Super Mario's Wacky Worlds should have stayed buried
Well, here's an unexpected treat for your Labor Day: A peek at a Mario game you've probably never heard of and almost certainly will never touch, Super Mario's Wacky Worlds. If the video we found at Unseen64 is any indication, it's likely for the better.
Created for the ill-fated Phillips CD-i by Novalogic, SMWW took Mario out of the Mushroom Kingdom (bold!) and plopped him in real-world locales like Egypt (puzzling!). Though touted as a successor to Super Mario World, it seems this would have been lucky to have been a successor to Hotel Mario.
Created for the ill-fated Phillips CD-i by Novalogic, SMWW took Mario out of the Mushroom Kingdom (bold!) and plopped him in real-world locales like Egypt (puzzling!). Though touted as a successor to Super Mario World, it seems this would have been lucky to have been a successor to Hotel Mario.













Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Special Agent Steve @ Sep 7th 2009 11:02PM
GOTY 2009!!!!
Special Agent Steve @ Sep 7th 2009 11:03PM
But honestly, any Mario game that wasn't on a Nintendo system was practically guaranteed to be shitty.
SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Sep 7th 2009 11:04PM
Oh god. Have we not already been through this with Uncharted 2?
Please don't let tmac read this article. Please.
Mr. Manly ESC Mcbeefington Ferguson The Second @ Sep 7th 2009 11:05PM
But that isn't Bubble Bobble:ODST.
tmacairjordan87 @ Sep 7th 2009 11:16PM
This guy has a very unhealthy obsession with me. I'm trying to decide if he's up to stalker status yet, which would be my third.
SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Sep 7th 2009 11:22PM
How can I be stalking you when you hadn't even commented?
tmacairjordan87 @ Sep 7th 2009 11:26PM
Because all you seem to be able to think about is me, which is flattering and yet extremely creepy at the same time.
[ArchiGamer] @ Sep 7th 2009 11:34PM
^Most Creepy Post Ever
Longhorn Slim @ Sep 7th 2009 11:51PM
I remember when I had a Stalker, it was Mr. Esc, he used to call me his bitch cuz I dont like Banjo kazooie or whatever it was called
JXCgunrunna @ Sep 8th 2009 12:09AM
Actually he called you A bitch because ur a fucking tool fanboy
Leo161 @ Sep 8th 2009 12:19AM
How the hell did you not like Banjo-Kazooie?! Best game ever! (before the 360 and GBA versions)
Sly Cooper, Attorney at Law @ Sep 8th 2009 12:51AM
what is this "vagine" creature you speak of?
mezzaninex @ Sep 8th 2009 2:20AM
Vagine was my favorite lesser-known Dragonball Z character.
T @ Sep 7th 2009 11:05PM
It LOOKS better than the Zelda CDI game. If they would've pulled it off...who knows. But in that stage it looked like crap.
[ArchiGamer] @ Sep 7th 2009 11:09PM
Trust me, anything is better than complete shit.
[ArchiGamer] @ Sep 7th 2009 11:06PM
Is there anything from Nintendo that CD-i didn't completely rape and leave at a ditch?!
MRLN the Amazing @ Sep 8th 2009 4:30AM
Metroid is still pure.
No Kill Tayler @ Sep 7th 2009 11:08PM
Man...CDI...
I don't even...know
Mr. Manly ESC Mcbeefington Ferguson The Second @ Sep 7th 2009 11:10PM
Nop it shouldn't have existed neither those CDi games but at least something good came out of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxHQkNwa7oc&feature=PlayList&p=01C00E56D0E2C518&index=8
DWells55 @ Sep 7th 2009 11:20PM
LINK MAH BOIIIIII!
Jawmuncher @ Sep 7th 2009 11:57PM
Seems CD-i was made for the fact to give some great Youtube Poop material.
I love it!
BPMOmega [XBL, PSN, Steam] @ Sep 8th 2009 2:22AM
Hell yeah, WalrusGuy. One of the few guys who made YouTube Poops that was actually FUNNY.
Related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30N1iruh1Vg
tmacairjordan87 @ Sep 7th 2009 11:21PM
Yeah I think it was a good thing most of us never heard about it, that was pretty awful. I need to go play Super Mario World now to cleanse my short term memory.
JXCgunrunna @ Sep 8th 2009 12:11AM
^thats one for the history books kids
Sly Cooper, Attorney at Law @ Sep 8th 2009 12:52AM
why did tmac get downvoted? he [surprisingly] wasn't trolling at all.
tmacairjordan87 @ Sep 8th 2009 12:56AM
You haven't been following today's ridiculous events have you? I'll tell you over psn.
Wiizer ($299) Having BC On Your Launch Console? (Priceless) @ Sep 8th 2009 12:57AM
Oops, sorry... Out of habit.
SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Sep 8th 2009 1:09AM
I have a bad habit of downvoting tmac as well.
Actually, I lied. It isn't a bad habit.
Foetoid @ Sep 8th 2009 1:16AM
I'm gonna just say it for the record:
SMW2: Yoshi's Island >>>>>>>>>>>>>> SMW!!!
tmacairjordan87 @ Sep 8th 2009 1:17AM
See sly, it apparently all started with my uncanny ability of automatically attracting the worst this site has to offer. The rest is explained on PSN whenever you get a chance to get on.
BPMOmega [XBL, PSN, Steam] @ Sep 8th 2009 2:23AM
I'm + tmac on this, as I actually agree with him.
RobinEivets (Soon to be Crimsic) @ Sep 8th 2009 9:19AM
Tmac, you posted an unflaming post...and I'm proud of you. The next step...is posting a slightly (not completely) positive post about someone else, perhaps agreeing with them on a subject...or maybe complimenting their hair, remember the first step's always the most difficult...
Rhandos @ Sep 7th 2009 11:23PM
I don't know what's worse, the game or the narrator's voice.
Massmass @ Sep 8th 2009 12:17AM
I don't usually care for taking aim at things people can't help, but it was clearly a one take and done with it voice-over so yeah, I totally agree. If you can't narrate well, don't do it.
Leo161 @ Sep 8th 2009 12:20AM
Lmao
Judd @ Sep 8th 2009 12:29AM
Can anyone pin down that accent? I'm bad at these sort of things. Scandinavian perhaps?
Fab @ Sep 8th 2009 2:31AM
He's a Geordie, that is he's from Newcastle. Or possibly Sunderland, I've never been good at telling the difference, but that neck of the woods, anyway. His voice didn't sound bad to me, I mean, that's what Geordies sound like.
Travis @ Sep 8th 2009 5:32AM
sounds like someone doing a Scottish Accent...and failing...
cjshrader @ Sep 8th 2009 7:45AM
Geordie LaForge didn't sound anything like that, I think you're lying.
xavier behavior @ Sep 7th 2009 11:23PM
wasn't "mario is missing" in the real world?
i never did finish that game..
Platy @ Sep 8th 2009 12:06AM
Mario's Time machine too !
It even features the amazing meeting of Mario and Leonardo DaVinci !
The two greatest italians ! togheter !!! =D
Quiggy @ Sep 7th 2009 11:25PM
Didn't look too bad, especially when you consider that A) that video was an early stage of development and B) it's on the CD-i. Although saying a game looks good for the CD-i is like saying that Goatse is fine to look at for the Internet.
S. Tiger @ Sep 7th 2009 11:28PM
If only a true Super Mario World 2 was made... ;[
Judd @ Sep 8th 2009 12:31AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshi%27s_Island
Foetoid @ Sep 8th 2009 1:17AM
Wow tiger, if i only i could repeatedly vote you down into oblivion. As i said before:
SMW2: Yoshi's Island >>>>>>>>>>>>>> SMW!!!
BPMOmega [XBL, PSN, Steam] @ Sep 8th 2009 2:26AM
Yoshi's Island is SMW2 in name only. It was a (awesome) beast of another nature. If we had another Mario World, it'd be another case of 96-something paths to take, multiple power-ups, running up walls, etc...
Yoshi's Island wasn't a Mario game, it was a Yoshi game. And, man, we could use another one that doesn't suck to get that bad taste of Yoshi's Island DS out of my mouth.
S. Tiger @ Sep 8th 2009 6:55AM
Foetoid? More like FoeTOLD.
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is great, but it's not Super Mario World. What made Super Mario World fun was the fact that it wasn't a linear path.
Batzarro @ Sep 7th 2009 11:30PM
CD-I was unable to handle Mario? Is there anything CD-I wasn't garbage at?
Jawmuncher @ Sep 7th 2009 11:52PM
Sticky Bear Reading was Great Fun!
No wait...it wasn't
JXCgunrunna @ Sep 8th 2009 12:13AM
I hate to purposefully reply to a post and have nothing relevant to say BUT if you guys would be kind enough to report this asshole below instead of downvote, it would be awesome