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The Evolution of Mario

geekstir.com — A look at how Mario has changed over the years. Look at him now! You can see the denim of his jeans! WOW!

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 31, 2007

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  • Caspercreep, on 12/31/2007, -3/+204I like how he de-evolved from 87 to 90.
  • psplayer6, on 12/31/2007, -14/+146Isn't the last one pre-rendered ?
  • mrpink.137, on 12/31/2007, -4/+130Wow. His head was HUGE in 1991.
  • BudgingMidget, on 12/31/2007, -3/+99http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0905/2.jpg
    There ya go. Also includes Luigi.
  • BLyn, on 12/31/2007, -8/+73hey why don't we complain a bit more about why they didn't include a mario from every one of the 200+ mario video games (source: wikipedia).
  • pooper, on 12/31/2007, -2/+62I like this older one better
    http://i12.tinypic.com/6u92r21.jpg
  • geoboy, on 12/31/2007, -1/+57I prefer http://mtflerenard.free.fr/supermario1.jpg
  • s0nniez, on 12/31/2007, -0/+51How did Mario change from Red Overalls w/ Blue shirt to Blue Overalls w/ Red shirt?
  • inactive, on 12/31/2007, -6/+511999
    http://plumberplace.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/im ...
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  • TGMD, on 12/31/2007, -4/+34I'm still waiting for a photo-realistic mario...
  • sdellboy, on 12/31/2007, -2/+32I wonder why, in 1990, did he take to wearing gloves? I wonder if he's a bit of a closet MJ fan??
  • ItsMyWii, on 12/31/2007, -3/+32Does anyone else here like '81 better than '85?
  • razmig, on 12/31/2007, -3/+31what about new super mario brothers? he was pretty different in that.
  • Jeffler, on 12/31/2007, -0/+26Too many mushrooms?
  • juicebag, on 12/31/2007, -7/+32I don't know what a Sclera is, so I'm gonna bury you.
  • amyfamb7, on 12/31/2007, -2/+27http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41de5p4uD6L. ...
    this maybe?
  • jeffsback2223, on 12/31/2007, -1/+22Hey! He was paper for a brief period of time too!
  • FoxOrian, on 12/31/2007, -1/+19His sprite was pretty iconic in Paper Mario as well.
  • inactive, on 12/31/2007, -0/+18Man, that show was classic
  • brentinkc, on 12/31/2007, -1/+19Red jeans are pretty queer dude
  • patch6, on 12/31/2007, -3/+18The white part of the eyes.
  • Jeffler, on 12/31/2007, -1/+16Fine, I'll tell you. Thats Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
  • diggit23, on 12/31/2007, -1/+16Where's Mario from Super Mario RPG? That was the first 3D Mario!
  • NecroSexy, on 12/31/2007, -1/+15I agree, his mustache is irreducibly complex!
  • PurplePants, on 12/31/2007, -3/+17there are quite a few missing. what a lazy compilation
  • Immune, on 12/31/2007, -2/+15You'd have gotten dugg up if you didn't include "... Okay. Lame attempt, I know."
  • betajippity, on 12/31/2007, -13/+26So the 2008 Mario grew like 100 times larger than the previous ones?

    ... Okay. Lame attempt, I know.
  • contradictator, on 12/31/2007, -1/+13She can bake a cake for me anytime.

    /64
  • tehbored, on 12/31/2007, -2/+14He's been losing weight. I guess all that jumping around is paying off.
  • Nanobe, on 12/31/2007, -3/+15In NES graphics, each "tile" can only have a maximum of four colors, one of which may be set as transparent, thus allowing for the transparent region of the sprite. If you notice in the 1987 sprite, right around the eyes are four colors (red, white, blue, and skin tone) *plus* transparency. They managed to pull that off by positioning it just right so the region with white and the region with red are actually separate tiles. Unfortunately, this may be inefficient use of tiles, of which you have a limited number to work with at a given time. It's possible that it would have been impossible to do this in Mario 3 without wasting tiles already needed for other game elements.

    In addition, you only have a certain number of four-color combinations to work with, thus further complicating the issue.
  • ChileanGoD, on 12/31/2007, -0/+11I wonder what princess peach looked like.
  • AmICoolNow, on 12/31/2007, -6/+16It's not in-game. It MIGHT be a render of the character model in Brawl, but it's definitely not during play.
    They should've just used a screenshot from Galaxy so they could get him in the same walking-sidways position.
  • bagboyrebel, on 12/31/2007, -0/+9If it was from reddit then it doesn't count as a dupe because not all of us go there.
  • acanaday, on 12/31/2007, -2/+11Nope. That is either an in-game model or in-game cinematics model. It looks so good partly because it uses ambient occlusion, and a slightly less vibrant color palette. REALLY nice looking - best mario model IMO.

    More info on ambient occlusion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_occlusion
  • inactive, on 12/31/2007, -3/+11I'm just glad he hasn't gotten all super muscular and ripped like every other character has over the past 20 years
  • wtfersk8s, on 12/31/2007, -2/+101990 version > Alll
    Countless hours my bro and I wasted playing that game.
  • artanis, on 12/31/2007, -6/+14That certainly isn't the mario in my Super Mario Galaxy game. 480i isn't exactly hidef
  • BenKenobi88, on 12/31/2007, -2/+10It's using the ingame model. That's how good it'll look, even if that pic isn't a screenshot.
    Here's a screenshot: http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/images/m ...
  • Dodobutt222, on 12/31/2007, -3/+11Have you played galaxy? I can definitely tell the difference between galaxy and Brawl mario....but that's just me, I guess.
  • czechsmex, on 12/31/2007, -1/+8Ron Paul doesn't believe in the evolution of Mario.
  • inactive, on 12/31/2007, -1/+8see super mario 64.
  • skywake, on 12/31/2007, -1/+8Heaven forbid people play games for the gameplay and not the pretty pictures on the screen. If you are so adamant that Mario games have never been ground breaking in terms of graphics then compare said Mario games to other games of their time. Only "delusional fanboys" complain about Mario's graphical quality.
  • autonod, on 12/31/2007, -3/+10that would make a great t-shirt.
  • OpenFuture, on 12/31/2007, -1/+7http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclera
  • enicholas, on 12/31/2007, -0/+6It's from Brawl, not Melee. Brawl is indeed a 2008 game.
  • sdellboy, on 12/31/2007, -1/+7I think he's supposed to be a character in a computer game....
  • meatmcguffin, on 12/31/2007, -1/+7Is that Ron Jeremy? And isn't he taking his plumber-come-to-mend-the-boiler role a little too seriously?
  • lordsteve, on 12/31/2007, -1/+6the A or B button?
  • peejah, on 12/31/2007, -1/+6mario has man hands now....look at all those knuckles....this supports darwin's theory.
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