Mario Madness

[Zing]

Any hypothesis on exactly what "Mario Madness" was supposed to represent?

[Famidrive-16]

i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take this anymore

[InsaneDavid]

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]

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]

I always thought it was a weirdly placed advertising slogan. "Hey, this game is totally Mario Madness!"

[scooterb23]

I never really noticed that before. What's funny is, I don't think I've ever used Mario in that game.

[theshizzle3000]

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]

Yeah, they could have had a character named "God" and I still would have rather used Luigi or Peach

Toad or GTFO :P

[NayusDante]

Same reason that other games had nonsense taglines. Observe:



Authentic Arcade Edition, because we all know Blaster Master/Metafight was never in arcades.

[Baloo]

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]

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]

I always figured it meant, "Hey, now there are 2 Mario games on the NES...it's MARIO MADNESS!"

[skaar]

It was Mario having a crazy ass dream, of course. MADNESS.

Where's the Mario/300/THIS IS DREAMLAND Photoshop? Come on.

[jb143]

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]

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..

[Zing]

Luigi was the best for every world except the ice world, where the princess was best.

[jb143]

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]

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]

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]

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.)