Dr. Mario Is Controversial, Offensive Claims Writer

[ILikeBibleAdventures]

I found this while sorting through my video game magazines. It's ripped from the October 1990 issue of Video Games & Computer Entertainment.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a275/LuvsLauren/drmario2.jpg

I never, um, really saw it from that perspective before...

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Man, people read way too much into stuff. I mean, by that token, I could claim that playing a lot of Pac-Man when I was a little kid inspired me to eat until I got fat, which it clearly didn't...wait...let me check a mirror...ah, dammit!

Get ready, Namco, my lawyers will be having stern words with you shortly.

[Gapporin]

Tony Bueno? Is that you?

[The Batman]

Imagine his thoughts on Grand Theft Auto.

[SpaceHarrier]

Imagine his thoughts on Grand Theft Auto.

Aww, you got there first!

:texaschain: :texaschain: :texaschain: :drinking: :snipersmile: Dr Mario made me do it

[RetroYoungen]

*pops an Advil, Perkaset, Viagra and Extenze and washes it down with Rogaine and wine*

I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

[Cryomancer]

I have thought this before. Dr. Mario throws pills at the problem! Think about all those leftover pill segments, that's medicine the patient didn't need! That said, I don't THINK there are any cases of a kid ODing because of the game. Little late to complain now, I think.

[Haoie]

Has anyone seen that image macro?

I think it read "Don't let Dr Mario touch your genitals. He's not a real doctor".

Made me crack up the first time I saw it.

[doubledownon11]

How else is Dr. Mario going to expell those harmful viruses. Maybe with some of that hippie holistic herbal tea? The more pills the better I say.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

The real problem in Dr. Mario is that the JARS set bad examples for other JARS.

I mean, what the hell kind of questionable activities are those jars doing that they get infected with that many viruses??

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

I mean, what the hell kind of questionable activities are those jars doing that they get infected with that many viruses??
I could tell you...

...but you would neither thank me for it, nor sleep better at night, for knowing.

O_O

[fpbrush]

Haha, that image of mario in the article is priceless.

[YoshiM]

That said, I don't THINK there are any cases of a kid ODing because of the game. Little late to complain now, I think.

Late? Andy Eddy wrote that in 1990. Gotta remember, back then practically every modern arcade machine had some splash screen about saying "no" to drugs. The U.S.' "War on Drugs" was at full steam, especially since the Office of National Drug Control Policy was created two years prior. It was also banged into our heads that children shouldn't play with medicines in the bathroom cabinets (with PSA's and ABC After-School Specials to help remind us). What steamed Eddy's clams was not just that drugs were "player usable" in a game but that squeaky-clean Nintendo, who scaled down or eliminated blood, extreme violence and religious symbols in third party games, created their own title with their family-friendly mascot (Mario) doling out medicine. It just smacked of hypocrisy along with going against the concept of what children were being taught.

When I first read that article back in 1990 I wondered what the hell Nintendo was thinking. Not that I thought that kids would get the urge to start mixing Nuprin with Robitussin when they got ill but still, just seemed a bit off based on what society was projecting.

[Push Upstairs]

News flash: Nintendo were hypocrites.

[Cryomancer]

Late? Andy Eddy wrote that in 1990. Gotta remember, back then practically every modern arcade machine had some splash screen about saying "no" to drugs. The U.S.' "War on Drugs" was at full steam, especially since the Office of National Drug Control Policy was created two years prior. It was also banged into our heads that children shouldn't play with medicines in the bathroom cabinets (with PSA's and ABC After-School Specials to help remind us). What steamed Eddy's clams was not just that drugs were "player usable" in a game but that squeaky-clean Nintendo, who scaled down or eliminated blood, extreme violence and religious symbols in third party games, created their own title with their family-friendly mascot (Mario) doling out medicine. It just smacked of hypocrisy along with going against the concept of what children were being taught.

When I first read that article back in 1990 I wondered what the hell Nintendo was thinking. Not that I thought that kids would get the urge to start mixing Nuprin with Robitussin when they got ill but still, just seemed a bit off based on what society was projecting.

I am aware the article is from the time, I am just saying it is now long since time to complain about the possible problems it implies, as in, if someone were to read that and decide to make it a current-day political movement or whatever you wanna call the waves of GTA-fear mongering we keep getting. Obviously a pretty pointless concept to discuss, but I said it anyway.

[YoshiM]

I am aware the article is from the time, I am just saying it is now long since time to complain about the possible problems it implies, as in, if someone were to read that and decide to make it a current-day political movement or whatever you wanna call the waves of GTA-fear mongering we keep getting. Obviously a pretty pointless concept to discuss, but I said it anyway.

Ah, I see. Wasn't exactly sure where you were coming from at first.

[emceelokey]

I was about 7 or 8 when that game came out and I bought it for the Gameboy when it came out. I never even had that thought come into my head. The instruction booklet pretty much explained it all. You kill the viruses with medecine. That totally made sense to me and I thought it was a cool premise but back then to even now I can still give a damn about any type of medicine. I also remember playing Rad Racer and I gre up on Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, yet I don't drive or fight.


Pussies.

[j_factor]

Pills don't kill viruses, though. It's medically incorrect!

[emceelokey]

They can if you actually crush the viruses with the pill like in the game.

[Zap!]

I found this while sorting through my video game magazines. It's ripped from the October 1990 issue of Video Games & Computer Entertainment.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a275/LuvsLauren/drmario2.jpg

I never, um, really saw it from that perspective before...

I remember that artical the day it came out. Even more stunning was that a few months later, in EGM, Quartermann brought it up and said he agreed with him! Anyone remember that? I'll did it up if it creates any interest.

[Ed Oscuro]

*pops an Advil, Perkaset, Viagra and Extenze and washes it down with Rogaine and wine*
Careful, you'll end up like Medusa.

Can't make up my mind about the letter, which I skimmed. Too serious to be a joke, but not pointed or insistent enough to be serious.

[Graham Mitchell]

I think I remember this being an issue back then. I think that Andy Eddy was overreacting a bit to the issue, but I think that, at the time this was a valid concern.

The reason being that in that era there was little on the box of these games to help you determine what kind of content was lurking underneath, and most NES games seemed fairly innocent (ie-maybe there was going to be some violent content but it wasn't going to be blatantly sinister like Bioshock.) I mean, who would have thought that Hitler's exploding head was buried somewhere in Bionic Commando? People had no clue what their kids would be exposed to in these carts unless they played through it themselves.

Nowadays you couldn't level this argument at the industry because the industry polices itself via the ESRB. Or, at least that's what they'd have you believe.