Yoshi
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The X1 version? Is this really complete and of good quality? Thinking of contacting my repro expert
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I just found out there was a Mario game on PC back in 1995
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The X1 version? Is this really complete and of good quality? Thinking of contacting my repro expert
.evilromero
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If this was on reddit the title would include "TIL" wouldn't it? Most older fans of Nintendo are aware of this since the company's history as a video game maker involved licensing a few of their IPs to other platforms even during the NES and SNES era but mainly before (DK and Mario Bros.).
I never knew about the Hudson game. And I wish I still didn't know.
Yikes that's bad.
R
Rösti
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Check out my thread on Super Mario Bros. Special: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=948988
It's not a bad game in my opinion, but incredibly difficult. The X1 version is closer to the original, but the clock is way faster.
Also, here are some Mario's Game Gallery wallpapers:
VGChampion
Member
"Looks like I'mma go fishing again!"
My brother, cousin, and I used to play Game Gallery all the time. I'd love to try playing it again but I doubt it would work. The typing game was fun too. Still have those on floppy disks lol.
My brother, cousin, and I used to play Game Gallery all the time. I'd love to try playing it again but I doubt it would work. The typing game was fun too. Still have those on floppy disks lol.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
3rd party Nintendo is best Nintendo
Yeah, Nintendo started off licensing their games to publishers.
Donkey Kong - Coleco
Donkey Kong Jr- Coleco
Popeye - Parker Bros
Mario Bros - Atari
LordBaztion
Member
before that game, I was the kind of kid that typed only with it's index finger.1991:
I know about this one because it was installed on all the Macs in my elementary School back in '91/ 92. But this was for DOS and Mac.
In a weird, sort of related turn of events, Dan has just done an Encyclopedia Bombastica on Mario is Missing - but the SNES version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYVua1CB9sk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYVua1CB9sk
MrCunningham
Member
Damn, I never knew this. It makes you wonder.
It also had a sequel in 1997 called Mario Teaches Typing 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjyChE4NFXk
This one has the floating Mario 64 head and it is voiced by Charles Martinet.
Most hardcore Mario fans may know about Hudson's home computer games (Punch Ball Mario Bros, Super Mario Speciall... etc), but nobody know they also released an official sequel to Donkey Kong 3 on the Sharp X1 and PC-6601. It's... interesting.
Azure Dream
Member
I just remember how many "Print Shop" titles based on licensed properties there were back in that era:
RGamer2009
Neo Member
No one remembers Mario's Time Machine?!
I used to rent this from my Library all the time. The best part was this catchy tune while time traveling:
https://youtu.be/qnyJa7E8u6M?t=2m36s
I used to rent this from my Library all the time. The best part was this catchy tune while time traveling:
https://youtu.be/qnyJa7E8u6M?t=2m36s
Hudson did a bunch of Nintendo based original games and conversions to Japanese computers in the mid 1980s.
Balloon Fight (PC-88, X1)
Donkey Kong 3 (PC-88, X1, FM-7)
Excitebike (PC-88, X1)
Golf (PC-88, X1)
Ice Climber (PC-88, X1)
Mario Bros. Special (PC-88, X1, FM-7)
Punch Ball Mario Bros. (PC-88, X1, FM-7)
Super Mario Bros. Special (PC-88, X1)
Tennis (PC-88, X1)
Strangely though nothing was ported to MSX even though Hudson was also supporting that platform at the time. Perhaps Nintendo considered it too direct a Famicom competitor?
Spinosaurus
Member
I just think of this whenever I see this game1991:
I know about this one because it was installed on all the Macs in my elementary School back in '91/ 92. But this was for DOS and Mac.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdV4d2MRVK8
there was this mario game on commodore 64 that i played way back in the day. It was very very strange. I think it was some random knock off created by one guy or something. It had very strange powerups and levels. Cant remember the name of it.
edit: here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nzr1_m2H3o
edit: here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nzr1_m2H3o
HF2014
Member
God, why that even ever existed. Hide this from the internet Youtube!!!
1991:
I know about this one because it was installed on all the Macs in my elementary School back in '91/ 92. But this was for DOS and Mac.
Can't be 91. ESRB didn't exist then.
Or at least that release can't be.riskybusinesstomcruise
Member
1991:
I know about this one because it was installed on all the Macs in my elementary School back in '91/ 92. But this was for DOS and Mac.
Me and my mom both learned how to type on this shit. Way better than Mavis Beacon.
MrCunningham
Member
Can't be 91. ESRB didn't exist then.
Yeah, that was a re-release box. The original packaging didn't have the ERSB:
Gumbie
Member
This tricked me so hard back when I was a kid. Saw it and immediately thought it was new Mario game and for PC wow!. Bought it, installed it and was like
Sportbilly
Member
Yep, I played all those on the Atari 800/ 800XL in the '80s. Popeye was great, Mario Bros not so much. Donkey Kong Jr was pretty cool as well.
You are watching the worst of the two ports, on an emulator that isn't set up properly. Here is the better of the two ports, on an emulator that still isn't set up properly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sBd0CtRkSE
when running on real hardware, Super Mario Bros Special doesn't look nearly as poor as the internet makes it out to be.
Lol, that's the Great Giana Sisters. You played a popular mod for it that replaced the Giana sprites with Mario Sprites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8teXm6723-g
legendary music
I played a Mario PC game back in the fourth and fifth grades. The game was on our school computers, which we could play if did our work quickly.
It was basically a full-on platformer traditional Mario platformer, but not like any specific game in the series. I'm guessing it was either pirated or homebrew, but it was really unlike the school to have something like that.
That's the one. Thank you. =]
It was basically a full-on platformer traditional Mario platformer, but not like any specific game in the series. I'm guessing it was either pirated or homebrew, but it was really unlike the school to have something like that.
That's the one. Thank you. =]
Yes. It takes place after Super Mario World, and the trauma that Luigi receives by the end is why his personality is so different in the N64 games and beyond.
Spectrum128
Member
At least one of these games and a Zelda one came out on Philips CDI too I'm pretty sure. They might have been more fmv affairs though than games - I can't remember .
no, the above games didn't come out for the CDI, but Hotel Mario did. It gets unfairly lumped with the CDI Zelda games, but it's not a bastardization of Super Mario Bros. Rather, it's an arcade-style single-screen game in the style of the original Donkey Kong and Mario Bros arcade games. It's fun but forgettable.
The Zelda games are terrible, but aren't FMV affairs.
Shadowplay1979
Member
Nintendo should go PC, then i will be complete
my current Steam
my current Steam
Iorv3th
Member
Person playing also doesn't know how to play checkers.
At least they give it a try! They seemingly can't handle backgammon and quit after staring at the screen for a few seconds without even trying the last remaining game.
Spectrum128
Member
Thanks for the correction , good to know .
Oh god I didn't dream that game! Thanks!
Living Proof
Member
I thought the exact same thing. I was going to mention that I remembered playing an actual Mario platformer in computer class when I finished the assigned work, one with decent visuals and controls, but I couldn't remember what it was and figured my brain just mashed up some of the other PC games featuring Mario and his typical console adventures.
I felt like I'd gotten slapped in the face when the video started playing.
Regginator
Member
I guess people wanting Nintendo games on PC aren't a crazy thought after all.
Hmm, imagine playing their games in much higher res and/or higher frame rate on 30fps games.
Hmm, imagine playing their games in much higher res and/or higher frame rate on 30fps games.
I'm aware of Dolphin.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I didn't see any Luigi in that video. And where's the boss battle?
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
heh, back then I always thought Mario Teaches Typing was some bootleg game
BrawlPurist
Member
I remember playing the first Mario Teaches Typing, but what will stick with me forever is how bizarre the cutscenes in the second were.
I mean, look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0QKiLE0xko
That masonry has a look of pure TERROR.
I mean, look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0QKiLE0xko
That masonry has a look of pure TERROR.
Quick!, to Mario Maker!
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Someone already did it.
How About No
Member
I apparently played Mario's Early Years on PC when I was a babby, but I wasn't sure if it was a fever dream or not until Game Grumps did a vid on it
I did also play Mario's Time Machine and Mario is Missing on the SNES, never actually got into the time machine successfully.
I did also play Mario's Time Machine and Mario is Missing on the SNES, never actually got into the time machine successfully.
