Look at what you made them watch!
Above: The Ultimate Video Game Commercial
I don’t know why people fuss about Jimmy finding the whistle. I was able to find it myself on my own. With flying, the first thing I did was try to run on all the ceilings. I got stuck up there and must have pressed ‘up’. So it was plausible.
There is no way to ‘accidentally’ get the whistle in 1-3 though. You had to KNOW how to do that.
One big difference between the Wii and NES was the above. The NES had tournament gaming with the ‘World Tournament’. I do wonder why Nintendo has not done any ‘tournaments’ with games like Wii Sports and all. Perhaps a new ‘Wii Championships’ could be done.
That gold cartridge above is worth a fortune today.
It is impossible to relate the hype for SMB 3 in today’s terms. Nothing else has remotely come close to it. Nothing.
And it is the only time where a game delivered on the hype. Only. Single Time.
NSMB Wii is not the first Mario game to have multiplayer at the same time. That would be Super Mario Brothers 3’s Battle Mode. I loved playing that mode. I loved playing Super Mario Brothers 3 in multiplayer. Most of the time, we never got to 1-1 because we kept battling over whose turn to go next with ‘Battle Mode’. (And Battle Mode had THREE stages, not one. And it is tons of fun which is one of the reasons why I knew the multiplayer on NSMB Wii was going to rock as soon as I saw it.)
I’m going to search the archives to see if I can find some newspaper clippings or something when the classic Super Mario Brothers games launched. It is really eye opening of just how big the games were.
And how big the games still are.
Classic Mario fans didn’t leave Nintendo. Nintendo left them.
Almost twenty years later, we finally have Super Mario Brothers 5.
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