Mario is 25 years old!

[philipdalton]

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'Super Mario Sunshine' on the Gamecube was pretty good.
Has anybody on here ever played that?

[Sly]

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It was one of the stages of one of the levels where you fire yourself out of the cannon.

[philipdalton]

Re: Mario is 25 years old!

I managed to defeat Bowser in 'Super Mario 64' (When you did that it went through loads of credits & said 'thank you very much for playing my game'). However, as far as I can remember I never actually got to the part where he got the wings on his cap.
Does anybody know exactly how you were supposed to go about doing that?
There are tutorials on how to play the game on YouTube.

[Techno]

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i remember that ST.i think 25 yrs old means when he first appeard in a mario game.
which im sure is mario 1.

I remember that my brother had a Game and Watch in the 1980s called Mario Bros. Wikipedia says it was released in 1983.

[memoman]

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Not a mario fan prefer Sonic.

[TimeWarp]

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I still play old mario games nowadays. Last week i played mario kart on the SNES at a friends home. He has a special games room, with some modern design and some oldschool design in it. When you are sitting here and playig games you feel like you are in the game. Really nice idea. I love to play the old Mario games. Have to find my Gameboy to play Mario World. What do you think about Wario?

[darren]

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i remember that ST.i think 25 yrs old means when he first appeard in a mario game.
which im sure is mario 1.

[sixtyten]

Re: Mario is 25 years old!

Indeed. 1981 was his debut in Donkey Kong, although originally called "Jumpman"

[chirtman]

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I never really got into platformers even in their heyday and Mario was the king of platform games. I was one of those less sociable individuals who could be found steadily working his way through a dungeon in something like Bards Tale.

Actually I thought Mario's first appearence was in Donkey Kong which makes him closer to 30?

[darren]

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i have always been a huge mario fan.
never really liked mario kart.

mario 1,2 3, lost levels, mario world, yoshi's island, mario 64, etc..
love all the above.

[Palazzo]

I'm sure many of you will have seen the promotional campaign on TV at the moment featuring celebrities celebrating the 25th Anniversary of everyone's favourite moustachioed plumber, Super Mario. Mario is recognised the world over and his games continue to entertain many people of varying ages.

While I have never been the most hardcore of Mario fans, he has given me many happy gaming memories over the years, in particular 1997’s Mario Kart 64 which to this day remains one of my favourite games of all time. Getting four people playing that game simultaneously was a right laugh and while it could be tricky to master in parts, anybody could pick up a pad and be hooked instantly.

Below are two of my favourite pieces of Nintendo artwork, both from the early 90’s.



Happy Birthday Mario!!!!