Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
I'm 15, And I most likely more about video games then you ever will.Mario didn't define video games, the games may have been a hit, but so were other games that were just not said because Mario was so good for those times.
Final Fantasy, Megaman, Robo-cop.... a list of many good games. Nitendo would still be were it is at even without Mario, and thats the truth.
uh-huh, sure.
*Lowers his voice to a whisper*
"that's a CRAZY man..."
Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
I'm 15, And I most likely more about video games then you ever will.Mario didn't define video games, the games may have been a hit, but so were other games that were just not said because Mario was so good for those times.
Final Fantasy, Megaman, Robo-cop.... a list of many good games. Nitendo would still be were it is at even without Mario, and thats the truth.
You might want to rethink that. Nintendo would have NEVER made the NES if not for the great profit from Donkey Kong and the Mario Bros. And then video games declined and the Atari gave up console making so Nintendo started to make their own console the NES and they put their entire success on one game: Super Mario Bros; the Best Selling Game of All Times selling over 40 million copies. No other game comes close to beating Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros is without a doubt the (one of them) Greatest Games of All Time. He defined what a video game should be. Before Mario came along their were no stories to the games and most stories were based from their book/movie/show.
All video games today would have never been made without the success of Mario.
He's an overgrown lizard, of course he weighs a ton.
And a 15 year old claiming to play more games then me? Sorry if I don't sit at my PC and play Starcraft, Counter-Strike, and World Of Warcraft all day. I prefer consoles, but play some PC games.
IF you've played more games then I ever have little boy, I think you need to leave the house and learn about life. Also, learning about puberty.
Originally posted by JToTheP
He's an overgrown lizard, of course he weighs a ton.And a 15 year old claiming to play more games then me? Sorry if I don't sit at my PC and play Starcraft, Counter-Strike, and World Of Warcraft all day. I prefer consoles, but play some PC games.
IF you've played more games then I ever have little boy, I think you need to leave the house and learn about life. Also, learning about puberty.
I grew up playing video games, and I still am physically fit because I play sports. I have played almost many NES / SNES / N64 games including PS1 PS2 Gamecube, Xbox and Xbox 360. I like console games very much aswell, I even still play my Snes, and I'm pretty sure I know more about those systems then you. Because you think Mario is what built gaming to the way it is today, which is hardly true.
Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
I grew up playing video games, and I still am physically fit because I play sports. I have played almost many NES / SNES / N64 games including PS1 PS2 Gamecube, Xbox and Xbox 360. I like console games very much aswell, I even still play my Snes, and I'm pretty sure I know more about those systems then you. Because you think Mario is what built gaming to the way it is today, which is hardly true.
Mario SAVED video games.
Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
There was no saving video games, when he came out PS1 was pretty much in the making, maybe it saved Nitendio (Which I highly doubt) but he didn't save video games in general.
So let me get this straight. They started making Playstation 1 back in the 80s. You need a little history. Nintendo was to team up with Sony to make a console with discs but Nintendo decided at the last minute to go back to what it was using and so they made the N64 and because of that Sony made the PS1.
And yes Mario did save video games.
Originally posted by Sin Harvest
So let me get this straight. They started making Playstation 1 back in the 80s. You need a little history. Nintendo was to team up with Sony to make a console with discs but Nintendo decided at the last minute to go back to what it was using and so they made the N64 and because of that Sony made the PS1.And yes Mario did save video games.
Not the Point, I mean PS1 would still have been made. Mario was just a big time pull in to the nintendo. So was Zelda, but because Mario had more games at the time he was more liked. Thats all that it is. Mario Didn't save video games the least bit.
Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
Not the Point, I mean PS1 would still have been made. Mario was just a big time pull in to the nintendo. So was Zelda, but because Mario had more games at the time he was more liked. Thats all that it is. Mario Didn't save video games the least bit.
Early cartridges were 2KB ROMs for Atari 2600 and 4K for Intellivision. This upper limit grew steadily from 1978 to 1983, up to 16KB for Atari 2600 and Intellivision, 32KB for Colecovision. Bank switching, a technique that allowed two different parts of the program to use the same memory addresses was required for the larger cartridges to work.
In the game consoles, high RAM prices at the time limited the RAM (memory) capacity of the systems to a tiny amount, often less than a Kilobyte. Although the cartridge size limit grew steadily, the RAM limit was part of the console itself and all games had to work within its constraints.
By 1982 a glut of games from new third-party developers less well-prepared than Activision began to appear, and began to overflow the shelf capacity of toy stores.
In part because of these oversupplies, the video game industry crashed, starting from Christmas of 1982 and stretching through all of 1983.
In 1984, the computer gaming market took over from the console market following the crash of that year; computers offered equal gaming ability and since their simple design allowed games to take complete command of the hardware after power-on, they were nearly as simple to start playing with as consoles.
In 1985, the North American video game console market was revived with Nintendo's release of its 8-bit console, the Famicom, known in the United States under the name Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was bundled with Super Mario Bros. and suddenly became a success. The NES dominated the North American market until the rise of the next generation of consoles in the early 1990s. Other markets were not as heavily dominated, allowing other consoles to find an audience like the PC Engine in Japan and the Sega Master System in Europe, Australia and Brazil (though it was sold in America as well).
Without Mario video games would have ceased to be.
Originally posted by Sin Harvest
Early cartridges were 2KB ROMs for Atari 2600 and 4K for Intellivision. This upper limit grew steadily from 1978 to 1983, up to 16KB for Atari 2600 and Intellivision, 32KB for Colecovision. Bank switching, a technique that allowed two different parts of the program to use the same memory addresses was required for the larger cartridges to work.In the game consoles, high RAM prices at the time limited the RAM (memory) capacity of the systems to a tiny amount, often less than a Kilobyte. Although the cartridge size limit grew steadily, the RAM limit was part of the console itself and all games had to work within its constraints.
By 1982 a glut of games from new third-party developers less well-prepared than Activision began to appear, and began to overflow the shelf capacity of toy stores.
In part because of these oversupplies, the video game industry crashed, starting from Christmas of 1982 and stretching through all of 1983.
In 1984, the computer gaming market took over from the console market following the crash of that year; computers offered equal gaming ability and since their simple design allowed games to take complete command of the hardware after power-on, they were nearly as simple to start playing with as consoles.
In 1985, the North American video game console market was revived with Nintendo's release of its 8-bit console, the Famicom, known in the United States under the name Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was bundled with Super Mario Bros. and suddenly became a success. The NES dominated the North American market until the rise of the next generation of consoles in the early 1990s. Other markets were not as heavily dominated, allowing other consoles to find an audience like the PC Engine in Japan and the Sega Master System in Europe, Australia and Brazil (though it was sold in America as well).
Without Mario video games would have ceased to be.
I think we have a winner.
And Vinny I could careless how fit you are, or how much you know about consoles.
Originally posted by Sin Harvest
Early cartridges were 2KB ROMs for Atari 2600 and 4K for Intellivision. This upper limit grew steadily from 1978 to 1983, up to 16KB for Atari 2600 and Intellivision, 32KB for Colecovision. Bank switching, a technique that allowed two different parts of the program to use the same memory addresses was required for the larger cartridges to work.In the game consoles, high RAM prices at the time limited the RAM (memory) capacity of the systems to a tiny amount, often less than a Kilobyte. Although the cartridge size limit grew steadily, the RAM limit was part of the console itself and all games had to work within its constraints.
By 1982 a glut of games from new third-party developers less well-prepared than Activision began to appear, and began to overflow the shelf capacity of toy stores.
In part because of these oversupplies, the video game industry crashed, starting from Christmas of 1982 and stretching through all of 1983.
In 1984, the computer gaming market took over from the console market following the crash of that year; computers offered equal gaming ability and since their simple design allowed games to take complete command of the hardware after power-on, they were nearly as simple to start playing with as consoles.
In 1985, the North American video game console market was revived with Nintendo's release of its 8-bit console, the Famicom, known in the United States under the name Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was bundled with Super Mario Bros. and suddenly became a success. The NES dominated the North American market until the rise of the next generation of consoles in the early 1990s. Other markets were not as heavily dominated, allowing other consoles to find an audience like the PC Engine in Japan and the Sega Master System in Europe, Australia and Brazil (though it was sold in America as well).
Without Mario video games would have ceased to be.
Originally posted by Vinny Valentinethis is not truth....................
Not the Point, I mean PS1 would still have been made. Mario was just a big time pull in to the nintendo. So was Zelda, but because Mario had more games at the time he was more liked. Thats all that it is. Mario Didn't save video games the least bit.
in regards to the mario debate. Technically Pac-Land was the first game to feature that kind of platforming but it wasn't as popular or well made.
I think Solid Snake is overrated.
In terms of underrated characters, i gotta go with Pit from Kid Icarus, Mike Jones from StarTropics, Zoda from the same series, and The Emperor from Final Fantasy II, especially the Dawn of Souls version. The guy massacred most people on Earth and then managed to conquor Hell and even overthrow God.
Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
Not the Point, I mean PS1 would still have been made. Mario was just a big time pull in to the nintendo. So was Zelda, but because Mario had more games at the time he was more liked. Thats all that it is. Mario Didn't save video games the least bit.
Wrong.
The Playstation started out as a CD-based addon for the Super Nintendo. Sony splinterred off, and took that technology, and made their own console.
If Mario didn't help cause the Nintendo boom (which he did, all the most successful games of the Nintendo consoles were Mario games), then the Playstation would never have existed.
This is all based on FACT.