Nostalgic Fan

[Redstar]

Well, just recently found this site in doing research for an SMB movie-related project and was glad to find the forum seemingly still in operation. Always glad to find childhood interest alive well into adulthood.

Always been a Mario fan. Born in '90, same year Mario World came out, and I used to watch my cousins play it on their SNES all the time. After that we backtracked a little and my dad got my siblings and me a NES, with Super Mario Bros. 1 and 2. They were certainly a different experience, but only expanded my love for the series. I ended up growing up on the mustachioed-man and gladly played Super Mario 64 and Sunshine, but in the end Mario World will always be my favorite.

The movie came out when I was far too young to be a fan and want to see it, but I was introduced by my mother through runs on TV. I still have the VHS recording, with Super Mario Movie written in marker on the spine and a Mario face. I later was given the actual movie on VHS for a birthday, and keep both in my stored Mario collection. I would gladly add the DVD to my collection as well, but the lack of special features and inconsistent quality is deterring me. Hopefully that changes sometime soon.

Anyways, hope this was a good introduction. This seems like a good little community I wouldn't mind posting at a bit.

[Zack]

Welcome, good to have another one of us!

[1upmushroom]

Interesting past, with the mario games. I also kind of played my games backwards, i first played Mario 64, but then my grandma got me the original NES and SNES from goodwill (she used to work there) so to speak.

[Redstar]

I actually was given the N64 by my grandma by accident. I had seen commercials for a new Yoshi game which I really wanted, so when we went to the store to check it out I found it was on the N64, which I didn't have. So sometime later she actually bought me the entire system and Yoshi's Story, the game. I played it for years and experienced many of the classics on that system. It wasn't until years later I found a new game, Yoshi's Island for the SNES, and realized that that was the game I wanted and I'd only mixed the two up. One mistake, one new system.

[ultimateemail5000]

SMW2 Yoshis zisland, and Yoshi's Story are two of the best Yoshi games. They haven't been the same since. The new Yoshi Island on DS is really lame, too many babies. It's like Nintendo's vision of Muppet Babies, plus the music isnt near as good as YI nd YS.

[Redstar]

I don't regret getting Yoshi's Story. It was a great game. I find that most of the criticism it received was for being too short (though there's only 24 levels, and you only need to play through six to beat the game), but I didn't really mind. Some of the levels more than made up for that, but I wouldn't mind a true sequel (or at least an extended hack).

Yoshi's Island 2 does turn me off due to all the "Star Babies", but I hear some of the levels are extremely hard. I like that.

[1upmushroom]

You know I never played the second one, but I loved the first one, don't really think its a sequal to Super Mario World as much to a prequel.

[Redstar]

It's a prequel, obviously. I like it because of the difficulty. While it's not exactly platformer's-hell, it still takes a lot of careful maneuvering to be able to get through even the easiest levels without losing a single star. I also like it because it's the first Mario game to have a real sense of personality to it. Mario, Yoshi, Kamek, and Bowser just feel so much more "real" than they did before. I think it's the animation that does it.

[1upmushroom]

Never actually knew that. But, wait, I don't know what was I doing.