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Heh, it's not really anything special, and many of you may know the story already, but it's an interesting read, in my opinion. Makes me appreciate Mario a lot more.
I want Galaxy nau :(
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***bless Mario.
Good story, I enjoyed it.
The main man Mario ftw.
I always knew Gunpei Yokoi (rest his soul) and Shigeru Miyamoto were the heroes of Nintendo responsible for just about every successful franchise they have, but I never knew they saved the company from certain death. I am humbled.
Hot ****, can't WAIT for Galaxy.
Yeah, I read the entire thing on Friday. All old news though...kept for the thing about mario 128...that was semi-interesting.
wow. So, in a way, the video game crash of 83 secured Nintendo's future from the lack of competition? How lucky.
I didn't read the article, but I've heard the story many times before. Nintendo saving the industry, yadda yadda yadda. But come on, who honestly believes that to this day the video game industry wouldn't exist if it weren't for Nintendo? If they didn't resurrect it, someone would. Just look at the technology we have now. How could you think it would be possible for there to be no video games today?
Of course, 20 years would have gone by and no one would ever explore the possibilities of electronic entertainment. :rolleyes:
That doesn't even make sense.
@ last frog: You're trying to argue that video games were just bound for greatness and that any company could have just done what Nintendo did. If you ask me, that makes a lot less sense. Companies during 83 were getting the hell out of gaming, thinking it was just some fad that had passed. Nintendo saw it differently, and was more successful at producing a quality machine than any other company of that time, making video game hardware profitable. If it wasn't for Nintendo there's a good chance the only games we'd play would be computer since the biggest problem and criticism of video games were about the hardware being too expensive for too little performance. Nintendo was the fastest and most effecient developer for such a problem, which is why I say video games (if even continued by anyone else) would have taken longer to reach the point they have now.
Your opinion is automatically void if you didnt read the article. :)
That being said, Mario had a huge part in making games what they are. It's true that Nintendo stuck in there, but that's not the only thing. It says one reason Mario Bros. was so successful was because Shigeru essentially didn't "know how" to make a game. For that reason, he had a lot more in mind than other developers. It was the first game that actually revolved around a story, albeit a vague, small one. Mario gave us a reason to play. No other developers cared to do that, which is why the market was crashing. Even if the evolution of games was inevitable, they wouldn't be close to where they are now had Mario not come along. He gave gaming a face and a new reason to play, a motive more than just "win". Mario was perfect for the job. If he never existed, I seriously doubt Sonic could do the same.
Point is, Last Fog, no one else did it, Nintendo did. Of course someone else would've come along and taken Nintendo's place but they didn't. That's how history works.
It'd also be very different from what we have now, chances are. Like the article says, Mario games set the standard for what genres like platformers and 3D adventures are supposed to be like.
It wouldn't've any different, we just wouldn't have Mario. Plus, not like anyone else really ever reached the bar Mario set anyways. Platforming is basically dead and we're seeing less and less real adventure titles.
last fog, stop arguing, it's not such a trivial topic
Well, you fags argue about the dumbest **** ever on this site. I thought I'd try it just for fun. ;-D
Acting like a dumb fag grows on ya after a while :D
[quote=Last Fog;779382]Nope, it wouldn't be much different at all. If anything, Mario redefined the small genre of platforming, not the entire world of games. Even then, something else would come along eventually. It's the same as saying that without Doom, 3-D FPS's wouldn't exist today.
Without Doom 3D FPSs wouldn't exist today in their present form. They would be well behind.
It's bogus to discredit something that changed the world with the assumption that it would have changed because of something else.
Actually, everything I said is right. You just don't want to accept it for some reason.
Accept that Nintendo could have just as easily been any company? I suppose I find it difficult to think Nintendo doesn't deserve credit for having done what it has for video games.
Hell, **** beethoven. Sure, he did a great job and all, but there was plenty of composers that would have came and done what he did if he had chosen not to be a composer.
You're saying Mario didn't redefine the entire gaming world... when really it did. You're right that something would've come along eventually but what does that have to do with anything?
Point is the industry would still exist today regardless. It would be different but not too different really.
Likely not in the same form, though, since Nintendo really pushed the medium and inspired a lot of people to hop on the bandwagon. It jump-started the entire thing, likely long before it would've otherwise. Point is, credit is given where credit is due.
Chances are Sega would have never chosen to go for video games if it wasn't for the market Nintendo was generating. No mario => No sonic.
You say "didn't read article but I know the facts lol". I said your argument is null and void, because you don't know everything that article said, gawd. It wasn't "A History of Mario: He saved the industry END"
...Anyway, the argument is unanimously against you so I'm gonna leave now :cookie:
[quote=Vampiro V. Empire;780235]Actually it really is. Metroid Prime is one of the only recent examples I can come up with, and even Prime 3 started leaning further to the shooter side. Actually, Nintendo is the only one bothering with platforming and adventure games at all. The new Ratchet is, like, the only other platformer out there.
I only recently realised that action-adventure titles are my favourite genre, yet Nintendo are probably one of about 3 developers worldwide actually making them. Shit sucks.
Oh platformers, where have you all gone? ;_;
Still waiting on my Sparkster sequel. That series was better competition for Mario than Sonic ever was in my opinion.
I think the closest you'll get to a Sparkster sequel is that Konami Track & Field DS game.
Well, there's the third Banjo Kazooie! :cookie:
For Xbox, which I don't fscking have.
Going to be terrible. Random collection just isn't fun anymore and looking back, that's all Banjo did. Nintendo got it spot-on with Galaxy which probably explains where they're the only company out there really even making them.
Conker was pretty awesome because, like Galaxy, it varied the gameplay a ton.
Rare's pretty much incapable of making good games now though. Viva Pinata was good, but they're just developing for the wrong console.