It's-a me!...

[Rolinko]

...Mario!There has been a veritable avalanche of video games featuring Mario lately. Since October he's had no less than six games out, including the latest installments in the Mario Tennis, Party, and RPG series, and the remake of Super Mario 64 on the portable Nintendo DS.

Even when there are few new games being released at any one time, Nintendo frequently cashes in on the nostalgia factor: Virtually every Mario adventure console game up through SM64 has been re-released - in some cases, twice - on a different console or portable game system, with the exception of the first Mario RPG.

What's your favorite Mario title? Who's your favorite Mario character? Have any Memorable Mario Moments of days gone by? Who here hates the live-action Mario Bros. Movie? ;) Apparently it was rather awful. I saw it at an age when I didn't know the difference between a good and a bad movie. Go figure.

Special thanks to the avatar of Ringmaster, and the former avatar and signature of Lonna Bowstripe, for the idea. :D

Celebrating my ascention into Patrollerhood at long last!

[Jodan]

I think my favorite Mario title has to be Mario Kart 64. It was the one game my sister could play, and we would spend hours playing it. Me and my friends, back in the day, had mastered the game. Our competitions in the game were the stuff of legend....

[Ringmaster]

My favorite game is...either SMB3 or SMW and a great website for Mario addicts is www.lemmykoopa.com (http://www.lemmykoopa.com)

[Ferahgo the Assassin]

Most of my favorite Mario games are fairly old. Super Mario Brothers 3 was awesome, especially for its time. On the SNES, I really liked Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island - the latter of which is probably my favorite game on the SNES, ever. Well ... one of my favorites. But definitely up there.

Mario Kart is also totally fun, both on the SNES and N64.

[LadyBeelze]

A three way toss between Mario Kart 64, Super Mario 64, and Paper Mario 1&2. I just recently got Paper Mario 2 and love it as much as the original but i've only got up to Twilight town since i got distracted by Baten Kaitos X.x

[LordTBT]

The SNES is possibly the best gaming system of all time, so I'm going with Super Mario World.

[Badrang3]

Super Mario 64 was the best. I just really liked flying around with the wing cap. I wish you could've played as Luigi though.

[Lyrian Aryns]

The only Mario game I've ever played was the original Nintendo one, whatever it was called.. you all probably know what I'm talking about. My two cousins and I used to play it together, though the older one always took Mario and made me and the younger one share Luigi and a controller that only worked half the time. :rolleyes:

[Martin the Warrior]

Favorite game (of all-time, incidentally): Super Mario Bros. for the NES. I like all the characters, wasn't thrilled by the movie, and have plenty of Mario collectibles Best video game creation ever. ;)

[LordTBT]

Favorite game (of all-time, incidentally): Super Mario Bros. for the NES. I like all the characters, wasn't thrilled by the movie, and have plenty of Mario collectibles Best video game creation ever. ;)

Too bad they lost funding or we could've had a sequel to the movie.

[Satacu]

I loved Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.
My favorite mario Char. is geno from
SMRPGLOTS
I also hold my SSBM copy dear to my heart.

Mario movie=not good
Goombas in mario movie =worse

[Ringmaster]

I never played Super Mario RPG it's probably one of the few Mario I haven't played once in my life. Another one of my favorite games is Yoshi's Island.

[Lonna Bowstripe]

Ssbm Rules!!

[Lord Servone]

I find the whole franchise rather odd (what's the appeal of a plumber who fights mushrooms anyway?). I don't own any Nintendo systems but I still have a chance to play the various games, which I have fun with.

The movie was terrible, and not just because it was nothing like the video game. It was just a bad movie all round.

My favorite Mario game is probably one of the Mario Kart games... I could play that game for hours and never get tired of it. I never had a Super Nintendo, so my only real experience with playing Mario is with the NES games. My favorite of the three games is probably the first (I hardly played 3), though I thought it was cool in 2 how you could chose between your characters. That's the oddball of the entire series though.

My favorite character is probably Bowser. I think he's pretty cool. I also like Luigi (originally probably because he wore my favorite color). Birdo's a disturbing character and I hate Toad and I especially hate Toadette. I'm disapointed that there's no games where you can play as a goomba...but maybe thats because they have no arms?

[LordTBT]

I find the whole franchise rather odd (what's the appeal of a plumber who fights mushrooms anyway?). I

No man. It's about tripping on drugs and hallucinating.

Mario eats shrooms and gains powers. Think about it.

[t@gg :)]

http://img34.exs.cx/img34/3039/truemario.png
Celebrating almost 20 years of subtle drug refrences =D

[Lonna Bowstripe]

And they're rated E...
On my friend's PS1 game, on the back it says "Glorified Drug Use" because a guy stomps on a cigar and says "Darn It!!"

[Senav]

*sigh* We haven't gotten past Super Nintendo. N64 had too many buttons anyway :D
My favorite Mario game? All Stars! Such a good selection. I always liked the one where you could play as any of the characters (Princess and Toad along with Mario and Luigi). It seemed particularly trippy. Can't remember the name *shames*
Mario eats shrooms and gains powers. Think about it. We came to the same conclusion not so long ago...

[Lord Servone]

That would be Super Mario Brothers 2. That one wasn't even supposed to originally be a Mario game actually (that's why its so different; IE you pick up stuff instead of squashing, all the different villains, the viles of potion, etc.) They chocked it up as being Mario's dream, if I recall correctly.

Trivia: Does anyone know what movie debuted Super Mario Brothers 3 in it? More likely: is anyone old enough to remember what movie debuted SMB3 in it?

[Ringmaster]

Yes Nintendo did say that it was all Mario's dream that game's last boss was Wart

[LordTBT]

That would be Super Mario Brothers 2. That one wasn't even supposed to originally be a Mario game actually (that's why its so different; IE you pick up stuff instead of squashing, all the different villains, the viles of potion, etc.) They chocked it up as being Mario's dream, if I recall correctly.

Trivia: Does anyone know what movie debuted Super Mario Brothers 3 in it? More likely: is anyone old enough to remember what movie debuted SMB3 in it?


I want to say Home Alone but I dont think thats right.

[Rolinko]

OH! That was The Wizard with Fred Savage! I love that movie! Ah nostalgia...

[Martin the Warrior]

Too bad they lost funding or we could've had a sequel to the movie.

Uh, yeah... too bad. ;)

I'm disapointed that there's no games where you can play as a goomba...but maybe thats because they have no arms?

You can quasi-play as a Goomba in Paper Mario. Party member.

Trivia: Does anyone know what movie debuted Super Mario Brothers 3 in it?

The Wizard. A movie that would have you believe grandpas regularly hang out at arcades betting kids on how many points they could get on Super Mario Bros. and that you could actually play a game well with the Power Glove. "It's so bad." (Rather ironic quote.)

[LordTBT]

OH! That was The Wizard with Fred Savage! I love that movie! Ah nostalgia...


haha oh man. Guess what other classic movie came out the same year?

WYLD STALLIONZ *plays air guitar*

[Rolinko]

Afraid I dunno what you mean by WYLD STALLIONZ.
With as little as I remember of The Wizard I should say I love-d the movie. Perhaps If I saw it again I'd think different. But I'm not going to waste my time. It's not like movies based on video games have EVER had a good track record.

I can't wait until I get Paper Mario 2 for Christmas.

[Aleisou Swiftpounce]

Sorry, my stupid brother posted here with a stupid message, so I had to edit it all. Sorry.

[Lonna Bowstripe]

*sigh* We haven't gotten past Super Nintendo. N64 had too many buttons anyway :D
But not Gamdcube!! ;)

[LordTBT]

Afraid I dunno what you mean by WYLD STALLIONZ.
With as little as I remember of The Wizard I should say I love-d the movie. Perhaps If I saw it again I'd think different. But I'm not going to waste my time. It's not like movies based on video games have EVER had a good track record.

I can't wait until I get Paper Mario 2 for Christmas.


Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure!

and what about Resident Evil?

[Cheesethief]

super mario 64 is the best mario game i've played.
also, there have been way too many cameos of good characters in rubbish games recently.

[Ringmaster]

I got Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for Christmas and I've gotten all the Crystal Stars.

[LadyBeelze]

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is as fun as the original but i haven't nicked all the Crystal Stars even though i've had it since early November..been a bit busy but i'm on the 7th one. But i'm a bit stuck in this one room in the X-Naut base ..sub-level 3..the farthest room on the right? I've got the ultra shroom and all but i can't seem to get into the highest pipe. Can ya help me out? X.x

[Ringmaster]

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is as fun as the original but i haven't nicked all the Crystal Stars even though i've had it since early November..been a bit busy but i'm on the 7th one. But i'm a bit stuck in this one room in the X-Naut base ..sub-level 3..the farthest room on the right? I've got the ultra shroom and all but i can't seem to get into the highest pipe. Can ya help me out? X.x

Do you mean the construction zone like room?

[LadyBeelze]

yeah i think so..