Tuesday 22 August 2006 Super Mario 128, the name given to an eye-popping tech demo shown at Nintendo's SpaceWorld event in 2000, was a test concept and inspired the upcoming Wii adventure Super Mario Galaxy. "The parts in Mario Galaxy where you're running around on the surface have come from Mario 128," producer Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed, referring to Galaxy's planetoid-leaping gameplay. The original clip of Mario 128 showed 128 Marios racing around a curved, GameCube-styled Monopoly board ... » Read More

8 Aug 2006

Nintendo is Monopolised

Wii News | Super Mario Galaxy

Tuesday 8 August 2006 A special collector's edition of the classic board game Monopoly has been created that stars the finest heroes and villains from various Nintendo games. Mario, Luigi, Link and Kirby all appear on the board, with the two moustachioed brothers taking up the prized Park Lane and Mayfair squares. Even the pieces you guide around the board have been Nintendoed, with Mario's cap, Link's iron boots, Donkey Kong's barrel, a Hylian shield and a Koopa shell all having been ... » Read More

11 May 2006

E3 06: Super Mario Galaxy - hands on

Wii News | Super Mario Galaxy

Wii has barely been fully unveiled and we've already got a brand new Mario game to salivate over. Super Mario Galaxy uses both the pointer and the nunchaku attachment to create a mixture of classic, 3D platforming and brand-new ways to interact with Mario's colorful, outer-space world. Running, jumping and butt-stomping all handle just like 2002's Super Mario Sunshine - that is to say, the analog control stick and normal buttons are used. The pointer, however, lets you directly affect items ... » Read More

10 May 2006

E3 06: Super Mario Galaxy details

Wii News | Super Mario Galaxy

Revealed at Nintendo's E3 press conference, Super Mario Galaxy is Nintendo's debut Wii outing for its moustachioed mascot and we can bring you the first few details about the game. As the title suggests, Super Mario Galaxy takes place in space as Mario, with the normally hapless heroine Princess Peach in tow, heads off in pursuit of an escaped creature. On the interstellar adventure the pair will explore various planets and alien landscapes, and will encounter a variety of new and familiar ... » Read More