In some deeply weird alternative universe, perhaps one in which Japanese people actually bought Microsoft consoles and England's footballers weren't quite so irredeemably rubbish, we might never have experienced Super Mario Bros. as we know it. Instead, we could have been playing Super Mario Sisters.Alas, Nintendo of America never did follow through on a trademark application it filed in February, 1990 for a game called "SUPER MARIO SISTERS." The application was abandoned almost two years later, depriving us all of an estrogen-fuelled version of the world's favorite platformer.
Go past the break for a grab of the application.
[Via Kotaku]
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11-22-2007 @ 1:42PM
Chase said...
Lemme guess, the boobed, respective characters would have been Bario, a large-breasted bar wench, and Guigi, known locally as 'Goo'igi, which I think it explanatory in itself. x_0
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11-22-2007 @ 2:31PM
Conda said...
I'm guessing they may have just registered it for protection's sake, so that someone else didn't try to milk the series' popularity with a similar name. Nintendo from time to time buys variant trademarks not for the intent of use, but just for the intent of protection (the recent "Pokemon Water Blue" registration along with the Fire Red and Leaf Green registrations in the US is the first that comes to mind)
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11-22-2007 @ 2:46PM
Drew said...
Ahaha, that's pretty funny.
I'm thinkin' more along the lines of Maria and Luigana.
And they have to constantly rescue Prince Banana. But it's hard because the evil Bowsy keeps getting in the way.
Ooh that would be just fab.
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11-22-2007 @ 3:41PM
ArashiUzumaki said...
were they fat with mustaches?
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11-22-2007 @ 3:45PM
TriptychR said...
So that's why Peach had to go save the world on her own. A lady just can't get a break.
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11-22-2007 @ 4:02PM
Don Homer said...
Anyone remember the similar-yet-legally-distinct "Giana Sisters" for C64?
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11-22-2007 @ 4:12PM
Buntaro said...
I remember the "Great Giana Sister".
The stage design was pretty cool and combined with the many different enemies and traps, the game had more variety to offer than the first SMB.
A very well done clone. I need to play this again sometime (never managed to compelte it back in the C64 days, but I was like 4 years old and was only allowed to play half an hour a day)
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11-22-2007 @ 4:15PM
ssuk said...
SUPER MARIA GALAXY
Is still UR MR GAY. =(
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11-22-2007 @ 7:47PM
Calvin said...
Creepy, it was filled on the day I was born. O_O
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11-23-2007 @ 3:16PM
ehaleen said...
Great Giana Sister actually has a DS homebrew port. check it out.
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11-25-2007 @ 9:06PM
KaBob799 said...
5 days after i was born =o
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11-26-2007 @ 12:04AM
Slize Kalfer said...
and it looks like 11 years later a bunch of people got really mad about it being cancelled o.o
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11-26-2007 @ 12:06AM
Slize Kalfer said...
i mean opposed =p