New Super Mario Bros. (latest pics)

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:01 am 0

piku wrote:
disciple wrote:
piku wrote:There's not a lot you can do to a platform game to make it new and interesting, its rules are pretty rigid and well defined.
You can do simultaneous multiplayer platforming over the DS's wireless link with it.
Why? This is like two-payer Tetris... it doesn't fit in with the point of the game.

Hrmm, maybe I was easily pleased back then but I thought two player Tetris was ace, me and a mate used to link our Gameboys and play this endlessly. I can see two player Tetris being a bit shit if you and your opponent are't well matched.

piku · Post by **piku** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:14 am 0

disciple wrote: Hrmm, maybe I was easily pleased back then but I thought two player Tetris was ace, me and a mate used to link our Gameboys and play this endlessly.

I had a Lynx so couldn't take part in this. I had to make do with watching people link their Gameboys together.

Cor, that was a bit of a trip back to 1991

Does Bomberman for the DS support WIFI? and what about Internet play?

I suppose the way Mario could be improved is if two player contained both players on the screen at the same time, a bit like Midnight Resistance and similar games used to.

Edit... Ah, seems your post contains pictures, and it does do what I suggested.

Nestle · Post by **Nestle** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:25 am 0

piku wrote:
disciple wrote: Hrmm, maybe I was easily pleased back then but I thought two player Tetris was ace, me and a mate used to link our Gameboys and play this endlessly.
I had a Lynx so couldn't take part in this. I had to make do with watching people link their Gameboys together.

You can link Lynx consoles together. Or did you mean that you didn't have Tetris for it? Did you have Todd's Adventures in Slime Word? It had such a death match. Four players multiplay, if I am not mistaken. I only had two Slime Word cartridges and Lynxes with my brother.

I would still recommend that to anyone... Which is what I just did

Nestle

piku · Post by **piku** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:45 am 0

At the time my only handheld was a Lynx 1, with its 20 minute battery life. Didn't have a Gameboy so had to make do with stealing my friends ones.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:50 am 0

Well, at least this one has Mario where he's supposed to be.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:10 am 0

Edit: scrap that, enough is said already...

Rev. Stuart Campbell · Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:40 am 0

piku wrote: We moan when someone churns out yet another Robotron clone,

We do? Who is "we" in this context? You DO know you're on YakYak, don't you?

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:48 am 0

This is the first, new, 2D mario game in a decade.

1 2D mario game IN A DECADE

Jesus, Nintendo are surely churning too many out

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:56 am 0

All those SMB games re-released on GBA felt a bit rehash-y to me, but they made a lot of people happy so whatever. I even had SMB3 GBA for a while before realizing I was done with it. I've got no use for all the Mario sports titles, barring a strange fondness for Mario Golf. However!

I can't wait for New Super Mario Bros. Advance word from those who played it (I got a small sample at last year's E3) say it's just what we wanted afer Super Mario World. SMW is the single best Mario ever, so I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on it.

James

zbandito · Post by **zbandito** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:20 am 0

There are some of the original levels redone in this, but it also looks like some new levels as well.

Post by **Snakey** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:44 am 0

Darkflame wrote:1 2D mario game IN A DECADE

So we're not counting the three (or was it four?) they released for the GBA, then ?

Darkflame wrote:Jesus, Nintendo are surely churning too many out

Well, you said it

Neon360 · Post by **Neon360** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:14 am 0

This makes me want to get a DS Lite that much more.... call me the odd one

It should be a $20 - $25 game at most though.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:57 am 0

Snakey wrote:
Darkflame wrote:1 2D mario game IN A DECADE
So we're not counting the three (or was it four?) they released for the GBA, then ?

I think to be fair he means brand new Mario platform games. The GBA ones were just remakes of SNES games.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:28 am 0

Indeed, hence the word "new" in the lin about the quote.

GBA games were just ports.
Not even very interesting ports at that.
(The GBC port of MarioBrothers1 however, called "Mario DX" was excellent..if Nintendo kept remaking them like that I might have actually bought a remake)

Nintendo have done a fair few spin-off games, of course, but that's a different issue. (ie ,no reason to complain about TNMB)

You could say the "Wario" platformers are the closest to a new 2D Mario game, however. And there was a fair number of those.

Id argue with that saying they were created with the expressed purpose for Nintendo to make new platformers, without having to put the effort (or the risk) of having a new official Mario game.

Mir Nyet · Post by **Mir Nyet** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:35 am 0

Never could understand Mario bashing - 'new' Super Mario titles are rare, and they always bring something new to the party, even if they did not, they are done really really well. If FIFA were to take a leaf out of the Mario book, then the current FIFA titles would be so much more than they are. I do not think I have ever looked at a new Mario game and thought re-skin. Not sure I could say that about many EA titles

Before we trash it, lets play it first eh