Mario Returns - Wielding a Baseball Bat! First Screens Inside
Mario Baseball on the way.
Stop the press! Nintendo has today revealed some rather marvellous screens of a brand new Mario title for GameCube.
Start the press back up again! It’s only baseball.
We’re always pleased to hear news of new Mario titles, but in this particular instance our excitement is quite containable. It is sure to be of an impressive standard, doing for the elaborate take on rounders what Mario Golf and Mario Tennis did for their respective sports, but it will fundamentally be based on the simple idea of hitting a ball with a big stick.
As Europeans without even a basic understanding of the ‘baseball scene’, we can’t even insert a poor quality baseball pun here. So instead, we’ll have to improvise. Back of the net!
Start the press back up again! It’s only baseball.
We’re always pleased to hear news of new Mario titles, but in this particular instance our excitement is quite containable. It is sure to be of an impressive standard, doing for the elaborate take on rounders what Mario Golf and Mario Tennis did for their respective sports, but it will fundamentally be based on the simple idea of hitting a ball with a big stick.
As Europeans without even a basic understanding of the ‘baseball scene’, we can’t even insert a poor quality baseball pun here. So instead, we’ll have to improvise. Back of the net!
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ryohazuki-san 24 Nov 2004 13:10
1/7
Someone needs to to teach them about cricket, maybe then us Brits will consider buying...
Joji 24 Nov 2004 14:46
2/7
Should be interesting to see if this will sell outside of japan and the u.s, it's clear they are the ones this game is aimed at.
With most Mario titles doing well it might yet find a new audience on GC, even if it just is glorified rounders. Playing this might possibly be the only baseball game I'd purchase ever.
With most Mario titles doing well it might yet find a new audience on GC, even if it just is glorified rounders. Playing this might possibly be the only baseball game I'd purchase ever.
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wrecktify 25 Nov 2004 00:19
3/7
i hear Namco is working with Nintendo on this one... ;)
Pandaman 25 Nov 2004 03:20
4/7
Well, I'm glad to see they went with "Mario hit ball with bat" over "Mario run around an extremley large field for 60 minutes and if anyone even barely touches someone they get a card that seemingly does nothing in games that always end tied or 1-0 unless played in some crappy football league or amongst grade schoolers".
...GO MEXICO!
...GO MEXICO!
tyrion 25 Nov 2004 13:02
5/7
Alan Is my first name wrote:
"Mario run around an extremley large field for 60 minutes and if anyone even barely touches someone they get a card that seemingly does nothing in games that always end tied or 1-0 unless played in some crappy football league or amongst grade schoolers".
As opposed to "Mario stands in extremely large field for four minutes, discussing with Luigi and Peach what they will do in the next five seconds, then try to do it, but can't and then get another two goes to do it, then do and jump around and award themselves fifteen points for one try. All while wearing more body armour than a platoon of troops in Iraq"?
Oh and football is played over 90 minues, in two halves, with oranges in between! :-)
Joji 25 Nov 2004 13:37
6/7
LOL. Nice returned back hand Tyrion. you beat me to it.
I think the whole thing with football goes back to same point about Americans not trying to understand what plenty of other nations see in the game. This kind of ignorance then gets passed on to other things.
I'm not saying this to beat on americans for the sake of it, but it's true that americans love THEIR sports, and THEMSELVES. USA even has a pretty good football team that done quite well in the last few World Cups, but they don't get enough respect because of home grown sports. I have respect for any americans who play football in the english premiership, Brad Freidel especially (good keeper indeed).
I understand American Football, Rugby and plenty of other sports because I have an open mind to sport as well as other things. I just wish most americans could see and play football and stop the stereotypes. Even the Canadians and South American nations play and love the game. It's a shame that it left to children to play when they are really young, but if you build on this you might get somewhere.
Free you mind, and enjoyment will follow if you let it happen. I'm sure the same will happen for me with Mario Baseball. Yanks should try buying Pro Evo 4 or FIFA 2005, though I know it's unlikely.
I think the whole thing with football goes back to same point about Americans not trying to understand what plenty of other nations see in the game. This kind of ignorance then gets passed on to other things.
I'm not saying this to beat on americans for the sake of it, but it's true that americans love THEIR sports, and THEMSELVES. USA even has a pretty good football team that done quite well in the last few World Cups, but they don't get enough respect because of home grown sports. I have respect for any americans who play football in the english premiership, Brad Freidel especially (good keeper indeed).
I understand American Football, Rugby and plenty of other sports because I have an open mind to sport as well as other things. I just wish most americans could see and play football and stop the stereotypes. Even the Canadians and South American nations play and love the game. It's a shame that it left to children to play when they are really young, but if you build on this you might get somewhere.
Free you mind, and enjoyment will follow if you let it happen. I'm sure the same will happen for me with Mario Baseball. Yanks should try buying Pro Evo 4 or FIFA 2005, though I know it's unlikely.
Pandaman 25 Nov 2004 17:37
7/7
Hey, I'm the guy who stayed up until one or two in the morning to watch Mexico's matches in the World Cup a year or two ago.
But Americans only have a love for what is familiar, for if they really appreciated amazing sports, the NHL wouldn't be where it is now.
But Americans only have a love for what is familiar, for if they really appreciated amazing sports, the NHL wouldn't be where it is now.