Cultural Blips: Mario Family Tree, Street Fighter 4 Kicks, NES Papercraft, and More

Damn, Mario has really been whored out over the years. And people say Activision Blizzard make a lot of sequels. Guess we know who they learned it from.

Cultural Blips:

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â€¢ Mario family tree of super mushroom-sized proportions. Mario has been in a lot of games. Really. Just look. [Limit Break]

Mario Croaking

â€¢ Cue Game Over ditty: Mario's croaking. You can't always expect Nintendo's portly plumber to win. This illustration proves it. [Offworld]

â€¢ These Street Fighter 4 kicks could potentially kick literal ass. Check out these Street Fighter 4-inspired Nike sneakers shoe customizer Daniel Reese made. Note: Shouting "Tatsumaki-Senp? Kyaku" while wearing these will only make you look like an idiot. [GameSetWatch]

â€¢ NES papercraft requires no hardcore blowing. If you want to make your own Nintendo Entertainment System out of paper, go right on ahead. Tree-killer. [Offworld]

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Lyndsey Mosley

July 23, 2009

The Mario family tree is pretty interesting. I knew there were billions of Mario games out there (being a self-confessed Mario fangirl has lead to playing the majority of that list at least once), but seeing it in graphic form kinda hits the point home, so to speak.

Question: Am I wrong or wasn't Paper Mario and its sequels considered the successors of Mario RPG? Could they move up with a line from them or do they stay the same? I think of them that way, and I have read somewhere that they are since the whole Square falling out incident in the early '90s. However, I realize that might not necessarily be the official Nintendo position. What do you guys think?

Lance Darnell

I love the Mario tree