{"id":1572,"date":"2012-11-01T11:12:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T11:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2012-11-01T11:12:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T11:12:57","slug":"my-top-100-56-super-mario-world-2-yoshis-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"My Top 100: #56 – Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1995 – Nintendo (Super NES, Game Boy Advance, Virtual Console)<\/p><\/div>\n

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I mentioned this in the Stunt Race FX <\/em>and Donkey Kong Country <\/em>posts, but Nintendo was pretty stoked about the Super FX chip and Advanced Computer Modelling.\u00a0\u00a0Not surprisingly, the\u00a0Super FX2\u00a0chip was in the works not long afterwards, and we’d get to see it in full force with a sequel to Super Mario World<\/em>…\u00a0 or, at least it would be called Super Mario World 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t quite sure what was so superior\u00a0about the\u00a0FX2 chip, though.\u00a0 The graphics for Yoshi’s Island <\/em>looked like they had been drawn and colored in by a child.\u00a0 How was this evolutionary?\u00a0 The game had an interesting concept and all, but I really wasn’t sold on it.\u00a0 I wanted something like Doom<\/em>, something that would push the limits of my Super NES to the max.\u00a0 Thankfully, that game was actually on its way.\u00a0 Sign me up!<\/p>\n

In the end, Super NES Doom<\/em>\u00a0turned out to be somewhat terrible.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if this is an urban legend of sorts, but Nintendo had apparently tasked Shigeru Miyamoto with creating a graphically amazing Mario <\/em>title.\u00a0 I can’t recall if the article\u00a0I read stated that they wanted a free-roaming 3D title like what we ended up getting with Super Mario 64<\/em>, or if they wanted a great-looking platformer that would really test their new hardware.\u00a0 Convinced that gameplay was paramount and that graphics weren’t that important, Miyamoto-san went the opposite direction, and gave Nintendo his thoughts on what a new game in the beloved franchise should look like.<\/p>\n

They liked it.\u00a0 They’d find other ways to push the hardware within the game, but thankfully, they took a chance.<\/p>\n

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