João Pardal 🐦

One of the more interesting slides from Capcom's financial report shows where it sells the most games. The United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, UK, Germany, China and Japan are the markets where Capcom sold over 1 million games last year. This includes console and PC games.

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE was released 3 years ago. Chris Pratt recorded most of Mario’s dialogue early in production, which Illumination used to shape the animation timing and comedic beats around his performance rather than the other way around.

F-Zero (SNES) 🚀 vs Super Mario Kart (SNES) 🏁 Speed… or chaos? Which one are you picking? 👀

A real gamer plays all the mascot racing games

F-Zero (1990) by Nintendo was a launch title for the SNES and showed off Mode 7 scaling to create a pseudo-3D racing effect. Its smooth speed, futuristic setting, and soundtrack made it feel like a true next-gen leap over 16-bit rivals.

Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader was a graphical miracle for 2001. Developed by Factor 5, the game’s "Death Star Trench Run" featured more polygons in a single frame than the entire Rogue Squadron game on the Nintendo 64! 🚀✨ The developers were so obsessed with detail that they recorded the actual foley sounds from the Lucasfilm archives to ensure the TIE Fighter "screech" and X-Wing lasers were 100% authentic.