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Post by ash888 on Nov 26, 2016 3:51:38 GMT 2
Seems a lot like quessing to me too. But what does this book say about the YM in the three Mario games? The author of the book, Florent, has connections to old Nintendo employees and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't publish them without official confirmation. Aris posted them here as well (click link and scroll to the bottom of the page): mpanayiotakis.proboards.com/thread/2330?page=1My theory is that, the game was originally designed with a yellow diskun shell, hence the name Yellow Mario. For some reason, the Crystal was released a year before the YM901S, but the model number was already determined at that point so it didn't really matter. Back then it was not uncommon to hastily attach a model number before the official name was determined.
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Post by sAner on Nov 28, 2016 15:07:08 GMT 2
All answers are in this marvelous book : Could you please post a link to the other page aswell (I woud love to read the ideas on the other modelnumbers)? Btw: Turtle Line? Interesting. I always thought the modelnumber came from TurtLe.
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Post by ash888 on Nov 29, 2016 1:14:07 GMT 2
All answers are in this marvelous book : Could you please post a link to the other page aswell (I woud love to read the ideas on the other modelnumbers)? Btw: Turtle Line? Interesting. I always thought the modelnumber came from TurtLe. Remember these model numbers were hastily attached by Japanese developers in the early 1980s, so the English they used is more in line with Japanese-style English, which can sometimes be different from Western concepts. Turtle Line makes sense as a "line of turtles" in the game. One amusing one is "Mario Wine" for Mario Bros. It's a classic example of early-1980s Japan, when alcohol was sold in vending machines and was often mentioned in children's stories, cartoons, etc. The brothers are obviously shipping bottles of wine, and even the box/game are a red wine color, but it had to be toned down to produce for an international audience, especially for the US market where the mention of alcohol in connection with children's products is generally unacceptable.
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