Edited by MyFinalEdits on May 29th 2024 at 1:04:42 PM
135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311NOTE: You have to look waaaaaayyy deep down in the video's comments section to locate the cited comment.
Imagine a game that fits every qualification you can think of for being considered a mainline game, with the exception that it's absolutely and universally agreed to be complete hot garbage. "Super Mario Gets An Abortion (1984)" is a sidescrolling 2d platformer released on official Nintendo hardware made and published by an in house developer where you play as Mario and with no connection to any other possible series. Its sprites look like a five year old possessed by the devil created them, you have a 50/50 chance to crash the game every time you step on a goomba, and it doxxes you every time you turn it on. It has sold -12 copies world wide, and showing someone the box art is legally considered a hate crime.
Now, is this a Super Mario game? By every realistic objective metric, the answer is an unambiguous yes, but I suspect you would be hard pressed to convince most people to describe it as such, by simple virtue of the fact it in no way deserves that title. I imagine a less severe version of this effect can explain why, say, Super Mario Bros. (Game & Watch, 1986), doesn't get counted. It's not that it fails on any technical metric, it's that it doesn't feel sophisticated enough to be considered one. Even if you would argue there is some specific detail it fails to live up to, I feel that would likely be a post hoc justification, rather than the fundamental reason it wouldn't count as such.
Therefore, because I main Game & Watch in Smash Bros., I am legally required to consider it in fact the only legitimate mainline Super Mario Game, with all others being inferior in his absence.
Edited by AxolotlFan on Jun 4th 2024 at 10:05:34 AM
Signature, schmignature!makes another town
Edited by lalalei2001 on Jun 21st 2024 at 4:08:55 AM
The Protomen enhanced my life.Adding to the already great humor of Avatar: The Last Airbender. XD

This video about hippos and their life cycle has some quality comments. As per usual in my posts, here are a select few.