named Jumpman) was designed to be a stereotypical tradesman. His trademark cap and moustache were the result of the fact that they were easier to represent using the graphics of the time than hair and a mouth. His present name was the result of his coincidental similarity to Mario Segali, Nintendo's landlord at the time."
from http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/15972 - TigerClaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This article also did not mention Donkey Kong Jr, In which Mario was the bad guy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good thing it's easy to make a pixel-character of an obese italian, otherwise the legacy would have never began.
- navster15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Close up you can see the differences, but I never understood why all that detail was needed when all that crazy ***** was going on during a fight. Methinks that the man ogling Mario's newly acquired stitching will be the first one knocked out of the arena.
- windex99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Perhaps you should read it again then, lol.
I really don't think Mario was even being evil. Donkey Kong started it. - windex99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, but very similar. This site is getting stale though.
- ocularinvasion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mushrooms instead of Spinach? I can start to see the similarities.
- windex99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Mario was originally supposed to be Popeye as well, but they just couldn't get the rights at the time.
- Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe it's me, but hasn't this same article been written several times over the past year or two? Perhaps even posted to Digg before?
- krakelohm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Are you trying to make a point or be funny? Either way you have failed my son.
- vtwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"It also set the stage for big-selling numbers for Nintendo's first home console, the NES (known as the Famicom in Japan). Mario Bros. was released in a combination cart with the shooting game Duck Hunt, and gamers ate it up aplenty."
This excerpt summarizes the whole article.
Here's my sarcastic comment about it:
Right, the NES and Famicom are just different names for the same machine released the same day.
How fun it was playing Mario Bros. on a combination cart. Sometimes, when hitting the Pow block when a crab was on the right of the screen, the Duck Hunt dog would appear with some glitches. I always wondered why Nintendo never produced a non-combination Mario Bros. cart, even at launch for those who didn't have a Zapper. But I guess Duck Hunt was good to eat aplenty even with no Zapper included. - ThorbjorgX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mario is a legend and a revolution of gaming and all gamers. Who else can share an experience like playing Mario Brothers on the NES for hours on end?
- neohx_7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The game wasn't as well received as Nintendo had hoped, and eventually Mario would surface in the platforming game Super Mario Sunshine. And while that game was loaded with innovation and features (like the water pump gadget, F.L.U.U.D.), many felt it was kind of average compared to Super Mario 64."
I think I wrote exactly like the author of this article in 9th grade. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The thing about typing comments rather than speaking them is that you can take time and not do some of the stupid things that you would do in a vocal conversation. One of these things is taking the time to make sure every word is spelled correctly, another one, which is very important, is not being forced to use vocal pauses for your thinking to catch up to your talking.
There is no need to write 'um' in every sentence when writing a message. Why don't you simply delete the 'um's before you submit the comment? - qw1j1b0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mario Bros.
Turtles, crabs, and flies come pouring out of the waterworks. Hit the floor beneath them to flip them over, then kick them into the water. Collect coins for bonus points.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8624
...for those of you who didn't spend hours and hours at Chuck E. Cheese's before the NES came out. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Personally, I like the melee one the best. Mario is just better as 'cartooney'
- dolson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You are correct.
http://www.nintendo.com/doc/snes_games.pdf
Mario Party 1-3 were on N64, 4-7 on GCN. - baltakatei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hey, I learned bits of history behind Joan of Ark, Ghengis Khan, and the Spanish Revolution through that game! I know of no other source a 7-year-old could use to learn about these topics. Score Nintendo.
- transfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's a bad miss too! It wasn't even clear who the little character was is Donkey Kong. It became clear with the original Mario Bros. game (which I masterd in a bowling ally BTW ;-) and it laid the ground for all the subsequent games.
- christoscamaro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Mario games rocked.
Untill he started saying, "Wahoo!" - Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"world-famous stereotype"? A stereotype is a generalisation based on qualities such as race or religion. I think the submitter means "world-famous character".
Okay, so maybe his accent and blue-collar accent are stereotypical of Italians. Maybe. - myownbiggestfan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I think they meant archetype.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1i cannot wait for the wii
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Server = dugg
- BeardedKing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0good read. always good to see mario getting his props.
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