Celebrating Mario Day with Mario Games on Various Nintendo Systems

With today being Mario Day I dug out some of my old and more recent Mario games. I started with the console games.

I started with the oldest Nintendo console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). For NES I have two Mario games. They are Mario is Missing and Super Mario Brothers. I never really could figure out Mario is Missing, so I quickly stopped playing that one and played Super Mario Brothers until I got Game Over once.

The next console I have a Mario game for is the Super Nintendo. For Super Nintendo I have Mario Paint, but I cannot actually play it because I do not have the special mouse and without it I have not been able to figure out how to play if that is even possible.

The next system I tried to play on was my Nintendo 64. For the N64 I have Mario Golf. This time the issue was that my N64 would not turn on. Honestly, I probably never tried the system when I bought it off of eBay a few years ago. It might have never worked since I had it. I am going to eventually try it with my brother's power cord, as it seems that might be the only issue.

Next I played Gamecube, although I played it on the Wii. I have Mario Kart Double Dash and Mario Golf Toadstool Tour for Gamecube. I only played Mario Kart, though, because the golf one my brother currently has.

My final console game was Mario Kart Wii, which is the only Mario game I own for the Wii. I played some online races on this game.

After the console games I played my Mario handheld games. I started with Alleyway for Original Game Boy, although I played it on a Game Boy Color. Alleyway barely has Mario, but it is Mario that gets in the paddle before you begin the brick style game.

I do not have any Game Boy Color games with Mario, so I skipped to playing my Game Boy Advance Mario games. For Game Boy Advance I have Super Mario Brothers and Mario Kart Super Circuit. Super Mario Brothers would not work on my DS and it is basically what I was playing on the NES earlier.

Lastly I played my Mario DS game, which is Mario Kart DS.

Gamecube Video Clip: Pinball Hall of Fame

Here is the video clip I did of playing this game. Before I rented this game I had been thinking of renting the Wii version, but that one was not readily available like this one was when I added it to my Q. Now that I have tried this one and did not like it too much I am not as eager to try the Wii one, although, I still may put it in my Q sometime if I ever have room.

Gamecube Screenshots: Pinball Hall of Fame

Pinball Hall of Fame is not a horrible game, as it is a fun pinball game. I do not, however, like that all the missions to beat the pinball machines are so hard. They are never simple. I wish that at least a few of the missions were to just get a certain amount of points. At least there are several machines to play out without even beating any missions. Click on the thumbnails below to see a larger version of the screenshots.

Gamecube Video Clip: Burnout

Below is a video clip of me playing Burnout. Entertaining at first, but the game gets boring way too quickly.

Gamecube Screenshots: Burnout

This is an okay racing game, but not as fun as the burnout game where you can crash and try to get the highest damage score. Do not know what one that is and even if it ever came out on Gamecube, but it is a fun one I have played on XBox. Click the screenshots below to see a larger version of the images.

Gamecube Video Clip: Disney Sports Soccer

I am trying to get back in the habit of posting on all my blogs daily, but it is not happening and unfortunately this is the one that ends up suffering the most. Partly this is due to it being one of my lowest earners and being unemployed right now I focus mostly on my two blogs I can guarantee getting paid to write on. This one does bring in some money from PPP and Google Ads, but lately PPP has been darn near impossible to get oppurtunities for because this site lost its page rank and it is hosted on blogspot. Also, I have not been playing video games as much and there just is not as many reasons to keep me actively working on this blog unlike my other blogs. My other low earner like this one is Postcards from Antarctica and since working on saving up to go back to Antarctica and write a book with the same name as the blog is something I still want to do it motivates me to try harder to update it regularly. That said I am not abandoning this blog just yet, but just saying that at this point it will likely stay at being updated only a few times a week and sometimes maybe only once a week.

So for today here is the video clip I did of Disney Sports Soccer for Gamecube.

Gamecube Screenshots: Disney Sports Soccer

I like the concept of this game being Disney and I like the sport of soccer, but I have never been able to figure out how to play soccer effectively using console controllers. It is just too complex and this kids version does not make it any easier. I think I will stick to the easy Backyard Soccer for computer as the only soccer video game I can play. The graphics are fun, though, and it is decent if you are the kind of person who can play sports games using a console controller like the Gamecube controller, but that is not me. Click on the screenshots below for a larger version of the images.