Why Aren't There Super Mario Bros. Pixel Remasters On the Nintendo Switch? (Inspired by Mario Maker)
After years of playing Super Mario Maker, it got me to think about what we are truly missing out on...(More below!) Episode information GTV 164 “Super Mario Remasters" Season 9 Episode 4 Original Airdate: February 23, 2024 Produced February 18-22, 2022 Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, all paid for with Gainful Employment.™ For this video I was going something a little more looser and casual, with no clear ending that hopefully, will lead to some great brainstorming and discussions. So join in! 0:00 GTV ID: Make, Share and Play Where Available 0:04 Mario Maker is Great! But... 1:18 KIDS!!! 2:04 Even Good Design Falls Short 3:18 Why Nintendo Why? 4:18 What Needs to Change 9:07 How to Sell It? Level Designs created by: Coffee Johnny, Blue Television Games, DPD4MO, Odyssey Central, Mario Madness, Edgirl Gaming, Dark Lord Chaos and myself too! 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From B To A • Video StarTropics: The American Game • Video Where is Chris Houlihan? • Video The History of Nantendo • Nintendo Created a Fake Company, Then Got ... Full Color Kirby • Kirby's Adventure Wasn't the Last NES Game... Partial transcript Super Mario Maker has been one of my favorite games of the last 10 years. I guess these days, its actually Super Mario Maker 2. I often conflate the first one, the second one and the third one, cleverly titled Super Mario Maker 3…DS. The concept was so simple and brilliant to have to wonder why it took so long to have it exist in the first place. I would have LOVED this kind of game in the 90s. Even if it wasn’t Mario Maker, just 2D Game Maker would suffice. My favorite part isn’t actually making the levels. Yes that’s great and a strong #2, but, it was the premade levels that serve as a model for what your self-made levels can become that I liked best. I suppose these exist to help kids who were born in the 21st Century and have never played a 2D Mario game. Certainly, I don’t need a primer! Though I wish I had kept all those notebooks from 6th grade where my theoretical Mario 3 levels were laid down, day after day, instead of paying attention in history, science, math or English class. That reminds me of the worst thing about Super Mario Maker. Kids!! The game is overrun with kids, filling up page after page with their junk! Nonsensical level design? Check! Dozens of needless power-ups all over the place? Check! Bizarre sound effects (that never existed in Mario to start with) at every turn? Check! Incomprehensible level name?! Double Check!! The ones made by “adults” don’t far so well either. Often being impossibly difficult for no reason, or automatic, where you just hit start and watch everything play out. Where is the fun in that? Add to the fact that most of these were made by “career YouTubers” which generate thousands of dollars every hour and it’s just makes me want to kill myself. (Well, not Literally. But I would really put that money to good use, instead of wasting it on waterskis, tattoos and whatever else hip, young, trendy beautiful people do.)
