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I think this is why Mario Teaches Typing (CD version) and Mario's Game Gallery felt more official than Hotel Mario, even though they are licensed PC games. The use of Mario's voice actor made it feel like the same character, so it felt like an extension of Mario. You can imagine him cracking...

Learned of a phrase called "seven come eleven" (meaning to hope for lucky dice rolls, mainly said during gambling) Presume that the 7-Eleven convenience stores were named after this phrase Nope! 7-Eleven was named after the times they open the store (7am - 11pm), before 24-7 became their thing...

Source: https://www.suppermariobroth.com/post/767523328393101312/promotional-1990-mario-and-luigi-sticker I can tell that Shoey would probably deeply dislike this image if his comment on finding Mario without shoes to be unsettling is to go by. In this image, Mario is not only shown to be...

Source: https://www.collectorsbase.ph/products/pre-order-bid-toys-dark-magician-mario Note that these are toys that are sold, but they look funny that I can't help but share them. I stumbled on these when I search for "Mariogician". Thank you for reading.

I think that, the early 2000s would be a fine time to have an animated series when the cast is established, where spinoff games basically demonstrated what are the significant characters going forward. I am thinking of how Daisy returned to prominence, and how Waluigi was introduced. The...

Awesome, thank you for the response! I hope that I am not troubling you with another question: is Snoutlet generally hard on Mario, similar to how Starlow is generally hard on Luigi? This possibility is brought up when I posited that one way Mario could benefit from this series is to have a...

Big Red Secret Exposed It's not immediately obvious, but I focused on doing a comic on Mario Day, just as I did last year about "L is not Real" last year. In fact, this is not the original idea! The original idea is basically about Mario and friends doing a photoshoot with Lakitu taking the...

Sometimes I wonder if Baby Park was designed as simplistic as this because the developers were rushing the game, so they have a simpler track to fulfill the 16-course quota for the game. It wouldn't surprise me if that's how it happened, which would make it a happy accident in a way. Thank you...

Have you thought about modding Wario over Impostor Bowser in Bowser's Kaboom Squad? At least you can select your teammates in that mode. Such a shame that Mario Party is yet to fully embrace the hilarity of selecting the same character, when certain series either embraced it fully (Mario Kart)...

I think the game is really great as well. I think that if the developers cannot keep up the demands for board quantity, they could do what Mario Kart did and reuse old boards as new content. It's not like they are the same old thing, because enough gameplay changes can make them feel new (case...

This app is available in very few countries in Asia: Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Israel. Therefore, I have not gotten a chance to check it out. I do not know if Nintendo has plans to open up to other countries, so I am remaining hopeful on this front since they've taken steps to expand...

Nintendo's recently released their sales figures, and one of my favourite things is this from their presentation slide: I know it's not much but I revel in the fact that Mario Party is big enough to be placed side-by-side with the other two greats, Super Mario and Mario Kart. Mario Party is a...

Adding to this, Luigi is NOT a forgotten twin. Maybe he might not be in the spotlight like Mario, but calling him forgotten does a huge disservice to not only him, but actual forgotten twin characters like Mimmy White (Hello Kitty's twin sister). To elaborate on the latter point, saying Luigi is...

I always wondered why you're depicted as a man in a cactus suit. A currently unanswered question that I never got to ask about... Thank you for reading.

Sometimes I can't tell if Brawl in the Family's depiction of Waluigi is generally a good thing or bad thing for the reputation of the character. I guess it's good in that it's a popular webcomic so making Waluigi one of the standout characters augments his popularity, and he's kind of funny...

Question for those who played the game... Also... Does Luigi have an entire chapter dedicated to rescuing Mario, like in Superstar Saga, Bowser's Inside Story, and Paper Jam? Now that I think about it, I have to wonder if across the games, we had moments where Mario shined. There are many...

With the recent release of a new Mario & Luigi game, it got me thinking: how would it be different if the series were instead titled Luigi & Mario? Every game would still be the same but Luigi is basically listed first. So it would be Luigi & Mario: Superstar Saga, Luigi & Mario: Partners in...

This bodes well for the next system, but I wonder if they would still port Nintendo Switch 1 games to the successor with some extras. Backwards compatibility doesn't stop Sony from releasing a The Last of Us remake on PS5 (the original which was available on PS4) after all, so I wonder if...

This is the thing that gets me about the Penguin Suit. It's completely superior over Ice Flower in a way that other Mario powerups aren't. The P-Wing versus Super Leaf, or the P-Acorn versus Super Acorn, both of them have their superior versions and in fact are rare, but they are one-time use...

Flowers Don't Tell, They Show Coming from great praise for the previous Shroom article about the tall tower of Goombas, I decided to utilise the energy for another comic strip because that was what was liked about the previous cartoon. Indeed, it's structured like a Sunday comic strip which...

F9 - Worst Remake Whoa, I stand corrected! It is possible for the worst remakes to be even worse! Anyway, off to work. I wonder how my mall crew is faring now. *RING* Huh, may I know who is speaking? There's a problem in the warehouse? I'll be there right away! [/SPOILER] For this...

One show that I feel a real dislike for is called Three Friends and Jerry, or maybe something similarly named. I think that it's really problematic that the title already indicates that one of the characters (titular Jerry) is already the outcast, which means it's usual for that character to get...

I redesigned the avatar for Mario character community purposes because I felt that the "biker Mario" that mirrors WarioWare's Wario probably does not mirror the intention they gave Wario a costume change. I do not know the exact purpose, but the theory that they redesign Wario to be hip and cool...

Even though the section naturally lend itself to a regular feature, why is it that Featured Sprite is a single time feature? Of course it doesn't have the be a regular feature, but it's curious that this is the only time you have it. Is this because of a general lack of sections otherwise (only...

Tower of Goombabel For January 2024, I was feeling inspired to do a comic about Goombas, and how they have a tendency to stack. This comic strip was also done in about two days, the first to write the script, while the second is to finish up the comic. Yes, unlike most comic strips, this one...

In the Mario series, namely the spinoffs, there are many playable characters to choose from. On the friendly side, the playable characters tend to be the unique ones like Mario or Peach, or they are famous species like Toad and Yoshi. On the villain side, they also have unique characters like...

Playing online with other people is extra useful, with everyone else able to act as your checkpoints to skip the brutal parts. I really appreciated this, but I felt that only for the invisibility section, I am on my own because I returned from sleep mode, so no online to help here. Thank you...

The Mysterious Gait Under Wraps (Note: There is a higher-resolution version; the version above is the one that's most commonly shared, due to its lower amount of memory) It's a start of a new page, and I decided to start with a piece that got a surprising amount of popularity. Sometimes, I...

I picked Golf. I think I like the more laid back approach to the golf series, where instead of it being all action all the time, you are hitting the golf ball. The games are overall quite solid so I think the series still has potential to be better, unlike Dr. Mario (not a sports game) which...

Manual Mates For December 2023's issue, I decided to look at what I notice was an interesting thing with manuals. The decision to have characters exclusively appear there. Noticeably, Nurse Peach only appears in the manual for Dr. Mario, meaning that if you only look at the video game, Dr...

Personally speaking, this image reminded me of when I was a child, I imagined that the computer games from our PC would come out and have a party when I am not looking the room. It's partly why I was afraid of sleeping in the computer room, because of how the characters might come out of the PC...

You know, the mention of Squawks as a companion sort of makes sense now that you brought it up. Given how relatively grounded Donkey Kong as a series is (e.g.: floating platforms are not the norm), Squawks being a small bird makes sense for what the Donkey Kong series is about. It's this trend...

The way you use "mascot" is very different on how I envision what a mascot character is. So while you describe a mascot as a companion character to the hero, in my mind a mascot character is a recognisable character used to sell the games, which is Mario in many cases since he's the titular...

The provocative title aside, I think it speaks of how many people enjoyed the series when this announcement causes a lot of people to sing its praises. When this series was still getting new games, there was a level of discontent of its existence, like how Mario and Sonic are in a crossover...

Interesting choices from a recent Super Mario platformer! But what's up with Anglefish being one of your suggestions? If I may add, I think what's particularly interesting is the amount of Mario enemies that don't fit the scope of being playable. So for example, in Super Mario Odyssey, a lot of...

Yeah, I think that the Super Mario Bros. 1 enemies are worth mining for some playable appearances, as a means to get them out of the way. They've made Goomba a novel playable character (because they have no arms), so maybe those iconic enemies have a chance? I do have a lot of omissions from my...

I've noticed recently that, for the Mario series, it's rare it is to have a playable enemy beyond Super Mario World. I think if we compare to the playable enemies we got in Super Mario games after Super Mario World, the number easily gets dwarfed by the amount of enemies in the first four Super...

I was thinking about Hudson Soft's output the other day, and I thought it was interesting how their biggest success is Mario Party. Yes, they certainly developed and/or published a lot of beloved games like Bomberman and Adventure Island, and Bomberman is a classic series that gets a lot of...

Mario's Malapropisms Transcript: November 2023's issue is about something I've not done for some time, which is doing a single panel. It's also an idea I had after finding out how some people misheard "That's-a so nice" as various phrases, which despite coming from Mario Kart: Double Dash...

Something I've noticed about the roster is how much they stuck with the cast from earlier games. Do you notice how of Bowser's Minions, they all are introduced in the first four Super Mario games, the first, second (aka USA one), third, and fourth (aka World)? Pom Pom is pretty much the only one...

Source: https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character/mario/en/history/index.html I was thinking about the Mario Portal's series tab the other day. Some points: The series revealed tends to be based on when new released were released on the Nintendo Switch. So for example Mario Golf: Super Rush was...

Impasse As you are no doubt aware of by now, most cartoons as of late has a bonus panel. It started from this cartoon where I wanted to do a bonus panel because I liked the idea certain comics are doing, such as Fowl Language. I figured that it would spice up the comic with an extra bit of...

Whoa! Somehow that silly (as in, funny) comedic piece I drew a couple of days shot of to become the #4 most upvoted post on the Paper Mario sub-reddit! This is very unexpected because I never gotten posts that got thousands of votes (the most was 1.1k before this). And it's also my first post on...

I agree that while Mario Party 9 might be treated harshly by fans of the series, I still admired the NDcube entries of Mario Party because I feel like they might have a reason to try something new, like how the older Mario Party games got too many games in a short time so they probably wanted to...