i just wanted to talk about video games again. i decided to only include the "traditional" mario games, even though dr mario, mario kart, super mario rpg, and the original mario brothers arcade game all rule. i hope no super mario land/wario people are offended.
my vote goes to smb 3. yoshi's island is a close second.

(Edited by 6969hOoBaInCuBuS420 at 12:00 pm on Mar. 7, 2003)

i voted for super mario 3.

my favorite non-traditional mario game is "mario tennis". waluigi can whoop that ass!

but my favorite mario game of all time is mario 2 for game boy.....

(Edited by ray davies at 12:10 pm on Mar. 7, 2003)

I put Mario world, but I'm not sure if that's totally the best. It is very involved and has lots of tricks, that's why I voted for it. The original, of course, will always be fun, even when I am 80.

ive gotta go with the original here. smb 2 fucking sucked. smb3 was good, but way hard. my fav. of all time: Dr. Mario.

I loved SMB and SMB 3. Bot equally ruled me, but I remember being more excited about 3. So, it got my vote.

What's with this old-school crap? Mario 64 blows these games out of the water! It's an all-new level of adventure games that has yet to be surpassed (only equalled by Zelda 64 and DK 64).

I saw some of Sunshine and was very unimpressed.

i am jack's shut the fuck up.

Oh... oh... tell me... tell me she did not just say that...

i voted for super mario world. some of my fondest video game memories were spent playing that game. it was the first one with an overabundance of secrets. yoshi's island was incredible. i love the crazy surreal pastel look of that game. i ignored the n64 when it was out, but i'm going to get around to mario 64 soon.

(Edited by exliontamer at 2:03 pm on Mar. 7, 2003)

Super Mario 64 has been called one of the greatest video games of all time. I thoroughly enjoyed it (as well as the two Zelda titles for the N64). Mario Sunshine was supposed to be a continuation of Mario 64, which is why the gameplay is so similar. While I had fun playing Sunshine, I wasn't as impressed with it as I was with Mario 64. Maybe it's just because Mario 64 was so revolutionary at the time.

i went for super mario brothers 3. back in middle school, i really wanted to play the flute. i was given an ulimatum for my 13th birthday present: flute lessons or smb3. i chose smb 3. just think, if i would've went with the former, i could've been a member of character.

if anyone has any old N64 games they want to get rid of, let me or ELT know.

Yeah I love the art and feel of Yoshi's Island, but it just wasn't as good a game.

the original mario bros was one of my favorite games as a kid. i used to ride my bike across town to the bowling alley to play it. among my favorite mario villians are mr. freeze, shy-guy, laquitu, boo, and podaboo.

Do you guys have Donkey Kong 64? It's a lot like Mario 64.

I think I'm gonna vote for Super Mario World, but it's a tough call between that, the original, and Mario 64. I also think Sunshine is underrated.

Yoshi's Island was just way too easy. I rented it, worrying that 5 days wouldn't be enough time to have fun with the game. To my surprise, I was able to beat the whole thing in about 4 hours. That's not what a Mario game should be.

You're right on, man. There was just so much to discover in SMW. It was just spot on. It was like retreating to another world.

I think that everyone (who was alive then) loves the original Mario brothers. It was probably the first video game you got really into, and everyone had it, since it came with the NES.

Mario 2 is very under-rated; it's so different from the rest.

Mario Sunshine is boring.

What's the word on the street about this new Zelda game? Is it good?

I assume you mean Super Mario Bros, not to be confused with Mario Bros. which was a totally different game.

I thought Sunshine was a nice continuation of Mario 64. No huge changes (same basic engine), but enough new stuff (obviously the water hose/jetpackamong others) to keep it interesting. Plus the return of Yoshi in playable form.

I messed around with a playable demo of the new Zelda game (which I have preordered in order to receive my free Ocarina of Time/Master Quest pack) at Wal-Mart, and it seems to be a cartoony version of the Nintendo 64 Zelda games. Same control scheme and whatnot. I was very skeptical of Cartoon Link, but after playing it, I'm pretty much sold, at least as far as the look is concerned. Anyway, it's a Zelda game, so I'm sure it won't disappoint.

I don't know if anyone's asked this yet (I was too excited to read all of the previous posts before sticking this up), but who remembers The Wizard starring fred savage et al.
"California..."
"I love the power glove, it's so bad."

Ahhh, the days of NES and SNES...how sweet they were.

By the way, mario 2 may have been different, but it most certainly did not suck. I voted for super mario world with mario 3 coming in a close second.

while we speak of back in the day...
Who here was a fan of the original double dragon? Gotta love the music. I'm not a rage against the machine fan, but it's worth mentioning that the guitarist from the band based some of what he played on the music for that game.

i used to pretend that my power glove was a cybernetic arm. that thing really sucked to play games with. all those confounded numbers and hand motions. you had to velcro the sensor to your tv. that makes me think of laser tag, which makes me think of photon. my grandpa accidentally got me a photon set for xmas one year. i wish i still had my laser tag gear. i'd wear the vest, chest sensor, and helmet all of the time. man, i'm going to look up laser tag on ebay. i'll strap a sensor to one of the cats and have some fun.

its different because the rest of them didn't suck.

the best video game soundtrack is mega man 2. most squaresoft games have cool music. metroid and super metroid are excellent too(they're kind of eno-ish). i heard a while back that some guy at mtsu was going to get a mini orchestra together and perform the entire soundtrack to chrono trigger. i may be sad for this, but i think that would've been great. oh, and the punch out themes were awesome. the features should come out to don flamenco's theme. matt could have a rose in his mouth, throw an uppercut in the air, and start circus.

i like mario 2. the princess is my overall character of choice, and i've always thought toad was cool. luigi's difficult to control in that game....i hate those wobbly legged jumps. i'm sure some of you knew this, but mario 2 was originally another game in japan. they needed another american mario release, so they took that game(i forgot what it's called) and tacked the mario characters on it.

It was a close call between Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World for me. I had to go with Mario 3 though. I have so many fond memories with all of them. I remember the day I got each of my nintendos and the day I defeated each game. There's no telling how many memorable hours of my life have been spent on Nintendo. I'm always up for a good game of the ol' nintendo.

My favorite part about Mario 3 is the third world where you can get in the canoe and go to all the mushroom houses and spades. Mario's so cute in the little canoe. Oh, and I loved it when Mario gets to jump into the little green sock.

I never really got into Mario 2. I didn't own it but rented it every now and then.

(Edited by Sexy Sadie at 10:21 am on Mar. 8, 2003)

I only recently purchased Mario 64, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. I just don't like the Nintendo 64 controller's swivel thingy. I have trouble with that. I got Donkey Kong 64 a couple of years ago whenever Ray Davies and I bought a N64. I don't enjoy it too much. It's a little difficult.

Mario World, baby.

The song in Mario 2 when you fall from the sky at the beginning of the game always made me sad...
Yes, chronotrigger and FF3 and punch out all had good soundtracks too.

I disagree. I mean it's a good game, but I think Donkey Kong is the best game ever.

Donkey Kong sucks.

You know something? You suck!

donkey kong 3 sucked. dk jr was fantabulous. i think donkey kong is the first appearance of mario.....i think.

*Courtesty of Zach Collier- Carligula.com:

*Yeah, I know you think that Mario’s first game was Donkey Kong, but you’re only sort of right. In that game, the leading man (who looks a lot like Mario and whose Marioness has recently been verified) is actually known as “Jumpman”. He wasn’t officially dubbed “Mario” until his second adventure, Donkey Kong Jr. So there. Donkey Kong 3? No… that wasn’t Mario at all. That dude’s name is Stanley, or Stan the Bug Man. Bad move, Nintendo. Stan’s a chump

smee,
remember that in SMB3, mario could play the flute. didn't that enable you to move up to higher levels? i doubt you even realized that you obviously made the wise decision with SMB3, because you got the best of both worlds: the game AND amazing flute-playing abilities.
that WAS SMB3, right?? couldn't you play flute in that? some of you game-heads back me up here. i know you could wear a froggie suit sometimes.
you were also looking out for you sweet little kid sister 'cos you could share the game with me unlike flute lessons
-pootie

hahah, good point there. i also liked that boot thing you could jump around in. and that giant world.

did anyone ever play 'bump n jump' on nintendo? they also had an old arcade machine of bump n jump at the pizza perfect across from david lipscomb. but that was like, 15 years ago; now they have persian rugs and bibles.

(Edited by smee at 2:36 pm on Mar. 9, 2003)

yeah i always called it the warp wjistle. definitely mario 3.

So does that mean that when they made the music for the game, they took a screw driver and rubbed it over the MIDI keyboard while flipping the toggle switch?

they also have a weird guy in a neon pink john 3:16 cap. the coolest suit in mario 3 was that racoon suit(it's name is escaping me)that let you turn into a statue. did anyone else ever make mario dance on the flagpoles and vines in smb 1?

When a couple of my cousins turned me onto that, I always did it. What can I say? It just entertained me.

It was a bear costume that turned into a statue, and it was called the Tanooki suit.

i still have the first nintendo system with the mario game that was half mario/half duck hunt. was i even alive when that came out?

Ha. That's funny. I'm not sure, Rachel, but I think not.

wow i have that too. my brother got it when he was 3 years old. he's now 24 years old. over the years, he beat it up quite a bit, so now that it's been passed on to me, it's not in the best working condition, but oh well. i used to have this awesome game dealing with ice that i loved. it might have been ice climbers. i miss it greatly.

i still do that every time (which is fairly rarely.) also, my brother learned all the secrets of the game when he was obsessed with it and taught me things that most of you only dream of knowing. hahaha i have the power

HELL YES!

SMB3 was cool becasue of all the diff. things you could do like all the suits and shit. and the feather tail weird thing that replaced the fireball? good call.

i always forget how much i loved some of those light gun games. hogan's alley and gumshoe were great. i like that bonus game on hogan's alley where you shot the cans.

Did anyone ever play the Mario "Lost Levels"? They were released in Japan between Mario 1 and Mario 2. It eventually came to the U.S. as part of "Super Mario All-Stars" for the SNES. The game played just like Mario 1, but it was SUPER difficult. I'm not sure I ever got past the second level. (But, then again, I sucked at the first Mario and still hate it to this day.)

i played the lost levels. that was actually released as smb 2 in japan. that game's insanely hard. i'm going to start playing mario 64, but my mind still has trouble adapting to 3 dimensional games. realistic voices trouble me too. i can handle a rusty computer voice saying "skate or die" though.

I've played the Lost Levels. I don't know if I ever beat it because it was the hardest thing ever created. I remember my friends and I spent one summer trying to get through it. There was some level where it was just huge pits and springboards and you had to bounce from one to the other to make it through. And there was wind pushing you around so you had to do it perfectly. Those Japanese kids are gluttons for punishment.

Dammit, now that I've said that much about a video game, I have to stop rolling my eyes when my roommates are sitting around playing nintendo all day.

It was with great difficulty, but I conquered the Lost Levels.

I think you meant to say, "It was with the great Game Genie, but I conquered the Lost Levels."

mario was a plumber. oddly enough, my plumber looks exactly like mario. if you'd like to hear about the odd reoccuring nightmare i have about this plumber/mario impersonator, go to the posts about dreams or just ask me and i might tell you.

(Edited by FlyingFeaturesFan'sGF at 6:53 pm on Mar. 10, 2003)

I never had a Game Genie for SNES, only when I had the regular NES, silly.

Does anyone remember the Mario Bros. television show?

* cue Mario theme music *
"Swing your arms
From side to side.
Come on it's time to go...
Do the Mario."

I have that theme song on my computer. I wish I had the video of it with Captain Lou Albano doing the dance.

I'm too lazy to look it up, but we had a discussion about this recently in another thread. It eventually became Club Mario and had a theme song that ripped off Janet Jackson's Black Cat (or was it the other way around???). Friday was Zelda day.

i hate DK64....i cant tell where i am supposed to go.....very irritating.

That's why you gotta talk to the parrots and shit.

This is an insanely weird topic since HSSoma, IWElvis, a couple other friends and myself have spent the last three days playing old-school Mario while on spring break.

I suck at all NES games compared to the might of IWElvis. She was doing things with Mario 1 that I never knew could be done. I voted for Mario 3 since I actually spent a sizeable amount of time playing that game. I loved the cartoon that went with Mario 3 and the fact that Koopa had kids. I also have a VHS tape of an old Super Mario Bros. Super Show (guest starring Ernie Hudson) that also has an episode of Zelda. That rocked.

Now some questions:

1. Why was Bowser called King Koopa in the cartoon and not Bowser?

2. What did everyone call it when Mario was able to shoot fire? I called it Fire Power and my family called it Fire Eyes, but this weekend I have heard of Flower Power, Spit Fire, and Bomb Power. What was the official name?

And about other NES games, I am a huge fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, which was the Turtles Arcade Game on NES. That game rocked. And I still take original NES over any other NES. I just generally don't like the 3-D graphics and the non-side-scrolling nature of all these new games. I'm just an old fart.

i believe the official name was fire power. this is what i've always heard it called.

We just called it, "setting people on fire."

Turtles 2 was a great game, and I, too, am fond of the side-scrolling fight games like that. My other favorite was the 6-player X-Men game. A while back, TF and I got an emulator for that one and were in heaven for a few days (though it's much easier on computer when not relying on quarters to finish the game).

i liked the mario 3 cartoon more than the super show. there was also a super mario world cartoon for awhile, but i think it kinda sucked.
bowser and king koopa seemed to be interchangable in the early days (games, cartoons, whatever), but now "bowser" is pretty much permanent.

i've heard of both fire power and flower power, and also fire flower. i have never heard of "spit fire" or "bomb power".

i downloaded a mame emulator and played through the tmnt and simpsons arcade games. it was awesome. if you like that kind of stuff you should check out metal slug and its sequels.

Whenever I discovered the X-Men Arcade Game on the 'net, I created a thread for it (which I can't find...cos I'm tired and lazy). I must reiterate that I am still a huge X-Fan and that game defined my mall-existence from 4-5th grade. I consistently got first place when I played with Nightcrawler, and I still kick Sentinel-ass with my furry blue German.

And alongside the X-Arcade game, I recently hooked up my old Sega Genesis and discovered just how cool the X-Games were for it, as well as Spider-Man's "Maximum Carnage." The old days of video games were truly great.

Isn't it called the Great White?

Okay, that was uncalled for. I'm sorry. I just couldn't resist.

Oh wow, that was indeed some breed of "the burn"...and that pun was intended.

Nice.

mame rules. download a game called "disco no. 1". it's not fun, but it would surely make you laugh. a lost arcade favorite of mine was a game called "s.t.u.n. runner". it was a really fast futuristic racing game made by atari.

Oh, that game was the shit! Wasn't it like a futuristic motorcycle-type game? That was like the pinnacle of 3D graphics at the time.

could you drive up on the walls? And at the end of each board did they attach a new piece of cannon to the front of your vehicle?

If so, you and you wife may have won an all expense paid trip to madrid, lisbon, and tahiti!

Actually, I just think I may have played this game.
An arcade favorite of mine was the Ex-men pseudo 3d side view side-scrolling fighter.