A theory about Mario games and where they've been and where they're headed.

[bouzane]

steven787 said:

bouzane said:
"Super Mario Bros. invented 2-D platforming as we know it."

Sorry but both 2D platforming with and without scrolling graphics existed for years before Super Mario Bros. Sure, it was a fun game but it did not invent the genre, saying so gives credit for years of work where it isn't due.

 

You're comparing Pit fall and Pac-Land to SMB? Notice the as we know it. As in Platforming as we know it where a player manipulates a charecter with a set of momentum based physics, seemless obsticles where levels have beginnings and endings, and triggered events.

(Took me 8 minutes, I'm getting rusty.)

 

My point was that SMB was another incremental step forward, not a complete reinvention of the genre.