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Posted: Nov 17 2009 07:01 pm

When did Mario have a bastard son named Stanley? Or was that a joke and I'm retarded?

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sidewaydriver wrote:

When did Mario have a bastard son named Stanley? Or was that a joke and I'm retarded?

It's a real thing

Stanley is the guy you play as in Donkey Kong 3 with the bug sprayer. The early story of the game was that you are the son of Mario, whom I presume knocked up Pauline, which is why Mario moved to the Mushroom Kingdom and doesn't pay child support.

I'm seriously looking for information on it right now, but I'm not finding anything. I swear I'm not making this up. I found one article that says Stanley is a "cousin", but I know I'm right.

Posted: Nov 17 2009 07:28 pm

i thought stanley was the son of jumpman, which i guess is the same thing as son of mario

http://www.mariowiki.com/Stanley_the_Bugman

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

I can't find anything, but I know I had information on it from way back in the day, it was printed on the damn cabinet!!!! Oh well, Nintendo basically fucking lied about Donkey Kong by saying the current DK is Donkey Kong Junior, yet Mario hasn't aged at all and Junior was in Mario Tennis.

Posted: Nov 17 2009 08:36 pm

Look for the MAME cabinet art pack. Maybe you can find proof there.

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I'm not finding anything! I checked out a blog where I guy reconstructed a Donkey Kong 3 cabinet, but there wasn't any information on the panels. I don't know, I swear I saw it somewhere.

Posted: Nov 17 2009 08:58 pm

Home port instruction booklet?

Title: Robot Soul Brother Joined: Jul 11 2008 Posts: 137

Rydog wrote:

I have high hopes for NSMB Wii, the DS one was good, but I felt like something was missing?

The Koopa Kids are cool, I don't mind Bowser Jr. though.

...I felt the same way about the bolded. Now that I think about it (Again), maybe it was the lack of any items that allowed you to fly--Hell, even the Bunny Ears from Super Mario Land 2 would've sufficed.

And the Koopa Kids are awesome. Bowser Jr. is too damn boring and generic, like Daisy, Toadette, and any Toad that's not Toad (Wow, that last one almost sounds like a Logic Problem)...

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Daisy is ok, at least they developed her to be sort of a tomboy compared to Peach. I really don't understand why we needed Rosalina though.

Posted: Nov 17 2009 10:12 pm

The powerups in NSMB were a total clusterfuck. Mega Mushroom? It's the same damn thing as the Starman. Turtle Suit? Pass. Mini Mario? Actually kinda cool. Fire Flower? Classic.

Another problem with NSMB is that you couldn't play through all 8 worlds sequentially in a single run through, making the already short game seem even shorter. Whoever thought that was a good idea ought to be shot.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Yeah, what is with Nintendo and giving Mario such shitty power ups nowadays? His power ups in Galaxy weren't that good, I mean the Bee Suit was alright, the Ice Flower was pretty much what you'd expect, but then you have that Spring that you couldn't control very well and then the Flying suit which was also difficult to manuever.

I JUST WANNA BE A FROG GODDAMMIT!!!!!!

Posted: Nov 17 2009 11:31 pm

bring back the cape. although it was rather counter-intuitive at first to learn how to fly, i still think thats an awesome power up

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The cape was cheap. I mean it was cool and everything, but it got old seeing all my friends beat everything by flying through the entire level.

Posted: Nov 17 2009 11:53 pm

Doddsino wrote:

Daisy is ok, at least they developed her to be sort of a tomboy compared to Peach. I really don't understand why we needed Rosalina though.

Daisy's kinda hot, I'd like to deflower her.

Posted: Nov 18 2009 12:20 am

Doddsino wrote:

Yeah, what is with Nintendo and giving Mario such shitty power ups nowadays? His power ups in Galaxy weren't that good, I mean the Bee Suit was alright, the Ice Flower was pretty much what you'd expect, but then you have that Spring that you couldn't control very well and then the Flying suit which was also difficult to manuever.

I JUST WANNA BE A FROG GODDAMMIT!!!!!!

The Galaxy ones were a step in the right direction, at least.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

I agree. I'll take the good with the bad...the only problems I had were control with the Flying Suit and the Spring, especially when you couldn't even stop with the Spring. Everything else was alright, I suppose.

Still...

I want to believe...

Posted: Nov 18 2009 01:03 am

that spring was bullshit. i hated that fucking thing

Posted: Nov 18 2009 03:15 am

The frog suit sucks. Useless on land and out of control when you swim fast underwater.

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You had to know how to use it. I absolutely raped the water levels with it.

Posted: Nov 18 2009 11:27 am

There were a couple places you swim up waterfalls with it.

Posted: Nov 18 2009 11:29 am

I don't think anything they do could rival the power ups in SMB3, and that's the problem. They set the bar and now they can't reach it.

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I never understood the Tanooki suit

I mean it was cool to turn into a statue, but even that seemed more of a pain to pull off than to jump over or kill the enemy. Plus you were only a statue for a split second, really not worth it IMO.

Posted: Nov 18 2009 11:33 am

umm, if you held down the button it lasts a good 3 seconds.

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Didn't seem like it

I prefer Kirby, where you could use the statue ability to break blocks and sink to the bottom of water

Posted: Nov 18 2009 11:48 am

you could kill some enemies w/the tanooki statue that you normally couldnt kill