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Shigeru Miyamoto follows some sort of logic known only to himself. | |
every game? imagine mario as link or star fox o.o | |
And I thought it was because eh hem "IT PRINTS MONEY BITCH". | |
Ah so that's why. I have no problem with a lot of games being released as long as the quality remains the same. I hated Galaxy and haven't played a Mario game to best Mario 64 yet. So I am getting a little concerned. Still, perhaps when Nintendo decide to increase the capabilities of the Wii we may see some truly innovative things come from Mr. Miyamoto. | |
But I kind of love it. He's like everybody's crazy uncle whose particular brand of insanity is tinged with genius. | |
Mr. Video... I like it. | |
What game developer doesn't? OT: Good to see Shiggy is still alive. So now I can force him to do Paper Luigi or Super Luigi Wii under threat of death. | |
That really makes you think. What kind of crazy uncle would a monkey's uncle be? Anyway, it worked for Hitchcock, not so sure about Miyamoto and Mario. Though I'll admit Mario is very successful, and I do love that crazy plumber. Maybe Miyamoto really is a genius after all :D. | |
Mario and link are staples of Nintendo theres no reason why there should be a bajilloin of them.... but still I am waiting for a proper SMB3/SMW in 3D game.... | |
That is... surprisingly interesting. o_O I was not expecting to read anything special here, but the little bits at the end fulfilled my desire for "awesome useless information." | |
The reason I thought up was because Mario just friggin' sucks as the head of the Royal Bodyguards of Princess Peach. However, I also suspect Mario collaborating with Bowser so he can keep kidnapping Peach, simply because Mario has a "damsel in distress" fetish. Dirty ol' plumber. | |
Mario 64 with multiplayer? I would've exploded from too much awesome in my early days. | |
I think an italian guy driving a interstellar aircraft is slightly more believable than anthropomorphic animals. | |
i liked the idea of mario being Nintendo's Hitchcock, Mario just casually walking around like a less scary g-man would be awesome. | |
Yeah cause there are no anthropormorphic animals in Mario games that would be oh say, his archrival...
Clearly just a man in a rubber suit a-la Godzilla, right? Jokes aside, I don't think plausibility would be a space shooter's biggest concern.
Well there are a lot of Hitchcock-like references to other franchises in various Nintendo games, so this explains a lot. | |
Translated into normal English that reads as WE WANT MORE MONEY AND MARIO GIVES US THAT. | |
One idea is that he is used beacuse people like him and there is no ongoing story which is the same as the Legened of zelda. The other idea is just a simple way of not creating any new ideas. Ill leave which idea is reality to you. | |
Stan Lee and Stephen king usually do the same thing (but I think SK may have missed one). Heck even in Marvel's Super Hero Squad Stan Lee voices the mayor. (don't judge until you actually watch it) | |
New Super Mario Bros Wii. get it now. | |
All I can say to that is:
He even built a game using time travel as a component! Sure, it involved a flute instead of a Delorean, but it was still time travel. | |
3D side scroller....FAIL!!....next!! | |
Well Shigeru, thanks for all the fun in the 80s :) | |
yeah but he is fat and therefor too heavy to do a barrel roll | |
and here i thought it was due to the huge piles of money that he made the company. i do like his reasoning tho. | |
Since the Mario universe isn't held down by any sort of logic, and focuses purely on addictive gameplay, it makes sense that he's a character that can appear in almost anything. | |
Dude, I remember that Popeye game. Either someone else ended up releasing it, or that was their original product... As a kid, my cousins gave me their whole bin of Nintendo games and their NES - that was one of the games that came with it. I recall it resembling Donkey Kong, but I totally sucked at it, and stuck to playing Mario Bro.s. | |
Donkey Kong is pretty heavy, and he's great at barrel rolling. | |
That still doesn't explain why Mario makes so many goddamn games that are the same thing! I was hoping to get an answer to that, all snideness aside I still wanna know why! | |
This is what my cynic believes as well. While I like to believe that it is a weird bit of personal logic, it just seems like lazy design since there isn't much story evolution... | |
I am perched otside your house a sniper rifle in hand, the shope is aimed at your knee-caps. You have as long as it takes me to blow your limbs off to contemplate that crack about 3D side scrollers. | |
Have you even played it? Or watched vids of it on Youtube? I don't exactly get what is so fail about it. It doesn't use the Wiimote that much (plus), it's a damn sidescroller! (it's about time. No tennis, no soccer, no shovelware style spinoff) I'd say give it a try at least. Even from someone like me who hasn't liked Nintendo's direction these past years, this is such a step in the right direction. | |
Side scroll=done to death=boring=FAIL!
Go for the thumbs, I find side scrolling as boreish and poorly implemented as 3rd person :P | |
Well wouldn't that suck? Imagine how big of an impact that would have on games these days? I'm glad that he decided to not use Mario in every game he made. Instead he's just in most of them. | |
You want done to death? Wait until Super Mario gets a game set in World War 2. Then it'll be done to death. | |
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Miyamoto Reveals Why Mario Has So Many Freakin' Games
Ever wonder why Nintendo's iconic Italian mascot has so many games under his belt? It's because a young Shigeru Miyamoto designed him with that goal in mind - well, sort of.
It's no secret that Mario gets around. Some days, he's off rescuing princesses from the clutches of Bowser, other days he goes go-karting or hits the links for a round of golf. From his humble beginnings as Jumpman in Donkey Kong, he has become one of the world's most instantly recognizable characters, to the point where many feel he's becoming a bit overused. But according to a chat between Nintendo's legendary Shigeru Miyamoto and the company big boss Satoru Iwata - discussing the history of Mario in the wake of the release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii - that was the entire point of the character when Miyamoto originally thought him up:
So there you have it, folks. Shigeru Miyamoto wanted a character he could use in every game he ever made, though thankfully he apparently (mostly) changed his mind - in that regard and on the character's name.
I actually really enjoy these little chat sessions between Iwata and Miyamoto, because not only do they give the two Nintendo bosses a chance to display a bit more humanity and personality than they might get through simple interviews and statements, they always reveal some really interesting stuff about gaming's most storied franchises.
For example, did you know that Donkey Kong was originally designed as a Popeye the Sailor Man game (presumably with Popeye as Mario, Bluto as Donkey Kong, and Olive Oyl as the damsel in distress)? How about the fact that the plumber (well, carpenter in Donkey Kong) couldn't even jump at first? Or that Miyamoto originally wondered if he could patent the idea of a game in which the character jumped, and that Mario 64 was originally designed with a multiplayer component?
There's all that and a ton more on the Wii website.
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