| the_dengle said: Would Nintendo be anything if Mario never existed? Would the NES have fallen flat on its face? |
I'm not sure it would of fallen flat on it's face so much as... just not existed.
Donkey Kong was sort of the genisis of their entire empire.
Now if we're saying Donkey kong exists... but Jumpman looks different and never gets the arcade/atari game Mario Bros.
Yeah probably. Mario Brothers probably would be very similar gameplay wise and instead featured Donkey Kong Jr or said new protaganist vs Donkey Kong in Donkey Kong 4. Or Super Donkey Kong I suppose.
So biggest change would of been Donkey Kong being Bowser.
Mario wasn't important, I mean, Super Mario brothers story is ridiculious.
It's the gameplay mechanics that spawned the empire, and no matter what kind of skins they used in the mario brotehrs games. It'd of still been as huge playing off the relative non-story.
