Game of the Week #2

[Metal Mario]

Dr. Mario (NES and Game Boy, 1990)



One of the greatest puzzle games of all time; in fact, it's the puzzle game most often mentioned in the same sentence as the great Tetris, and that's always a high honor. Released when the Game Boy system was still in its infancy, the addictive Dr. Mario helped popularize the handheld as a 'pick up and play' system. Various remakes have appeared on the Super NES, N64, Game Boy Advance, and even WiiWare, showcasing the concept's extreme longevity and adaptability. Elements of the game have even crossed over into more action-packed titles; Dr. Mario is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Melee, and the funky Viruses appear as enemies in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.

I leave you with this little palate cleanser:

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[Luigiman7]

I never understood why people in the 80's were so eccentric.

[Metal Man]

'Cuz people like me came from the 80's that's why.

I played Dr. Mario 64 once. It was the first game I played in stereo.

[The Flattest Pancake]

Ahh, Dr. Mario. A classic. I have it for my GBA.

[Luigiman7]

Dr. Mario owns. It would be nice to have some new stuff, though. even though the classic formula still rocks.

[Mario271]

Omg...I went home last week, and dug out my old "toaster" GB...and this was one of the games that I found. Brought back great memories.

[Cosmonautical]

Originally Posted by Godot

I never understood why people in the 80's were so eccentric.

90's. It was released in 1990. And your perspective is warped - culture was shifting, and what you've seen of it is what the media focused on. TV isn't real, man. It's just marketing. You can't honestly think every woman in the 50's acted like a cleaning robot, or that people thought slinkees were especially interesting beyond the first glance. People couldn't all afford new cars, etc. The stuff you see from then is as much product placement as it is now. They invented fictional people with fictional lives to sell advertising space, and in that advertising space to sell products aimed at the market. People with weird hair in the 80's, etc, were a fringe area of cultural exploration. IE: New Wave and Hair Metal weren't the only genres of music, but it's what the decade is most remembered for in music.

Similar historical misunderstandings have been taught as fact for years. For instance, the belief that the world was flat was not commonly held at the time of Christopher Columbus's exploration. We instead have a skewed amount of evidence - the proponents of a flat world were louder and more fervent in their arguments, while belief in a round world was common and did not need to be voiced. The letters we have documenting the flat world are arguing against that common belief, and that is all the more reason for it to now seem like the dominant belief.