/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10457537]

Super Mario Bros. is the true beginning of the Mario franchise as a whole. Also a typical No Skills Required type of 1P adventure/platformer game where Peach always gets kidnapped by Bowser so that Mario has to save her.

[Anonymous No.10457542]

>>10457537
sad fact: super mario bros 1 couldn't be made today cuz of feminism

[Anonymous No.10457547]

>>10457542

because of Peach's role in the original games as a damsel in distress.

[Anonymous No.10457550]

lol. Anyway, what’s happening to Mario here and what is someone doing to his body?

[Anonymous No.10457584]

>>10457537
Sexist games like this should be de-listed and forgotten. It's time to move on, people.

[Anonymous No.10457904]

Super Mario Bros. 1 is a sequel. The red metal platforms are supposed to be a reference to Donkey Kong. The pipes are supposed to be a reference to Mario Bros. This is how the game was conceived, as a continuation of the previous entries. It's about Mario and Luigi entering a fantasy land, which was completely new for the series.

[Anonymous No.10457945]

>>10457904
source? sounds like revisionist history where every little happenstance thing is dissected by nintendrones and retconned to be 2secret4me

[Anonymous No.10458061]

>>10457904
>Mario and Luigi entering a fantasy land
So who the fuck were the turtles they were killing in Mario Bros then? Was that a game about murdering actual turtles in a real life sewer?

[Anonymous No.10458070]

>>10457537
Well, no.
Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. were very popular games.

[Anonymous No.10458075]

>>10457904
>The red metal platforms are supposed to be a reference to Donkey Kong.
all these years...

[Anonymous No.10458084]

>>10458061
Donkey Kong has anthropomorphic flames straight out of the old Disney and Fleischer cartoons from the 30s. It's not completely unreasonable.

[Anonymous No.10458810]

I wonder if Bowser’s fireball hit Mario or if it’s someone else hitting him lol.

[Anonymous No.10459025]

Donkey Kong was the beginning of the "Mario" franchise.

Super Mario Bros. was the beginning of the "Super Mario" franchise.

[Anonymous No.10459125]

Is Megaman X the beginning of Megaman?

[Anonymous No.10459226]

>>10459025

Mario was too unknown when he first appeared in Donkey Kong. He was originally known as Jumpman whose only power up was a Hammer. Wasn’t until he got his own series that he became a breakout character for the 1980s.

[Anonymous No.10459297]

Big Bowser, something close to 16:9 aspect ratio, arrows under the high platform that look like they're part of an editor... is this a Mario Maker screenshot? If so, maybe you only posted it on this board by mistake, instead of on the more appropriate board, /x/?

[Anonymous No.10459393]

this is the real Super Mario Bros. 1 on the NES.

[Anonymous No.10459825]

>>10459393
Oh okay. Thank you for clearing that up.

[Anonymous No.10460093]

>>10459226
>Mario was too unknown when he first appeared in Donkey Kong. He was originally known as Jumpman whose only power up was a Hammer.

[Anonymous No.10460114]

>>10460093
>Though the protagonist was unnamed in the Japanese release of Donkey Kong, he was named "Jumpman" in the game's English instructions and "little Mario" in the sales brochure. Miyamoto envisioned a character to be used in every game developed by Miyamoto; a "go-to" character who could be placed into any game if needed, albeit in cameo appearances as Miyamoto did not, at the time, expect the character to become singularly popular. To this end, he originally named the character "Mr. Video", comparing what he intended for the character's appearances in later games to the cameos that Alfred Hitchcock had done within his films. In retrospect, Miyamoto commented that if he had named Mario "Mr. Video", Mario likely would have "disappeared off the face of the Earth."

[Anonymous No.10460128]

>>10457537
>No Skills Required
The fuck you mean?

[Anonymous No.10460937]

>>10460128

Easy for many people to play.

[Anonymous No.10461478]

lolz anyway, who hit Mario? Bowser’s fireball or someone else’s kick?

[Anonymous No.10461703]

>>10459226
You are severely underestimating just how popular Donkey Kong arcade was. He was known enough where he being thrown in countless games, like Mario Bros and Wrecking Crew, and was appearing in Game & Watch titles before SMB broke out.

[Anonymous No.10461726]

>>10459226
His name is Mario Jumpman

[Anonymous No.10461758]

>>10460937
/v/ told me that Nintendo did some tests where it turned out that the average Japanese person can't even complete the first level in the original SMB as a justification for how easy modern Mario games are. I thought that they must be bullshitting me though.

[Anonymous No.10462553]

>>10459226
>one of the most famous arcade games of its era was unknown
Seriously.

[Anonymous No.10462574]

>>10457584
No one took the bait.

[Anonymous No.10462684]

>>10461758
They're not. If you pick an average person from the streets who isn't into games and show them one, they can't do it.

[Anonymous No.10462912]

who is attacking Mario alongside Bowser and how is that person doing it?

[Anonymous No.10462953]

>>10460114
Should have called him Video James.

[Anonymous No.10462972]

>>10462912

Maya from Killer Instinct 2 (or possibly KI Gold). She's coming back from a high kick. You can see it in this spritesheet, maybe 30% of the way down. Look for the first row in which she is kicking rather than knifing or whatever. I don't know why she is in the Mario image. It probably has to do with something unique that was hardcoded into the one-of-a-kind Super Mario Bros. cartridge that OP was playing when the screenshot was taken.

[Anonymous No.10463002]

>>10457537
>No Skills Required type of 1P adventure/platformer game
Names 3 and half Yes Skills required type of 1P adventure/patformer game.

[Anonymous No.10463203]

>>10457542
>couldnt be
Just because your faggot ass wouldn't buy it?

[Anonymous No.10463514]

>>10457904
>>10458075
The treetops from SMB's 1-3 are also a reference to DK Jr.