There's a lot of great old pictures of him in The Stars of Famicom Games. My favorite is him at Takashi Tezuka's desk with a bunch of manga and Mega Drive games in the background
Always with the cool pictures. One question, who is the guy with the mustache?
That's 80's and early 90's Mario. Just imagine a greasy italian plumber with the voice of Capt. Lou Albano. Not the "itsa me, wahooooo" crap that passes for Mario today.
Those Mario faces on monitors resemble the Super Mario 64 title screen, but I think it's actually an interactive thing where Charles Martinet or someone sits in a hidden room with a video feed. A computer generated Mario face is mapped to his facial movements as he talks and interacts with people through the video monitor. I think Popular Science magazine had said something about it and I also read about it somewhere else years later.
Those Mario faces on monitors resemble the Super Mario 64 title screen, but I think it's actually an interactive thing where Charles Martinet or someone sits in a hidden room with a video feed. A computer generated Mario face is mapped to his facial movements as he talks and interacts with people through the video monitor. I think Popular Science magazine had said something about it and I also read about it somewhere else years later.
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The same way Nintendo "helped" Sony....
One question, who is the guy with the mustache?
I'm not sure but I think that's a reject character from Show Biz Pizza.
E3 2002 Press conference.
Taken by yours truley. I loved going to the Nintendo Press conferences back then. Such great shows.
Always with the cool pictures. One question, who is the guy with the mustache?
That's 80's and early 90's Mario. Just imagine a greasy italian plumber with the voice of Capt. Lou Albano. Not the "itsa me, wahooooo" crap that passes for Mario today.
Dude does not age.
seriously, I was thinking the same thing
Originally posted by: Archon
Dude does not age.
You're too kind....definitely agree he has always seemed like one of the coolest dudes though. He did so much for us all!
Why does it appear to have the HUD from Zelda 3?
Originally posted by: Ichinisan
Those Mario faces on monitors resemble the Super Mario 64 title screen, but I think it's actually an interactive thing where Charles Martinet or someone sits in a hidden room with a video feed. A computer generated Mario face is mapped to his facial movements as he talks and interacts with people through the video monitor. I think Popular Science magazine had said something about it and I also read about it somewhere else years later.
Why does it appear to have the HUD from Zelda 3?