Month Of Mario Pt3 Multi Player Madness.

Been out and about today as its been snowing and in Game, they have the VS Mario Bros up as DLC on Switch for £6.99.  I'm guessing its part of Hamsters arcade game port if you will as Nintendo have done nothing with their old Arcade IP in yonks.

On with the show and a quick refresher of the rules, they are.

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.


This week we look at multi player madness with a selection of 3 old games in our Switch compilation.



Balloon Fight.

Nintendo have revisited this over the years most recently with the hideous man child Tingle (incidentally this is sort of what I want from a remake) for their thinly disguised reskin of Joust by Atari.   What I would like to see is a new adventure mode with unlockables and a fully fledged out multiplayer mode.  We are talking 4 player madness here with power ups and a reliance on arena play mode.  Think Bomberman on the SNES, that level of enjoyment but on Switch (in docked mode) with local co op to play over two consoles sharing 1 game.  Make it so gentlemen.

Legend Of Zelda Four Swords.

This has of course been done before but instead of the Link to the past world of Hyrule lets have the world of Link's Awakening, Koholint Island instead.  Have Marin, Tarin, Link and Richard make up your foursome and go exploring. Failing that give us a version based on The Bell Rings For Frogs
cancelled proto. The Legend of Richard: Four Swords does have a nice ring to it.

Clu Clu Land.

My final choice is controversial in that its not really considered a multiplayer game.  Its a game where you have to uncover the gold in a maze that's been hidden by a sea urchin.  Weirdly enough I didn't know that the main character was female until I saw it on Wikipedia.  Clu Clu land should be kuru kuru land based on the Japanese term that means to turn or spin around (its the main means of uncovering the gold) and would make a good multiplayer game with everyone pitching in to clear a puzzle or just destroy a set amount of "urches" with your sonic beams.

Better still would be a 2vs2 mode that pitches a team of fish uncovering a puzzle against another team against the clock.

See you next week.