A World Without Mario

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#1 knives913
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What would the world be like without Nintendo's plumber?
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#2 LetsPlayer
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More games that include Link?

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#3 Sepewrath
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I think Ragnarok would have occurred by now.
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#4 AvatarMan96
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Luigi would finally have a chance to shine!

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#5 Rod90
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A world not worth living?? Is that what we are supposed to say? No?
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#6 knives913
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Luigi would finally have a chance to shine!

AvatarMan96
Lol, I was kinda thinking that. Luigi never gets to do anything unless Mario is around.
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#7 BrunoBRS
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the gaming industry would have died in 1983 and the world would be an unbearably boring place.
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#8 XenoLair
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Interesting... Mario was one of the first game heroes was he not? Before him it was all arcade with no names. Maybe this would give someone else a chance at creating a Mario like hero and Nintendo wouldnt have anything or anyone to sell consoles... maybe Nintendo would still be in the taxi and love hotel industry today if Mario was never created... who knows.
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#9 BrunoBRS
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Interesting... Mario was one of the first game heroes was he not? Before him it was all arcade with no names. Maybe this would give someone else a chance at creating a Mario like hero and Nintendo wouldnt have anything or anyone to sell consoles... maybe Nintendo would still be in the taxi and love hotel industry today if Mario was never created... who knows.XenoLair
*cough*pacman*cough*
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#10 WreckEm711
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My childhood would be less fun :(

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#11 LaytonsCat
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Gaming would look entirly different if it still existed. Theres no game today that can't be in some way be traced back to one of the mario games

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#12 turtlethetaffer
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Nothing good would come of it.

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#13 AltarBozdaa
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It's not worth to live without Mario
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#14 Gamingclone
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It would be incredible dull.

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#15 KnightSkull
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We would be overrun by Kuppas by now... and that poor princess...
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#16 Sepewrath
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A real answer to this though, is the video game industry would like a very different place. It would probably exist, because Nintendo was going to take a shot, Mario or not. However I don't think it would have ever ballooned to what it is now, without that first console mega star, characters like Sonic wouldn't exist, characters like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong would have faded away with the arcade. Because I think without the massive success of the NES, due in huge part to Mario, many of these franchises would have continued to try and find life in the dying arcades. Without the success of the NES there would be no Game Boy, with no Game Boy, there is DS, Vita, PSP or probably even those IoS games. Games probably wouldn't have evolved so quickly, because they wouldn't have been as popular and Fred Savage would have missed out a chance to be in the greatest movie of all time The Wizard.
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#17 Mr-Espresso
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the gaming industry would have died in 1983 and the world would be an unbearably boring place.BrunoBRS

This.

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#18 TheFallenDemon
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We would have Zelda Kart, Super Smash Legends, Zelda Tennis, Zelda Sports Mix, etc.
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#19 pikaby
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Mario made Nintendo what it is, no Mario means Nintendo either doesn't participate in the gaming industry at all. Hence, no modern gaming industry, none of the other competitors.

Fred Savage would have missed out a chance to be in the greatest movie of all time The Wizard.

Aw hell yes :D

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#20 vgamefreak225
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Luigi would finally have a chance to shine!

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Noone likes Luigi.

The world would be very sad.:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

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#21 almossbb
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it would be chaos!!!

well the gaming world would be ALOT different thats for sure

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#22 chocolate1325
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Then there would be no Sonic,Link or anyone else for that matter.

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#23 Lach0121
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The Real answer, as someone on here liked to put it is simply this...

You don't know, none of us do.

Gaming has become the largest medium for story telling and expression on the planet, Gaming has influenced technology, and technology has influenced gaming.

Eyeglasses are technology, pencils are technology. Just as computers and Iphones.

If Mario wasn't around, that would change gaming. If you change gaming, you change a lot of things.

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[QUOTE="AvatarMan96"]

Luigi would finally have a chance to shine!

vgamefreak225

Noone likes Luigi.

The world would be very sad.:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

No one likes Luigi? Where have you been for years>.>

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#25 Gamingclone
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[QUOTE="vgamefreak225"]

[QUOTE="AvatarMan96"]

Luigi would finally have a chance to shine!

stayman_jacobi

Noone likes Luigi.

The world would be very sad.:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

No one likes Luigi? Where have you been for years>.>

Actually without Mario, Luigi would exsist either. Unless I am missing some important part of Mario bro's history.

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#26 stayman_jacobi
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[QUOTE="stayman_jacobi"]

[QUOTE="vgamefreak225"]

Noone likes Luigi.

The world would be very sad.:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

Gamingclone

No one likes Luigi? Where have you been for years>.>

Actually without Mario, Luigi would exsist either. Unless I am missing some important part of Mario bro's history.

I'm sorry I don't understand when you say without Mario,Luigi would exsist either.

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#27 AwesomeKenny
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Well the game industry would've wiped out completely, considering how successful the NES launch and Super Mario Bros. turned out xD
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#28 Gamingclone
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What I mean is that, Lugi first appeared in an arcade game called Mario Bros. So basicly, If the gaming industry never experienced the wonders of Mario, they would have never experienced his brother, Luigi, either.

*edit* and yes I know I spelled exist wrong.

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#29 stayman_jacobi
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What I mean is that, Lugi first appeared in an arcade game called Mario Bros. So basicly, If the gaming industry never experienced the wonders of Mario, they would have never experienced his brother, Luigi, either.

*edit* and yes I know I spelled exist wrong.

Gamingclone

Yeah that's true but it doesn't really refer back to the comment that vgamefreak225 made about no one liking Luigi>.>

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#30 pierst179
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The world would suck and the gaming world would be vastly different.

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#31 sasuk3uchicha
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The world will remain without one Mario... and without one free princess... Well,not big lose :D
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#32 barvaria
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There would be more games including link and luigi or maybe no luigi cuz there would be no show in the 90s involving 2 italian plumber bros who go to an alternate dimension and battle bowser and koopas and rescuing peach
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#33 barvaria
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they were in the tv show first
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#34 Mostly_Normal
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A world without Mario would mean a world without Paper Mario, and a world without Paper Mario would be a very, very sad world......at least for me.

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#35 stickmen1
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In a world without Mario giant, evil turtles would enslave mankind.
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#36 chocolate1325
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The gaming era would probably be not around because of the insparational games that have come out.

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#37 Lach0121
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The gaming era would probably be not around because of the insparational games that have come out.

chocolate1325

Wouldn't say that, Interactive media would of been around... Mario didn't invent that... Man did..

Gaming would still be around. IT is a logical next stage in the evolution of expression. (also playing is one of the best ways we as a species learn, and has a direct relation to our intellect as well)

However, the difference would be that Mario isn't the most known gaming character of all time. There would be another.

Thats like saying if Bach wasn't around then music wouldn't be either, disregarding the Gregorian chants and tribal music that came long before. Music still would of been music, yes maybe a little different than it is today, but it still would of been.

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#38 pills4louis
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it would be chaos!!!

well the gaming world would be ALOT different thats for sure

almossbb

Yeah, just imagine. All that variety, all that creativity, maybe even games which require concentration and skill, I don't want any of that. Just keep giving me Mario rehashes a few times a year, thanks.

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#39 BrunoBRS
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[QUOTE="almossbb"]

it would be chaos!!!

well the gaming world would be ALOT different thats for sure

pills4louis

Yeah, just imagine. All that variety, all that creativity, maybe even games which require concentration and skill, I don't want any of that. Just keep giving me Mario rehashes a few times a year, thanks.

funny, you described mario games and then said "i don't want any of that, just give me mario". make up your mind :?
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#40 meetroid8
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[QUOTE="almossbb"]

it would be chaos!!!

well the gaming world would be ALOT different thats for sure

pills4louis

Yeah, just imagine. All that variety, all that creativity, maybe even games which require concentration and skill, I don't want any of that. Just keep giving me Mario rehashes a few times a year, thanks.

I can't tell whether or not this is a joke.
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#41 pills4louis
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[QUOTE="pills4louis"]

[QUOTE="almossbb"]

it would be chaos!!!

well the gaming world would be ALOT different thats for sure

meetroid8

Yeah, just imagine. All that variety, all that creativity, maybe even games which require concentration and skill, I don't want any of that. Just keep giving me Mario rehashes a few times a year, thanks.

I can't tell whether or not this is a joke.

It's not. Super Mario Sunshine and both Galaxy games just felt like yet another Super Mario 64 to me. Which I didn't really enjoy. New Super Mario Bros Wii was the first "Mario" game I've enjoyed since Yoshi's Island. At least Nintendo funded/published both of the Sin & Punishment games, and gave us Metroid: Zero Mission, so they haven't been a complete waste of a company for the last decade.