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- veediot, on 10/12/2007, -12/+142I think it might be a little difficult to emulate Mac OS X on 8801 hardware. ;)
- ZeroMP, on 10/12/2007, -87/+172Dude, go edit a video or something.
You know you aren't supposed to play games on a Mac.
Maybe you could swing your Mac around like a light saber or something
and that would be fun instead?
Bury me now. - Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43I believe this is the version that caused Atari to flip out and cancel its North American distribution of the NES. Atari thought it had a complete exclusive and apparently didn't secure personal computer rights -- just console rights. I forget which exec it was -- I want to say Jack Tremiel -- but he saw Mario running on a computer and nixed the contract right there, assuming Nintendo had gone behind his back.
Nintendo went on to distribute the NES itself, and the rest is history.
Him freaking out about a PC version was also kind of silly, since at the time a PC couldn't really manage the screen refresh required for side-scrolling. John Carmack figured this out when id Software did Commander Keen. - ShadySpace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Damn, in that case it's funny how one little game the vast majority of people have never heard of completely changed an entire industry.
- Jwoey, on 10/12/2007, -16/+42@wild2
man, those mac vs PC commercials sure have worked. people are actually starting to believe that all you can do on a PC is work-related stuff? - Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19"(btw, that game that Atari went ***** over was actually Donkey Kong)"
Ah, thanks for the clarification :)
And it was Ray Kassar, not Tremiel. - digggggggggg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17"Nintendo went on to distribute the NES itself, and the rest is history."
History that dosn't include Atari. - http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/june03/dumbestmoments/index24.shtml
(btw, that game that Atari went ***** over was actually Donkey Kong) - wild, on 10/12/2007, -13/+28@Jwoey
No, I was responding in kind to his generalization that all Macs can do is make videos and lightsaber sounds... ;-) - djSyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11The difference is that this isn't a clone, it's a licensed remake/port. It has been widely believed throughout time that the Super Mario Bros. series of games have never appeared on anything but Nintendo hardware (not counting edutainment titles like those you linked). This is the first evidence to the contrary.
- Kale, on 10/12/2007, -18/+27I've done a little googling, and I don't see a Mac OSX emulator for the 8810. Anyone know if one exists?
- LordofChaosIori, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8As is your typing...
- robotsongs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I like how all the screenshots are from level one.
I didn't want to bother playing any farther either..... - CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8yeah the physics are TERRIBLE and make it so tedious and the way it switches to another screen instead of scrolling.
mario would have never become a classic with those annoyances. - darkmule, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://www.aep-emu.de/emus30.html
List of emulators.. From what I've understood (from wiki) the NEC PC-8801 is the same as the "PC-88". - syl1985, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Thank you very much, going to give it a good run throught tonight
- outbreakofevil, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8RTFA. They also included the "flick-screen" bit which would change how the game played. Plus, the levels were harder as well.
- avolant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Not sure I actually want to hear about it."
well i suppose we should be more careful with our diggs then.
shut up. - interiot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7It may be interesting for its historical context, but honestly there have been almost hundreds of third-party Super Mario clones, not all of them equally enjoyable. Some have been made by larger companies: http://www.errormacro.com/2006/06/marios_bastard_children.php
And a great many have been made by students learning programming. (sorry for the linkdump, I couldn't find a centralized page that listed them) http://www.wieringsoftware.nl/angelo/ http://www.hurongames.com/super-mario-clone-open-source-pascal.htm http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Infinite_Mario_Bros_A_clone_of_Super_Mario_Bros_with_randomized_maps - tony134340, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It is harder because the physics sucks. Not to mention the annoying scrolling.
- bluemansteele, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4actually, here it is
http://emulation.victoly.com/pc8801/ - afeitarse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Also, the game looks slightly better if you turn off interlacing in the options.
- AshTR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://www.duggmirror.com
- catastrophee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4*cough* "00readme.txt" Use it.
- trc0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3just use a native emulator:
http://www.zophar.net/unix/pc8801.html - robdiggity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3not sure if this'll help, but i got this to run perfectly under wine including the sound.
- heatman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Enjoy, before Nintendo's lawyers have us all killed."
And then release it to be downloaded onto the Wii... - Markus123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The controls are Z to jump (and start the game) and the numeric keys on the right to go left / right (4, 6), that's it, I think.
- bluemansteele, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3emulators that runs on OSX are here.
http://emulation.victoly.com/
Not sure if it has what you need. - mvanhorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"(For example, a kicked Koopa shell will now rebound off the edge of the screen and come back at you whether there's an obstacle there or not.)"
This is a feature? LOL - jeffmeaningless, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4yeah i just downloaded it and i'm a huge fan of mario and all,
but,
worst game play/graphics
ever. - mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Run PC88Win.exe then click File > New Disk. Select the only available file (.h88) and click open. Beyond that I can't figure out what the controls are for Mario.
- garyh84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2x makes you run faster as well. Haven't you guys ever played a ROM before? :
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hate emulators. Anyone got a video for my lazy ass?
- bluemansteele, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I didn't think it was Atari that freaked out. Wasn't it Donkey Kong on the coleco vision that nearly made nintendo not come to the usa?
- Geekbeard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nah, he's actually using Dutch.
- weareallzombies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I saw this a while back. It would be nice if someone reverse engineered it to plug the "special" levels into an actual ROM of the NES version, so we can have the new stages but with the classic gameplay... because, frankly, the way the game is in this version here, completely un-*****-playable.
Probably just a pipe dream though because I doubt anyone but the most die-hard will bother getting to 8-4 in this version. - Wisgary, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ZeroMP's reply has made me laugh more than most comments I've seen do. Thank you.
- Hellmark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1SMB Special was never on the NES (or Famicom).
- irregardless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I grabbed a Mario ROM from a Hotline site years ago and it was just like this. Totally freaked me out. I figured it was a crazy Japan-only version.
Now I know where it came from. Thanks. - imikedaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did anyone get past 2-1? I ran out of time when trying to get over the spring at the end of the level since the thing refused to work correctly, and that was my last life.
- marcushe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1man, that's the first time i've seen hotline mentioned in years. good times!
- qiemem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ya that was. I was just about to try myself. Did ya have to do anything special, or did it just work?
- bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I rebooted into Classic and tried to play with the emulator linked above in OS 9 but couldn't figure it out since the whole GUI is in Japanese. So, even if it were available for OS X you're probably not missing much.
- aahpandasrun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wow. This is awful
- EbenieRosa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I found that comment to be funy as well.
- Hinph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lacks the two important things that made Super Mario Bros great and revolutionary... solid controls and side-scrolling. Very cool, still.
- sv650touring, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mario isn't the only cool franchise that the PC-88 had. The first Thunder Force game was also on it. I stumbled upon that trivia while trying to figure out why the oldest Thunder Force game seemed to be TF2 on the Genesis.
That still doesn't explain Lightening (sic) Force though. - a0me, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Try PC88EM ( http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/hideaki-i/n_on_mac/n-index.html ), this should do the trick.
- AlphAssassin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I have heard of this. in fact I have this for a family com system."
...you mean the NES?
...unless you have the Japenese original. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the link doesn't work for the os x download =(
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