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nintendo_fanboy on 21 March 2008
Xyrax said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
It sells like hotcakes as always, Mario usually means crack in video game form, though the Mario Party games leave something to be desired as it just didn't seem like a REAL effort after Mario Party 2 released 3 to 8 are all kinda blah.

Coincidently thats about the time that Mario Party games stopped being developed by Nintendo themselves and were handed over to Hudson for development.

 

Once Ninty stopped making them they started sucking, and pretty much have ever since. 


If I remember correctly, all Mario Party games have been made by Hudson... Do you have any proof that Nintendo made the first two games? Because I agree that the quality has fallen a little after the second one.



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mrketchup33 on 21 March 2008

Wow this is insane to be honest. Go on Mario



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SilentWolf on 21 March 2008
nintendo_fanboy said:
Xyrax said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
It sells like hotcakes as always, Mario usually means crack in video game form, though the Mario Party games leave something to be desired as it just didn't seem like a REAL effort after Mario Party 2 released 3 to 8 are all kinda blah.

Coincidently thats about the time that Mario Party games stopped being developed by Nintendo themselves and were handed over to Hudson for development.

 

Once Ninty stopped making them they started sucking, and pretty much have ever since. 


If I remember correctly, all Mario Party games have been made by Hudson... Do you have any proof that Nintendo made the first two games? Because I agree that the quality has fallen a little after the second one.

According to metacritic, the first one was developed by Hudson Soft.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/n64/marioparty?q=mario%20party

 



jjseth on 21 March 2008

Hmmmmm... nahhhh.. I won't post the German Mario picture... :)

Mario is by far one of the biggest characters and most recognizable to casuals and hardcore and even those who don't even play video games. Of course they'd be wise to take advantage of it. Mario was one of the first popular characters in video games that people knew the name of.



 


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dsoverpsp on 21 March 2008

remember some study found that the name "mario" was more recognizable then mickey mouse himself?



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MANUELF on 22 March 2008

Mario is by far most popular than Mickey Mouse and Ronald MacDonald, Only Santa Claus is more popular.



Erik Aston on 28 March 2008

Another random fact I ran across:

http://vgchartz.com/japtotals.php?name=sonic&console=&maker=&disp=Japanese+Name&boxartz=1

The Mario and Sonic games are the 1st and 3rd best-selling Sonic games in Japan EVER, both ahead of all the Genesis games.



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Sherlock99 on 28 March 2008

mario is popular great games great sales another million mario baseball



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FJ-Warez on 28 March 2008

Too much Mario love...

Well he deserves it...



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Bitmap Frogs on 29 March 2008

Mario is probably one of the oldest surviving videogame franchises. What else is there still kicking around... pac-man? space invaders?





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