It's been a while since I've wanted to search for anything considered lost! I thought I'd do something different this time - A piece of media I remember from some point in my childhood!
So, over a decade ago when I was still a little kid in elementary school, I had been obsessed with finding Mario fangames. One day, I went on a weird blog website thingy and downloaded this game. I don't remember anything about the site other than it looked like it structured like a blog, and on another post, there was a mockup logo for Toy Story 3. Keep in mind this was several years before Toy Story 3 actually got to exist. This isn't really significant, but I always thought it was amusingly strange. Heh...
Anyway, I remember the fangame itself clearly.
It played a somewhat low-quality rip of Mario 3's overworld background music (given that this is most likely the mid-2000s). You play as Mario in a first-person view, and there's Toads moving around slowly all over the place. The area is kind of confined, and a SMB1-style castle is in the middle of the room. The Toads don't hurt you, but you could kill them by finding stuff around the room to use. These included a baseball bat and a go-kart. The Toads used voice clips from Mario Kart 64.
Anyone know what this game is called and if it's still around?
Last Edit: Nov 11, 2017 1:50:49 GMT by ryansilberman
What was interesting/kind of annoying about the iOS port is that it started you out with four songs to play (not counting a Billie Jean tutorial), but you would have to pay $0.99 for every other song. You also had to pay $0.99 for any alternate costume Michael would wear in each song.
To be a bit fair, it costed $3.99.
Well, Counting That They Do Not Give The Complete Game, The Others Could Be Called DLC
They more-or-less were, but it was still rather annoying. Especially since the game was several hundred megabytes large just by itself. I think it was in the 900s.
Post by ryansilberman on Sept 16, 2017 5:02:02 GMT
What was interesting/kind of annoying about the iOS port is that it started you out with four songs to play (not counting a Billie Jean tutorial), but you would have to pay $0.99 for every other song. You also had to pay $0.99 for any alternate costume Michael would wear in each song.
Hello! I apologize for not really being active that much on the wiki as of late, but I have been working on something for a while now. Here is that something! This is Mystery of Melody Memorial, a game that mixes together elements of Paper Mario and PaRappa the Rapper with its own unique spin. There are loads of more details in the Kickstarter link above and there's a playable demo you can download there!
You can check the link of either game to know more about it.
Interesting!
Building games is very hard. I've tried. I'd like to see it! But..... I don't have steam and it doesn't work on my computer. I don't have much storage left.
I do have DRM-free versions of those games on Gamejolt.com and itch.io, but their prices aren't changed to reflect the Steam sale.
I remember WarioWare Inc Mega Party Games's and Mario Party Advance's websites being entirely Flash games. I miss it a lot, and it'd be fantastic if someone could archive them.
Have you had any luck finding these websites on the Wayback Machine? Or, at the very least, have you tried taking the link to the 2006 Nintendo webpage that's somewhere above? I couldn't get it to work, but I don't know if that's just me.
WarioWare's would only direct me to a "You Need a Flash Player to Go Here" page, and I don't know how to go beyond that.
Mario Party Advance's has its "in-game" menu screen accessible, but it loads indefinitely as soon as you pick a map.
I am wondering about the state of any of the online Flash games hosted on the Nintendo website around 2006. I distinctly remember in-browser games based off of Odama and Animal Crossing: Wild World. I am having no luck finding them on the Wayback Machine and was curious about the state of these games otherwise.
Thanks.
I remember WarioWare Inc Mega Party Games's and Mario Party Advance's websites being entirely Flash games. I miss it a lot, and it'd be fantastic if someone could archive them.
I finally have an answer - The Tiger Tabletop version of Ready 2 Rumble Boxing I got.
The D-Pad is pretty darn uncomfortable, but it doesn't even matter since you can plow through the game in 10 minutes by spamming a single button over and over.
Last Edit: May 18, 2017 1:03:17 GMT by ryansilberman
From what I hear, the guy was a journalist that put the game together in four weeks. There was no original cartridge, as it was always intended to just be a ROM.
Pretty sure it would have been hard to get it around were it just a rom in the mid 90s.
The internet did exist then. ROM downloads were only truly popular later on, but the actual scene is older than you may think.
Post by ryansilberman on May 15, 2017 20:05:25 GMT
From what I hear, the guy was a journalist that put the game together in four weeks. There was no original cartridge, as it was always intended to just be a ROM.
I know for a fact that physical media, at least physical versions of already found things, aren't considered lost media. I wrote an article a while back on the physical cartridge for Hong Kong '97 and it got deleted. I feel like plushies wouldn't be considered lost media though because they're not "media" like TV shows, movies, games, etc. They're just physical objects. These, however, I feel count as lost media because they have a game that you cannot play otherwise. It would be different if they were just the normal Dreamcast games in a different casing, but they're completely different games.
Well, the guy who made hong kong 97 is just a single crazy japanese dude. He made up the company happysoft. If someone managed to get in contact with him, he could probably just make another cart.