Sonic celebrates Super Mario Bros.

Lizard · Post by **Lizard** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:59 pm

Well tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. and Nintendo is not going to let it pass without any notice. They have put up a webshop at http://www.mario.tv/ where they will sell Mario swag (at the moment only some t-shirts) to the Mario fanboys. Apparently they trying to appeal to the Sonic fans too.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:02 pm

I wish I could go thirteen years back in time to show this to Sonic fans and watch their heads explode.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:07 pm

Why is there a Seaman shirt?

Post by **G.Silver** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:09 pm

There's a Seaman 2 coming for PS2 soon..

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:11 pm

<img src="http://www.mario.tv/images/t_shiba.jpg" alt="What.">

The only thing I know about this is that I love it.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:51 pm

Who is that weasel dude?

Either way, I wants them shirts.
~Neo

Post by WB » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:55 pm

Neo Yi wrote:Who is that weasel dude?

Either way, I wants them shirts.
~Neo

Ditto. The weasel looks familiar, but I cant place him.

Protodude · Post by **Protodude** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:09 pm

I think it might be a Shiba.

http://www.mario.tv/prof_shiba.html

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:35 pm

That's Ami Shibata in the picture, that weird survivor from Burning Rangers. That weasel is apparently a character of hers.

tornadot · Post by **tornadot** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:56 pm

Heh, the shirts are nice but sort of sad this makes more sense than the second screen of the DS.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:48 pm

The weasel is totally Weird Al Yankovic in weasel form. Check it out.

20TH
HAPPY
MARIO!

lolz t-shirt get

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:29 pm

That first shirt just made my head explode.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:46 pm

G.Silver wrote:There's a Seaman 2 coming for PS2 soon..

Yeah, but what the hell has that got to do with either Nintendo or Mario?

LOUD-TREE · Post by **LOUD-TREE** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:43 pm

tornadot wrote:Heh, the shirts are nice but sort of sad this makes more sense than the second screen of the DS.

You mean it makes more sense than an aweful PSP.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:53 pm

This thread reminds me of the "Lickety Split" Sonic the Hedgehog shirt that I'm due to get soon. Maybe on Sonics next birthday there should be a t-shirt of Mario wiping Sonic's arse or something.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:03 pm

You mean it makes more sense than an aweful PSP.

There's a redundant extra screen on the PSP? Where's it at, I can't find one on mine...

LOUD-TREE · Post by **LOUD-TREE** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:12 pm

Green Gibbon! wrote:
You mean it makes more sense than an aweful PSP.
There's a redundant extra screen on the PSP? Where's it at, I can't find one on mine...

I-I ment the system as a whole. o_o;; And the DS screen isn't redundant; Play Kirby Canvas Curse.

The T · Post by **The T** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:37 pm

Green Gibbon! wrote:
You mean it makes more sense than an aweful PSP.
There's a redundant extra screen on the PSP? Where's it at, I can't find one on mine...

Yes, it's the one on there.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:25 pm

Indubitably, but the DS has two, and they're both as redundant as the PSP's one.

LOUD-TREE · Post by **LOUD-TREE** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:48 pm

Green Gibbon! wrote:Indubitably, but the DS has two, and they're both as redundant as the PSP's one.

I guess the number of redundant screens it takes to outsell both the PS2 and PSP is two though.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:08 pm

LOUD-TREE wrote:I-I ment the system as a whole. o_o;; And the DS screen isn't redundant; Play Kirby Canvas Curse.

The second screen is completely, totally, consummately, wholly redundant to the point of redundancy. I own a DS and almost 10 games now (including Kirby) and not one of them has usefully implemented the second screen.

LOUD-TREE wrote:I guess the number of redundant screens it takes to outsell both the PS2 and PSP is two though.

I guess you missed the part where the PSP launch in the UK more than doubled the DS's launch in the same region. Or the part where the PS2 sold 80+ million systems.

Post by **Esrever** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:16 pm

Look. They're both shit. They were shit right out of the gate and they are shit now. Why did you people buy these things? It's embarassing, man!

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:18 pm

I got my DS for over $70 off retail. I'll get a PSP when I can find a deal like that and when there's some games I want to play on it.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:42 pm

Well, they're handhelds. I always buy new handhelds thinking "this time it's going to be different", and I always end up playing, like, one game on each (usually a launch puzzle game), then I toss them up on the shelf and ignore them until they're obsolete. I guess it's a good market for kids, but even with the new technology, I just can't take any of it seriously. There are a few things on both DS and PSP that I'd like to play, but I'd like to play them on a real console.

If we want to play system wars, though, I do honestly consider the PSP a superior piece of hardware. All the fruity interfaces on the DS achieve is to baffle developers who are more or less forced to utilize them... I don't doubt that there are two or three neat, as-yet undeveloped game possibilities that make genuine use of the extra screen, but as for the rest of the software library, we get distracting menu screens and confusing transitions. All in all, I think that R&D money would've been better spent on a single, large, higher quality screen... like the one on the PSP.

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 12:13 am

Handhelds? More like "waste of money."