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Mario Party 1 And 2 Join Nintendo Switch Online November 2

Mario Party 1 And 2 Join Nintendo Switch Online November 2

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Nintendo recently promised all three N64 installments of Mario Party would be added to Nintendo Switch Online at some point. Guess that point is now…or two weeks from now. The first two games in the series will join the library on the same day, November 2. The third is still on the way. Introduced in the early months of 1999, Mario Party was a completely different type of Mario game, taking place on a game board and meant for multiple players. It resembles a traditional board game with Mario characters moving across a track depending on dice rolls, but once someone lands somewhere interesting, the game flips into a zany minigame that sees the players competing for points that can flip the leaderboard. A Mario Party game isn’t over until it’s over — anyone can take the win. The original Mario Party is most notorious for a minigame that required the players to twirl the analog stick as quickly as possible. Doing this with your palm pressed against the stick

Chris Pratt as Mario a first Look

Chris Pratt as Mario a first Look

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Chris Pratt’s debut as  Mario is like a beast that has been unleashed on the first trailer. For years Fans grow up listening to Charles Martinet as Mario’s voice actor. He have a think Italian accent  and has the iconic cartoonish voice. Chris Pratt’s Mario sounded like Chris Pratt  sounded like  Star-Lord and Owen Grady. To make it simple he sounded like Chris Himself. He didn’t try to sound like Charles Martinet because I guess it is Production’s decision. My speculation is that they Chris Pratt’s distinctive speaking style because he is such a well-known actor. Him trying to Sound like Mario will hide the actor recognition. Despite previous efforts to Cancel Culture him, the fact that he is now a star in multiple movie franchises is evidence that his name is  still well known.   Super Mario is one of the most Iconic Video Game characters of all time. He is even in the Guinness Book of records for most popular videogame character. When  The first trailer of Suicide Squad

Video Game LoFi: Super Mario 64 Coming From Curaga Records

Video Game LoFi: Super Mario 64 Coming From Curaga Records

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Super Mario 64 has a great soundtrack — the Dire Dire Docks track is one of this reporter’s personal favorite video game melodies. Given how chill most of the tracks are, it would be no stretch to deliberately cover them in the LoFi genre. Music Label Curaga Records has done just that with their new Mario 64-based album, brought to us by artist 88bit and Save Point. “This was a truly collaborative effort,” says artist 88bit, “I’m so glad Save Point approached me about making this with him. This album gave me an opportunity to take the Super Mario 64 songs and reshape and present them in a new light – chill lo-fi.” “We wanted to be as authentic as we possibly could with this album and I love the final result. We only used analog synths, the Prophet 5 and Novation Peak, to really capture that warm feeling. Each track has live piano, guitar, and percussion. I wanted these tracks to feel like you’re having a genuine conversation with

Gamecube Controller Support Added To Switch Version Of Super Mario Sunshine

Gamecube Controller Support Added To Switch Version Of Super Mario Sunshine

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When Super Mario 3D All-Stars was released on Switch last September, it had several glaring issues: you couldn’t invert the camera controls. Super Mario 64 was still in the 4:3 ratio even though Super Mario Sunshine was expanded to widescreen. A whole game was missing from the collection (Super Mario Galaxy 2). And you couldn’t play Mario Sunshine with a Gamecube controller even though an adapter exists for that. We figured none of these problems would be solved because Super Mario 3D All-Stars is a limited-run product, irritatingly set to be pulled off the shelves at the end of Nintendo’s fiscal year (March 31). Looks like we were thankfully wrong, because a patch just went out that address some of the complaints. Inverted camera controls were added to the games today, and not only that, using a Gamecube controller in Sunshine is now possible. It’s kind of a big deal because Sunshine was made to take advantage of that specific controller in ways that all other controllers in existence can’t.

Mario Enters The Battle Royale Genre With Super Mario Bros 35

Mario Enters The Battle Royale Genre With Super Mario Bros 35

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It was only a matter of time before Nintendo’s Mario personally got involved in the red-hot battle royale gaming craze, given that the plumber has dabbled in just about every other genre there is. No one expected him to do it in this fashion, however. Mario is going contemporary and back in time at once with Super Mario Bros 35. The original Super Mario Bros turns 25 next month. And the day his birthday month hits, Nintendo will offer Super Mario Bros 35 to all Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. It works very similarly to Tetris 99 — dozens of connected people play the same game with the goal of being the last one standing. And like Tetris 99, you can send “garbage” to your opponents — the enemies you defeat will be teleported to rival screens. You can choose to focus on rivals with the lowest time, the most coins, the ones attacking you or random people. The coins serve a larger purpose than points this time — gather enough

Super Mario Bros Game And Watch Announced For November

Super Mario Bros Game And Watch Announced For November

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Super Mario Bros turns 35 next month. Mario himself, having debuted in 1981’s Donkey Kong, is closer to 40, but Nintendo has always treated his first original console game appearance like his birthday. They have a LOT planned for this year’s celebration, including the return of the Game and Watch brand. Game and Watch was the original handheld system, brought about by Gunpei Yokoi in 1980 when he noticed Japanese businessmen would fiddle on their calculators to pass time. It was possible to make simplistic games out of the same technology, so Nintendo did just that, blinking a board of static images on and off to simulate movement. Tiger Electronics would later copy and mangle the formula throughout the 1990s. Nintendo’s early arcade titles like Donkey Kong were translated into Game and Watches, but Super Mario Bros. skipped the conversion…until now. They’re releasing a limited-edition Super Mario Bros Game and Watch this fall; however it won’t be in the crude format of an actual G&W. It’s the literal NES game

Nintendo Brings The NES Back In Lego Form

Nintendo Brings The NES Back In Lego Form

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Next month Nintendo will be partnering with Lego to produce a series of Super Mario-themed playsets. But how can you play Lego Mario without the hardware? Lego thought of that one…today they revealed they’re also releasing a brick version of the NES. The 2,646-piece Lego Nintendo Entertainment System was uncovered by the Hong Kong website VJGamer and confirmed by the Lego Twitter account shortly thereafter. It comes with all the bricks you need to build an NES, a Super Mario cartridge (or “Game Pak” as they were sold as), one controller, and a CRT television. The set is compatible with the other planned Super Mario Lego sets — an image from VJGamer depicts the Mario from the Starter Set chilling out above the Lego TV, with a speech bubble coming from his mouth suggesting he’ll unlock some kind of sound effect feature. Also note the crank built into the back of the television….when it is turned, the level scrolls and Mario automatically jumps over obstacles. Are you ready to play

Paper Mario: The Origami King Coming July 17

Paper Mario: The Origami King Coming July 17

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There was no Nintendo Direct today, but we got an out-of-the-blue announcement regardless: there’s a new Paper Mario game coming, and very soon. “Two months” soon. If you’re the paper version of Mario, you have more to worry about than just Bowser. Paper has many natural enemies: fire, wind, water. We don’t know where getting folded ranks, but it must be near the top of Paper Mario’s anxieties. It’s even worse when an origami-themed enemy shows up and transforms Peach into his minion. The scene where Mario finds out what happened to Peach is what opens the trailer, and it is actually rather creepy. She comes out looking deformed, moving in a stilted manner, and asks him with slow, tinkling text if he will “crease himself and be reborn.” It doesn’t matter what Mario says, she throws him down a trap door either way, giving new meaning to “being dumped.” Mario’s latest nemesis is King Olly, ruler of the Origami Kingdom, who’s invading with his hand-crafted army of terror! He’ll

Hang Onto Your Hat Jazz-ifies The Mario 64 Soundtrack

Hang Onto Your Hat Jazz-ifies The Mario 64 Soundtrack

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If you ever wondered how the melodies of Mario 64 would sound rendered by a big-time jazz band….Hang Onto Your Hat. That’s the title of a new album published by Materia Collective that introduces the world to the Video Game Jazz Orchestra, a Nashville-based group of musicians who plan to cover a wide variety of video games in the old-timey jazz style. They’re starting with Mario 64. “Koji Kondo’s foundational work for the field of videogame music in his Super Mario 64 soundtrack was already ripe with opportunity to be reimagined in the jazz idiom,” comments lead arranger David Russell. “We thought there was no better time to celebrate these game music standards with these storied and incredibly diverse arrangements. Each of the arrangers on this album are at the top of their game, beautifully walking the line between honoring the original pieces and elevating them in a way that’s never been heard before.” 01. Hang on to Your Hat 02. File Select 03. Inside the Castle Walls 04. Bob-Omb

Everything We Know About Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

Everything We Know About Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

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Tokyo, Japan hosts the Olympic Games in 2020…and it happens to be the city in which both Mario and Sonic were created. How could they possibly miss this party? Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 was announced earlier this year, and it’s coming months before the Games begin. So what do you need to know? Tokyo 2020 (the Mario & Sonic version) will consist of over 30 events, 10 of then being special “retro mode” versions where the characters appear in their original sprite form, and the banners read “TOKYO 1964,” the last time the city hosted the Games (a bit anachronistic, as video games simply weren’t possible outside of MIT labs). The Retro Mode will be the attraction of a brand-new Story Mode that sees Bowser Eggman scheming to trap Mario & Sonic by sucking them inside an old game console called the “Tokyo 64.” Brand New Story: Help Mario & Sonic escape from a 2D-themed console, the “Tokyo ’64,” hatched as part of Dr. Eggman’s

Details Of Cancelled Mario Comic Book Revealed

Details Of Cancelled Mario Comic Book Revealed

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A few years ago, back when Archie Comics hadn’t bungled their Sonic contracts yet, the long-running comic starring the Blur Blur was their best-selling title. Responding to demand, they worked a deal with Capcom to launch a Mega Man comic, and then looked into partnering with Nintendo to do the same with Mario. That last one didn’t happen, but a fully inked page from the comic’s pitch made it online in 2015. At the time, it was all we had to go on, but this week writer Ian Flynn shared the full details of the proposed plot. The pitch to Nintendo was for a four-part miniseries that, if it performed well, could be expanded into an ongoing. The plot Ian came up with was a loose adaption of the first game: Bowser has attacked the Mushroom Kingdom, he’s kidnapped Peach, and only the Mario Brothers can save the day. Flynn added a few narrative twists and motives to flesh out the basic plotline. It started off with Mario & Luigi

One Super Mario Bros. Cart Is Worth Over $100,000 Now

One Super Mario Bros. Cart Is Worth Over $100,000 Now

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Think about the most expensive video game cartridges out there. Stadium Events — because it was recalled. NWC World Championship Gold — because only 27 were handed out as contest prizes. Super Mario Bros? Not likely….”rarity” has to be a factor and that happens to be one of the most common video game carts on the planet, especially when paired with Duck Hunt. Which is why the news that a copy of the NES game just sold for a hundred thousand dollars sounds like a joke at first. Or possibly some kind of eBay glitch? Yeah, it was boxed and mint, but who on Earth would pay that kind of cash for something like this, and why? Here’s what’s actually going on: the Super Mario Bros cart was one of the original games being offered during the NES’s test market days, when it was only available in New York City and later LA. The NES didn’t go nationwide until the fall of ’86. But how do you tell if this

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