Mario Encyclopedia

[Demon_Skeith]

To celebrate 30 years of Super Mario, Nintendo is going to release a encyclopedia dedicated to the Mario series which covers all 17 main titles in the series and features developer interviews, original art, explanations of level designs, and famous glitches.

You can get it on amazon for ¥3,132 / £17 / $26 / €23.


Anyone going to buy it? No word on a western release at this time.

 

[J-RAY]

Is it even being legally sold? haha

I find it odd that they wouldn't release it to the world.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

why would you call it illegal?

 

[FTON]

Awesome! can't wait to have it.
26$? sounds pretty heavy tbh.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Awesome! can't wait to have it.
26$? sounds pretty heavy tbh.

I assume it has years and years of Mario info.

 

[J-RAY]

I figure there is a good chance that it's not legal because most companies who are international market their games internationally.
It doesn't make sense that they would just randomly throw a full the full series of mario but not bring it to walmart and U.S. It's either Nintendo is stupid or some other company made it.

 

[FTON]

I assume it has years and years of Mario info.

That's a good point.

 

[CM30]

I'm not sure I'd buy this to be honest. On the one hand, it does seem like it has some info about the games and some artwork to go with it (from what I've heard from the product descriptions). On the other hand... what's there to see that I can't find out at Mario Wiki? It's not like Mario has a timeline...

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Yeah, 90 percent of the info should be on mario wikis.

 

[CM30]

Yeah, 90 percent of the info should be on mario wikis.

The other 10% will be too, given about a week. Just need someone who can speak Japanese and that owns a scanner.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

The other 10% will be too, given about a week. Just need someone who can speak Japanese and that owns a scanner.

very true.

 

[Kaynil]

I am not that big of a fan of Mario to go all the way to get the guide.

I don't find that odd if it was a Japan only product. I think we're pretty much discussing here exactly why the move wouldn't exactly work. There is not enough interest and it doesn't feel a justified purchase when the info is so readily available. They'd need some exclusive content but there is only so far you can have about Mario not already revealed by now.

still if you love the Mario series, having an special edition that conveniently gets you all the information reunited in one book conveniently printed and in your hands I think it is alright.