| TruckOSaurus said:
The links you've provided tell me you've got a bad case of nostalgia. The original Super Mario Bros.'s color palette was mainly brown because of the limitation of the hardware. In fact, most of Mario's features like his cap, his overalls and his mustache were there because they provided an easy way to differentiate between body parts with the few pixels and colors they had available for the character. As consoles got graphically stronger, Nintendo added details but still keeping in mind the original design and if you look at the picture below the evolution is pretty cohesive.
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Nah, for SMB 1 brown was a choice, since blue was available, as seen by the Mario Bros sprites:
As for the freedom offered by stronger consoles, I don't see the N64 version emasculating Mario like the newer incarnations does.
Even, I'm not sure how strong this argument is, but Nintendo had the opportunity to really add lots of color to SMB in All-Stars, and you'd think they would, but Nintendo kept it tame.
In contrast Super Mario 3 with more color:
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Nice colors though. Compare that to:
Just to give you an idea.
Regarding voice acting, I tried to find some sound clips for Mario 64 and compare it to Galaxy. It's my understanding Mario is even more high-pitched than he once was. I was unable to find proof, but here are some clips for your interest:
This explains alot of what happened, and it only got worse:
I know I can do better to explain this, but that's as far as I've gotten today and it took me time to develop this post.
