I hate furries....

Ngangbius · Post by **Ngangbius** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:29 pm

For some dead craze, the Pokemon handheld RPGs still outsells even the equally popular GTA franchise worldwide. I think RuSa is still the best selling Pokemon game as of now.

Zeta wrote:I have those too, they're not the comics that were run in Nintendo Power. Nintendo Power ran manga written in Japan based on Super Mario World and A Link to the Past. Both were later released as softcover collections available through videogame stores or Nintendo Power catalogs. The Mario comics also had three follow-up stories by the same author featuring Mario and Wario's rivalry.

Wait, three? I was only aware of two Mario and Wario stories. The first one was based on Super Mario Land 2 in which Mario travels all the way to Wario's castle, helping the SML2 enemies while being oblivious that they want to kill him and that Wario's invitation was a trap because he wanted revenge since Mario was bully to him when they were both kids. The other which I haven't read but only heard about was when Mario and Wario was competing to get the best birthday present for Princess Peach.

Post by **G.Silver** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:47 am

Nintendo Power ran manga written in Japan

Although they were written by Japanese authors, they were not "manga written in Japan" in the sense that we were getting some sort of import, because as far as I know they were done specifically for Nintendo Power and correct me if I'm wrong because like an idiot I didn't buy the Mario one even though I really really wanted it and I'd jump at the chance to own it even if it were in Japanese, because presumably it would have been more widely distributed and easy to track down.

But then, obviously it wasn't Japanese manga--it was in color. It's not the same one that is currently running in Japan (and has been for some time, alongside a Kirby manga and maybe a few others...), and I've tried looking up the author (Charlie Nozawa or something?) but to no success whatsoever. The original Howard and Nester artist was also Japanese, if I remember right (no luck tracking him down either).

The StarFox and Super Metroid manga

The Starfox and Metroid comics were wholly western in origin and completely devoid of any "manga" stylings. Also, they sucked. I especially hated that the origin storyline in the Metroid comic wormed its way into official canon. Raised by ancient space birds? What EVAH!

Anon · Post by **Anon** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:35 am

Neo Yi wrote:
And the anime needs to end. Now. How it lasted this long is beyond me.
I just wished the newer series of Gold and Silve and Ruby and Sapphire and other random colors the anime is based on would have just friggin' replaced Ask friggin' Ketchum with the respective video game counterpart.

Someone once told me that they tried to do that by introducing an OVA that centered around Gold and his exploits. It bombed because the Japanese audience liked Ash and wants his adventures to continue.

Cuckooguy · Post by **Cuckooguy** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:49 am

Oh yeah, I heard about that OVA with an older character. I saw that he also managed to find his way into the anime, and met Ash in one of those tournaments, and he became a secondary/mainish character for a while.

Closure would be nice.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:27 pm

G.Silver wrote:The Starfox and Metroid comics were wholly western in origin and completely devoid of any "manga" stylings.

Both of those comics were drawn by Benimaru Itoh, designer of the Mother/Earthbound games and one of Miyamoto's buds.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:57 pm

Someone once told me that they tried to do that by introducing an OVA that centered around Gold and his exploits. It bombed because the Japanese audience liked Ash and wants his adventures to continue.

You're not trying to imply that I should like Ash, are ya? Whatever the case is, I hate him, pure and simple and it's hard for me to hate characters (the most I'd go is a "dislike").

Concerning Mario comics, the only ones I've ever read was the one based on Super Mario Land...sorta. It involved two teenage boys who gets attacked by SML's enemies (unknowingly summoned by a mustached man who probably leds a rather pathetic life), so they try to summon Mario from their Game Boy which worked and let him do all the job while the humans just watched from the sideline. The second story involves a young girl and her space loving fetish who doesn't know jack shit about video games.
~Neo

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:40 pm

Concerning Mario comics, the only ones I've ever read was the one based on Super Mario Land...sorta. It involved two teenage boys who gets attacked by SML's enemies (unknowingly summoned by a mustached man who probably leds a rather pathetic life), so they try to summon Mario from their Game Boy which worked and let him do all the job while the humans just watched from the sideline. The second story involves a young girl and her space loving fetish who doesn't know jack shit about video games.
~Neo

Ah yes - the GameBoy series. And the mustached man was also a racist evil man, too, right?

I hated those comics. What kind of a grown man gets overpowered by one-inch versions of cute videogame characters. One good fart would've wiped all of Tatanga's pals out . . . One-inch Mario was stupid as fuck, too.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:19 pm

I loved those comics just because they were so outrageously stupid. Kitsch appeal and all.

Post by **G.Silver** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 1:54 am

Both of those comics were drawn by Benimaru Itoh, designer of the Mother/Earthbound games and one of Miyamoto's buds.

Crap, this is what I get for not making adventuring into the basement in search of old Nintendo Powers for confirmation. Apparently at the age of 12 I thought Benimaru was not a Japanese name. I still hate them! :(

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:30 am

Ah yes - the GameBoy series. And the mustached man was also a racist evil man, too, right?

I never saw any racist sign from him. All I knew was that he was a pathetic, sad, sad loser.

I hated those comics. What kind of a grown man gets overpowered by one-inch versions of cute videogame characters. One good fart would've wiped all of Tatanga's pals out . . . One-inch Mario was stupid as fuck, too.

Again, pathetic, sad, sad loser.
~Neo

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:37 am

I liked how his greatest joy in life was playing Super Mario Land up to the last boss fight with Tatanga and then purposely losing all his lives.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:45 am

The highlight of his life...highlight of his life.
~Neo

Post by **Crazy Penguin** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:47 am

Poor Tatanga, he goes from being the major villain and end boss of Mario's debut Game Boy platformer to the boss of the smallest World in the sequel and is never seen or heard from again.

In the meantime we get stuck with Waluigi.

smiths32 · Post by **smiths32** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 8:03 am

Well if its anything, I think Tatanga got a small mention in Super Smash Bros. Melee under Daisy's trophy. Speaking of Super Mario Land, wasn't it designed by a different company or something like that, guess that would explain the oddness of that game and of the neglegance of just about everything in it.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 1:39 pm

It was designed under Gunpei Yokoi--you know, the Metroid guy--instead of Miyamoto. That's why you have all the departures from the Mario standard like the superball-style fireballs, Egyptian and Easter Island settings, and auto-scrolling shooter levels.

smiths32 · Post by **smiths32** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:20 pm

It's a shame that the Mario Land series wasn't expanded more: we may have ended up with less GBA remakes that way.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:12 pm

Actually, it was kinda turned into the Wario series, that turned into the WarioWare series, thus finishing the adventure games sequency.