Author Topic: What's Super Mario Club? (Read 7547 times)

Chupperson Weird · « **on:** December 19, 2002, 01:00:23 AM »

Okay, here's something that has been bothering me for months. I see "Super Mario Club" in the credits of all the new Mario games (and even Starfox Adventures), and yet I know not of what they speak. Does anyone here know?

Deezer · « **Reply #1 on:** December 19, 2002, 02:58:59 AM »

I think it's the debug team at NOJ.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2002, 01:36:09 AM »

Hmm.
Well, that's interesting!

Maestro · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2002, 12:19:10 AM »

But doesn't it list a debug staff in the same set of credits?

MarioBros · « **Reply #4 on:** December 21, 2002, 01:11:23 AM »

Debug team? Would that be the same thing as game testers? (Game testers being people who meticulously play games for hours on end, looking for any problems that haven't yet been found or worked out.)

I was given a personal tour of Nintendo of America's Redmond campus. At one point during it, I passed a hallway that led to the game testers' area. My guide said we couldnâ€™t go down it -- even he wasn't allowed in there. It was closed to those who are hired to spend perhaps eight hours each day playing one level of one game (this may be an exaggeration), looking for bugs.

Being a game tester is dreary work, but it is also elite (because it means special access, at least at Nintendo). Thus it is a rather paradoxical job.

Maestro · « **Reply #5 on:** December 21, 2002, 01:21:41 AM »

That's probably what I meant. Thanks

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #6 on:** December 22, 2002, 01:31:35 AM »

Yeah, there's Super Mario Club and the NOA Debug Team listed in credits.

CharginChuck · « **Reply #7 on:** December 29, 2002, 04:45:56 PM »

Actually, the SMC participates in almost every Nintendo game, and I think they have been around since the SNES.

Mario Maniac · « **Reply #8 on:** January 03, 2003, 07:47:54 AM »

I actually think Super Mario Club has been around before the SuperNES. On some of the early Game Boy games, I saw their credits listed. (Game Boy, as you all remember, was released in 1989. Super Nintendo was released in 1990.)

Being part of a game tester/debug team at Nintendo would be complete paradise for me! I would be able to test out new and innovative games before they were ever released to stores!

NINTENDO IS PARADISE!
XBOX IS HELL!

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Nintendo is like a religion to me, and Shigeru Miyamoto is the God of it.

A world without Nintendo is a world without videogames.

Congratulation''s Nintendo, for over 25 years of videogame excellence!

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #9 on:** January 04, 2003, 01:04:22 AM »

Yep, that would be one sweet, cushy job.

frostbite · « **Reply #10 on:** January 05, 2003, 01:35:58 AM »

But once you find the bugs, you have to fix them. Didn't think of that, did you?

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Dan: What about backwards?
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Mom: What`s sideways?
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Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #11 on:** January 05, 2003, 09:10:37 PM »

Ahh, programming's my specialty anyway.

King Boo · « **Reply #12 on:** January 05, 2003, 10:08:16 PM »

Think of Nintendo as Isle Delfino. Think of XBox as the house in Resident Evil on GCN(Horrible place)& the zombies are nintendo fans brainwashed by XBox...

King of Pink, That's Me!

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #13 on:** January 05, 2003, 11:37:32 PM »

Interesting analogy.

Luigison · « **Reply #14 on:** January 06, 2003, 02:47:02 AM »

Link to Super Mario Same Game thread:

http://www.classicgaming.com/tmk/board/topic.asp?topic_id=70973&forum_id=500&Topic_Title=Play+the+Super+Mario+Same+Game+online&forum_title=General+Mario+chat&M=0&S=True

oops! posted this in the wrong thread. i ment to post in "Anyone here making a Mario computer game?" and now i don't remember what i wanted to say here.

Edited by - Luigison on 1/6/2003 1:48:45 AM