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RoboBlue
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by RoboBlue » Tue Dec 15, 2015 18:29
Lunick
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by Lunick » Sun Dec 20, 2015 3:23
None of those were good though which shows why they didn't pursue the PC market
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chrissifniotis
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by chrissifniotis » Sun Dec 20, 2015 3:24
When I was a kid I had Mario's FUN-damentals on the box. The animations freaked me out back then. 'Here fish-y fish-y. Chee!'
Levellass
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by Levellass » Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:23
Lunick wrote: None of those were good though which shows why they didn't pursue the PC market
'If it works it was my idea all along, if it fails I had no intention of succeeding anyway.'
What you really need, not what you think you ought to want.
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by KeenRush » Sun Dec 20, 2015 8:05
It was interesting to finally see footage of that Mario PC prototype. Also thank goodness it didn't happen...
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by VikingBoyBilly » Sun Dec 20, 2015 15:24
Levellass wrote: Lunick wrote: None of those were good though which shows why they didn't pursue the PC market
'If it works it was my idea all along, if it fails I had no intention of succeeding anyway.'
ID's proposal to them was before those games were made, right? That, and the CD-i.
Nintendo made some great third party decisions in the 90s even before the 3D age, I see.
"I don't trust players. Not one bit." - Levellass
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by ScarletFlame » Mon Dec 21, 2015 0:04
VikingBoyBilly wrote: Nintendo made some great third party decisions in the 90s even before the 3D age, I see.
ID: Hey check this out
Nintendo: Sorry not interested
*Doom makes millions of dollars*
Nintendo: Lets make a Mario typing game
Calvero
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by Calvero » Tue Dec 22, 2015 21:55
No Fire Flowers?
Lava89
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by Lava89 » Tue Dec 29, 2015 6:17
I wonder what IFD stood for, ID's old name?
I also had no idea they made anything past that initial "DD in Copyright Infringement" level.
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by Flaose » Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:46
Lava89 wrote: I wonder what IFD stood for, ID's old name?
Ideas From the Deep. It was a name that Romero had been kicking around for a while. They dropped the F pretty soon after, though.
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by entropicdecay » Fri Jan 01, 2016 0:08
Very interesting. Back when reading about the Super Mario Bros. 3 PC demo and its scrolling becoming the beginnings of Keen, I wouldn't have imagined that one day it'd be possible to see it in action. This is neat