Nintendo doesn't tend to acknowledge the GameCube too often, but it has made a special exception this week, reminding followers on social media accounts about one important anniversary.
Yes, today marks, the 20th anniversary of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the GameCube in Japan. This classic is often considered the best entry in the Mario RPG series, and as we all know, made its return a few months ago on the Nintendo Switch.
Although Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary in Japan, it wasn't actually released in locations like North America, Europe, and Australia until October 2004 and November 2004.
If you are eager to join in on the anniversary celebrations today, be sure to check out the Switch version. Here's a sample of what we had to say about this new version in our Nintendo Life review:
"For 20 years, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has been held as the best Mario RPG of all time, and the Switch remake proves it has earned that title."
Will you be celebrating the Paper Mari: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch or heading back to the original release? Do you have any memorable moments with this game? Let us know in the comments.
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Well, congratulations.
I have the GameCube version of TTYD since last year but I still haven't continued the game yet as I still have low hype with my GameCube games.
A bit sus they have a GameCube in the background there. I feel like Nintendo doesn't often acknowledge the GameCube by name lately, but in NWC: NES Edition, one of the tags you can give yourself is "Grew Up With GameCube" or something. Plus, the leaked shipping codes for what appears to be a wireless GameCube controller for Switch... are they trying to get our nostalgia going ahead of an announcement of something, perhaps...?
Now if only we could get a brand new Paper Mario RPG.
With all these remakes and Mario & Luigi returning seems like its solid revival for this area.
@ShonenJump121 I mean we already got the origami king a few years back
I'd be kinda weird to get a new one this soon.
@27celsius I wouldn't consider Origami King really an RPG in the same vein as the first two games.
the final boss on this game is hard as hell.
Where has time gone?
In my mind, 20 years ago RE2 was release
I must have had this pretty much on release then, I can’t remember a time not owning this game. I remember getting things like Skies of Arcadia Legends later on but I put this into the category of games I just always owned, like Rogue Leader, Luigi’s Mansion etc.
I know. I was there. Still have my original copy. I even walked to the gamestop in the mall on launch day to buy the first game on N64!
Stop making me feel old!
For goodness sakes my first home console was Atari 2600. Now you kids get off my damn lawn!
I’m still gutted I lent TTYD to a friend and never got it back 😤
GameCube is my favourite console generation, but I skipped TTYD back then, because I'm not into RPGs. Glad to get a second chance with the remaster, as I'm enjoying the heck out of it. The RPG elements are pretty light, tbh.
Great game, fantastic battle mechanics, themes, music, loads of good stuff.
Although, a lot of the overworld level design is kinda… underwhelming. Lots of rectangular rooms with not much in them. Fortunately, the whole package more than makes up for it
Just gotta finish Prime and then I'm on to this, can't wait as its the only Paper Mario I have never played
20 year old and 60 dollars.
TTYD left me a bit underwhelmed. Lots of back and forth traipsing between characters across boring overworlds. I did like the peach and bowser bits though. Just felt a bit flat (no pun intended)
@27celsius Paper Mario games have released on average every 4 years. In 2000, 2004, 2007, 2012, 2016 and 2020. Now 4 years later it's in 2024 we got a remake instead.
A true classic that only got even better on Switch. Seriously, they somehow breathed new life into the game by somehow making it even more expressive with the improved animations and music, which made it that much fresher. I sure don’t miss the days when we used to wait months or years for a new Nintendo game!
One of the best games of all time. Can’t believe it’s been this long!
Happy anniversary TTYD, one of my favorite games of all time and I'm so glad many more people can finally experience it thanks to its incredible (again, both qualitywise and in the sense that nobody expected it) remake - even more so after that, the dream for me keeps on being a new Paper Mario game that combines the best parts of it and of other games in the series!
Amazing Mirror, Zero Mission, TTYD. . .you know what that means. . .
Guess which handheld is turning 20 this November?
@ShonenJump121 Or even part of the Paper Mario franchise.. at least, that's how I see it. Everything after Super is part of the ''False Paper Mario'' trilogy.. and that includes Origami King
@OorWullie
And worth every penny
And still a stone cold classic.
Thanks Nintendo for reminding me that I'm old
While I've not played the original - I prefer not selling organs to afford hobby items - I really enjoyed my time with the Switch release. No game is perfect, but TTYD is arguably the best release I've played so far this year. There's a possibility it may be dethroned by The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom this fall in my book, but that remains to be seen.
Nintendo:TTYD IS 20 YEARS OLD.
Me:
The 20yr old masterpiece
Bought this game based on accolades and everyone losing their minds over it. Missed it on GameCube so maybe that’s part of it, but it was legitimately one of the worst games I’ve played in a while. I would say definition of over-hyped in my humble opinion
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