Tag: Mario

It pleases me to finally be able to reveal to you my latest work, which is also my debut writing for 1UP: “The Many Versions, Ports, and Re-Releases of Super Mario Bros.” What’s funny is that while the 1UP staff did a splendid job in bringing everything together with my words, there is a little […]

The past few days have been like something of an information exchange between myself and Tony Ponce over at Destructoid. Recently, in searching for something else, I came across an article he’d written late last year as a tribute/retrospective to Randy Solem’s Video Game Director’s Cuts. If you’re unfamiliar, I invite you to read the […]

This ain’t no game. This ain’t no movie. This is something else.

In the above video posted to YouTube by user CooperMcHatton (via GoNintendo), we see Charles Martinet say at an autograph signing at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con that he would love to see another Super Mario Sunshine game. And I have to say that I’m of mixed feelings about this. David OxfordDavid Oxford, or “LBD […]

It’s a funny thing: When it comes to commercials for Super Mario World, in such instances that such a topic would come up, it seems the ones people remember are always either this one or that one. And while I do remember both well, the one which has always remained burned into my memory when […]

I had planned to make this post sooner; it was meant to be the first post on the newly-relaunched PMO, but thanks to E3 and the time needed to get Mario’s Hat up and running, it fell by the wayside. This one’s a bit of a personal story, but one I wanted to share just […]

Now here’s an interesting piece GoNintendo linked to earlier today (sadly, the auction for it has ended, but I didn’t have the $108 anyway). It’s a store display sign from 1989, and if you’re familiar with vintage video game commercials, you might remember the ad campaign and contest this was a part of. I remember […]

IGN posted the above image on their Facebook page, and I couldn’t help but think that no, my goal was to find out what Princess Toadstool really looked like. I mean, she couldn’t actually look like the simple question mark that the instruction manual implied, right? Though that would explain all of the question mark […]

The similarity between the four New Super Mario Bros. titles is “intentional,” says Producer Takashi Tezuka in an interview with GameSpot. “That similarity in the visual style and the control style is all intentional. The things we feel like we’ve already promised the gamer is that Peach will be kidnapped by Bowser, and Mario will […]

I felt like I just had to show this here, because… well, watch and see for yourself! David OxfordDavid Oxford, or “LBD ‘Nytetrayn’,” as he is sometimes also known, is a freelance writer of many varied interests who resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. If you’re interested in hiring him, please drop him a line at […]

One surprise to come out of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo is that IGN has seemingly managed to pin down Nintendo EAD General Manager Shigeru Miyamoto and find out just which game from the Mario series is the creator’s favorite. And the answer? Well, that came as something of a pleasant surprise. Of course, with […]

At Nintendo’s E3 2012 press conference, two new Mario games were shown off: New Super Mario Bros. U for Wii U and New Super Mario Bros. 2 for Nintendo 3DS. And make no mistake, I’m excited for both; New Super Mario Bros. U looks and is said to be bringing back some classic elements from […]