Our Mario Memories and Favourite Games - Memory Block

hey everyone john from nintendo live here and today it is the 10th of march which uh in the uk we would yeah we would call it 10 mardi but in america you would call it ma 10 which looks a bit like mario hence why it's called mario day and i'm not celebrating mario day alone i am joined by the stupendous and beautiful xeon oh oh oh man come on and i'm also joined by the miraculous and stunning alex it's a me alex oh [Music] and toad's here too oh so to celebrate mario day nintendo is discounting their games which they very very rarely do so on the eshop right now you can get luigi's mansion 3 mario tennis aces super mario maker 2 super mario party and marion sonic at the olympic games for 35 off how generous 35 because 35th anniversary was last year oh no well at least we know mario tennis ace is is a great deal because you you've put in way too many not not too many hours but a good chunk of your life into that game john yep 100 hours baby and oh yeah mario 35 i just um i got to start level which is when you beat level 99. although i thought that unlocked luigi apparently it doesn't so to get luigi you have to play every level in the game and seven three and seven four are still missing from my roster so even though i've played the game long enough to clear the level hierarchy i still can't play as luigi that's no good no gotta play more i guess i've got 21 days to do so oh we've actually had a bit of a ruckus against mario lately with a few videos talking about the march 31st and all the games going and it just turns out that the netflix show is also going soon the mario brothers 3 show um that's that's probably unrelated um but this is going to be a chat of positivity about our memories with mario and our affinity to him so let's start off with quite a simple question uh alex what was your very first mario game my very first mario game oh lordy um well there are two potential answers to this do you want the first mario game i ever owned or the first mario game i ever played i would like to hear both sides of the coin wowzers trousers okay we'll go with the first one i ever played the first one i ever played was either and i i really can't be sure which way round it was it was either super mario world or super mario all stars i'm leaning more towards super mario world just because when i was very young the menus confused me in super mario all stars and quite often i didn't quite know how to start a game um i'd get to the game selection screen and you press start to to play the game but obviously my brain i was like no press the a button so i'd whack that a button and i'm fairly certain nothing happened i might be misremembering that but even so so my first game was super mario world that i played but the first one that i owned i actually owned that was super mario 64. i was a little bit late to the mario game i'm afraid because i had a master system and there was no mario game on the master system unless you count um sonic the hedgehog 8-bit as a mario game which i do the mario all-stars uh menu was too much of a challenge for wee little alex when he was a child yes it was um which um i i i you know i'm happy to say now that i think i've got the hang of it so you should be okay now can still be tough sometimes what about you zeon what was your first mario game my first was uh so my grandpa uh he had a nintendo for the family and so uh so my first one was just super mario bros that was what we we played on and uh my grandpa used to pull this trick on like me and the family i might have told you guys about this before or even just you know our community but he used to tell like all of us that if we jumped in jumped in a hole we would get an extra life and you know the first few times we would fall for it and that's such that's such like a grandpa or a dad like prank to pull and uh but yeah so that's like one of my first memories with it is just being swindled by my grandpa into uh letting him get ahead of us in game and uh yeah so i guess yes original super mario bros cut and dry it's my first so i wasn't a nintendo kid until my early teens but i did have a game boy so as as a kid i had um a dream cast and then a ps2 and then in the lead up to the wii i'd get a 64 because i was anticipating fire princess but i'd get that for ocarina of time that was the only game i ever got for that system up until like up until years later so i was devoid of any console marios until the wii came along but my very first console was a gameboy which had with pokemon red and mario land 1. and um in hindsight i i still like mario land 1 a lot but it's i can see its flaws like when you when you fall off a platform you kind of plummet if you're not you don't do like a little hop first and it feels a bit weird platforming-wise but i still like certain attributes of it but yeah that was my first i think my first platformer ever which you know i think that's probably true for a lot of people mario saved the industry and kind of introduced us it didn't introduce the concept of platformers but i think he introduced it to the masses and it's just such a simple concept of of running and jumping it's something everyone understands and you can adapt it to just about anything um and his influence it's just been so grand over the years in relation to all of you guys was mario one of your very first games i suppose um it was probably i started with sonic actually again on the master system but having said that um there was a snares of my grandmothers and that that snez i eventually i was about to say inherited i got it long before she passed away um but i that was the first nintendo console that i played and i absolutely loved it and i loved the fact that i had i had five mario games well four mario games in the lost levels which was just child torture um and it was wonderful to have all those mario games and yeah you're damn right there was there were so many secrets in like mario world for example and super mario 3 had the super mario bros 3 had like the the really tight level design and he had super mario bros 2 which was completely different and you could play as peach and float and that made my life a lot easier when i was a child and you had things you know and the original super mario bros which was pretty damn good and as i said the lost levels was also present yeah and i think what's interesting too is in the uk and a lot of europe at large uh nintendo's home consoles weren't really that prominent sega had a much higher market share here i i didn't actually know anyone with an n64 growing up i had friends with a playstation um i had a dream class myself one of my friends even had a saturn but no one had a 64. and um so i was kind of blind you knew someone who had a sake of saturn but not an n-16 john also grew up with a dream cast so this is like wow he's it's just some alternate universe yeah yeah but like nintendo's some handhelds were always always that the big thing people had game gears but they weren't necessarily as popular and um so i went on to the gameboy advance where i'd experience the mario advance series and that's how i kind of got familiar with a lot of the core mario games i think one of the first ones i played was mario super mario brothers 2 which i think was mario advance 1. they had weird naming strategies for this just what i needed lucky nobody was ever crying out for super mario brothers 2 to have vice acting this is as far as you go i went back to that game uh like last summer sometime we went on a little camping trip and i was it was just so strange to hear charles martinez's voice coming out of my my game boy advances tiny speaker do you know what's cool about that too is every game in that series came with a bonus of mario bros the arcade game and for a while i thought that was just them giving you like a neat little extra but then i realized that if you have friends who have like if you own mario advance 1 and your friend owns mario advance 3 you can play multiplayer together by having these completely different games but they both have mario pros in there so i think that's the reason they included it in every iteration of mario the only downside is is that the multiplayer was the original mario bros arcade game which even during the gpa's lifetime hadn't aged tremendously well it was it was a laugh though it was certainly something to play on the bus yeah did either of you guys i i didn't know that those were compatible so did either of you guys ever actually like have any uh school you know bus time play time with that game between friends at all oh yeah oh yeah that and bomberman um the game boy advance one i can't remember which one that was now but yeah that bomberman that was that was just like the bus games i didn't myself but um i i guess i've always looked back at game boy advance and thought like this didn't really have a mario game like we had marion luigi superstar saga but um i i guess we had like mario pinball and mario vs donkey kong so there's definitely mario games on there like an original platformer it didn't but it did introduce generations who didn't grow up with the franchise like me uh to these classic games and so i i can't look back on it with resent because that's like that was a great thing for me yeah that's a good point the um the game boy advance really didn't have you know its own um its own mario like you said but but it is important for the fact that yeah i was just able to introduce you because i i was trying to think about um about what my favorite you know mario games were from over the generations and uh mario superstar saga is probably my favorite from the game boy advance as you know i i think i played the majority of the uh of the the past mario games on super nintendo or um i guess yeah that would have been my only option really at that point and or animal crossing because i played a lot of gamecube games through animal nes games through animal crossing and uh yeah mario superstar saga was so good i i don't have the uh the craziest memories of it now unfortunately but um but yeah it's interesting to look back at the gba and be like wow it had so many marios but but not not that many were unique to the platform when i got my wii um i went on the virtual console and that was my portal to everything that i'd missed so i think i downloaded first the legend of zelda mario 64 and super mario brothers and that was that was around um when i first got my wii and i remember playing mario one and i went in kind of expecting it to feel like old and dated but it doesn't like i i hear people nowadays say this game hasn't aged well i disagree i think it's so rooted in its limitations that it's so easy to understand like you can run through that game with your eyes closed and you'll know exactly what you're doing because it's muscle memory i played that to death i had such a good time with mario one even though i played it like 20 years after it came out yeah it's not really like a game that you know like i went back and played the original legend of zelda last year using this uh this hand-drawn strategy guide that uh philip summers made up and we did a whole video on it and um but but that game sort of feels like a game that you if you didn't have the manual or if you didn't have a friend that knew the the way through the lost woods or something of that nature you were you're gonna be stuck but yeah you're absolutely right the original mario you you don't need instructions uh just just a little bit of trial and error and and you can you can make your way through it and i always try to like i i always hold down the run button and just sprint and usually i die pretty quick but uh but but i always have a lot of fun playing it and that's interesting to look back and see you know how um how well that game has survived the uh survive the times i have fun until i get to the hammer bros level oh yeah yeah eight eight three i can't be dealing with hammer brows yeah right at the end of eight four run there's like a hammer bro right before bowser and bowser's not even that tough it's getting past that hammer bro like just jumping over him that's the bit i struggle with um did anyone have a question on their mind john john do your best wario impression wow this is a mock-a-shy guy really just yeah sorry no i meant to say do your best shy guy i think actually your warrior impression was closer to shank that's better that's it that is that is spot on uh zeon do your best um yoshi impression yes yes that's not that's not bad that's not bad [Applause] it's all right it's all right i'm glad you gave me yoshi because uh if you told me to do shy guy i don't know what would have came out zeon do your best shy guy impressions that was me struggling to come up with something i'm gonna submit that even if i get an f on the on the report sorry boss that was an attempt at least when you guys were talking about um uh memories and being uh did one of you mention being afraid of something i can't remember or did my brain just travel in that direction she's afraid of something it's really weird i was i was going to say but i don't think i actually said anything about it maybe i did i was gonna say that i used to be afraid of the um the mario all-stars intro music like just the the the sound the sound effects that would play oh i know it's it's laughable i don't get it i was afraid of the music in sonic advent or not the music but in sonic adventure when you do the tales levels i was terrified like to lose to sonic there's all sorts of this this is a this is like a video in itself we're digging something deep up here zion yeah i know um but yeah for it was something about the uh the intro music on the mario all-star screen just didn't sit well with me as a kid and i think it was the um the uh uh sort of like the arpeggio almost i i think i'm using that term right uh that you know would play as you like click game and then when you when the game actually like boots up on the screen and i just didn't i just didn't like it i don't know why and uh yeah so i but i don't think i was gonna i don't think i actually said anything about that alex so maybe you're just reading my brain well i'm sorry i dug that up um when people talk about fear and mario they usually bring out like the piano in mario 64 or the giant eel but for you it's just it's just this music it's also uh baby mario too maybe it's just something about sound effects in games certain things just set me off there's a sense of dread when you do baby mario and if you don't catch him in time they take him away you're right yeah i couldn't i like i i couldn't play the game out of the fear of losing baby mario right and i i'm glad to know that i couldn't be alone in that i didn't actually mind yoshi's islands um generally i didn't play the snares one i played the gba ones so i was you know a fair bit older at that point so it didn't really have the same effect but what i do remember being frightened of was bloody yoshi's story if you lost the last yoshi because if when you die you get taken to the castle by the um uh they're not magikoopas what are they toady they're called toadies what toadies when the toadies come and pick you up and they take you to the tower and it makes it kind of comical because the tower goes and that's okay it's not great but then when you lose your last yoshi there's like this very ominous music that happens and i would always have to turn off the n64 before that happened i couldn't deal with that as a child but that's not what i was originally going to say i was always freaked out by the never-ending staircase always that that music is actually scary like the mario all stars yeah i can't remember it there's a i can't remember what it's called but there's basically a technique that it uses where it constantly sounds like it's getting higher and higher pitched but it isn't it's just the same thing over and over and over again but there's a weird it plays a weird trick on our brains for some reason there's a name for it i can't remember what it is and it plays off that and the but i think the thing was that as a child i couldn't deal with the fact it's like i didn't know how games were made but in my mind they followed like laws like laws of physics like this is a room you go into the room the room has a floor and walls and ceiling and then to suddenly have a staircase with no end my child brain was just like no no no no no no no stairs go somewhere i can't i can't have this and it was even worse when you turned around and realized that you've gone nowhere and it was just like oh my child brain just melted at the prospect uh if anything that just goes to show how much mario 64 shaped you know mario's always been something that's introduced us to how we move in games like whether it's the second dimension or the third dimension when mario 64 first starts you're given this small little playground just to roam around him do what you want nothing has any consequences you can just learn how to swim learn how to jump learn how to run and there's no music either it's just immersing you in this open space of the third dimension for the first time and i remember playing mario 64 for the first time it wasn't my first 3d game not by not by a long shot but still um it had that effect on me where i just felt like this was a special game even though i didn't really know the history around it like jumping around bob on battlefield and bombs fortress and just getting immersed in all the secrets i i think this this game i hear quite often that it's it's of its time i don't agree with that at all i think mario 64 feels timeless um not only is the control scheme still pretty good today but the core design of exploration is something that hasn't aged a single day i think the only thing that has properly aged is the camera but for its time my god that camera was something else i made the camera a character too which is totally nintendo yes i think that was to try and give context um i think they said in an interview it was to give it context because the idea of a camera was completely alien um to most gamers because 3d games certainly on console they were so new at the time so fresh and i wouldn't argue that mario 64 is a perfect game because i don't believe that myself i think the the second half it definitely lags compared to the first like you have um like the the rainbow ride section you've got i think tick-tock clock is a bit of a hassle and so so is um total mountain because it's an open game they introduce these linear levels it doesn't quite mesh as well but the first the first few levels in mario 64 i feel are video games at their finest i would agree i think they're just it's so everything's so effortless and i mean there are some janky areas but i think they're only sort of considered janky in hindsight at the time i think generally things like you know like sliding the uh like when you would sli slide down cool cool mountain and to try and get the snowman his head back that never really worked i think as intended but that was at the same time had anyone ever done that in a game before and considering that's one of six stars and all the others work nion flawlessly that's pretty damn impressive yeah even stuff like getting kicked out of um getting kicked out of a world uh to you know once you collect a star two doesn't really feel that bad to me either maybe maybe more people feel differently about it in future mario games you know and i know mario odyssey was kind of the one that kind of um to my knowledge was the one that kind of broke that tradition but yeah it never feels like a like i'm being hard reset it just always felt like it was part of the part of the experience you know like oh you're you're celebrating now you have to go back and you get to start fresh and collect a new star you know you don't you don't have to worry about uh about picking up um in in that same moment you know you just you get to celebrate your accomplishment a little bit and take a break if you need yeah it's like a happy accident really mario 64 works like this because of cartridge limitations because they can't have that many levels they try and get the most out of them sure but it works though like if if odyssey kicks you out every time that wouldn't work because there's so many moons it the flow of constantly going is the point of that game but in mario 64 it has to kind of refresh because certain aspects of the levels change too um so it's like this little it's a sandbox it's a little world that changes every time and yeah somehow they made the best of a limitation that would otherwise have made it a very short game i um just took that when i was younger i just took that for granted that 3d games you know 3d platformers not that i could classify them you know properly back then but those sorts of games where you run around and you collect a big collectible at the end after doing some stuff then it takes you out and you have to go back in so when i played banjo-kazooie for the first time and i grabbed the first jiggy and i just stayed in there i was like i don't know what's going on i'm so out of my depth what's going on here why haven't i gone back out again and so you just but you carry on you get all the other stuff but yeah for the longest time you know people will often say you know like the banjo kazooie is technically a better game and it's like well you that's fine if you want to have that opinion in fact i think i prefer banjo-kazooie overall but come on mary super mario 64. it was like taking like i don't know somebody invents you know the car and everyone really enjoys the car and everything and then somebody just says oh i'm just gonna go to the moon in this rocket i've made out of nowhere like it's an entirely new idea and they just absolutely nailed it i can't believe it especially when you like i don't know if you guys have looked at this before if we've talked about it but bubsy 3d when that came out on the playstation that was i wish i wish i could have lived in the era like to have just known what it was like to be excited about that because i loved bubsy on super nintendo even though i go back to it now and i'm like what was wrong with me what would a platformer game be without thank you okay so here it is on the back of bubsy 3d um i swear that there was like a big um kind of like an accolade on the front which is funny because the game's made by accolade but on the back here there's a quote from ps extreme and it says underwater based levels very reminiscent of mario 64. and let me tell you i never made it far enough into the game to get to the underwater base levels it's just that bad and uh but it's it it really does um it really shows just how like you said alex how incredible it is that mario 64 was able to come out first try and just be i i won't say a perfect game but just you know be the the joy that it is i don't know if this is entirely whether this is in relation to the quote that you just read out zeon but i do remember that i've got this memory i've read somewhere that bubsy 3d they were actually they got into a little bit of hot water because they basically twisted a quote in order to make a review for bubsy 3d sound better than it was to the point that it was like considered i don't know what the legal thing is but you know misrepresentation or something like that i i don't know if it was bubsy 3d but i'm i'm fairly certain it was and i remember oh and it just oh i just had i just had to say that sorry talking of bubsy uh ash paulson's dad rob paulson who um ash boston of good vibes gaming uh he voiced bubsy in bubsy 3d no way oh really yes so are you serious yeah he i think he's the voice of bubs in the cartoon as well wow i had no idea that that's broken me right now but i think we're touching on something quite grand though there were other 3d platformers before mario 64. i think crash bandicoot predated mario 64. but a lot of them just kind of flipped a 2d platformer and might put it behind the camera or kind of they have the same ideas of what 2d was but then mario came along and just redefined it he didn't just adapt the second dimension stuff rules of a platformer he made his own um and that's something mario's always done over the years we've seen games like mario galaxy they came along and they had anti-gravity mechanics which shouldn't work in sonic adventure 2 they hardly work but somehow they took a game that doesn't even have camera control and they made it feel fluid and natural it's crazy all the things mario has done over the years whether it is adapting different styles of platforming or playing sports like mario playing golf shouldn't be a thing that works but it does but yeah it's incredible that they're always able to continue innovating with the mario series because there's never i mean we've had some mario games like mario sunshine has always been a divisive title but for some people like i one of my best friends it's his favorite game even before you know we got the remake and there were some slightly updated controls and some differences you know it's uh and i think it's because that was the game that he grew up grew up with you know um and that's another cool thing about it as well is you know we all have our own different stories about mario you know like if if my grandpa didn't decide to pull you know his nintendo out of the closet every so often you know i might not be the gamer or even the person that i am today and uh you know i think that's that same thing can be said for for all of you guys in a different way um or you know any anybody who's watching this video it's a it's it's insane how timeless this uh this little plumber and his uh his family of friends and and kooky characters you know can be um it's uh it's nuts how big of an impact uh they've all had on our lives i would be i'd be really interested to know how different my life would be if my brother had gone with his instinct and suggested that in the um in the the competition to win an n64 there were in fact 29 party rings in the image and not 30 as i said and eventually i think my you know i think it was my parents convinced him that no it you know that was a party ring in the corner um party rings being a biscuit in the uk by the way um and he ended up winning the n64 wow um because in this um this little competition in the bino and if he hadn't won the n64 i don't know i don't know what how different my life would be um weird thing is though the competition was for an n64 and a copy of goldeneye in a children's comic oh no um so when my brother won it they were like hey you've won brilliant how old are you oh dear um uh oh um in the end i think they um no no they gave us star wars episode one racing i say yes it was my brother he did win but only because of me i still hold that to this day uh we event and then my dad bought his golden eye because he was just like i want to play with guns we may not have ever got an n64 i don't think in that case because there's no way we could have afforded it um certainly not me and my brother my parents probably could have bought a swamp but they were generally of them we've got a game boy why do you need another one and it's like oh you don't understand mother super mario 64. well as a kid outside of uh of handhelds i was mostly just sega and playstation for a long time i i got a psp in 2005 i think the year before the wii if it weren't for mario i'm not sure i would be a nintendo fan because uh zelda is what got me into the ecosystem my friend had wind waker and ocarina of time and i was so jealous of that i got the n64 in ocarina of time myself and that's kind of what got me to get away as well twilight princess and i was very hooked onto zelda then but mario is what pushed things over the edge playing mario 1 and 2 and 3 and 64 through virtual console and then galaxy then going back to play sunshine and all these other ones it that the the the possibilities just felt so vast and endless with the back catalog like i went on to play mario golf on the n64 and then i played the gba one and it was an rpg like it just felt like so many genres this guy packed in and um through mario and zelda i played melee and that introduced me to earthbound and f-zero and all these other franchises so it all just kind of spiraled on from there um so yeah if it weren't for mario i think i could even be working for push square right now i think that was very much nintendo's intention though because wasn't um wasn't mario's like one of his i don't want to say original name but one of the ideas for a name they had was just like missed a video game and they wanted to put him in as many video games as possible i think that was back in like the game boy which is why he's in uh uh tennis and stuff like that or is that on the nets no that's on the net what am i talking about he's in lots of stuff like punch out he's the referee um he's like golf on nes isn't called mario golf but you play as mario yeah and i think that was nintendo's intention and clearly it's worked it certainly worked for john from the sounds of it it definitely worked for me did it work for you zeon only after you give me your best luigi impression wow mario uh you're better than me oh see i always thought i always thought mario's original name was going to be john the plumber but you proved me wrong it's interesting you know like i said uh without mario you know i might not have because my first video game memory was like bowling on the atari but my family liked bowling so maybe that really stuck with me a lot and uh but but playing mario with my grandpa like we had tons of nes games and lots that didn't make any sense to me as a kid and but mario was was the thing that it was you know anybody could watch it and they could it was simple enough you know you could pick it up and play and i think without mario you know um you know i uh even though i didn't play things like golf and you know i eventually played punch out and saw him in the background i was like oh cool there he is um but i think it was just the uh the simplicity of that that first game that you know really did it for me or even you know they've always kind of had that feeling um even uh even somebody who doesn't play video games regularly could potentially go pick up mario odyssey and um and i think that's that's always been the most important thing to me is just how how pick up and play friendly this the series has been and um i i feel like i kind of roundabout answered your question there um but uh but that's good but i will say actually um a fun thing i didn't want to bring up was so my grandpa and i i can't remember if we had mario bros 3 at this point we definitely played it but um but one time we were at walmart um and they had on the shelf i saw a vhs copy of the wizard and the only reason that it like it drew my attention was because mario is in like the top right corner of the box art and i remember being like grandpa mario look at he's on there and grandpa was probably just like oh well whatever i don't this this movie looks dumb and uh you know i i begged him to uh to to take it home and we did and i still i'm i'm holding my physical copy of the wizard on vhs right now and um you know i i think because of that first game you know mario kind of seeped into our lives in different ways and um and and mine in particular you know like i've never been the biggest like zelda has always had my heart um and so i've never been the biggest mario fan but without mario i probably wouldn't like zelda i probably wouldn't like final fantasy i probably wouldn't like all these other games that i have such big um affinities for and uh such an affinity for and uh yeah so it's it's cool to it's cool to see how much that little plumber has done uh done over the years you touched on a really good point there zeon is i often hear the sentiment that nintendo fans don't try new things and i feel like mario has pushed nintendo fans to try new things like he's been in rpgs for one uh there's there's fighting games like smash there's so many uh different genres he's been in and if you enjoyed like marion luigi or paper mario then you would probably enjoy final fantasy or dragon quest uh i think that was even the case for me like i i never played racing games growing up and i had no i had no interest in the genre but then i played mario kart 64. and all of a sudden i wanted to play other card games um and yeah i mean it's just been a great entry point to trying different things and it's something i don't think he gets enough credit for i'd agree with that and it's not something that i think i've properly thought about but again just like you i wasn't really we we had a racing well we had a couple of racing games on the game boy we had wave race um which everyone owned it was i think a legal requirement to own a copy of that and um a copy of f1 race um and that's a really average racing game on the gameboy but i never really never really got into racing games i tried like micro machines around a friend's house but i never properly got into it until just the same mario kart 64 and i must admit i wasn't great at the races and i didn't really like the races that much but what i really liked was the battle mode but it was it was a way to get me into it now i'm actually okay and mario kart games and other racing games as a result and i suppose i've never really thought about it but yeah i suppose that was my gateway drug yes and that's a good point too is like i've i've i've always told myself like i'm not a sports video game player like i'll never play madden or fifa or pro i i don't know i'm just i'm trying i'm trying to look at the wall of games that i have but i don't have any sports games on it so i can't even i can't even tell you names john john john elway's quarterback club i don't know whatever um but when you put mario on it when you when you put mario in there and you add the the toadstool um themed levels and or you know just the mushroom mushroom kingdom aesthetic to everything it suddenly is maybe it's just because it's recognizable maybe it's because it's fun uh i'm not really sure but yeah like i i played a lot of mario golf growing up i remember playing mario tennis in mario kart at the dentist because they had video game stations there the only place to play i think that that was my first experience you didn't even have appointments you just went to play the games that was yeah this was one of those like kid-friendly dentists where they're like we're cool we don't make kids scream come here you can come here and you can play video games i wish adult dentist did that yeah they should did you start drilling into your teeth to just play another round of mario i can't say i have any memories of doing it but maybe who knows i was never a fan of football like football was a huge sport in the uk and i i was part of a team growing up i played it i just couldn't bear watching it or playing games though um but then mario strikers came along and all of a sudden i was like is this what is this what normal people feel like when they when they play football games because i was enjoying it yeah it was the same for me i've never really i think i played like hang on it should be on my shelf what is it i played fifa 2004 occasionally with my brother because we picked it up for a song and it was fine but yeah mario striker's charged um is that what it's called i can't remember what it's called over here we called it um super mario strikers on the gamecube and mario strikers charged football on the wii that that it was the wee one i got it when i was at uni and again i got it for not a lot of money and it's just so much fun and i really want another mario striker's game or just the ability to play mario strikers over the internet or you know not with a wii remote there's so much potential there's so much flavor and energy in that series too and it's something nintendo shifted away from i know imran khan who works in the industry uh he was saying that apparently mario strikers is what turned nintendo's view of the mario ip around let me make it more protective which i guess makes sense but it's a shame if that's true that's disappointing because it's honestly like the art style certainly like the 2d box art and everything like that it's gorgeous it's actually gorgeous yeah yeah it has a lot of like flavor in comparison to like i mean nowadays the mario sports series is starting to get it's starting to inject more that flavor back into it but with you know mario tennis on the gamecube and mario golf you it didn't really it did almost kind of seem like it was they just pulled some mario elements slapped them together and here's golf i mean it was still a fun game but it didn't have that flair of the striker series yeah as you're saying there too like lots of modern mario sports games have them in outfits now which is something they never did on gamecube like mario played golf and tennis in his overalls but yeah now they're actually styling them in these new outfits and that's something i really admire right and so maybe you know mario tennis asus seems like it did really well for for nintendo and uh mario golf is is uh what is it called against super super star rush saga okay the rpg experience um yeah so if that does well then uh you know maybe we'll actually get another mario strikers again because next level i think is the company that made that right and they did um did they do luigi's mansion or am i yeah luigi's mansion and punch out so i mean they're they're still around it's possible yeah they've been acquired in fact now haven't they they have yeah we should probably wrap this up at some point so guys i have a big big question for you and we'll start with zeon what is your favorite mario game oh my gosh my favorite any genre doesn't matter what it is if it's a platformer 2d 3d golf whatever anything anything goes this is this is going to be a so i mean i i do have an answer but i'm also curious does super smash bros melee count is is that a mario game to you guys my heart says no but if if you want sure because i i will so i'll give you a real answer but so i i remember that was the first game i ever got with my gamecube and uh because you know it was like luigi's mansion came out and i just i don't know i wasn't maybe i was too i was probably too scared to play it honestly um and uh but yeah i picked up super smash bros and uh you know mario has always been sort of the face of that game so so for me it you know i can see why you would say it isn't one but um but in ways it sort of is to me um but yeah i used to play that same game with my grandpa and he probably you know half the time he probably had no idea what he was doing but he played with me so much because i i my brother is seven or eight years younger than me and i should know that but i don't and so my grandpa was often the person i played games with um man this is such a how was i not prepared for this question um i think you can be prepared but it's so difficult though yeah i think okay so i think looking back uh it's it's a lot of like the the artistic elements of it um it the simplicity and um oh my gosh no oh okay okay i feel like any answer i'm gonna give zeon is something i'll regret the next day i'll be like i should have said that my true answer even even with all of the fear that the game induced uh it put upon me is probably yoshi's island super mario world 2 yoshi's island you can't tell me that's not a mario game yes yoshi is the main character it's it's something about the uh the aesthetic the music it's it's all it just it forms this this perfect package and uh you know the uh like i said the music terrified me and so that that's almost that's a point against the game but uh but i was a child then and and i have different views now but um but yeah there's just something about the the overall charm that i i just love and it feels good to play um i've always been i think one thing for me is i've always been a big fan of donkey kong country just the the motion and the the movement the um the the speed that you can run in those games and mario is kind of it feels different right it's almost a little more floaty to me i think in comparison and uh but yoshi's island was different and it's not like it was comparable to donkey kong but there's something about playing cute characters and games that i'm all about as well and mario is not i mean he's sure i guess you could describe him as cute but uh but that's not the first word i would use and uh but yoshi yoshi is there's a vibe to the original yoshi's island that no sequel replicates like this this game has a feeling of dread at times you go into a castle and there's this kind of like moody almost theme park kind of music that's a bit twisted almost um there's just this this style there's like a darkness to it kind of uh above all these cutesy visuals and it's something that no you know you did not do yoshi's new island did not do woolly world it's it's definitely my favorite of the sequels but it still doesn't do it um i feel like yoshi's island just it it is the epitome of the franchise it's the best one they've made and every follow-up i've enjoyed some of them but none of them have delivered the same consistency yeah the yoshi's yoshi uh series has sort of taken the uh taken like the easy route almost like a lot a lot of people will look at the games and think that they're not that they're i don't want to use the term baby games but um but they're but they're they're fun for the whole family and the original yoshi's island was not necessarily it's tough yeah so what about you guys who wants to go i'm gonna ask now alex what's your what's your favorite huh well i've been rolling flipping this back and forth in my mind like a horrible pancake it's a re it's a really hard question frankly it's a really hard question and i think i've narrowed it down to two though and i think i'm leaning towards the latter but first of all i was gonna say super mario world it was the first one i played it had all these secrets the gameplay was so refined getting the cape was just so magical at the time and finding all the secrets and then finding the star world like 10 years after i played it for the first time and just being blown away by these you know considerably harder levels it was really something extremely special and i think the fact that i experienced it in that way means that it holds i think such a special place in my heart but i think ah i'm ah we're all just gonna be yelling i think it's i think it's odyssey i think it's odyssey honestly i'm gonna say the same thing but i'll elaborate later it's just odyssey is so it's just so good it's so good to the point that i kind of in a way i kind of forget about it because it is so well realized everything is so beautifully just refined to a ludicrous degree the movement is absolutely perfect in the game to the point that you can do some stupid stuff that realistically you but you you never ever ever need to do like the the ground pound jump to uh throwing cappy to bouncing off him to wall jumping to throwing cappy to turning around to diving you never need to do that stuff in order to actually play the game i think even well certainly to standard completion maybe maybe not 100 but certainly like standard completion you never even have to bother with that ever but you can do it and you can take some stupidly stupidly over the top shortcuts and nintendo was aware of it you can do these crazy things like this these just big piles of coins hidden there to say well done yep you've mastered the movement and it's they just they knew they gave us this system that was exploitable without being broken and they knew they knew what we could do with it and they acknowledged it and they made the game around it as well but at the same time made the game entirely accessible how the hell did they manage it i honestly think it's kind of like it's sort of a generational super mario 64. honestly i really think it is yeah we're in the mario cycle right now where a lot of people are viewing this game on a negative side and i think when the next game comes along we're gonna look back at odyssey and be like whoa look at look at everything this game did and it took me until 3d all-stars to realize that this is my favorite mario because i played through mario 64 again in sunshine and galaxy and i started to see the shortcomings in those games like 64 as i mentioned earlier i think the the the upper floor of the castle it it definitely dips it dips in quality um sunshine is always being a bit iffy for me like there's there's parts i enjoy but as a whole i'm not i'm not a big fan um galaxy i've always loved galaxy but i i feel like odyssey just does something different um people complain about too many moons in this game i don't think that's really the point of of what this game tries to be it's a game where you can go off in any direction and you can achieve something um moons duplicate because they need to catch your eye you'd be able to see something in the distance and be like yes i knew that was there and then you get rewarded for it i just think all these levels are designed masterfully and it's pulled off in a way that very few other developers possibly could um and it's even a game that my partner who doesn't generally play games very often 100 percented she's played i think pokemon snapping her time she's played a few other marriages like 3d world but she's only double i dipped her toe in um nintendo games but she's played odyssey for 100 hours and has done everything which kind of says like how accessible this game is to like some of these jumps look crazy but they don't have to do them like alex said you can you can beat the game just fine without doing all these complex moves um so for me i think odyssey is just one of the purest video games i've ever played i can't argue with that because it also reaffirms my point well said guys well said okay well i guess we can't fit everything from the mario series into one chat because that would take forever we're missing out so much we've barely talked about um sunshine or galaxy or some of the bigger 3d games like 3d world and 3d land because it's just way too much to talk about so we'll let you do that in the comments below and be sure to throw your cap onto the subscribe button and capture it and then you can be the subscribe button and lore others to press you and we'll see you next time you

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Length: 46min 31sec (2791 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 10 2021