Behold the Horror that is Hotel Mario
Aug. 7I have heaped praise on articles in JC Fletcher's Virtually Overlooked series at Wii Fanboy before, and now I fear I must do so again. This week he covered Hotel Mario, which is (or should be) uncontested holder of the title for Worst Mario Game Ever. By the way, it's a Phillips CD-i game. Are you surprised? No? Didn't expect so, really.
What would you do if you were handed the most famous video game license in the world, and given the opportunity to make a new entry in that franchise on an exciting new console capable of unprecedented visual displays? If you're Fantasy Factory, you would make a game about making sure all of the doors in a hotel are closed.
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For some reason I wasn't able to watch the video you posted, so I found the video on YouTube. That's a really weird game, although if it came out I'm not so sure that people wouldn't buy it. Anything with "Mario" in the title is sure to be purchased, even if it is a piece of crap. Example: A mom needs to find her son a birthday gift and picks up Hotel Mario, thinking that it's an AAA title. This happens all the time, unfortunately. I feel bad for the people who bought Ninja Bread Man!
Worst Mario ever? Granted I haven't played it myself, but watching those movies of the game in action (as in the gameplay, not the cinema scenes) it looks more fun than Mario is Missing or Mario's Time Machine at least. Not that its a difficult task topping those two.
This engine looks terribly familiar. I'm almost certain this is a ripoff of something I played on the Commodore 64 back in the day.
Someone who saw it last night elsewhere described it as "someone ate Mario and vomited on Mappy". Virtually Overlooked compares it to Elevator Action.
Wow. This doesn't even look funny-bad like the Zelda games.
Hotel Mario is actually the most playable and, well, game-like game I've ever played on the CD-i. I daresay it was even kind of fun, in an old Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack sort of way. Goofy cartoons notwithstanding, I still think it's a far more entertaining game than the original Mario Bros.
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