Nintendo's Mario - 26 Years of History

kukyfrope writes "What started as a guy simply trying to rescue his whiny girlfriend from an angry ape 26 years ago has since grown into one of the most recognizable faces in video gaming: Mario. GameDaily explores the different types of Mario games over the years, from Jump Man to Mario Kart, to the new Wii title, Super Mario Galaxy." From the article: "Mario Bros. was released in a combination cart with the shooting game Duck Hunt, and gamers ate it up aplenty. (It was so popular, in fact, that the game was released for the Game Boy Color and remains one of its highest sellers to date.) Super Mario Bros. 2 would arrive years later and would take a drastic turn in gameplay, as it was actually based on a Japanese game called Doki Doki Panic and not the "true" sequel that was released in Japan only (at the time- it would resurface in the SNES release Super Mario All Stars). It was a hit, and would see a release alongside the launch of the Game Boy Advance years later under the name Super Mario Advance."

combination cart?

[ulysses38]

check the facts. the original Super Mario Brothers was released as a standalone cart. i had that, duck hunt, and of course Rob the robot. years later it was released on a combo cart.

Re:much better list....

[Per Wigren]

The correct URL is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_Ma rio [wikipedia.org].

Re:combination cart?

[basscomm]

Of course by "years later" I assume you mean at the same time [wikipedia.org].

"The console was released in two different packages: a full-featured $249 USD "Deluxe Set" which came packaged with the R.O.B., the NES Zapper, two game controllers, and two games (Duck Hunt, and Gyromite), and a scaled-down $199 "Action Set," which omitted the R.O.B. and Gyromite and included a Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt multicart"

25, not 26

[Anonymous Coward]

While we're on the subject of checking facts, Donkey Kong was released in 1981, not 1980... making Mario 25 years old, not 26.

Re:Mario Party

[shoptroll]

No, you're right. The article has a bunch of errors in it, that was the most obvious of them. They also did the following:

* Forgot to acknowledge Donkey Kong '94, Mario Vs. DK and Mario Vs. DK 2 (Platforming or other section anyone?)
* Said Mario was a playable character in VS. Golf (This is nit-picky but Golf was the NES release, VS. Golf was arcade, and let's not forget NES Open which was pretty much a sequel to Gol [or prequel to Mario Golf if you'd rather look at it that way])
* Mario RPG for the SNES didn't have real-time battles (very nitpicky, but the game was turn based to the core)
* The DS remake of Mario 64 is Mario 64 DS, not Super Mario DS, and the "new" inflation ability is pulled right from Super Mario World
* Does anyone know if Warp Pipe was a unaffiliated branch of Gamespy? This is news to me.
* They forgot "Yoshi" in the puzzle game blurb

So, I'm wondering...

[biff_larken]

Where the hell was Wrecking Crew? Tsk tsk. That game is the epitome of classic 8-bit gaming to me. One of the first games I played on the NES. I'm slowly forming a theory that will prove that "Wrecking Crew is Better than Everything". Just give me time...