It's Mar10 Day, and that seems as good a reason as any to post a thread of the notable Super Mariology studies I've been doing on Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games.
First up: SMB2 was made *after SMB3. That's why it looks better.
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Imagine you boot up an edutainment title called Mario Teaches Typing.
Take some time to imagine what its music would be like, and then play the below.
well color me impressed.
Missed opportunity not announcing this contract on Easter
If video games have taught me anything there’s a whole roasted chicken in there.
i am woefully unfamiliar with evil santino.
omg that works incredibly well.
Meanwhile I look at the Zelda timeline and think, just write “Multiverse!” across the whole thing and call it a day.
Oh, I feel that in my bones. I read all those manuals till all the pages came undone and absolutely still have to course-correct my brain about the Koopalings.
Anyway, very happy to see Wart has finally escaped Link’s dream.
Gonna share this very good bit of writing by @drewgmackie.bsky.social (the whole website is great), who tends to agree that she’s telling us what to call her in later games and we don’t have to take the word of some dumb instruction manual from the ’80s that got her name double wrong anyway.
WART!?!?!?!!?!? WART!?!?!?!?! WART IS BACK!!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!????
🧵Last night, I pulled out the iPad to work on some waxpack drawings for the first time in a week, and I was reminded of my last artistic hyperfixation, cassette tapes. Here are some of my favorites from about a year ago:
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Holy shit they actually got Partyman for this.
“2026 is the year of the horse”
The horse:
Drawn Map of Bomb Man's stage from Mega Man 1. Taking place on one of the huge sphere towers.
Original Bomb Man map.
Drawn map of Bomb Man’s stage from Mega Man.
The sphere towers in the background always made the level feel massive to me, so I wanted to play up the sense of scale in this setting.
I then wondered, what if Bomb Man was threatening to topple one of these towers from the inside? [1/2]
That’s a thing I forgot till right now.
That was my favorite joke of that entire season.
What are the odds that someone wrote down a playlist on a napkin, meant the Ataris, and some doofus didn’t pick up on it?
Upper garment aside, I could see someone interpreting the mushroom top as a sort of bonnet.
Vampires? No, my family is Castlevania Dutch.
“More like the back stroke.” Shut up Lucas that doesn’t even make sense.
Randomly remembered this commercial from 1989 of teenagers telling dumb jokes about the McChicken sandwich and oh no it’s that little Power Glove jerk here to ruin it forever.
omg adorbs
Hello Hyrule!!
You're not dreaming, we are back with an all new season on Link's Awakening!!
We're talking about the history of this seriously impressive handheld Zelda before cracking into a comically large post office. Catch up time, baby!
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Zelda Universe is one of like 3 websites I read a lot 25 years ago and are still running at the same address and still good.
The original Legend of Zelda game for Nintendo’s Famicom Disk System, released in Japan in February 21, 1986. Shown here is the disk, cover, container, and instruction manual.
lordy lordy look at what is 40.
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