Video: Super Mario Bros. medley
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Nintendo is taking a stroll down memory lane and looking back at history of Super Mario Bros. with a medley video. We have it below.
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Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Direct recap announcement
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Nintendo has sent out an announcement recapping all of the announcements, news, and more from today’s Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Direct. If you missed out on any part of the presentation or want an overview of everything shown, continue on below.
Super Mario sneakers from Puma spotted
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Puma appears to have collaborated with Nintendo on new sneakers. That’s according to an official product page spotted in Australia, which has since been removed.
Below are a few photos:
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Mario getting a pair of Switch controllers in September
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New Mario controllers are on the way from PowerA and HORI.
First up is the “Golden M” enhanced wired controller. It comes with “a 3.5mm audio jack, mappable advanced gaming buttons, and standard ergonomic layout.”
Here’s some additional information:
LEGO Super Mario dev on early designs, says Nintendo dropped prototypes 6,000 times in quality checks, more
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Nintendo Life has published a new interview with Jonathan Bennink, the lead designer on LEGO Super Mario. Bennink spoke about the earliest designs, how Nintendo dropped the product 6,000 times each time a new build was sent to them, approval for sound effects and getting new voice lines from Charles Martinet, and being able to have meetings with Koji Kondo – which usually doesn’t happen.
Here’s the full roundup of these topics:
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Super Mario 35th anniversary versions of Monopoly and Jenga announced
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Update 2: Jenga: Super Mario is now up on Amazon here.
Update: The new Monopoly release, officially titled Monopoly Super Mario Celebration Edition, is now available on Amazon.
There hasn’t been any concrete news yet as to how Nintendo itself is celebrating Super Mario’s 35th anniversary, but we have a couple of announcements from Hasbro. The company is preparing new versions of Monopoly and Jenga to celebrate the big milestone.
For Monopoly, the board game will have players buying, selling, and trading locations from Super Mario games between 1985 and present day. Toad houses and Princess Peach’s castles will be replacing houses and hotels. Additionally, it’ll come with an electronic component of the Question Block featuring sound effects “that can change a player’s luck”.
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Rumor: Possible Super Mario 35th anniversary Twitter account discovered
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Rumors surfaced earlier this year that Nintendo supposedly has major plans surrounding Mario’s 35th anniversary. The biggest thing we had heard about concerned re-releases of Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy. A port of Super Mario 3D World is also said to be in the works.
VGC has now been tipped off by a reader of a @SuperMario35th account on Twitter, which was registered earlier in the year. It has a recovery email that could use Nintendo’s Japanese domain address, but we don’t have official confirmation at this time.
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LEGO Super Mario up for pre-order on the Nintendo UK store
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The Nintendo UK store has opened pre-orders for LEGO Super Mario. You can reserve the main Starter Course as well as the various expansions.
If interested, you can place a pre-order here. LEGO Super Mario launches on August 1.
8 LEGO Super Mario Expansion Sets announced, new video
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Nintendo and LEGO have unveiled a series of new sets being added to the LEGO Super Mario series. These include 8 new Expansion Sets for building levels, and several Character Packs.
Here’s the rundown of the products:
LEGO Super Mario lead designer on scrapped ideas, Nintendo’s involvement
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The creation of LEGO Super Mario has been a long process for both LEGO and Nintendo. Since 2015, the two sides have been working together to see how they could bring a unique product to life.
Unsurprisingly, there were a few scrapped ideas along the way. Speaking about the creation of LEGO Super Mario with GamesIndustry, lead designer Jonathan Bennink said:
