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    Image of Quilt Quilt
    11/25/09

    In reply to Mario 64 Used To Have Multiplayer
    I love Mario 64 so much. Easily one of my favorite games of all time. I could understand why there was no tandem multiplayer function, but I really missed Luigi in the game.

    I wish I had an N64 right now...and a tv to hook it up to. I would play the hell out of that game...again.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Why Mario Is In So Many Darn Games... Explained!
    "Good a'evening. It's a'me, Alfred Hitchcock."
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    Image of Brodka: regrettably Brodka: regrettably
    11/25/09

    In reply to Miyamoto Wanted To Patent "Jumping"
    The developers of Space Panic say hi.

    Space Panic was in the arcades one year before Donkey Kong.
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    Image of Luziphir Luziphir
    11/25/09

    @Brodka: regrettably: Er... I don't see any jumping in there.
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    12:32 AM

    @Luziphir: Yeah, I got that. I think my point was that the guys that made this game could have tried to patent the platformer, or hitting stuff with a hammer, or a whole bunch of other "innovations." that Donkey Kong featured a year later.

    Patenting jumping is ridiculous.
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    Image of Luziphir Luziphir
    06:18 PM

    @Brodka: regrettably: Ah, I see. Sadly patenting jumping is no more ridiculous than a lot of real patents.
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    Image of Vizion28 Vizion28
    11/25/09

    In reply to Miyamoto Wanted To Patent "Jumping"
      House of Pain would have had an issue with that and if they shoot they shoot to kill yo.
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    Sustenance promoted this comment Edited by Vizion28 at 11/25/09 3:14 PM Vizion28 was starred Vizion28 was unstarred
    Image of dracosummoner dracosummoner
    11/25/09

    In reply to Mario 64 Used To Have Multiplayer
    Yeah, I remember this. Wasn't the Luigi multiplayer a part of the 64DD [Japan-only disk-drive, if I recall] add-on? I'm not quite sure ...
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    Image of Zorantor Zorantor
    11/26/09

    @dracosummoner: It was initially planned for Mario 64, but when that didn't happen, they decided they'd include it in the planned sequel for the 64DD. That game never happened, largely due to the 64DD's failure in the Japanese market. Elements from "Super Mario 64 2" ultimately ended up being worked into Sunshine and Galaxy, but sadly the multiplayer never did.

    I think the closest living relative of SM64 2's two-player mode would be the multiplayer modes in SM64 DS, though I'm sure that's not the sort of thing that would have been in Mario 64 2.
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    Image of dracosummoner dracosummoner
    11/26/09

    @Zorantor:

    Thank you very much for that.

    It's funny how I keep forgetting that SM64DS even had multiplayer, because I used to own the game, and I had played [a few rounds of] multiplayer with friends. Then again, those multiplayer modes barely had anything to do with the original game. Even if they were pretty fun.

    True cooperative gameplay in a 3D Mario game would have been either really intriguing or just crazy, though, just from the perspective of how the camera would be controlled (split-screen notwithstanding). Unless Nintendo decided to go the Galaxy route and give the second player a more "detached" role, but I can't see this being as fun for a network of DSes as it is for a pair of Wii remotes on one television.

    #speakup
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    Image of LedRush LedRush
    11/25/09

    In reply to Mario 64 Used To Have Multiplayer
    I love Mario games, but Mario 64 is by far my least favorite Mario game. Sloppy controls, bad cameras, poor layouts...it was a train wreck. I understand the game deserves props for being an innovator, but playing it now is like being punched in the nads repeatedly.
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    Image of Arthur-Otaku Arthur-Otaku
    11/25/09

    In reply to Mario 64 Used To Have Multiplayer
    the type of media choosen for n64 killed great ideas
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    11/25/09

    @Arthur-Otaku: Er....how?
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    Image of brass2themax brass2themax
    11/25/09

    @excel_excel: The huge space limitations that come with cartridges are the biggest one, amoung others.
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    Image of Nezacant Nezacant
    11/25/09

    @Arthur-Otaku: It didn't kill ideas. It moved them over to other platforms... i.e. Playstation and Final Fantasy 7.

    Playstation was invented because Nintendo backed out of the "Super Disk" and stuck with cartridge media.

    Final Fantasy 7 was going to be a Nintendo64 game but was moved to playstation due to the lack of storage capacity of the Cartridge.
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    11/25/09

    @brass2themax: The space limitations. That was it. In other ways it gave devs more to work with.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Miyamoto Wanted To Patent "Jumping"
    And that is why software patents are dumb.
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    Image of NezumiYaro NezumiYaro
    11/25/09

    In reply to Miyamoto Wanted To Patent "Jumping"
    Jumping?
    That's inconceivable!!!
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    Image of Badman Badman
    11/25/09

    @NezumiYaro: That word you keep on saying... I do not think it means what you think it means :)
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    11/25/09

    In reply to Why Mario Is In So Many Darn Games... Explained!
    It used to be a really cool theme in the NES era if you ask me... Then, maybe N64 or GameCube, you started to see him everywhere - even in games Nintendo didn't make and it just got out of hand... I'm glad they finally realeased a Mario game that's actually a Mario game.
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    Image of rich8606 rich8606
    11/25/09

    In reply to Why Mario Is In So Many Darn Games... Explained!
    Ah yes.... The Tezuka Osamu's star system. Kingdom Hearts kinda use that system, but CLAMP's works is probably the best example these days....
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    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    11/25/09

    In reply to Miyamoto Wanted To Patent "Jumping"
    Furious, but what do expect back in those days? It was a new thing in a new environment back then, and not really thought of as a basic part of gaming as it is today.
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    Image of sirseth999 sirseth999
    11/25/09

    In reply to Why Mario Is In So Many Darn Games... Explained!
    I had a game on commodore 64 called Jumpman. And guess what it was a side scroller platformer. It looked like the first donkey kong, jumped over obstacles and stuff. Thats mostly all you could do if I remember correctly. I might be wrong but I think sometimes you could shoot white squares accross. Mario comes a long way !
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    11/25/09

    @sirseth999: Yes, I had a game called Jumpman Jr. for the Atari 500 (I think - the one with the built in keyboard). It was a pixelated little white character that you had to jump from a starting point to an exit door, with about 10 levels total. Tons of fun back in '85.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Mario 64 Used To Have Multiplayer

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    Image of Xaif Xaif
    11/25/09

    In reply to Why Mario Is In So Many Darn Games... Explained!
    I've always thought of Mario being synonymous with Nintendo to be honest. Where as Zelda, Metroid etc are clear franchises of their own accord and aren't 'typical Nintendo' if that makes sense, I see the Mario franchise as a manifestation of Nintendo itself, rather than something made by them.
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