Thelogan Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Ha, that looks absolutely insane. Hey, what's Demon from? (3:05) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Luigi, Trevor Belmont, Dark Samus, and Dark Link all seem like pretty pointless pallete swipes but I'm psyched about Protoman and Bass. I don't know what Devil's from or Sophia for that matter, I just know she's one of the more fun characters from the original. The main thing I learned from this game is that Contra Guy has a name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Sophia is from Blaster Master. I wish Luigi had his spastic jump from Mario 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Sophia is from Blaster Master. Sometimes having your questions answer just brings more questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Super Mario Bros 2 Crossover is out, free to play! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 i love watching this, these kids go nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) Super Mario Bros 2 Crossover is out, free to play! I should've negged you for that link for all the time from my life it will likely suck up like a hoover. Edited July 30, 2012 by Mr. Hakujin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Good lord. A huge article on making the Mario Bros. games into a timeline. Crazier than the Zelda one. timeline one: Ubermario timeline two: LemmyKoopa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Miyamoto & Tezuka answer Mario questions In Super Mario World, the enemy Chargin' Chuck dresses like a football player but often throws baseballs. Why does he do that? Miyamoto: He didn't throw a football? There were some that kicked footballs, but most of them threw baseballs. Takashi Tezuka: Well, at the time, one of the things we were trying to do with the resources we had was to introduce some variation. So we made the decision that this might be kind of weird, but let's go ahead and have some of these guys throw baseballs. Miyamoto: I think that maybe the ones that threw baseballs were a little bit more fun, so we used a lot of them. Time and again, Bowser kidnaps Peach. Why do Mario and Peach still race go-karts and play tennis with him? SM: If you're familiar with things like Popeye and some of the old comic characters, you would oftentimes see this cast of characters that takes on different roles depending on the comic or cartoon. They might be businessman in one [cartoon] or a pirate in another. Depending on the story that was being told, they would change roles. So, to a certain degree, I look at our characters in a similar way and feel that they can take on different roles in different games. It's more like they're one big family, or maybe a troupe of actors. ...and 2 was a dream. what i didn't know was, Donkey Kong was meant to be a Popeye game, but they didn't get the rights - although they did after DK's popularity, but by then, Jumpman/Mario was his own thing, and not long after, mushrooms were the new spinach cans. ...it's funny how obvious that is looking back at the old arcade marquee. additional trivia: the koopa kids aren't Bowsers, he only fathered Jr. your guess to their mother is as good as mine (Birdo? heh) also, from here: From the Iwata Asks interview with Yoichi Kotabe, the ex-Toei Animation employee who was responsible for standardising all the Mario character designs: Miyamoto: Bowser changed a lot, too. I'd been drawing Mario for quite a while, so I knew what I wanted him to look like, but I hadn't drawn Bowser that much, so I couldn't get the lines to come together right. I like Toei Animation's work from around the time of Alakazam the Great, and the ox that appears in that... Kotabe: Oh, I remember you talking about that. Miyamoto: I told him how I liked that ox. Kotabe: The ox king. Miyamoto-san liked that ox, and that was how he imagined Bowser. When you see the package art he drew, Bowser does look a bit like an ox. But after that, Takashi Tezuka said... Miyamoto: He said it was a turtle. Kotabe: I thought, “Oh, it's a turtle?” Everyone: (laughs) Miyamoto: I'd been drawing something completely incomprehensible—a turtle's body with an ox's head! (laughs) Through our discussions, his appearance eventually came together, though. Since Bowser was in the turtle family together with the Koopa Troopas, we began to see similar lines between the two, so we copied those as faithfully as possible and moved onto the next illustration. I started congratulating myself, saying, “Wow, I can really make Bowser look cool now!” This is the ox mentioned in the interview, I think: ...and this is the original Miyamoto-drawn Bowser from the SMB box art, before Kotabe redesigned him: Also interesting: the name "Koopa" (or "Kuppa" as it was originally anglicised) was taken from a Korean rice dish, and not from the mythical reptilian creature from Japanese folklore called Kappa: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 haha wow, that must've taken forever! i want the next handheld to have an AR game that plays like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 (edited) Apparently Metroid isn't alone in being too hard or confusing Edited May 20, 2013 by axel_napalm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunsmithx Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 and again I weep for our future.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Siglemic is sooo cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Let's see some Super Mario Sunshine secret level footage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 (not a single coin missed in that one!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 happy 20th birthday, Mario 64! still about my favorite game in the series 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Damn, good cover! As much as I love 64, my fave in the series has gotta go to Super Mario Sunshine. It was beautiful on the GC at the time, and practically demands a sequel on current/future hardware. At least an HD Remaster. One I'd gladly rebuy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 i wish i loved Sunshine like some did...i thought the FLUDD thing was fun, my main gripe was that after 64, i just felt way too limited in the levels/settings. that might be my favorite thing about 64 - i'd be all about dire dire docks, then onto a ghost house, volcano, penguin racing and the like. Sunshine did some cool things - man, my hands got so sweaty on those bonus minimal levels with the classic music - but most times i felt i was at some form of a beachfront Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 just a demo, but i hope dude keeps working on it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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