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Any hypothesis on exactly what "Mario Madness" was supposed to represent?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Super_Mario_Bros_2.jpg
Famidrive-16
06-18-2009, 05:22 PM
i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take this anymore
InsaneDavid
06-18-2009, 05:26 PM
More than likely to label it as a different game from the Japanese release of Super Mario Bros. 2. That's what I've always thought anyway. When it made its way back to Japan it was released as Super Mario USA, which I'm sure we all know.
wadakatsu
06-18-2009, 06:06 PM
It's an affliction caused by eating too many smiling radishes. In fact, you defeat Wart in the end by cramming veggies down his gullet, giving him a fatal case of Mario Madness.
TonyTheTiger
06-18-2009, 06:08 PM
I always thought it was a weirdly placed advertising slogan. "Hey, this game is totally Mario Madness!"
scooterb23
06-18-2009, 06:34 PM
I never really noticed that before. What's funny is, I don't think I've ever used Mario in that game.
theshizzle3000
06-18-2009, 06:47 PM
I never really noticed that before. What's funny is, I don't think I've ever used Mario in that game.
Yeah, they could have had a character named "God" and I still would have rather used Luigi or Peach
scooterb23
06-18-2009, 07:03 PM
Yeah, they could have had a character named "God" and I still would have rather used Luigi or Peach
Toad or GTFO :P
NayusDante
06-18-2009, 07:51 PM
Same reason that other games had nonsense taglines. Observe:
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary%27s/Pictures/NESGameCovers/Blaster%20Master.jpg
Authentic Arcade Edition, because we all know Blaster Master/Metafight was never in arcades.
Baloo
06-18-2009, 08:01 PM
Yeah, they could have had a character named "God" and I still would have rather used Luigi or Peach
Luigi was the absolute bomb in SMB2. If you used anyone else you just died. His jump was awesome.
obesolete
06-18-2009, 08:06 PM
A lot of things didn't make sense with that game.
namely why they would take a totally different game replace the sprites and call it a mario game.
IT'S MARIO MADNESS!
then again, not a lot of game covers back then made much sense...
VG_Maniac
06-18-2009, 08:57 PM
I always figured it meant, "Hey, now there are 2 Mario games on the NES...it's MARIO MADNESS!"
skaar
06-19-2009, 12:24 AM
It was Mario having a crazy ass dream, of course. MADNESS.
Where's the Mario/300/THIS IS DREAMLAND Photoshop? Come on.
jb143
06-19-2009, 11:41 AM
Luigi was the absolute bomb in SMB2. If you used anyone else you just died. His jump was awesome.
For some reason I hated using Luigi, he was too hard to control. It was Peach all the way for me.
LiquidPolicenaut
06-19-2009, 11:51 AM
For some reason I hated using Luigi, he was too hard to control. It was Peach all the way for me.
Same here! I could never really use Luigi in any level since his jumping style was sooooo ridiculous. I did, however, use him in one level (I think it was 5-1) and his crazy jump helped me get across nice and easy. Toad was also a last choice for the opposite...his jumping was too short. It was either Mario or, most of the time, the Princess..
Luigi was the best for every world except the ice world, where the princess was best.
jb143
06-19-2009, 04:00 PM
I can't say that I've ever thought anything of "Mario Madness" being there. It does roll off the tounge better than "More Mario than you can shake a stick at" though. I just always saw it as one of those phrases.
shopkins
06-19-2009, 06:58 PM
As skaar said, the whole game was basically a hallucination. Makes sense to me.
I hated using Toad, I only used him when I needed to dig really fast. I used Luigi when I had to jump really high but he was too squirrelly for me to control easily. Otherwise it was the Princess all the way. I could see no real reason to use Mario, although I did a few times out of loyalty since it was his game after all.
skaar
06-20-2009, 01:14 PM
I'd beat the game with like Toad 17 Luigi 1 everyone else 0. I'd gotten so used to just using Toad in that game it felt weird to use anyone else. I think I used Luigi for one jump to a warp zone... details fuzzy.
kupomogli
06-20-2009, 03:27 PM
I'd use Toad on nearly every level as well. There were a stage or two I'd use Luigi, but usually not. With Princess I always used her in the Ice World(that world is nothing with the princess.)
Robocop2
06-20-2009, 03:32 PM
Insert frigid bitch joke here....
Mario Madness.....Marble Madness....Mall Madness......March Madness.....
I heart alliteration.
All the above are from the 80's.....it was a mad cool decade.
Enigmus
06-20-2009, 04:22 PM
Mario Madness is when a bunch of hippies play NES and use magic mushrooms, and think they're playing Mario 2 when they're pulling a Randy Newman and laying on the floor muttering random things. True story.:D
rbudrick
06-22-2009, 02:35 AM
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/rbudrick/MarioMadnessMoney-50.jpg
The Mario Madness money was something that some of the lower level (quarter or semi finalists?) won in the 1990 NWC, possibly, and likely, for other crap they did too, though I can't prove that, but I'm somewhat sure.
Also, I do recall seeing a Mario Madness patch. I think I have one somewhere, but can't find the pic I took of it. Rumors are this was also given out, but at the Powerfest '94 competition, though for what I don't know. Maybe just freebies. However, I have not substantiated this, it only a rumor, so don't quote me. However, here is this link that a poster explains how Nintendo Power gave them away for some Lost Levels contest, since he received one:
http://www.snk-capcom.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-4903.html
I would love more info on this contest if someone could fill me in. Honestly, the patches were probably given out at all kinds of places for all sorts of bullshit. They turn up on ebay often, but they can be had for cheap because no one but me has even a tenth of a clue about them, as that about all I've got (but now you do, so kickass).
As for "Mario Madness" in general, it can not be overstated how incredibly huge the NES was at the time. It made people seriously lose their fucking minds. Mario Madness was kind of a strain of Nintendomania, not to be confused with Segaholicism.
In all seriousness, though, it seems to have been a slogan of some sort, but not a really big campaign. Just an alliterative thing they threw on items sometimes.
Thanks for pointing out the SMB2 cart, though! I never made the connection between the three items until you mentioned it. Other posters, post other Mario Madness items or places you saw it written!
-Rob