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Tv tropes untitled goose game tv#

There are not enough words in the English language for me to fully enunciate how much I wish I could've worked in marketing during the magazine + TV commercial era of video games. I really like Nintendo of America's choice to spend 1989 building up a metric ton of hype for this game they knew was going to be a smash hit. Marketing for games was so different back then because it was so much easier to build suspense with the tiniest IV drip of information without worrying about leaks or fake news spreading like wildfire over social media, but at the same time it was more difficult to study trends without the use of the internet, and the internet couldn't be used as a marketing tool. I'm extremely interested in marketing for games, so I was really fascinated by all the nuance that went into the decision of when exactly to drop SMB3 in America, specifically not wanting to overshadow sales of NA's version of SMB2 and the release of the GameBoy. I'm glad I don't really have to deal with any issues like the chip shortage, that sounds like a total pain. And Boos being based on Takashi Tezuka's wife is hilarious! But the most special thing of all is the fact that all the Koopalings were based on the young designers working on the game! That's the most insane thing ever, that'd be a dream come true to have a character based on myself put into a game (by someone other than me, as a thank you and not as a self-insert). Obviously I knew that Chain-Chomps were coded (in the art way, not the programming way) as dogs, but I didn't think that they were actually based on Miyamoto's personal experience! I knew that The Legend of Zelda was based off of his personal experiences, so I should have guessed that there would be traces of that throughout his projects.

What really surprised me was knowing where all the different enemies came from. The connective tissue seems a bit thin, but I can definitely see that as a plausible inspiration.

Hearing that SMB3 could have been inspired by Disneyworld was surprising, as I had never connected the two in my mind.