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Baby Luigi said:
a potato-like gameplay video of Mario Kart 8
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I am unfamiliar with this descriptor. :koopa:

But yeah. It also doesn't help that many voice clips seem to just be recycled and amplified.
 
I took it from the saying of taking screenshots with a potato, meaning a crappy camera of some sort.
 
The 2016 Gaming Guinness Records flopped into my bag while I was shopping, so I've been leafing through it for any Mario information. However, there's one piece of trivia that I find really odd:

Over the course of his career, Mario has faced off with 1,925 different types of enemies and 588 bosses.
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I am seriously wondering how they came to this number, because the wiki only has 941 enemies (Category:Enemies) and 307 bosses (Category:Bosses) in their respective categories. It's nothing much to worry about, the book isn't officially licensed by Nintendo or anything, but I'm wondering if anyone's willing to take a stab at how this number came to be.

edit: Also, can anyone confirm if New Super Luigi U is the "first platformer in the Mario series not to feature Mario"? There's Mario is Missing, sure, but that's not a platformer.
 
Maybe they're counting full-on recolors like Koopa Troopa and Paratroopas and stuff. They may have counted enemies with drastic differences as different enemies, like the Bullet Bill in Super Mario Galaxy or the different sentry beams in Super Mario Galaxy.

Not sure about bosses, lol.

Time Turner said:
edit: Also, can anyone confirm if New Super Luigi U is the "first platformer in the Mario series not to feature Mario"? There's Mario is Missing, sure, but that's not a platformer.
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Mario is also featured. In the other hand, Mario himself isn't there at all in New Super Luigi U.
 
Striker Mario said:
Maybe they're counting full-on recolors like Koopa Troopa and Paratroopas and stuff. They may have counted enemies with drastic differences as different enemies, like the Bullet Bill in Super Mario Galaxy or the different sentry beams in Super Mario Galaxy.
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I've always considered the Bloopers, Bills, and Bob-ombs in Super Mario Sunshine to be different subspecies from the traditional breeds, just because of the drastic differences you mentioned.

As for the boss, maybe it just depends on what/who they considered to be a boss.
 
I know that the Zelda series has mid-bosses and major bosses. However, the Mario series doesn't exactly have what you'd call mid-bosses, since defeating a boss in the Mario series typically results in the completion of a course.
 
It's just bothering me because a lot of the "records" were obviously lifted wholesale from various places (and I certainly don't doubt that this wiki and others like it were valuable "sources"), so if they did completely ignore the numbers that already existed in favour of something they researched on their own, I'd find it odd.

(this book has stuff like "first stealth game to use the fox engine", "first interactive digital graphic novel for the playstation portable", "most appearances by a basketball player on a videogame cover", "most dangerous armchair in a game" and so many more ridiculously specific "records"; they don't strike me as the kind of people to count all of the enemies on their own)
 
Time Turner said:
edit: Also, can anyone confirm if New Super Luigi U is the "first platformer in the Mario series not to feature Mario"? There's Mario is Missing, sure, but that's not a platformer.
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The only non-main series platformers I can think of are Super Paper Mario and Super Princess Peach, both of which have Mario.

There aren't many Mario games without Mario in the first place anyway, so it's probably correct.
 
My brain went to the first Wario Land title what with it being subtitled "Super Mario Land 3".

But then I remembered he shows up for like 10 seconds at the end.
 
Playing on custom tracks in Mario Kart Wii online and racing against nothing but Funky Kong on Flame Runner really gets on my nerves.