i think the man picture is from the mario bros. cartoon series. before the episodes they had actaul mario and luigi actors preface it with some slapstick comedy.

mwalker05

Geesh, they couldn't include the shipping!? WTF!

fusedinertia

12,000 bucks and all you get a cartridge and 4 post-it-notes? wth?

James

@badhatharry: They're actually called Super Hornio Brothers, and there's 1 sequel.

davidm

@capitalass: You have to use an eraser and a piece of cardboard to hold it in the slot just right too.

gokor

Maybe these are special cartridges that you don't have to blow out to get to work. That would make them worth the cost, imo.

capitalass

i totally have the wizard on dvd. in other news. the wizard is availble on dvd. with such great special features as "chapter selection"

spookshow

I just noticed the strategically placed cartridge in front of The Hedgehog...

...that's another thing, Ron Jeremy is nicknamed "The Hedgehog" which is sort of Mario's cross platform rival.

Can someone photoshop a picture of Ron Jeremy as Sonic The Hedgehog?

gokor

@gokor: It's from a series of movies he made. "Super Mario Brothers: Layin' Some Pipe." And "Super Mario Brothers 2: These Pipes Are Clean." And "Super Mario Brothers 3: They Have Sex with Fred Savage."

I know, not very funny, but I was trying to tie my hacky porn movie titles with "The Wizard" somehow. I'll try to come up with some funnier stuff and get back to you.

badhatharry

we have a guy at work here that looks exactly like RJ there in this pic. It's frightening!

s017jrs

or for much less you could buy all three games on separate cartridges so that when one game breaks and no longer works you can still play the other two. and for that price you could even buy a couple backup cartridges and even some extra redundant consoles just-in-case, and remain in your budget.

Fierock

Not expensive enough. :D

aaj111

@Pope John Peeps II: I think it was: Nintendocalypse II: The Gamer Who Gamed Too Much.

It brings a tear to my eye when I think of the heartwarming scene where the father was found dead, killed by a knife-wielding R.O.B.

dirtybacon

@gokor: He did a Mario themed movie, but I believe that picture is originally from an IGN article.

davidm

This thread needs more glove!

room209

@Pope John Peeps II: You're definitely thinking of the movie called: "The Awesome Nintendo Kid"

martyz

This will never sell for that price! I would rather have the gold championship cartridge.

@APSOLON I agree, maybe if there was only one made, but 90....not worth it...even if there was one, as a crazed Nintendo collector...id sit this one out.

@ GOKOR...does it matter ..don't you think he's hot dressed up like that? LOL

Daimyo Nintendo

@Pope John Peeps II:
i think the title was called "The Kid That Played Video Games"

btw....it wasn't Fred Savage's character that played the game...it was Luke Edward....

icepick314

@gokor: Hey, in what movie did Fred Savage play a kid so good at Nintendo that he was like some sort of Wizard? Where it was seriously Wizard-like how good he was at those Nintendo games. And everyone who faced him soon came to realize that he was a Wizard at Nintendo?

Pope John Peeps II

@Joseph: Uhhh...that was The Wizard, as it says in the article.

gokor

Why is Ron Jeremy dressed up as Mario?

gokor

Another huge waste of money if you ask me. No game is worth that much even if only 90 were made. You could probably make your own cartridge for a fraction of the price this thing is going for.

Apsolon

What was that movie where the kid was like "I love the power glove. it's so bad!" ??

Joseph

@Evan394:
Wow, really having trouble commenting... ... it was Captain Lou! was what i was trying to say, but dirtybacon beat me to it. For my saturday morning, I choose Captain N: the Game Master. I named my dog Duke because of that show.

Evan394

Sorry I tried to put in a link incorrectly. I was going to say what dirtybacon said. But of those crappy Nintendo-themed Saturday morning shows, my fav was Captain N: the Game Master. My dog was named Duke because of that shit.

Evan394

@mwalker05:
Actually that wasn't Ron Jeremy, it was

Evan394

i can't get $ 12.000 in a whole year

AndersonBMX

@dirtybacon: wow, just IMDB'd Super Mario's Super Show to see who played the live action Luigi (Danny Wells) and noticed that the characters are listed as Mario "Jumpman" Mario and Luigi Mario.

1. Where the hell does "Jumpman" come from?
2. Mario Mario!? Ario's last name is Mario? How did I not know this?

dirtybacon

@mwalker05: Not sure if you are joking or not, but for the record, the "live action" Super Mario was played by WWF great Captain Lou Albano. Besides playing Mario, he was known for having rubber bands in his beard, and starring as Cindi Lauper's dad in the "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" video.

dirtybacon

@davidm: Seriously? That's awesome. Please tell me the sequel had some sort of pipe double entendre.

badhatharry

@Evan394: That's awesome!

I wish the NES Blaster was half as cool as it was in that show. That show made the light gun the most bad-ass peripheral ever.

dirtybacon

1. Where the hell does "Jumpman" come from?

From IGN.com....

"For the first time, story came first and gameplay was designed around it. Miyamoto based his plot on the Popeye love triangle, a license Nintendo pursued and lost. Very quickly, a giant gorilla subbed for Bluto while Popeye the Sailor-Man became Jumpman, a carpenter leaping barrels and scaling his construction site to rescue "Lady." Miyamoto wanted a linear progression through different stages. His four-man programming team didn't want to code the same game four times. It was foolish, like redesigning a chess board every five moves.

Under protest, they delivered a whopping 20k of code while Miyamoto composed the music and designed animated "intermissions" to advance the story. Everything had to stay within Radar Scope's hardware limitations.

Chips and conversion kits were shipped to America in 1981. Arakawa, his wife and a few others changed two thousand Radar Scopes into Donkey Kongs, but Arakawa knew "Jumpman" wouldn't cut it with the Americans. The character needed a real name. His breakthrough came when their landlord burst into a board meeting, demanding long-overdue rent.

The man's name was Segali... Mario Segali."

See at: [games.ign.com]

DaveExile

=*(

I was at the nintendo powerfest convention back when they had this compitition. My friend encouraged me to enter it but I was just a 9 year old little boy with lots of fear. Now I have lots of regret.

mainlinx

@Pope John Peeps II: Hoosiers.

Paradise

@Apsolon: The cart is a collectable. Saying that you could get a copy or all three games separately for much less is like saying you could save $80,000 on Babe Ruth's rookie card by just printing it out yourself or by looking up his stats online. Try telling your girlfriend that a cubic zirconia is just as good as a real diamond and see how far that flies.

But, yes, $12k for the grey cart is a bit much. Even if I do own one. ;)

That movie with Fred Savage and the video game competion was called Nintendo Promotional Movie #1, I believe.

Tandek