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"Mario History"

Did you know that Mario's first appearence was in 1981 on the Atari and arcade machines. The game was Donkey Kong, which was possibly Nintendo's first ever project. Mario at the time was called "Jumpman" and was a carpenter but when he came out in USA and Europe he was renamed Mario. In the game he has to save his beautiful girlfriend Pauline (looks like thats the original Princess Peach) from the horrible monkey Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong tries to stop Mario by throwing barrels after him. A breakthrough in it´s days and it was hugely popular. Donkey Kong was the first coin up to use the platform and ladder concept. Arcade machines sold many thousands of coppies because of this game, and it has been the foundation for many games.

I saw it when I was about eight years old. I enjoyed then, yes.

Watched bits of it a fortnight ago, and realised how crap it was.

Shame, really :(

Crumble wrote:
> I saw it when I was about eight years old. I enjoyed then, yes.
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> Watched bits of it a fortnight ago, and realised how crap it was.
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> Shame, really :(

Yep that’s exactly what I thought. I used to think it was amazing from the vivid memories I had of it. Just like many of the old cartoons I used to watch.

Everything is better in the mind. I saw a bit of it when I was younger and I was forever trying to find it on again because I thought it was awesome. Havent seen it recently but I spotted it in Music Zone for dirt cheap.