Super Mario Bros.

And one thing that Mario Maker 1 has over Mario is that every Amiibo available, uh, could be scanned and turned into a little pixel version of a character.

So every single Smash Bros. character got to be playable with their own unique sounds and sort of victory music, um, which meant that you could play Super Mario 1 as Sonic or Mega Man or anyone like that.

Um, however, this, uh, continued and they had brand collaborations with people like, people like Hello Kitty, um, life Japanese comedians, and perhaps most exciting for the British animators on this stream was this brand collaboration.

Super Mario Maker.

Hm.

Before we wrap up, I do want to ask more, like, just general questions about Mario Maker in terms of, like, did you have favorite themes, favorite, like, enemies to play with, favorite, like, items that worked, you know, for your ideas of levels?

Yeah, my favorite theme was just the old, was Mario 1 or Mario 3.

Like, I didn't like anything beyond that 'cause it felt too shiny.

But yeah, I mean, all the games here are obviously good.

There's Super Mario Brothers 1, 2, and 3, and the Lost Levels.

I think the Lost Levels gets a little unfairly shit on because that's the original Super Mario Brothers 2, of course, and that was made in an era where Gamers hated themselves and just wanted to be punished in one of the most challenging thing imaginable.

That was the design mindset.

I didn't have the one with Super Mario World.

I had that as a separate cartridge.

But I had the, the first one, which had, uh, Super Mario Brothers 1, 2, 3, plus The Lost Levels.

I could never get very far in The Lost Levels, 'cause those are hard as fuck.

It's really sad.

I mean, a lot of us that grew up in this country, born and raised in this country, we understand the hardship that not only we endured, me, myself, making it past 21 with no felonies, felt like I fucking beat the hardest Nintendo game, like Mario 1, You know what I'm saying? With one life, no continues.

And that's kind of how life is for us, right? We go through the motions of growing up in a ghetto, not having opportunity and trying to make something of ourselves while we live in very discouraging or hostile environments.

We're going to listen to this clip and we're going to listen to a lot of them because I felt like the person that was speaking on the Stephen A. Smith show is totally different than the person that spoke on the Cam Newton show.

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I, I don't, I'm, I'm not a big fan of how they made Mario look in, uh, Mario 1 and Lost Levels.

It's...

I- in All-Stars.

I would love that.

If they had made it Mario 1 themed or Mario World, however they did that, I, I would have put a lot more time into that game.

Kind of like Tetris 99 themes.

Yeah.

So that's where I was introduced to.

I think that shows our age difference because I got Mario 1 with my Mario 9.

But I was also kind of old.

No, but...

I had Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, and 3, Sonic Advanced 1, 2, and 3, and Sonic Pinball Party.

and then Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3, Super Mario Land 1 and 2, and Mario Pinball Land.

And then basically trying to play through all of them at the same time while chat has crowd control, while the game is shuffling itself, and trying to figure

out

I got really close in Sonic Advance 1.

I got really close in Sonic 2.

Mario Bros. 1.

Mario Bros. 2.

Yeah.

And it's a harder version of Mario Brothers and

Castlevania.

Yeah, well, yeah, I remember the Mario Brothers.

I remember playing that in the arcade many years ago.

But you've got an absolute, like, ton of Castlevanias because you've got, like, all of those.

And then in Mario 3, they're like, "Well, this is making so much money.

Let's hit a hard reset, pretend nothing in Super Mario Brothers 2 happened, and expand on the Super Mario 1 lore." And then when it would jump from, like, that to Nintendo 64 or to, like, GameCube, they just reset the lore pretty much every time.

So Bowser has, like, nine children-

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