Dr. Mario was the perfect NES game. A bold, simple statement to start our review but never has a sentence rang so true in the ears of our peers. This was a game that combined mad colours, infectious soundtracks and a delightful twist on the classic Tetris formula. It is (in our opinion) the ultimate "one more go" game and epitomises the word "addictive". With such a big build up in place, it's extremely refreshing to announce that Dr. Mario & Germ Busters (also known as Dr Mario Online RX) has left all that was great about the original untouched but added little else. It's subjective as to whether that's a good or bad thing.
Basically what you're getting for 1000 points here is a revamped copy of the original Dr. Mario along with Brain Age 2/More Brain Training's "Germ Buster" minigame. The standard Dr. Mario game is played with the Wii Remote held like an NES controller while Germ Buster is played using the remotes pointing functionality. Both games essentially share the same presentation and mechanics, it being the control methods that set the games apart.
Game Podunk explores 25 Things About Mario that gamers may or may not know. This series blends in some creative imagination, but that's what got it to become a hit!
what is this crap? Love mario and anything mario related with the exception of the worst countdown I have ever seen. Seriously, lol. What was that?
Hard Line says "We all know Mario as the happy go-lucky, kiddy-friendly, mushroom munching plumber, but is this 'image' going to damage Nintendo future relationship with the now adult gamers?"
Ha, nintendo doesn't have to do any reinventing with Mario for him to survive. He'll always be a hit.
Mario titles just seem to struggle so bad. Something must be done about it!
I don't think this guy is being serious.
They should make like a really dark game. Mario is a washed up plumber, Peach is his wife who is a whore and cheat, Luigi is his depressed brother whos addicted to drugs. And then he starts seeing things lieke giant green tubes but there not really there (yeah i stole that last part from pans labyrinth) and then he should die and mario be rested for ever...
hahahah that would be funny.
This is just wrong on some many levels. I didn't play NSMB Wii but didn't that outsell mw2 (or close or whatever, sorry if I'm wrong, long day)?
And aren't they like some of the best exclusives for the Wii?
I wouldn't mind if Mario games got better though. But they don't need to do anything for Mario to survive, especially reinvent him.
What an entertaining article. Not meant to be taken seriously whatsoever, obviously, but still entertaining.
lmao wat f$%^ is that.
multi-platform mario will never happen maybe unless nintendo stop being a console maker even then they still have the handheld
mario not going anywhere. but i love to see a squel to mario rpg but other than that im fine with mario the way it is
before anyone gets upset, the article is an obvious joke.
actually kinda funny too.
CVG writes: "The Mario series has been rebooted more times than a duff computer, so can we ever make sense of the real sequence of events in the Mushroom Kingdom? We dig through 28 years of gaming in an attempt to write the 'true' history of the Artist Formerly Known As Jumpman...
THE EARLY YEARS
Attempting to arrange Mario's convoluted past into a coherent timeline is madness, but here's our take on it. Although Mario likes to present himself as 'one of us' - a bog- (ha!) standard plumber who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, this is, at best, LIES.
As Yoshi's Island (1995) explains, Mario and Luigi were in fact born (and spent their formative years, if Yoshi's Island DS (2006) is to be believed) in the Mushroom World..."
HELL YEAH, ONLINE DR. MARIO!
I thought it was just gonna be the same Dr. Mario w/ online play for 1000 Wii points, but it's good to know that there is another game included as well.