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Re:The evolution of gravity in Mario games by delano on Friday March 20, 2009 @07:04AM (#524759)
The stats they have for Super Mario 2 stand out from the ones for 1 and 3. That's interesting because it wasn't originally developed as a Mario Bros game. It was originally released in Japan under the title Doki Doki Panic (I had to look up the name). The North American / European version of SM2 was a rebranded version of DDP. According to the stats in the article, Mario is taller and exposed to higher gravity than the other early games which sounds about right (the gameplay definitely felt different).

As a side note, I don't understand the title Mario Brothers. Are their full names Mario Mario and Luigi Mario? I'm not aware of any other brothers that take their common name from one of the brothers' first names.

Re:The evolution of gravity in Mario games by eru on Friday March 20, 2009 @07:57AM (#524786)
> Are their full names Mario Mario and Luigi Mario?

According to Wikipedia, yes.

Re:The evolution of gravity in Mario games by delano on Friday March 20, 2009 @08:02AM (#524793)
Oh yeah, it looks like they mention it on the entry about the movie. I don't see any mention of their full names on any of the game-related pages though.
Re:The evolution of gravity in Mario games by mynameishere on Friday March 20, 2009 @10:15AM (#524927)
Re-making old games used to be more common I think:

http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/atari2600.htm