What If Mario Characters looked Like Their Original Sprites?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2023
- #mario #documentary
Mario sure has changed since he first plumbed his way into the public consciousness more 30 years ago! But what would he and all his pals look like if they hadn't aged a day?
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"We wanted Mario to be relatable to westerners, so we made him fat."
- Shigeru Miyamoto
"we wanted this new character to be relatable to muslims, so we made him full of explosives and always kills enemies with beheading techniques" Shigeru Miyamoto.
@Sandbox86 I’m guessing that was one of the rejected design pitches for what would ultimately become the Bob-Omb, eh? 😏
thats savage 😂😂😂
I actually sadly believed the quote for a moment. I'm also fat
@seronymus the weird thing is I actually remembered him saying that
Honestly, you convinced me that the SMB1 Big Mario artwork was real until the 3D render lmao
Pickercraftin???
same here
Of course.
It's the guy that uses the smb1 mario
Wait, it's not real?
Agreed
AI isn't going to put artists out of business- _you_ are, with your superhuman ability to perfectly capture apparently every art style under the sun.
Agreeable.
Makes one… JEALOUS!
I laughed so hard at Princess Peach drawing interpretation of her pixel design.
I never imagined pointing fingers at me so cheekily
Almost as if to say, “Yeah, boy! You’re so cute for saving me! Get over here for a kiss, you stud!”
(She actually doesn’t kiss him until Super Mario World.)
With Luigi being entirely larger than Mario, and with Wario remaining absolutely MASSIVE, this implies that the Waluigi of this timeline ends up unfathomably enormous.
Waluigi confirmed to be Nephilim.
@@seronymus Truly a cosmic horror beyond carnal comprehension.
Bro is that BBW art but she's wearing an asexual flag bikini? Are you autistic? Serious question.
Wahbba De Hutt
or comically small
OG-styled Donkey Kong rendered like DK Country 1 is so cursed holy shit
The whiplash isn't as bad when looking at the illumination movies DK, not bad ngl
@@BBWahoo Illumination Donkey Kong looks kinda weird, but Arcade Donkey Kong looks so cursed and stupid.
Check out "What If Donkey Kong Country Used DK's Old Design?"
He looks like he’s committed unspeakable crimes
@@GeberthPaiva
"I've mòIested so many children"
-Diddly Kong
The fact that this channel isn't more popular is depressing. This is true quality content.
You're too kind!
For real!
You could say it's as depressing as daisy's colour palette.
Everyone who pronounces it super Mario BROS gets a thumbs down and a don’t recommend channel from me. It’s like nails on a chalk board.
@@kynmasters8670 *Puts immense effort into artwork*
*Mispronounces something*
kynmasters8670: Ugh, garbage.
I'm ashamed how you forgot to mention how the designers originally intended for the characters designs to be monochrome green, as was the screen of the original Gameboy, but after finding out that emulators would only emulate in monochrome black and white, they had to begrudgingly change their color pallets to blacks, whites, and grey's. Miamoto was notoriously upset about this decision
In fact, it has been stated several times that miamotos disdain for the change from monochrome green to monochrome black and white was because he deliberately wanted the Gameboys games to be green. After the release of donkey Kong, while originally thinking the design fine at the time, he soon grew to regret his choices when designing Mario, specifically that he never made him green. While he was able to somewhat rectify this mistake with the introduction of his very green brother Luigi, and even subtly making super Mario's design greener in the eyes, moustache, shirt, and boots, the damage had already been done. Not only due to Nintendo's strick policy against changeling characters designs out of fear of confusing consumers, but also because of Nintendo's strong association with red before Mario's introduction, making them want their flagship hero to be red, rather than to conform their company's branding to the green of Luigi, who was originally pitched as the player 1 of super Mario bros, miamoto was unable to to make Mario any greener than super Mario. However, he still tried to rectify his mistakes by making his games as Green as possible, by making the koopas, and even Bowser, as Green as he could make them, though he was unable to convince Nintendo to let him make the rest of the super Mario bros cast green. In fact, miamotos desire for yoshi to have a dinosaur companion also sprouted from this desire for more green. When it had finally came time for the Gameboy, miamoto tried to drive Nintendo into a corner, by making the games themselves green, hoping to finally be able to make Mario's design right again. However, he failed to realize that he simply made the Gameboys display green, while the games remained black and white. After this, Nintendo moved to 3d games, to prevent miamoto from forcefully alternating games color pallets again, and even went as far as to make the virtual boy a direct jab at miamotos lust for green, having made the games themselves the same red as Mario's clothes. However, miamoto ended up getting the last laugh, as the world proved that miamotos obsession for changing Mario from red to green was justified, as the overly red display dissuaded the world over, and let it die before even being a year on the market. However, Nintendo has never let miamoto change any characters designs to the objectively better green, not even the game boy characters, who were designed to be green in the first place
This comment is golden
@@charlesinatortheponyfeatur224 "Nintendo's strict policy against changing characters designs out of fear of confusing consumers." that explains a lot about this video's universe.
I heard somewhere that the reason that Miamoto was upset was because he knew a backstory: they worked in a nuclear plant that harvested uranium and got into a sort of "food fight" except the "food" was uranium and it kept getting into people's digestive system.
I love the insinuation that the greyscale characters just have grey skin
And Wario just looks _ever so slightly_ green which makes him look like a goblin 😆
I thought you'd implement Toad's iconic double middle finger hand gesture
That's just an illusion, though; it's his thumbs that appear to be sticking up.
@@kenhollis6197 🤓
@@kenhollis6197 🤓🤓
@@kenhollis6197🤓🤓🤓
they hated him for telling the truth
that DKC-style render of Donkey Kong at 2:51 though
YOur blue color looks cooler
the 3D DK sprite had me fucking rolling 💀 his goofiness (contrasted with his incredibly beady eyes) was a stroke of genius, you're a fantastic artist
Daisy being all gloomy and dark but still cheery and energetic would make such an interesting character
@Bread And Circuses cause it’s rare that a character that dresses in all black and looks gothic is depicted as happy as Daisy
Sounds like Abby from NCIS
She’d be like an old cartoon character
so kinda like Misa Amane. but not as insane
You basically just described Gwen from Total Drama
Watching this whole thing was a surreal semi-mandela effect experience... I loved it.
Didn't expect to see you here, Daniel!
Hey man! Been a fan since the last 5 years.
8:22 the fact this is the most replayed part just shows how down bad we are
It’s been a year now and I only *just* realized that the way you described Mario Land implies that in this universe Nintendo released the Gameboy Color *Nine years early* in order to keep Mario the right color and yet *still* decided the rest of the game should be in black and white.
Ok but some of these designs are actually so charming in their own right, I love them
Yeah the goombas were adorable
Peach was definitely interesting.
Daisy was concerning near the end
@@YourNormalProgram cake
I would like to know how paper mario looks like in game tho
The mario strikers desing of Daisy is actually so smart, giving her green accents as a callback to the original gameboy having a green screen. I love it.
that ass though.
she also has a nice ass
yeah yeah, because of the green accents obviously
Yeah, that's definitely what's smart about her Mario Strikers design
BiG bUm
What impresses me so much about this isn't just how convincingly but how effortlessly you captured the appeal and charm of such a huge variety of artstyles, all while staying true to the OG sprites - that takes a ridiculous level of talent!
Superstar Saga at 4:08 is my absolute favorite, Superstar Saga has the best art direction of any Mario game and you completely nailed the charm of it
I think mario and luigi's voices in the super show would work really well with their respective redesigns.
3:55
The takes on Peach and Daisy actually look really great!
and the toads and goombas were so cute
Agreed! But I definitely think Daisy should've been puke green like the original Gameboy was since a B&W Gameboy wasn't released until 7 years after the game was out
@@yellowwinner1 Game Gear was better... I mean it was a full on 8-bit console (Master System) as a handheld.
Game boy wasn't even able to mach the NES until the Color arrived
@@bluewuppo And Yoshi
Oooo, this could become a great series. Sonic, Zelda, etc.
Sonic still looks like his sprite lmao
@@anton2fangs Original sprite? Going by Sonic 1, He'd have no mouth(or a black lined one), a paler color pallete, no shoe buckles, A more SATAM esque semi-mohawk quill style, a reflective fur texture (kinda like a thunderbolt?) and also bigger black eyes.
zelda I can see happening, sonic... ehhh, no. yes, he has had many different designs throughout the years but his original "classic" design wasn't exactly limited by hardware when it debuted so I don't see it being that interesting of a video(plus, after generations, classic sonic kinda just became his own character, and so, has had much more presence in recent years so that would just be redundant)
@@cooki1875 yeah, sonic even has classic variants which keep most of the spirit of the original intact.
Maybe mega man? Kirbys still on the table since KA. Even if sonic does keep most of the spirit there are still things up to interpretation. Just not as much as Mario's.
How the heck would Pokémon work?
Okay, but I like these unironically. This Princess Peach's looks really stand out, Bowser looks positively manic, and Wario actually looks pretty cute.
The Mario Strikers Daisy art goes hard ngl.
Low-key, as goofy as they might seem to us, if those were the real designs used IRL I genuinely believe the Mario franchise would have Steen been as iconic as it is in our timeline. Which speaks volumes of your artistic talent, because it should be impossible to make some of the designs you had to adapt look good yet you pulled it off.
Yea, these designs would stand out even as silhouettes, which means at bare minimum they have iconic value
Steen
Can we please appreciate the sheer MADNESS of this man to be able to draw so well in so many different cartoon style and exceed in all of them? For real, this is beautiful, and his channel is CRIMINALLY underrated
This guy just got the gaslight high score
Luigi's design is super endearing though, lovin it
5:32 I thought Toad was going to be flipping us off, thank goodness
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING
Exactly.
I was hopng he would.
Monochrome Daisy actually looks pretty good.
But that Super Mario Strikers design of her tho makes me act up 😩😩😩
Better than the actual
@@rubenrodriguezalvarez12 nnnnnah
@@goldtea1017 got me feelin some type of way lol
agreed, she looks great without arms or legs
Bro…this is so amazing it’s hard to truly appreciate it. Nintendo should really hire you. You literally took they’re past and paid homage to it more than they’ve ever done.
This video is incredibly well put together, and in a way it's uncomfy to watch because of how realistic it seems 😅
I was expecting this video to have setup and a description of the process of making the models.
I wasn’t expecting it to be treated like an alternate universe where this was always the case…
(This is a good subversion)
EXACTLY
Man, am I glad for the redesigns
3:02 oh come on. This is clearly the true Kong.
What redesigns
What redesigns?
What redesigns
What redesigns
finally, artistically consistent mario
I need to learn this power. You've weaponized nerdy obsession in the best way.
I really like the modern interpretations of Mario's Donkey Kong sprite. He looks like he could be someone's landlord.
I see what you did there. 😋
FUNNY YOU SHOULD SAY THAT BECA---
*muffled earrape gigachad theme playing in the distance*
Ah. Now I understand what you're all talking about. Mario is named after Mario Segale, who was Nintendo's property landlord at the time.
I genuinely forgot that fact when writing this comment. To quote Charles Barkley, I'm a dumbass.
"We needed them to look different...otherwise, they would look the same"
-Yoichi Kotabe
"People die when they are killed."
@@thethrashyone "Water. Wet."
Nothing short of genius. I had to reread it a few times cause of the complexity of it all 😂😂
I really like these! They actually look like alternate universe versions of the originals. Subbed.
6:03 MAN! I love the art style of Toadette. So much so that I want to make a shirt out of this!
Hi.
@@9-volt247Oh, you found me! Hello!
Man, I honestly wanna see fanart with that Peach design.
What type of fanart?💀
@Bread And Circuses I think it would be pretty cool
There is a lot around the internet
I love the bangs on the original sprite
Pfft. Daisy is best girl on any timeline, including this one.
Princess Peach art turned out unexpectedly cute considering the face on the NES sprite. :O
A nice cartoony style
"We need to make them look Different, otherwise they would both look the same" your type of Comedy is fucking priceless lol
WHY CANT YOU BE MORE POPULAR YOU LITERALLY ARE FROM THE VALLEY DUDE THATS CRAZY! WISHING YOU ALL THE SUCCESS IN THE WORLD
This feels like walking into an alternate universe (although that's kinda the point)
As a fan of Mario & Luigi, I'm just love the duality between the brothers: with Mario's beady eyes and red and blue round body; symbolising his rollercoaster of a personality, going from calm and collective to hot-head and confident. And Luigi's wide-eyes and green and brown blocky body; making him the down to earth straight man of the group. A TRULY classic duo.
Also is that Scott Wozniak from Scott the Woz?
Where is Scott?
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e at the end
0:22 I always thought Mario had angry eyes in his nes big sprite but an unused sprite makes it very clear he’s supposed to have round eyes with yellow highlights
5:38 I thought toad was flipping the bird!
A Thomas Game Docs parody is the last thing I expected from this channel
yes.
Same
Tom's made it big~
@@eckitronix Stop
If he wanted to be 100% identical he needed a clickbait thumbnail and title though 😂
The vibe of these designs is really strange and fascinating, like your looking at a false memory or some kind of strange bootleg versions of the characters. Overall, you did great job bringing them to life with the poses.
When i first listened to this i was playing a game and i was only paying half attention. Was unbelievably confused for a minute.
Your set up and framing device for this retrospective is absolutely astounding.
Dead serious, I prefer these classic designs! Great work re-interpreting them through the ages, the crossover into 3D, and across art styles. (Like Paper Mario)
My favorite is the Baby Mario on Yoshi, LOL!
While most sprites come off a bit silly literally translated to artwork, I actually really like the character design for Peach. Especially where she's giving the finger guns, lol
I am going to choose to believe these are alternative-universe counterparts to Mario and co. who could ostensibly one day cross paths
Daisy looks good too
And yoshi with Orange arms seems more natural
Finger guns Peach cracked me up
the DK render at 2:55 broke me, laughed way too hard lol
He really said ":)"
He staring to your soul
we should make this a meme
These are honestly quite impressive and faithful takes on the original pixel art!
2 Points...
1) Incredible art, absolutely love all the stylistic shifts, and how you still kept them consistent to the designs!
2) Scott The Woz
Real Talk though,
It's insane how most modern designs of Mario characters and species are extremely similar to their designs from SMB2 (JP) onwards. Kotabe's art inspired the modern designs of most enemies and characters, especially in the modern 2D artwork drawn by Nakaue.
It’s funny how much SMB2 gave us when we barely recognize it as a Mario game
@@josefruiz3435 if you want to get real technical with it, SMB2 never even happened because it was revealed to be just a dream that Mario had one night.
Technically, same with SMB3, it’s actually a stage play put on by the characters, which is why the red curtain is drawn at the beginning, you exit stage-left into a blackness behind the scenes, and much if not all of the platforming material is bolted to the background, such as the colored rectangles, white(ish) scaffolding, ? Blocks, and so on.
So technically (or pedantically), SMB1 and SMW are Mario’s actual first two adventures 🤷🏻♂️
@wokeupinapanic some people also say that sm64 is a movie, but i believe that it's rather a live TV broadcast of an actual adventure
to who's TV is this mario show airing? we shall never know...
@arekrekas213 Yeah, it's made clear in the very beginning that Lakitu is broadcasting the adventure live. Never understood why people jump to the conclusion of a movie when literally the first thing Lakitu tells you is that he's recording Mario's adventure live on the scene.
@@DaNintendude I kinda wish DK kept his proposed look by Miyamoto and Kotabe. Not a fan of the “Fudgehead” look.
Man, Peach and Daisy kinda cute tho
All jokes aside, top-notch video! The drawings were all perfectly on-point, and really managed to both stay faultlessly faithful to the originals while also making the designs work on their own merits, but I also appreciated the funny fake quotes as a little cherry on top. Good stuff.
Yeah, that Mario Bros. 3 art of Peach is something I want an actual keychain of.
Your commitment to keep each specific style so accurate is so incredibly special and amazing
Lmao this was amazing! Never seen your videos before, but I’ll definitely check out some more
More and more convinced Harry Gould is just from an alternate timeline
The DKC Render for Donkey Kong nearly gave me a heart attack holy shit
Bro, same
Looked a bit like Tim and Eric's "Grum" character.
This is honestly amazing. I really hope you do this with other series - it's brilliant.
This was like an alternate reality I didn't know I needed to see! 💚
Also I found your channel a while back, and I just have to say I really like the style/vibe of your videos! They're quite unique, especially this day and age when being original only gets more difficult. I'm looking forward to more, nice work!! 💚💚
Unsurprisingly, your renders of these sprite-designs are incredibly charming!
Blue-haired and beady-eyed Mario truly is the peak of character design.
These designs are super cute in their own right! Also caricature of the week is definitely ScottTheWoz
i love both videos that gaslight me and videos with cute and well made art so you really scratched both of my itches here
Amazing format. Keep on going
The goombas look somewhat normal, but goombella is so cursed.
Edit: why did I get so many likes for a low effort comment but when I actually try to be creative I get no likes? Seriously though, thanks guys, I appreciate the likes.
Just the tip
Not that cursed, she just looks very angry.
Huh, it actually is, I thought about how comical it would be to have this guy as the caricature.
Scott "The Woz" Wozniak
Peach doing the "eyyy" double point makes my day.
Wow, just found out this channel after the Homer Simpson video. Top kek trolling, for a moment I was sure I went crazy and drifted in my sleep to the Bearstein universe from my own.
I love the Thomas Game Docs parody
No joke, I actually legit love these. There’s something so charming about the original designs that your video capitalizes on!
4:25 Peach Finger Guns
Wow, now that’s impressive 🤯👏! Your interpretations are so charming looking. Reminds me of how old game packaging art had to interpret the game sprites back then. Or how Captain N reinterpreted the sprites really weirdly. Like how Megaman was primarily green and Simon from Castlevania looked more like a cartoony Indiana Jones parody than a midevil looking character.
6:54 that is an EXTREMELY cursed goombella
For me it looks cute
she looks like shes eating her tie😂
Imagine if we got games with these characters though.
You mean we don't?
You must be living in an alternate universe or something cause these are the designs they use in the games
@Toad Rice ッ he is he got access to classified universe travel tech
@@endcaps1917 They might return back to their OG forms like scooby doo did
Mario Generations
This was such a good video full of personality.
The Donkey Kong from Donkey Kong Country sees the deep crevices of my soul.
this is outstanding!
Thank you kindly!
@@TheHarryGoldShow What about doing renders based on classic artwork:
Mario (1985 Box Art, Menko Cards show his body is a similar build like his Super Show counterpart)
Luigi (Super Mario Bros. 2 USA)
Peach (1986 Stock Art)
Bowser (1986 Stock Art, same color scheme as his 1986 Anime counterpart)
Toad (Modern Design minus the yellow trim)
Yoshi (Pre-Yoshi’s Story Design/SMW Art)
Lady (Jumpman’s Girlfriend, redrawn to look similar to Peach in the Japanese Mario Character Encyclopedia)
Donkey Kong (Modern Design from Miyamoto’s Initial Sketch reused in Donkey Kong ‘94 and the Game & Watch Gallery games, similar to his Illumination design, but with eyebrows and a lack of Jimmy Neutron style Fudgehead hair)
Donkey Kong Jr. (Nothing changed other than tweaks in DK’94 and Game & Watch Gallery)
Wario (reverts back to longer sleeves on shirt for 3D model)
Baby Bowser (a hybrid between the head of Mario Party’s Koopa Kid, sans the horns, plus Bowser Junior’s Hair and Body, minus the Bandana)
And do Sonic next
@@satamsonic4026 Sonic hasn't had enough design differences to warrant that
MYSTICAT??????? i love your videos tbh.
for once in my life, i am entirely sure that that is most certainly scott the woz himself, man of the hour and my heart.
Please make more of these with different franchises. This is a very interesting concept and I would love to see more
This was a great video subbed I hope to see more retro design videos
This really feels like what mario could look like in an alternate universe, its surreal.
i do kind of like peach with a bean head and daisy with a square head. it was always weird to me that theyre drawn in basically a completely different art style to the rest of the characters
Wonderful and hilarious, as always :)
This video is brilliant on so many levels
This is like looking into an alternate reality and I like that feeling that this video gives off. It kind of gives it a strange feeling to it but it's unique. (Also, the designs are goofy and wonderful at the same time and I Love them!)
This is what gaslighting feels like
Incidentally, Miyamoto is the real life inspiration for The Shredder on account of Kevin Eastman reading a Nintendo Power magazine interview about Miyamoto crushing turtles as a kid. Peter Laird is the one who was slicing cheese with a (you guessed it) shredder while in the kitchen preparing a home made pizza for them in between smoking pot and drawing...Thus the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, thier ach nemesis and thier love for pizza was born in the spring of 1987. 😁😉
If this becomes a series I would be super happy I loved this video it’s so good
after the alternate reality of this fully set in, I found that I really, really liked that SMW Bowser Peach drawing. In fact that abomination of the original peach ended up becoming a pretty interesting character honestly. Maybe better than the peach we got?
this video is glorious
2:55 and this 3D render is one of the most cursed things i've ever seen
The DK Country render looked like a Madagascar character and you can't convince me otherwise. Great video!
That peach design is surprisingly appealing. Defenitely doesn't feel like she'd be the same character but still looks good nonetheless
The art in this video, which is official and well known, was absolutely fantastic. I need it in poster form.
Broo you're so creative with these designs!
You are a great charicature artist, honestly
These art pieces and 3D renders look so real!
Thank you kindly!