April 14, 2010

Super Mario Bros: 29 Years of Fun!


Hello and good afternoon to everyone again. Today I will speak about one of the most famous videogames characters: The Mario Brothers
First I will speak about the red-man whose name is Mario. Mario made his firts appearance in 1981 in the Videogame "Donkey Kong" for arcade machines in Japan(later will be converted in a NES(Nintendo Entertaiment System) game(the first videoconsole of Nintendo) and in a remake of that game for Game Boy Advance in 2005 under the name "Nintendo NES Clasics for GBA: Donkey Kong Arcade". In that first game, Mario isn't name Mario, his name was "Jump man", which objective was rescue the princess for the Monkey Donkey Kong attack. A lot of time passed before that game and changes were arraving with all Mario's games sagas. In 1985, Mario come back to the NES with the game "Super Mario Bros". In that game, which belong to platform cathegory, was the cuase of the great fame that this character has today. The objective of that first great game was easy: jump in levels to allow all the obstacles you had in the level(like platforms, disparitys, enemies, etc to rescue the Princess Peach at the end of game. This thematic, that may cause recurrence, was an incredible success that be successfull in all the world in a little bit of time.

Years later, NES and SNES(Super Nintendo Entertaiment System) got consequences in form of "Super Mario Bros 2", "Super Mario Bros 3" and the "Super Mario Land" arc. Even today, videoconsoles like NDS(Nintendo Developer System) and Wii have consequences of that games of the 80's like "New Super Mario Bros" and "New Super Mario Bros Wii".
But of course, the success of Mario isn't only for this game. Which every generation of Nintendo Videoconsoles a great platform game starred by Mario appeared: "Super Mario 64" in Nintendo 64(1997), "Super Mario Sunshine" in NGC(Nintendo Game Cube, 2004) and "Super Mario Galaxy" and "Super Mario Galaxy 2" in Wii(The first in 2007, the second is coming soon this spring(11th of June) to us).
Now you could think: All the Mario's game are only for Platforms? Of course not. Mario has been starred a lot of sports games. If I do not remember bad, the first sport game with relative success was "Super Mario Kart" for SNES in 1992, which starred the first cover of Nintendo's official journal in Spain: "Nintendo Accion". After that, Mario has been participated in sports like Golf(Mario Golf for Nintendo 64 in 1998), Football("Mario Smash football" for NGC in 2005 and "Mario Strikers Football" for Wii in 2007) Basketball("Mario Slum Basketball for NDS in 2008), Tennis("Mario Tennis" arc, which has games for Nintendo 64(1997), NGC(2005), GBA(2004) and Wii(2009))...
Eventually, Mario try to get a fighter star in the "Super Smash Bros" arc, which has 3 games nowadays: "Super Smash Bros" for Nintendo 64(1999), "Super Smash Bros Melee" for NGC(2003) and "Super Smash Bros Brawl" for Wii(2008). This fight game isn't like other fight games because there not exist a "life bar"(that means you are dead when it's over). The clasical life bar of this games was changed by a porcentual damage. That means if you have little damage(example: 15%) your rival will have little probabilities to takes you out(the objective of this arc: tryto get your enemy out of the secreen)I will put you a Videobattle of this fantastic game under here.
Of course that not all the history of this great character, but if I do not stop writting now, the article will come to be very big!! Probably I will do a second part later.
That's all for now, than you so much for reading!!

2 comentarios:

Joel said...

Thank you for remembering the console's real name. But you have a little mistake: It is not development, it is developer.

Francisco Arrocha said...

Ok know-it-all, It's corrected now. Happy? ¬¬

Hahaha, it's joke Joel ;)

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