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Lucas: Nintendo's no stranger to quirky, experimental unlock systems, but Super Mario Maker has the most audacious one yet, forcing you to wait nine days before you can access all the level-creation tools in its playful toolkit. And even by Nintendo's idiosyncratic standards, it's a method that tips past novel and into nonsensical. It's a shame to see such a generous design tool - full of wondrous possibilities for layouts never before seen in a traditional Mario game - be drip-fed in such a needlessly stingy way.

Added: 16.08.2015 12:00 | 22 views | 0 comments

Mario Maker is for all the kids who will look back 20 years from now

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NL: Tetris is widely regarded as the game which sold the Game Boy to the world and turned it into a commercial smash hit, but for me personally, it was Mario's first DMG-01 outing which made me desire the portable system more than water, food and oxygen. The year was 1991. I'd just moved house and was about to start at a new school, and as always there was that thorny issue of making friends. I'd moved to a new part of the town of Hinckley, Leicestershire and as a consequence knew nobody; bonds had to be formed using the traditional weapons of the pre-teen era: football (soccer to our American readers) and video games. As I had, at that point, only a passing interest in the former, it would be the latter that really broke the ice with my newfound neighbours.

Added: 15.08.2015 19:30 | 16 views | 0 comments

Like a dream

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NL: We kicked off this series with a look at Super Mario Bros., and it's pleasing that it only took one year for Mario's history to get even teresting. For starters, to be technically correct the headline here should simply say Super Mario Bros. 2, as this game was known in Japan, but the quirky release history of this one means that to Western gamers this is better known as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.

Added: 15.08.2015 18:00 | 18 views | 0 comments

A handful of everything

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A handful of everything

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Champion racers are back

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Take a first look at Rosalina, Toon Link, Pac-Man, and Mega Man in Super Mario Maker

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GR: "There have been too many dreadful movies based on videos games. From Super Mario Bros. to BloodRayne to the recent Pixels, these films almost always trade on brand recognition alone rather than - you know - being well-made entertainment. They don't ask you to think or feel anything; all you have to do is sit quietly and receive a series of images that sort of remind you of a game you might have played once. They're a $13 dollar lobotomy-via-cinema, complete with a side of popcorn."