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Jizz
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Australia224 Posts
October 10 2008 13:47 GMT
#1
Imagine. If Shigeru Miyamoto (Head nintendo guy) Didnt make mario bros. or the Nes. Before the Nes there was a sort of, video game dark ages where atari, arcades and home consoles in general just stopped production. If Miyamoto didnt make mario bros (or legend of zelda or megaman etc etc) , Would gaming be as good as it is today? or exist at all? Would boxer be Gosu at something besides starcraft (probably pimping).

Would you have a girlfriend?

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SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
October 10 2008 13:55 GMT
#2
Shit I almost said I would still be playing Mario.
yubee
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States3826 Posts
October 10 2008 13:56 GMT
#3
i hate when people who you can tell suck at video games say "i'm an oldschool gamer super mario bros is my fav!!"
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32158 Posts
October 10 2008 13:59 GMT
#4
On October 10 2008 22:56 yubee wrote:
i hate when people who you can tell suck at video games say "i'm an oldschool gamer super mario bros is my fav!!"


im pretty good in most games (nerd), and the nes series (2 & 3 especially) were some of my favorite games ever

that's a hard question, because mario is what brought console into the mainstream. im sure something else woulda replaced it, but i cant imagine life without my nes as a little turd growing up.
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h3r1n6
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Iceland2039 Posts
October 10 2008 14:00 GMT
#5
Because Super Mario Bros is noob territory. If they wouldn't suck at Video Games they'd say Contra is their fav
Elvin_vn
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
Vietnam2038 Posts
October 10 2008 14:02 GMT
#6
this is like saying what if computer doesn't exists then blah blah blah

what's the point?
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QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32158 Posts
October 10 2008 14:11 GMT
#7
On October 10 2008 23:00 h3r1n6 wrote:
Because Super Mario Bros is noob territory. If they wouldn't suck at Video Games they'd say Contra is their fav


it's a nostaligia thing!! ive beaten the original contra plenty of times, but the mario games always get me. when i get bored, i try speed running them, haha
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village_idiot
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
2436 Posts
October 10 2008 14:20 GMT
#8
Mario is soooo, sooooo casual. And Miyamoto didn't create Mega Man.
h3r1n6
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Iceland2039 Posts
October 10 2008 15:17 GMT
#9
On October 10 2008 23:11 Hawk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2008 23:00 h3r1n6 wrote:
Because Super Mario Bros is noob territory. If they wouldn't suck at Video Games they'd say Contra is their fav


it's a nostaligia thing!! ive beaten the original contra plenty of times, but the mario games always get me. when i get bored, i try speed running them, haha



Fair enough, but there are those people who don't have a clue about video games and try to impress you by saying the one thing they know about them.
Zuries
Profile Joined May 2008
United Kingdom156 Posts
October 10 2008 15:35 GMT
#10
I'm thinking somebody else would have taken the chance to snatch the market, and if that didn't happen. Boxer probably would be pimping hoes (full time)
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KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14912 Posts
October 10 2008 15:47 GMT
#11
On October 10 2008 22:47 Jizz wrote:
Imagine. If Shigeru Miyamoto (Head nintendo guy) Didnt make mario bros. or the Nes. Before the Nes there was a sort of, video game dark ages where atari, arcades and home consoles in general just stopped production. If Miyamoto didnt make mario bros (or legend of zelda or megaman etc etc) , Would gaming be as good as it is today? or exist at all? Would boxer be Gosu at something besides starcraft (probably pimping).

Would you have a girlfriend?


i have a gf so yes i would
Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6786 Posts
October 10 2008 16:54 GMT
#12
On October 11 2008 00:47 KOFgokuon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2008 22:47 Jizz wrote:
Imagine. If Shigeru Miyamoto (Head nintendo guy) Didnt make mario bros. or the Nes. Before the Nes there was a sort of, video game dark ages where atari, arcades and home consoles in general just stopped production. If Miyamoto didnt make mario bros (or legend of zelda or megaman etc etc) , Would gaming be as good as it is today? or exist at all? Would boxer be Gosu at something besides starcraft (probably pimping).

Would you have a girlfriend?


i have a gf so yes i would


but what if your girlfriend thought to herself "hey this guy reminds me of that cute little fat super mario, I'll date him!" when meeting you for the first time
...
THEN WHAT?
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closed
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Vatican City State491 Posts
October 10 2008 17:10 GMT
#13
On October 10 2008 22:47 Jizz wrote:
Imagine. If Shigeru Miyamoto (Head nintendo guy) Didnt make mario bros. or the Nes. Before the Nes there was a sort of, video game dark ages where atari, arcades and home consoles in general just stopped production. If Miyamoto didnt make mario bros (or legend of zelda or megaman etc etc) , Would gaming be as good as it is today? or exist at all? Would boxer be Gosu at something besides starcraft (probably pimping).

Would you have a girlfriend?


Probably there would be some other sort of a popular game and system. Perhaps gaming on personal computers would become much more popular, because simply people would just buy PCs to use them for work. I dont think that Doom or Wolfenstein have much to do with console gaming.

Mario was one of the first platform games, but I think someone would come up with this idea sooner or later. On the other hand look at the new games - there aren't many platform games in generral for the more developed systems (Im talking about PC, no idea about consoles - but I think that most platform games are 3D now).

Of course without NES there wouldnt be some well known game series, but I think most basic generes would be developed sooner or later (there would be no "rad racer", but someone would definitely develop a racing game for example). Also without NES, there would be no SNES, so perhaps the j-rpgs (which I dont play) would develop in a different way.


The guy who considers fun of old games noobs is a fucking moron. You like starcraft, a 10 year old game...
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24799 Posts
October 10 2008 17:59 GMT
#14
My parents didn't allow videogames into the house until I was over halfway done with elementary school, and then only a gamegear. We didn't get a system until my sister and I bought it with our own money, so I wouldn't have been affected that much.

Although I did play Mario Bros at friends houses.
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only_human89
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States212 Posts
October 10 2008 18:05 GMT
#15
I beat Super Mario when I was 6. gg
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QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32158 Posts
October 10 2008 18:22 GMT
#16
On October 11 2008 02:59 micronesia wrote:
My parents didn't allow videogames into the house until I was over halfway done with elementary school, and then only a gamegear. We didn't get a system until my sister and I bought it with our own money, so I wouldn't have been affected that much.

Although I did play Mario Bros at friends houses.


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that was an awesome game, shit.
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MrHoon *
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
10183 Posts
October 10 2008 18:27 GMT
#17
On October 11 2008 01:54 Xeofreestyler wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 11 2008 00:47 KOFgokuon wrote:
On October 10 2008 22:47 Jizz wrote:
Imagine. If Shigeru Miyamoto (Head nintendo guy) Didnt make mario bros. or the Nes. Before the Nes there was a sort of, video game dark ages where atari, arcades and home consoles in general just stopped production. If Miyamoto didnt make mario bros (or legend of zelda or megaman etc etc) , Would gaming be as good as it is today? or exist at all? Would boxer be Gosu at something besides starcraft (probably pimping).

Would you have a girlfriend?


i have a gf so yes i would


but what if your girlfriend thought to herself "hey this guy reminds me of that cute little fat super mario, I'll date him!" when meeting you for the first time
...
THEN WHAT?

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN


If mario wasn't invented.... If NES wasn't invented...
We'll be playing Sega...

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GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
October 10 2008 18:44 GMT
#18
On October 11 2008 03:05 only_human89 wrote:
I beat Super Mario when I was 6. gg


my parents didn't let me play video games when i was that young :'(

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CFDragon
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States304 Posts
October 10 2008 18:54 GMT
#19
On October 10 2008 23:00 h3r1n6 wrote:
Because Super Mario Bros is noob territory. If they wouldn't suck at Video Games they'd say Contra is their fav

I was just thinking of Contra, and then I got to this post, haha.
zer0das
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States8519 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-10 19:57:39
October 10 2008 19:55 GMT
#20
I guess my PChem professor wouldn't be saying "Mario is quantized," among other things.

2d platformers are definitely a bit of a dying breed... but New Super Mario Bros. came out on the DS a few years ago, and it sold 14 million copies worldwide. To put that in perspective...

http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/16/mario_history.png

That's how big it was in Japan. And it's still in the top 50 games sold each week in Japan... it might have an outside shot of outselling the original Super Mario Bros (in Japan anyways, not in the US due to the bundle). There's definitely a demand for good 2d platformers still.

Personally I loved New Super Mario Bros., although it was a bit easy.
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