Rumour: Nintendo Japan Celebrating Mario's Birthday with Super Mario Collection

Interesting, still have the original cardridge, but the extra's sounds cool.

online-play enabled?

Talk about an insane surprise.

Yeah, definitely one for the collectors! Also very sneaky because anyone who has ponied up the $$'s for VC releases will probably end up buying this anyway if it is priced cheaply enough.

I would prefer the NES games to be remade in 3D graphics but play EXACTLY as they originally did rather than a port of Super Mario All Stars. Feel free to use New Super Mario Bros Wii's graphics. Even if it is a port of the SNES game, I hope this gets released outside of Japan.

I'd also quite like Super Mario Land 1 & 2 to be added and updated the same way. Use existing graphics if necessary. Say, SMB3's graphics for SML1 and Super Mario World's graphics for SML 2. I would also like the e-reader levels to be included for Super Mario Bros. 3 and the Vs. stages from GBC Super Mario Bros. DX. Just go wild Nintendo, cram as much retro content in the game as possible.

If this doesn't come to Europe I will get me a Japanese Wii.

re-release of a compendium re-release that has already been broken up for individual re-releases? did i get that right? happy birthday.

this is amazing i still think i might get the original cartridge for christmas through

@Bass X0: You're kinda asking a lot for a console that has one foot in the grave by now. Then again, SMW and SMW2 re-drawn using NSMB's engine would be INSANE. However, only experienced old-school gamers would purchase it due to the nostalgia factor unless the control scheme is the same as NSMB.

You know what? I purchased SMB, SMB3 and SMW for Virtual Console already but should this package be released in NA I'm still going to grab it. I loved playing All-Stars back in the mid-90s (I was late to the SNES party as I was a Genesis/CD/32X owner); that compilation was so fun that it inspired me to go searching for more SNES games before they were cleared from shelves. It's because of All-Stars that my new N64, refurbished Saturn and all of my old Sega junk gathered dust.

It needs to be the version with Super Mario World included and if they were being really nice they would include Yoshi's Island too.

i dont want to destroy everything but...the guys over at NeoGAF translated the japanese text which seems to say it's going to be a very limited print.

i'd rather have it for 3DS

I want the allstars for VC, not a disc!

Ha! I've had the cart for a while, so I'm not worried. I still think this game's better than the NES game. ;-P

I prefer the NES versions so I may skip it.

I have the cart but for collector reasons I might get it.

How awesome would it be if the games had NSMBW-style graphics? But um, I doubt that. = (

Here's hoping it reaches everywhere, and really, Nintendo would be stupid to crush that dream.

However, only experienced old-school gamers would purchase it due to the nostalgia factor unless the control scheme is the same as NSMB.

Perhaps there could be two play controls - original and new (complete with wall jumps, ground pound and other new techniques added to recent Mario games. Maybe the games could be zoomed out to fill a screen the size of NSMBW with perhaps four players playing at the same time as a new feature?

The old levels weren't made with multiplayer in mind though.

Me iz teh intruiged.

it looks realy fun i hope the rumor is true

I hope they're NSMB style remakes and not just a port of super mario all-stars. BTW Am I the only one who counts this as Mario's 29th birthday?

I want it now.

@mariofanatic128: Hey, I just turned 29! But I bet no one wants a special Collection of me...
Um, anyway. The most excited part of this rumor is the soundtrack. Compilation of Mario tunes throughout the entire series? I'd import it for the CD alone.
(and I also sort of prefer the NES versions to the All-Star remakes, even though the ability to play 1-3 + lost levels on one cart is phenomenal)

VC release would be nice, as a disc release seems pointless unless there's some serious upgrades, features, etc. I do hope it finds its way here in one form or another though.

if it comes to the states, i'll be a weird form of ticked off and excited. i'll get it for sure.. but i'll be upset i spent $5 on Super Mario Bros. 2, when i could have gotten Blaster Master or Ninja Gaiden or any number of other things instead and just had this to satisfy my turnip throwing needs.

Please be real, please be real, please be real...

Hooray for importing!!!

This is probably a collection of the Super Mario games with new graphics, considering you can already buy SMB games on VC. Do want!

I'm glad this game MIGHT see the light of day, however - I was never a fan of updated sound and graphics. Give me the original NES ones any day o' the week.

Please, please, PLEASE HAPPEN. I'm a HUGE Mario Fan, and that would be a dream come true.

WHERE DID MY ALL-STARS CRTRIDGE GO?????????? it still haunts me to this day.

I say too many remakes, but I am sucker and will most likely buy it if it came out in the US.

I really don't think this will happen; the games from the NES platform would be left aside. Nintendo won't allow that...

May have been confirmed, on twitter by Nplus.

NSMB has poor art direction, and is ugly in comparison to the 2D games, not sure why anyone would want the games uglified...

YES!!!!!!!!! I NEEED THIS IN MY NINTY COLLECTION!!! Plese Nintendo bring it to the USA A.S.A.P. The CD alone or the book alone I would pay $30 for but all together with the games on a Wii Disc (probably with advanced saving data)? Golden value.

They should put this up on the (US) club nintendo store. If it's a limited edition type thing.

I get the sneaking suspision that this will be a Club Nintendo type thing.Probably costing a bazillion stars ,if it is released in Europe though as a retail disc then I will be buying it Day one.

No, ArmoredGoomba, I want to be able to get this without buying tons of shovelware in order to get Nintendo coins.

hell yes, i hope like hell we get this too D:

I hope it's a "Mario All Stars" version of SM64, Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion AND Galaxy.

im definitely crossing my fingers

Ugh. I spent $28 already on the games on VC. Hopefully this will come out in NA around the same time as the 3DS. If it looks like this gen won't get a transfer solution I may pick it up for posterity.

Seems Nplus is going off the same source as our story. We'll see what evolves on this one and keep you all informed!

Just give me SMA + World on the VC, 1000 Wii Points, and we're even Nintendo.

Awesome, hopefully this rumor will be true.

Maybe the cd portion of it is just a compilation of the Mario cds that have already been available in Japan for years now. As for the games' graphics, & nostalgia, I always have been, & still am of the opinion, that the original Nes graphics are better for the SMB games. Same for World, & Yoshi's Island keeping their original SNes style. I think it'd be cool if much like All-Stars button switching/mapping, you could also switch the graphics.

I'm guessing however, that the highlight of this collection will be the sound cds. & that some of the cds will be, like I already said, remix cds that are already available in Japan.

I'd buy it.

Can I has?

WANT WANT WANT.

I dont care if I already have 3 copies of each one of those this is awesome!!

Sounds awesome, but I need more information from Nintendo before I buy it. Hopefully, it will be more than just a simple port of Super Mario All-Stars.

Come on, need a release in the US and EU! Nintendo, if you are reading this, you know what to do.

I could not imagine why Nintendo would not release it world wide (U.S. included). I know I would buy it in a heart beat.

I still have not downloaded any of the 8 bit Mario games because I have been holding out for Super Mario All Stars. It looks like my wait will soon come to an end.

Mario 64 remade in Galaxy's engine would be a great extra (too bad it'll never happen), but I already own All Stars, so this doesn't really appeal to me.

Interesting

In the UK at the moment Nintendo are still advertsing Mario Kart- Wii, New Super Mario bros and Galaxy 2. At the end of the advert a voice over says 'Mario Part of the family for 25 years' I wondered the other day (dreaming is a better word for it) I wonder how will Nintendo celebrate Mario's birthday, will they release a Mario All stars type game that has the Mario collection games on it, Mario 64, Mario sunshine and or maybe Galaxy 1. Then I felt that we should all get the Mario All stars game on VC, reading that it's being considered for Japan is really exciting for me. When I was 13 I traded in my Mega drive for a SNES and the pack the guy gave me was Mario All Stars, I really love that game, I had played Mario World before I bought a SNES and had played Mario bros but I prefared the All star games to the Nes ones. I totally appricate that if it hadn't been for the nes games Mario might not had ever exsisted....... that and if Shigeru Miyamoto had never went to work for Nintendo.

Also I hope Nintendo treat us in the UK (Europe), North America and Japan equally, i.e I hope we can get a Mario soundtrack here and it won't just appear on e-bay for silly prices. Oh and I'm happy to pay 2500 points for the game...

I hope this is true! Please Nintendo make it happen.

It should be on vc should it not? Being a SNES creation an all.

WANT!

Drool. Japan always gets better stuff than us. They should bundle SNES All Stars + Super Mario World (and give us a menu option to select either classic SNES sprites or 3D New Mario Bros style sprites) with an enhanced resolution Mario 64, Mario 64 "Lost Levels" (aka Mario 128) and a New Play Control version of Sunshine, all on one Wii disc, and please release it in N.A + PAL territories for good measure

It's not a rumour a certain Asian site is taking pre-orders! I've ordered it because it will be rare at some point!

Just hope we get a PAL version and they do one in NTSC...

I'd rather get it than Mario Party.....