User:Nintendo101

Casual Nintendo historian. Otherwise an artist and a field ecologist. Bio degree. I've had an account here since 2012.

I wrote the character sections for Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Super Mario Odyssey. I contributed much of the article for Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Sunshine.

I have been a fan of Nintendo since a very young age. My first Mario games (and three of the first video games I ever owned) were Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Super Mario 64 DS, and Mario Kart DS. These games were good company for a young kid who moved around a lot and had difficulty keeping long-lasting friends.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I sequentially played some of my favorite games in the Super Mario series to 100% completion. This includes, in order, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, and Super Mario Odyssey. It's been really fun! These are great games, and I always wanted to marathon a series like this before but never had the time. It has been interesting to see where the series began and where it has ended up. The design philosophies, the characters, the art directions, world building, level design, narrative, etc. All good stuff. It might be fun to write something about it some day.

My favorite video game character is Yoshi.

For assets I have uploaded to the wiki, I suggest viewing them here.

Sandbox for current project

Prerelease

Shiggy first mentions that there will definitely be a game for the Revolution during E3 2005 (I think - double check any earlier mentioning, maybe in Japan, though Ninty tends to do initial press announcements in English because their largest sale demographics are in the west)

Reception

warmly recieved, considered the best Mario game in years
People almost immediately entered the camp of this game being excellent, and folks seem to have largely stayed there over the years, if anything its reception has only gotten more positive
Not everyone loves Star Ball and ray surfing

Sales

5th best selling console game (across all consoles) in 2007, but achieved greater lifetime sales than the other four in subsequent years (I think)

Awards and recognition

IGN, GameSpot, Kotaku, Yahoo! Games, EDGE
AIAS, BAFTA, GameInformer, Nintendo Power, TV Asahi
Guinness World Records is currently mentioned, but GWR is a for-profit organization, not a passive recorder of records and Nintendo could have bought that record for promotion. Hmmm...
I recall its success over Call of Duty 4 at BAFTA was framed by some as an "upset" or at least a surprise, based on then contemporary market trends for video games; look into that - is that just retrospective?
Has SMG won any more contemporary awards?

Controversy

The French thing - anything else out there? Maybe track down sources for Phantom Hourglass and Sticker Star

Legacy

heavily influenced subsequent 3D Super Mario games, especially SMG2, SM3DL, and SM3DW - but also SMO
Rosalina would be incorporated into subsequent ensemble/spinoff games, Nintendo's marketing, have a direct presence or homage in subsequent main series games, and would become a largely beloved character
Captain Toad would rise in prominence and be playable in his own title; distinguished from the Toad in coming years
Lumas and Toad Brigade would also become less frequent but consistent elements
Space-themed portions in subsequent ensemble/spinoff games would often incorporate allusions to SMG

Themes

One of the only (if not the only) Super Mario game to be recognized for having a narrative theme; most prominent theme regularly recognized is one of loneliness

Things to read

Notes and references

Key artwork and wallpapers

Box artwork
Mario, Bowser and Princess Peach in their wedding outfits
Mario with some Cheep Cheeps in the Seaside Kingdom, for August.
Mario with explorer outfit and hat in the Cascade Kingdom, for September.
Mario in the Metro Kingdom, for October.
Mario with a Goomba in Bowser's Kingdom, for November.
Mario with chef suit in the Luncheon Kingdom, for December.
Mario and Cappy with the world atlas as background, for January 2018.
Artwork of Mario and Cappy aboard the Odyssey
My Nintendo desktop calendar wallpaper
My Nintendo smartphone calendar wallpaper
My Nintendo desktop wallpaper
My Nintendo phone background
My Nintendo desktop wallpaper
My Nintendo phone background
My Nintendo desktop wallpaper
My Nintendo phone background
Promotional wallpaper for Tencent Nintendo Switch WeChat account followers
Key artwork
World atlas, seen in the background of the key art
Current world atlas
Full world atlas
Bowser and Peach's royal wedding
Bowser and Peach's royal wedding invitation for Mario, showing Peach wearing Tiara
A T-Rex chasing Mario in the Cascade Kingdom
Mario in the Seaside Kingdom
Pauline
Mario, Pauline and Cappy at the New Donk City Festival
An artwork posted by @SuperMario_UK on Twitter that presents Mario and Peach as the royal couple.