A true fan feat brings back a lost Super Mario game.
To date, the plumber in the red dungarees has not left the Nintendo platforms, but many years later, it seems to have been made public that he existed. a Super Mario game for PC in 1997. Something unthinkable today, when Mario, Zelda or Pokemon They are still the great bulwarks of Nintendo consoles, but at the end of the 90s, the Japanese company joined a curious advertising campaign.
Is about a browser game created with the famous Macromedia Flash technology that dominated an entire generation of browser games, a proposal that more than a game in itself, was part of a promotional campaign of the new IBM AS/400 computer.
The lost game of Super Mario for PC
Is about Mario Net Quest, from 1997, a product of the Super Mario brand that everyone already considered lost. Although you are never safe on the internet, a Reddit user named WaifuGroove has rescued this story that Nintendo would surely prefer to keep forgotten. The story turns a bit tricky when this user who vaguely remembered a Super Mario browser game manages to find the original link to that game and try to make it workbut only receives a DCR file that doesn’t work in current browsers and a terse: “Released 03/14/1997 as part of a contest promoting IBM AS/400 servers. Information page will be available soon!” That page never came into existence and it seems that hardly any information about this game is preserved on the net.
Finally, WaifuGroove managed to find an Italian newspaper of the time that kept an ad for the Super Mario game together with the IBM AS/400 and thanks to the collaboration of Flashpoint, which has preserved more than 100,000 Flash and Shockwave browser games, got a first glimpse of what was this Super Mario browser game like. At this point, Mario Nest Quest is already duly documented in Mario Wiki, where it is stated that “the gameplay is similar to that of a game of hit a mole. In the game, the player controls Mario inside a tiled room using the cursor. The object of the game is to get as many points as possible in sixty seconds.”
At the moment, no game in the series has been announced on the horizon, but we do know that the Supe Mario movie has been an absolute taquellia success, so it shouldn’t take long for us to find out about the future of the series in terms of video games. . A new remastering of one of the most beloved installments of the Nintendo series is rumored.