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Game Blog / On the Sixth Day of Christmas...

« on: December 30, 2010, 07:23:16 PM »

On the Sixth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Six Yoshis laying...

Five P-Wings!

Four POW Blocks
Three Red Shells
Two Fire Flowers
and a 1up Mushroom in a fir tree.

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Game Blog / On the Fifth Day of Christmas...

« on: December 29, 2010, 02:14:43 PM »

On the Fifth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Five P-Wings!

Four POW Blocks
Three Red Shells
Two Fire Flowers
and a 1up Mushroom in a fir tree.

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Game Blog / On the Fourth Day of Christmas...

« on: December 28, 2010, 06:49:39 PM »

On the Fourth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
Four POW blocks!

Three Red Shells
Two Fire Flowers
and a 1up Mushroom in a fir tree.

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Game Blog / On the Third Day of Christmas...

« on: December 28, 2010, 06:48:12 PM »

On the Third Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

Three Red Shells
Two Fire Flowers
and a 1up Mushroom in a fir tree.

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Game Blog / On the Second Day of Christmas...

« on: December 26, 2010, 09:57:52 PM »

On the Second Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

Two Fire Flowers
 and a 1up Mushroom in a fir tree.

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Game Blog / On the First Day of Christmas...

« on: December 26, 2010, 09:57:03 PM »

On the First Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
A 1up Mushroom in a fir tree.

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Game Blog / Donkey Kong is Up...

« on: November 29, 2010, 11:05:35 PM »

http://www.2pstart.com/2010/11/27/down/

That is all.

[all weekend long!!!]

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Game Blog / WTMK: All Donkey Kong, All the Time (DKCR Weekend Celebration)

« on: November 19, 2010, 09:42:34 PM »

In anticipation of the Sunday release of Donkey Kong Country Returns, WTMK is playing nothing but Donkey Kong music - all weekend long!!!

Tune in to the jungle jazz and banana beats: WTMK: All Donkey Kong, Some of the Time.

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Game Blog / WTMK Halloween Spooktacular

« on: October 31, 2010, 01:47:18 AM »

WTMK is proud to present a special selection of music for your Halloween weekend listening... pleasure?  All of the most Halloween-ish sorts of music from the vast spectrum of the Mario series, including plenty of tunes from Luigi's solo adventure.

(It's actually been running since Friday night -- a little bonus for the regular listeners.)

Tune in now, to WTMK: All Mario, All the Time.

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Game Blog / Sega Admits Defeat: Sonic Game Redesigned for Mario Fans

« on: October 14, 2010, 01:03:30 AM »

IGN recently interviewed Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka regarding the upcoming Sonic Colors game for the Wii. Iizuka revealed that the new Sonic title was being designed to appeal more to Mario players...

"From a general game design perspective, in recent years we've been able to introduce Sonic to new fans, a lot of the Nintendo/Mario fans, and because of that, we've made changes to the design, and we've designed things in Sonic Colours that we think will really appeal to people who are unfamiliar with the Sonic brand and the Sonic gameplay. So from that perspective we hope that fans of Mario will really be able to enjoy playing as Sonic in Sonic Colours."

It would appear that Sega has finally admitted defeat, and is attempting to make the new Sonic game more like the Mario games.  Given the slight critical (and fiscal) disparity between the last few Mario and Sonic games, this can only be a good thing.

Sonic fans, we welcome you home.

Source: IGN: Sonic Team Talks Sonic Colours

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Game Blog / Re: It's the Silver Anniversary of Super Mario Bros.! (special WTMK broadcast)

« on: September 26, 2010, 08:36:39 PM »

Do you remember the source? I'm looking at two that point to October 1985. NOA's press site says "Originally released on NES, October 18, 1985" for SMB on Virtual Console, and all the SMB-related trophies in Super Smash Bros. Melee say "10/1985," for example: http://themushroomkingdom.net/mariopedia/trophy/goomba.jpg

Hmm... when was the New York, regional release of the NES?  The one that predates the nationwide release?  A cursory internet search seems to say that the NES was released in New York on October 18th, 1985 - but the list of initial release games doesn't contain SMB.

I seem to recall reading, in multiple places, about the limited initial release - and that includes SMB not being in the initial release.  I, however, was assuming the October '85 date was the national and it was an earlier date for a regional, but that's clearly not correct.

I could see NOA being wrong about this.  Perhaps we should contact them.

[Super]

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Game Blog / It's the Silver Anniversary of Super Mario Bros.! (special WTMK broadcast)

« on: September 14, 2010, 12:24:20 PM »

It's the 25th anniversary of the release of Super Mario Bros. in Japan.  Twenty-five years ago, on September 13th, 1985, the first Super Mario game was released to the public.  Folks in the U.S.A. only had to wait about a month for the game's October 18th release.

To celebrate, WTMK is playing a special broadcast, playing only tunes from the mainline Super Mario game series.  No Wario, no Donkey Kong, and no Yoshi spinoffs - just pure Super Mario.

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Game Blog / Re: Paper Mario for Wii Virtual Console - $8 on Amazon

« on: August 30, 2010, 07:57:19 PM »

The discussion was skating off topic, then a seemingly facetious threat was made, and the rest is kind of history.

It wasn't facetious.

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Game Blog / Re: Paper Mario for Wii Virtual Console - $8 on Amazon

« on: August 28, 2010, 07:23:01 PM »

Stop messing up the thread or I'll ban you into next year.

Literally.

I want to express the point of view of the games. We (the games) are not violent. We have never jumped up to kill anybody.

I'm starting to think folks don't READ my posts.

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Site Discussion / Re: Which staff member will wed first?

« on: August 28, 2010, 11:27:37 AM »

There is a reason I tend to avoid this place.