Month of Mario pt 4 sports.

The fourth part of our mammoth month of Mario is dedicated to sports games which Nintendo have revisited time and again. Whether it be Wii sports, the original baseball for NES or Mario VS Sonic at the Olympics it seems that Nintendo and sports have gone hand in hand for ages.  Incidentally this is the germ that sparked off my initial idea, seeing Donkey Kong Ongaku no Asobi scans on line via twitter and seeing that there was an unreleased bowling game for the Famicom as well.

But first the rules.

1. Graphics should be sprites, either inspired by the NES or SNES or in a more modern style like on the  GBA, definitely no Mii avatars or polygons.

2. No lazy virtual console emulation or ROMS. Unless they are of sufficient obscurity to warrant emulation.  Think Virtual Boy or Satellaview.

3. Do not charge full price and do not have in app purchases, these are budget games using obscure or unloved titles and should be priced as such.


Rules done lets begin.  The sports pack should have the most entries and really should reprise most of the earlier entries for the NES, SNES and Gameboy.  Possibly a 2D remake of Wii sports would be nice but I consider that lazy.  Here is my "Wii sports" collection.



Baseball.
The first game on our list of things is baseball.  Based on the super limited early NES release of the game or its Satellaview Kirby reskin. This basic Baseball is the version I'd like to see released on here.


Bowling.
Bowling is normally problematic, its too dull and limited to make its way into a full priced game, Wii sports was a pack in so that wasn't a problem with it. As part of a compilation again lets have it be a competent remake of what that unreleased NES game would be.

Boxing.
 Another Wii Sports favourite, this along with Punch Out is some of the best versions of the sport available.  Its still limited mind and Nintendo would just port Punch Out instead (minus Iron Mike Tyson).  Incidentally Hamster corp have released the arcade version for their emulation range.

Football.

This should be a remake of the NES game Soccer and not hand egg. This was one of the best football games for the NES which was plagued by terrible soccer games.  Above all this should be competent and with a few different cups to play for.  Would like to see them replace the national teams for some old unloved characters here, lets say add Toad from the Mario games and be done with it.


Golf.

Should you go for an updated version of the original NES Golf but with 18 holes based on the Mario Golf series and  none of the characters. Or go for a crazy golf mode like that Kirby game on the SNES mini.

Snooker Mario.
I am biased in adding this in, I've wanted this for so long after seeing an old TV ad on MTV for Mario Allstars with Mario in a Tux and thinking he looks like he's off to play snooker.  Or rather pool, if we are being universal here, with pipes for pockets and Bowser hustlin'.  Make it so

Tennis.
I don't know which version you would want here but I would love to see a revised Super Tennis complete with swearing and fudged names just for this entry.

Volleyball.
The last entry is the most meh of all.  This didn't make it out of Japan and can be thought of just to make the number up.  But yeah I would like to see a Mario reskin of this too if we can have Delfino Beach as location.

I know I missed a few things out for time and that (possibly a basketball entry and Ice Hockey too which would be nice) or over looked a few things cough Arm wrestling cough.  But this should be enough to get you going in the mean time.