Ah yes, Ice Climber. I believe they were a creation of Rare. I didn't know
the game was released two weeks afrter Mario Brothers, but that would
certainly explain why they never got their turn, so to speak. Interesting
note is that if you pay close attention their jump sound is more or less
exactly the same sound as Mario in big form in the original Super Mario
Brothers. The music is very similar at least in sound to what little music
you hear in Excitebike. Hmmm, another possibly interesting audio remake,
though the track editor might be problematic.
We are the Knights who say...Ni!
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I probably ought to get mario brothers advanced and play it on my gba
player actually.
in terms of the original mario game, it was also included as an extra on
the remake of Super mario brothers 3 in super mario all stars along with
various other minigames, ---- and in fact I was also playing the nes
original at my friends' a bit ago who had it on wii ware.
An amusing fact I do remember eading once, is that apparently Ice climbers
was released two weeks after that game, which was (according to the author
of the ice climbers faq I read), the reason why the ice climbers never got
a come back until smash brothers melee.
I must confess, it's quite a shame, sinse I have the nes classics gba
version of ice climbers, and it's actually a really fun game, ---- pluss,
it'd make a cool audio remake, especially given that most threats to the
character are horizontal to you and the only vertical scrolling is
upwards.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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Then there was the original Mario Brothers game (no, not Super, just
Mario Brothers), wich was originally an Arcade game and then got ported
to the NES as well as other platforms. But that game was much more
similar in stle to Donkey Kong since it involved a lot of jumping and
avoiding enemies and things like that. Then after every two or three
levels or so you got a timed bonus level where you grabbed as many coins
as possible. I played the Arcade version once or twice and used to
frequently borrow the NES version from a friend. Then when I got my Game
Boy Advance it came with Super Mario Advance, which I eventually traded
in. But that contained the original Arcade Mario Brothers with a lot of
the same sound effects as the original NES version but with some weird,
that just being extremely out of place, background music.
We are the Knights who say...Ni!
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Actually Tom, a miner correction. Marrio's first game was indeed the
original Donkey Kong, ----= apparently he began as a carpenter working
on construction sites and was renamed from his japanese name of Jumpman
to appeal to Americans as a nice italian sterriotype! of course, with
nes graphics the way you make someone Italian is to make them fat, ----
ie, round, ---- thus causing the double pun sinse maru is Japanese for
ball shaped, and give them a mustache, ;D.
Also, apparently his original gf in the donkey kong games who he rescued
was called pauline.
then, in the 2nd donkey Kong game, you actually played donkey kong
jrrescuing a caged dk from the evil mario (yes! he was the villain in
that game).
In the third, for some crazy reason, apparently mario got lost entirely
and the main character became Stanley the bug man, who had to stop
donkey kong descending onto potted plants in a greenhouse by, ---- mmmm,
spreying insecticide up his behind!
The only one of these I've actually played is Dk Junior (the one with
evil mario), sinse once my sister was in hammersmith Hospital having
some tests done and they had a nes with super mario bros and that game.
I am however very! familiar withe the Donkey Kong country games on the
snes Released in 1994 onwards, ---- in fact I remember using the games
as revision breaks for my gcse's when I was 14 ;D.
A company called rare got the rights to donkey Kong, and actually
completely revamped the series. You now played as Donkey and his litle
friend diddy kong, running through their own platform game on Kongo
island trying to stop a bunch of evil crocodiles called Kremlings who'd
pinched their banana hoard!
I love these games! the environments, music, and gameplay are fantastic,
in fact some of tarzan jr rather reminded me of dk country sinse they
involve a lot of swinging across vines.
Also amusingly enough, they feature the original Donkey Kong, now known
as Cranky Kong, who turns up, gives hints, and goes on about how the
young kids should be lucky to get all these fancy shmancy colour
graphics and how when he was young he was lucky to get a single shade of
grey! ;D.
Btw, how I know all this is a combination of said mario character faq,
and in fact playing the dk country games myself.
I'd love to see some audio platform adventure games with the sort of
variety of environments and ambience (not to mention music), which dkc
has. Everything from jungles to mine cart riding to factories, pirate
ships and wimming through caves, and at least two hidden bonus rooms per
level!
beware the Grue!
Dark.
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