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shorthair:

--- Quote from: shardian on February 27, 2007, 10:30:56 am ---Anyone else remember the SMB3 commercial where a ton of people wore colored hats and shirts, stood all over the globe and made a mario face? I thought that was a cool video back in the day.


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...I remember that.  That was that long ago?  You know they just did some visual trickery beyond the range of the football field they were using.
btp2k2:

--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on February 26, 2007, 03:54:53 pm ---Landlord of NOA's first location...

"Jumpman" did not have his name for very long, however. NOA had to prepare the game for American release, which included naming the characters. As the story goes, they were mulling over what to name Jumpman when the landlord, Mario Segale, arrived at the warehouse, demanding the overdue rent payment. When he left, the staff had a new name for Jumpman: "Mario."

Source: http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/mario_history.shtml

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That site says that NOA just "came up" with the name Luigi, because it went well with "Mario"...in truth, Luigi got his name from a pizza joint not far from the new (at the time) NOA headquarters in Redmond, WA...."Mario and Luigi's Pizza"
shmokes:

--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on February 27, 2007, 10:23:51 am ---
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--- Quote from: steveh on February 27, 2007, 09:16:43 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on February 26, 2007, 06:43:16 pm ---
Of course, that had nothing at all to do with The Wizard.  :P

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Ironicly about a month ago i hunted down and bought this movie on dvd.  i have not gotten a chance to watch it.  AHH the classics.

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Didn't everyone love how awesome that movie made the Power Glove look, but then it really really really sucked. That was dissapointing.

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You didn't SERIOUSLY expect different,  did you?



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I was like 10 years old when that came out.  I begged and begged and begged for it for Christmas.  It was like a Red Ryder BB gun.  After playing with it for a couple of hours I went to my mom in tears asking if we could take it back and trade it in for something else.  I felt so foolish and embarrassed having to ask my mom if we could take it back after how I'd been talking it up and begging for it for so long (especially since the thing probably cost more than any of my siblings presents.  If I remember right the things were $80 when they were released. 

So, yeah.  I expected it to kick ass and instead it ruined my Christmas.  I swear to god I still haven't forgiven Mattel for that.   ;D
NiteWalker:

--- Quote from: shardian on February 27, 2007, 10:30:56 am ---Anyone else remember the SMB3 commercial where a ton of people wore colored hats and shirts, stood all over the globe and made a mario face? I thought that was a cool video back in the day.


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I love that commercial. It's the greatest ever made. It shows how grand that game really was(is). Most have spoken the truth. Not a single mario game has matched everything the 3rd is. SM64 came close, very close, but SMB3 was more satisfying.
Glaine:
So wait.....the Power Glove....wasn't awesome...? I always just assumed it was, it just looked so rad. And played Rad Racer in the Wizard ;D


--- Quote from: NiteWalker on February 28, 2007, 04:25:07 am ---
--- Quote from: shardian on February 27, 2007, 10:30:56 am ---Anyone else remember the SMB3 commercial where a ton of people wore colored hats and shirts, stood all over the globe and made a mario face? I thought that was a cool video back in the day.


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I love that commercial. It's the greatest ever made. It shows how grand that game really was(is). Most have spoken the truth. Not a single mario game has matched everything the 3rd is. SM64 came close, very close, but SMB3 was more satisfying.

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In fact, the only beef I can think of with that game (and this is nit-picking) was the fact that if you were good you could warp whistle like crazy and skip most of the worlds, in effect greatly shortening the game and kind of defeating all that work that went into all those worlds. I guess it was more there for those who had already played it an aweful lot.

I also always thought it was strange that SMB3 had a warp whistle just like Zelda.
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