The Super Mario Bros Movie The Game

[CaptainExplosion]

Soundwave said:

I first sorta laughed this thread off but now that I sorta think about it ... what if Nintendo attempted to do a 2D Mario but with CG quality graphics?

It is basically what Rareware did with the DKC games on the SNES, the SNES could never run 3D models of that complexity, but they used SGI workstations to pre-render the graphics and then the SNES was just displaying them as pre-rendered sprites. Nintendo also used this technique on Yoshi's Story for the N64. 

This can work in 2D games because the camera is static and only in two dimensions. I mean imagine a 2D Mario game that looks like this (excuse the low resolution though):

That would look pretty awesome. ^^