Hudson's Lost Mario Trilogy (2010)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hudsonmario/hudsonmario.htm

by rocky1138 • 12 years ago

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sdrothrock3• 12 years ago

They mention Punch Ball Mario Bros and say:

Considering their constant push for multiplayer family gaming, it's baffling Nintendo hasn't considered re-releasing this.

Considering how it was obviously integrated into SMB3 as a mini-game, it's baffling how the writer didn't mention that.

T-R2• 12 years ago

The SMB3 mini-game was based on the original Mario Bros; The author describes Punch Ball as a distinct game:

This is almost identical to the original Mario Bros, except you can't knock enemies upside down by hitting the platform they're standing on. The only way to defeat them is by hitting the POW block or throwing the Punch Ball which Mario and Luigi carry around.

sdrothrock3• 12 years ago

Was it based on the original Mario Bros? I'm talking about the mini game you can play when Luigi and Mario occupy the same space.

You can knock enemies out by hitting the platform they're on OR by hitting the POW block and there's no ball, but other than that, the enemies and level layout seem to be identical.

Since the level layout is identical (and I don't remember a POW block in the original SMB), it seems more like the mini-game is based on Punch Ball rather than the original Mario Bros.

cbright• 12 years ago

That's just a remake of the classic Mario Bros.; there's no punch ball in SMB3.

dustmop• 12 years ago

Wow, Super Mario Bros Special looks terrible. Very strong evidence that the main reason the NES was so successful was its easy to use hardware scrolling. Just one write to a memory mapped register and you were set (sort of).

DanBC2• 12 years ago

Wow, Super Mario Bros Special looks terrible. Very strong evidence that the main reason the NES was so successful[...]

The article says "Super Mario Bros. Special - PC-88, Sharp X1, Samsung SPC-1500 (1986)"

Here's the caption for the first screenshot "Super Mario Bros. Special (PC-88)"

For the second "Super Mario Bros. Special (PC-88)"

And for the third "Super Mario Bros. Special (PC-88)"

Maybe one of the reasons the NES was so popular was that games were very good?

pyre• 12 years ago

I'm missing the significance of quoting the screenshot captions. The parent post was suggesting that the NES provided a platform that made it easy to create sidescrolling games. From the article, one of the major failures of this game is the lack of decent side-scroll.

drewcrawford• 12 years ago

I owned one of these. But, if memory serves, I think it was a DOS edition. Maybe a port? It came either on a 3.5" or 5.25" floppy, and the packaging was pretty utilitarian--black text on white, if memory serves.

At the time I figured it was just some unauthorized programmer trying to make a buck on Nintendo's back. It never occurred to me that Nintendo would license the IP.

sanqui• 12 years ago

Maybe you are thinking of the "popular" DOS fraeeware, Mario? That was indeed an unauthorized programmer just having fun. http://www.wieringsoftware.nl/mario/

Does this look familiar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_GeVKAZT4I

gr3yh47• 12 years ago

encyclopaeedia

T-R2• 12 years ago

I think he might be referring to Mario Bros VGA - http://www.abandonia.com/games/880/MarioBrothersVGA

scott_s• 12 years ago

If you would like to read why Super Mario Bros. is brilliantly designed, check out Jeremy Parish's Anatomy of Games site: http://www.anatomyofgames.com/anatomy-of-a-game/

Scroll down to the bottom for the SMB entry list.

bane• 12 years ago

Wow, at first I thought these were more clones like the Korean "Super Boy" [1]. It goes to show how popular the PC-x8 computers were in Japan at the time that Nintendo would license out their principle franchise. It makes the later licensing to Philips for the CD-I make more sense in retrospect. It's worth noting that the NEC PC-88xx systems had almost 100% business uses envisioned for them and virtually no hardware support for games, but much like early Intel-PCs, ended up with a vibrant gaming community. [2] Hudson would also go on to try and compete more directly with Nintendo by partnering with NEC on the PC-Engine (known in the West as the TurboGrafx-16).

Here's some video of these 3...

1 - http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/part1/company-zemina....

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_PC-88

3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SAIVg6-lVE#t=165

4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKQd9BfKXg (features the corruption the article talks about)

5 - Here's the Sharp X1 version that features limited scrolling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ER9g4pfuw

6 - And a reverse engineered version back to the original NES! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggmsx7XQvNA

mostlybadfly• 12 years ago

I would love to check out the Punch Ball version. The original Mario Bros. game was very fun to me. It was so simple looking yet the gameplay was great and I found myself challenging friends all the time.

I'm also a fan of the Donkey Kong games where you have to jump across platforms and use trampolines, I have to find a way to check these out!

pessimizer• 12 years ago

http://emulator-zone.com/doc.php/nes/

http://emulator-zone.com/doc.php/arcade/mame.html

Hudson's Lost Mario Trilogy (2010)

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