As you've no doubt been well aware for some time, this year brings the 30th Anniversary of Super Mario Bros., which is a notable landmark for the mascot and Nintendo as a whole. Mario Maker on Wii U will be a big part of the celebrations, certainly, and we think it's a safe assumption that more surprises and events will be on the way from Nintendo.
For some time there's been a rather handsome anniversary website in Japanese, but now localised versions for the West have been brought up to speed - there's lots of lovely pixel art and an interactive history of every Super Mario game to date, with music and a video for each. There's clearly plenty more to come on the regional websites as more announcements are made, but it's already rather pleasant to click around the history of Super Mario, at least.
It's a big year for the famous plumber - how do you want Nintendo to celebrate this landmark?
[source nintendo.co.uk]
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The video is cool, but where's the link to the website?
I looked it up. supermario.nintendo.com
@brianvgplayer below the video:
nintendo.co.uk
@DarthNocturnal
Doing all this would make Mario cool again.
@Captain_Gonru You missed Super Mario 3D World. And I would count the whole "New"-series as spin-offs. So you would have 64=5, Sunshine 6, Galaxy 7, Galaxy 2 8, Super Mario 3D World 9.
Going through the little videos with theme music from all the games on the site really took me back. Here's to another decade of great Mario games!
A proper sequel to SM64 would be ace.
It's hard to imagine that Mario Maker is going to be the only Mario plat-former released during this celebratory year. A full-on new title or remake is surely going to announced at E3. Btu please, none of the "New" series.
I think Nintendo will choose to celebrate all things Mario about September afterall that's when Mario Maker is due out, I've given this some thought actually as I enjoy myself celebrating his Birthday.
I wonder if Nintendo will do a separate 'direct' to announce the Mario celebrations or if they will drip feed us some information at E3?
I wonder if they can do a Super Mario All Stars game that features up to date graphics but also a mode where you can play the retro games how they were intended from back in the day.
A brand new Paper Mario title
I also reckon Nintendo will release limited edition Wii-U and 3DS packs.
A discount of games on the Wii-U and 3DS service and for Europe to get NSMB DS for the Wii-U and Mario World GBA for the same service.
I'd really like a nice HD remake of Mario 64 and for them to release some nice books by Prima, they might release the Galaxy games on one disc on the Wii-U but I'm not too sure about that one happening. I would also love it if they release Mario is missing and time machine on the Wii-U VC service. All I know is that I am really looking forward in what the big N has up their sleeve and that E3 will be pretty good this year!
Nice little video
A discount of all Mario games by 50% would be radical!
I don't care about having a true 3D Mario on the Wii U anymore, just give me a good Wario World or Wario Land and I'm fine.
I still remember how excited I was during Mario's 25th anniversary. Man, how times fly by.
I want to get Mario Maker, but I'd also like to double-dip with a 3DS companion game à la Smash Bros 3DS.
@TheWPCTraveler
Yeah I enjoyed WARIO WORLD on Gamecube, though it was a little short.
Cool, let me know when the limited edition New 3DS XL gets announced. Of course I still don't care for the low quality screens, but it's a collector's item for me since I have the 20th Anniversary Micro and the 25th Anniversary DSi XL (ended up buying it damaged years after it came out....really need to get to restoring that to a decent condition).
why do people say that Super Mario 64 never got a sequel when we have stuff like Sunshine? How different must a Mairo game be for it to no longer "count" as a sequel?
@gage_wolf
A link to the site was all ready in the article before your posting about it (it's located below the video in the article).
@ikki5 That's not a direct link to the site. http://supermario.nintendo.com is a direct link to the US version. It's not clear that the link in the bottom of the article is supposed to be a link to the site, just the source of where the video came from.
The 'training mode' told me I needed more practice playing Mario Sunshine so I never bothered with it since, also it felt like the world was in a town where's other Mario games had their own different World's. I don't know how SM.S is a sequel to SM 64, however I will one day go back to Sunshine and see for myself. I hope it's not....
Where's the brother?!
Its really cool but one thing that kind of sucks is they are missing Super Mario All-Stars for SNES. Whether its the same games or not they should be advertising them cause they are remakes. They are also missing all the mario games released for GBA.
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