![]() ![]() In fact the Game Boy version of Donkey Kong ends with his girlfriend Pauline throwing over a super mushroom so he can grow to her height. you know, back in the day I always wondered which size Mario was the proper one, but I guess Donkey Kong makes it clear right at the very start: Mario is not a tall man. There's friendly mushrooms, frowny mushrooms, extra life mushrooms, mushrooms that make you grow to twice your height when you eat them. took place in construction sites and sewers in our own boring mundane Earth dimension, but now the series has gone full fantasy, dropping our heroic plumber into a whimsical world of floating brick walls, mystery blocks, pipes and mushrooms. doesn't have this though, so they can't let me backtrack or else I'd find that all the boxes and enemies behind me had been reset.ĭonkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr and Mario Bros. The NES only has a microscopic 2kb of RAM, so more advanced games came with some extra memory built into the actual game cart to store things like the current state of the level. I imagine that the screen won't scroll backwards for much the same reason: they just didn't have the memory to spare, on the cartridge or the console. are actually just bushes in disguise right? Okay, just making sure. Oh by the way, everyone already knows that the clouds in Super Mario Bros. though that seems a bit less impressive somehow when you know that Wii Sports was the game that finally beat it.Īnyway I'm going to play it for an hour or two, show some screenshots and shout out everything that enters my mind as I go. was the best selling single platform exclusive for three decades. While I'm throwing out numbers, this was something like game #64 for the two year old Famicom, but when the NES reached the US this was out at launch, and you can bet that it wasn't Gyromite and Duck Hunt that made the system such a massive success in the West, resurrecting the American console market after the 1983 video game crash. He's a busy guy, and it's hard to keep track of all the places he turns up. I think (and that's not even counting the Game and Watch games). It's also the something like the eighth game to ever feature Mario, the seventh in which he's playable, the fourth to have his name in the title, and the first to be developed exclusively for home consoles. is the second game I'll be playing for my Mario Marathon Month. Fortunately they'd learned to match the title with the system by the time Super Mario 64 came out they didn't end up calling it Super Mario Cube or something. It's always nice to have another 'Super' game on Super Adventures, even though Nintendo had to go and confuse me by releasing it on the Famicom/NES instead of waiting five more years to put it on the Super Nintendo. ![]()
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