Mario Brothers Special

[JapanesePeso]

Anybody have this on X1 or PC-8801? Pretty interested on how it plays.

[blue lander]

http://digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83082

I've got Punch Ball Mario, Mario Brothers Special, and Super Mario Brothers Special all for the X1. There's also FM-7 and PC-6601 version of Punch Ball and Mario Brothers Special I believe.

[Baloo]

That's pretty cool, never heard of Punch-Ball Mario and Mario Bros. Special.

What's Super Mario Bros. Special Like?

[blue lander]

http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/special.htm

That site has a pretty good description of it. The game's awful and impossibly difficult, but it's still interesting from a historical point of view.

[JapanesePeso]

http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/special.htm

That site has a pretty good description of it. The game's awful and impossibly difficult, but it's still interesting from a historical point of view.

Yeah, that's Super Mario Brothers Special. I was talking about Mario Brothers Special but a pretty good article regardless. Some small corrections:

1.) It says it ran on the PC-8001, there was no such thing to my knowledge. It was for the PC-8801.
2.) It says the PC-8801 was obscure, it was actually a very popular computer system in Japan.

Regardless, decent artlicle.

I wanted to get some advice from people who have played Mario Brothers Special on it's native hardware (preferably X1 since I own one). blue lander, cool stuff. Really helpful.

[blue lander]

There was a PC 8001, it came out right before the pc-8801. Sort of a more primitive version, looked alot like the pc-6001. I've got a couple PC-8001 games on tapes and they run fine on the PC-8801.

[blue lander]

Of all the Hudson Mario games, Mario Bros Special is probably the best. If it controlled a little better, it'd be a good game.

[Baloo]

I can't get the emulator to run the ROM for some reason.

Anyone have any directions on how to?