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RetroMo: Mario's Handheld History

Did you know that Mario starred in eight Game Boy and GBC games? Rediscover your roots inside...

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Mario Golf

With the color Game Boy doing really rather well, Nintendo thought it would be a good time to update their older sports titles.

Rather than dedicate an internal development team to the job they hired an experienced company named Camelot Software Planning, who had previously created the game Hot Shots Golf on the Playstation.

Instead of being a straight-up golf game, Camelot introduced a range of RPG stylings, like character building through experience, and limited adventuring around the golf grounds. There is a nice selection of differing modes of play; match play, stroke play, tournament and Marion (the name of the golf club) which is the main RPG style mode where you walk around the clubhouse and chat to the other characters. The link to Mario in this game is really limited to the fact there are characters and places from around the Mario universe in it. The first playable characters of the game are called Kid, Azalea, Joe and Sherry, with others becoming available as you progress. Other unlockables include such things as additional courses to play on and extra challenges.

Mario Golf was also chosen as the first game to utilise the N64 transfer pak, which was a device you slid the Game Boy cartridge into and then connected to the socket on the N64's joypad. Any experience gained in the N64 version of Mario Golf could be transferred to your portable character, as well as unlocking additional playable characters.

In the end, the game would have been equally playable without Mario and company but the fact is that his presence multiplied the games success, leading to the constant revitalization of the Mario brand through a multitude of sports games, handheld and home console based.

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