#头条创作挑战赛#近期博士和大家分享了任天堂的业绩报告, although sales of game hardware and software have shrunk to a certain extent, the overall business has maintained a positive growth trend, and the reason for this is that the success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie has led to a significant increase in revenue from IP licensing (including movie revenue) and official stores. It is reported that this new 3D animated film adapted from the "Super Mario" series netted about $559 million, which is the most profitable movie in 2023!
The success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie is due to the success of the film, but we can't ignore the original influence of the Super Mario franchise. Since the first version of the Super Mario Bros. series of games was released in 1985 on the red and white platform, it has taken the world by storm and received the love of the majority of players! Interestingly, the pirates of the year mistakenly annotated the English name of the game as "Super Mari" and omitted an "o", so the game was translated into the nondescript and well-known "Super Mario" by domestic players.
After the success of "Super Mario Bros.", Nintendo struck while the iron was hot, and launched two sequels "Super Mario Bros. 2" and "Super Mario Bros. 3" in 1986 and 1988 respectively, and they were also well received! In general, in this case, the launch of Super Mario Bros. 4 should be a logical thing. However, we all know it now: Nintendo followed it up with Super Mario World on the SFC platform in 1990. Where did the four generations go? The routine of numbering numbers came to an abrupt end?
For the younger generation of players, and even some old players, it is true that they do not know the answer to the above questions; Or that many people didn't notice the details of Nintendo's changes in the process of releasing the game, and the question of whether Super Mario Bros. 4 existed or not appeared. Recently, a well-known game blogger in Japan "4ST" posted an article about "Super Mario World", he shared the game cartridge and outer box he owned, and sighed: "The packaging of the game is clearly marked with the words "four generations", I even found out about it, and I haven't noticed it at all for more than 30 years"!
We see that in the top right of "Super Mario World" there is a line with the subheading "SUPER MARIO BROS. 4", which means that Super Mario World, which was released on the Super Nintendo (SFC) console in 1990 and achieved global sales thanks to its entertaining gameplay, is actually Super Mario Bros. 4. However, this fact is ignored by many players, and the doctor remembers that there is a consensus in the player community, that is, many people believe that after entering the SFC generation, due to many factors, the official deliberately abandoned the way of naming by number.
The above-mentioned "discovery" sparked heated discussions in the player community, with many veteran players pointing out that in the early days of the release of "Super Mario World", this product was positioned as "Super Mario Bros. 4", and the publicity at that time also revolved around the "four generations"; However, unconsciously, Nintendo deliberately weakened the concept of "four generations" and changed the term "world" to "world". It is worth mentioning that the American version of the cartridge released later directly deleted the words "Super Mario Bros. 4"!
Netizens said: "I really don't know, I am scared", "Is the world 4 generations?" Why didn't I remember it at all", "I kept talking about "Super Mario Bros. 4" in TV commercials, but I don't know when it became "World", "My first contact with the Mario series started with the world, and I didn't know the previous works at all, so I always wondered what the 4 written on it was", "The Mario manga serialized in "Comic BomBom" also wrote this line", and so on. Is the same for you in front of the screen?