Tag Archives: Mario

Real Doctors, Console Chow & Arcade Dreamscapes – Culture Collection #23

Posted on Feb 4, 2018 by Oliver Jameson

It’s been a good long while since the last instalment of Culture Collection, our regular round-up of the best gaming-themed cultural offerings from around the web. You can read a little bit about Minus World’s recent radio silence here, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture Collection, Features, Games Culture, Posts | Tagged Arcade, Art, Culture Collection, Famicom, Features, Food, Game Boy, Games Culture, Mario, Nintendo, Pokémon | Leave a comment

Bold Controllers, Forgotten Worlds and Taking out the Trash – Culture Collection #22

Posted on Jun 22, 2017 by Oliver Jameson

This amazing shot was taken by ethnographer and photographer Laura de Reynal. In her photographs, de Reynal has worked to capture the impact of projects run by companies that aim to introduce the internet and other technology into communities where it … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture Collection, Features, Games Culture | Tagged 3DS, Arcade, Culture Collection, Features, Game Boy, Games Culture, Mario, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Splatoon | Leave a comment

A Peek Behind the Curtain on Captain Toad with 1-Up Studio’s Company Recruitment Guide

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Oliver Jameson

Nintendo second party developers 1-UP Studio Inc. have recently shared their 2017 company recruitment guide, for use by prospective employees to better understand the company and roles on offer in anticipation for a recruitment seminar at the end of the month. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Design, Posts | Tagged 1-UP Studio, Art, Brownie Brown, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Design, Mario, Nintendo | Leave a comment

A Super Mario World Re-Telling, Released on VHS and Controlled with a Fake Telephone

Posted on Mar 29, 2017 by Oliver Jameson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6RlHBMCApc Obscure game preservationist and Satellaview aficionado Kiddo Cabbusses has shared footage of a unique Mario adventure that you’ve likely never experienced. Mario to Yoshi no Bouken Land (Mario & Yoshi’s Adventure Land) is an animated re-telling of the events of SNES … Continue reading →

Posted in Games Culture, Posts, Video | Tagged Games Culture, Mario, Nintendo, Retro Games, Super Mario World, Terebikko, VHS | 3 Comments

New Super Mario Bros. – 10 Years On

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Oliver Jameson

I have to start this retrospective on a personal note – New Super Mario Bros. came out ten years ago. Bloody hell, I feel old all of a sudden! To put into perspective how much of a whippersnapper I am, … Continue reading →

Posted in Features, Posts, Retrospective | Tagged DS, Features, Mario, New Super Mario Bros., Nintendo, Retrospective | 4 Comments

VIDEO – Check out the first part of our Hotel Mario live playthrough

Posted on Feb 26, 2016 by Oliver Jameson

You’ve more than likely heard of Hotel Mario, the Mario puzzle game that wasn’t developed by Nintendo – and that Nintendo would quite like you to forget ever existed. Famous for its notoriously strange concept and so-bad-they’re-funny cutscenes, very few have actually … Continue reading →

Posted in Posts, Video | Tagged Hotel Mario, Mario, Nintendo, Philips CD-i, Video | 2 Comments

Bargains, In-flight Entertainment and Carts Galore – Culture Collection #9

Posted on Jan 23, 2016 by Oliver Jameson

There’s no better way to spend your weekend than with some portable games. If Game Boy classics are your style, then FamicomSpirits has got you more than covered with this truly envy-inducing mound of carts! Whilst it’s obviously difficult to … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture Collection, Features, Games Culture, Posts | Tagged Culture Collection, Famicom, Famicom Disk System, Features, Game Boy, Games Culture, Mario, Nintendo, SNES, Street Fighter, Super Famicom | 2 Comments

Career Spotlight – Asuka Hayazaki

Posted on Jan 8, 2016 by Oliver Jameson

This is the first entry of a new regular item on Minus World, ‘Career Spotlight’. In this monthly feature you’ll get an opportunity to learn about the unsung heroes who have been responsible for some of your favourite titles, often working behind … Continue reading →

Posted in Career Spotlight, Features, Music, People, Posts | Tagged Asuka Hayazaki, Asuka Ohta, Career Spotlight, Composer, Features, Mario, Mario Kart, Music, Nintendo, People, Super Smash Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Yoshi | 2 Comments

You’ve Probably Never Played… Wrecking Crew ’98

Posted on Nov 4, 2015 by Oliver Jameson

Wrecking Crew ’98 Developer: Nintendo R&D1, Pax Softnica Publisher: Nintendo Platform(s): Super Famicom (via Nintendo Power service) Release Date: 1st January 1998 (Japan exclusive) As I mentioned in my Mario spin-off characters feature last month, Nintendo’s main man can be considered a jack of all-trades; … Continue reading →

Posted in Features, You've Probably Never Played... | Tagged Features, Mario, Nintendo, Nintendo Power, Puzzle Games, SNES, Super Famicom, Wrecking Crew, You've Probably Never Played... | Leave a comment

Mario characters and the problem with playing it safe.

Posted on Oct 22, 2015 by Oliver Jameson

It’s no secret that aside from tending to the sewers of Brooklyn and adventuring in the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario has a lot of hobbies. The portly plumber and his friends (and often foes) have seen themselves involved in all sorts of … Continue reading →