Sunday, February 18, 2007
Mario Paint
My brother and I were always having to take the mouse apart to remove all the dust that would stick to the little rolly ball. I wonder how many people started making crude animation and music with this. Ahhh, kids these days, with their Flash and editing software that comes with everything.
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Holy crap, you wouldn't BELIEVE how much I used Mario Paint!!!
Yeah, taking the ball out and scraping all that stuff off the rollers with the special Nintendo white plastic gunk remover. And how about that gray solid plastic mousepad?? I wore away that grid design until it was smooth!
I don't know if you remember but Nintendo Power held a Mario Paint contest back in '93 or so, and I was convinced I would win. I made a crude cartoon about a dog getting lost, and sent the tape in. Too bad my then-13-year-old self didn't make a second copy.
And the music-making was great. I always had fun with the cat meow, making annoying meowing symphonies.
I did make a music video to Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence," all in Mario Paint... as well as a Star Trek: TNG parody. I still have those on tape, SOMEWHERE.
Kids really do have it easy these days. Them looking at Mario Paint would be like little Elijah Wood looking at Wild Gunman in Back To The Future II - "That's like a baby's toy!"
Ha ha! I have hours of random "films" we made with Mario Paint on tape too. My brother was pretty good with the music I remember. And yes, that mouse pad is now smooth. But I never had that tool to clean the mouse, we'd take it apart piece by piece, and then put it back together. Such a pain. I remember that Mario Paint NP too. Didn't some old guy win with a video of Van Halen's "Jump"?
I don't remember, I should find that particular N.P. - I was a subscriber for the longest time and I kept every single issue.
They should put a full version of Mario Paint out on the DS!
At first I thought that Yoshi made was made WITH Mario Paint aanfd I was like "Hmmn. Impressivish"
But apparently not...So it's not vety impressive and I am unimpressed.
Homestar Runners Mario Paint stuff is impressive...
i really don't know how my mouse handled, i had to take turns with my brothers to play it. And we always fought to see which animation was worthy of saving. Mario Paint was a step forward, before that we made animation with Art Alive for the sega genesis, using a joypad. It was awful, you could only have 8 frame loops, i think. Or was it 4? Anyway, since i was a kid i use a lot of animation games and software, even for ms-dos and windows 3.1! Animating was my dream, and now i have it all to do it at home but i can't because i have no time, studying my ass off. Damn, damn!! It'll change when i get a job...
Before Mario Paint I used Videomation on the NES... this was back in '91 right before the SNES came out. It was even more crude than Mario Paint, but a whole lot more psychedelic!!
Yeah those high falutin' softwares are great and all that but you can do spiro-graph while taking a bath whereas it would be too dangerous to do that with computers... Etch-a-Sketch too - You can plug Lite-Brite in your car lighter probably, not computers... The world would definitely be a better place if Atari or Coleco controlled the world instead of Microsoft...
haha, that was my very first videogame i got XD Good times back then.
I somehow hope that this bob ross videogame for wii isn´t´just a rumor ;)
i had the genesis version, it's seems quite inferior looking at that video!!
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