Mario 128?

[Pat]

Has Nintendo announced this to be on the Cube or on the next console? Or Havent that said anything at all? Im just interested after playing through Mario Sunshine again hehe.

[ShadowMarth]

Who knows what they were refferring to... Could have been a number of games... Maybe even the "New Super Mario Bros".

[Pat]

Im talking about Mario 128 from the video where there is lots of Marios running around and it is quite weird... :P

[Lkr]

I hope that Mario 128 is for the GCN. I really didn't enjoy Super Mario Sunshine that much. It wasn't that great. Anyway, I hope that Super Mario 128 is better.

im pretty sure that Miyamoto said that Mario 128 is gonna be on the cube. it was in EGM i think.

[Pat]

I dont know what I would prefer... I mean, I really want another mario game but I dont want the revolution console to go without Mario at the beginning like the Cube.

[ShadowMarth]

Luigi's Vaccuum was good, and we got Smash Bros., so I was fine with the launch.

[17R3W]

wasn't Mario 128 just a demo, where the game cude drew 128 3D marios in real time to give everyone a taste of it's processing power?

[ShadowMarth]

Luigi Vaccuum? Maybe I should go to bed... Make that Luigi's Mansion.

[x999x]

Mario 128 was a tech demo for the GC, just like Luigi's Mansion was. Mario 128 showed off the GC's ability to handle that many onscreen marios each running their own collision and lighting routines. Luigi's mansion was made to highlight many of the onboard video effects the GC could literally do on the fly compliments of ATI's shaders.

Luigi's Mansion was later turned into a thin skinned game because of the audience's response when shown it's tech demo footage. Low sales numbers, and even lower game ratings could attribute to reasons why Mario 128, the other tech demo, never saw the light of day.

That said, I believe whatever was worked on, and or planned for Mario 128's eventual debut as a game had been put on the back burner and reissued as either one last hurrah for the GC, to be released closely to the non-cel shaded version of Zelda, to play on older gamer's nostalgia trump card. If not a GC game, it's highly probable it's being made into a DS game, simply because the DS lacks it's own original Mario title, which is defacto on any Nintendo flagship console or handheld.