MARIO DOLPHIN
January 4, 2000

In the recent Nintendo Power bonus issue, Shigeru Miyamoto revealed a little more about the new project he’s working on.

"I'd like people to think that the new Mario for Dolphin is something that they've never seen before," Miyamoto said. "That's what I'm thinking about right now. I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will. I'd like to make a new Mario game that appeals to everyone, full of interesting new ideas. If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis for the new game."

This should basically come as no surprise. Mario has always been revolutionary, and the real surprise would be if the Dolphin game didn't continue this tradition.

Miyamoto continued, "Super Mario Bros. established the category of side-scrolling action games. Mario 64 created the standard for 3-D action games (I believe). It is imperative to me that this next game also influences the direction of video games. Sometimes I think it's more important for me to create this new direction for games than to make the game fit Mario or Zelda. Perhaps Mario and Zelda fans wouldn't mind if the game is fun. If they think, ‘Wow! I've never played a game this great before,’ then I've succeeded."

As with the past, Mario will provide one thing that most other companies have trouble obtaining. Dolphin is assured to have a killer app, more than likely at launch.

Source: NintendoDolphin.net