Get Played - BONUS: The Game Was Better: Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Episode Date: April 7, 2023

Originally released on August 5th, 2020 as Premium DLC. Nick, Heather and Matt discuss the 1993 film adaptation of Super Mario Brothers. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @getplayedpod. Join us on our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/getplayed Wanna leave us a voicemail? Call 616-2-PLAYED (616-275-2933) or write us an email at [e-mail] Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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I am Nick Weiger, alongside Heather Ann Campbell, metaphorically alongside. What? Huh? What'd you say? I said metaphorically alongside. Oh yeah, metaphorically. Hi, I'm Heather Ann Campbell, metaphorically alongside Matt Apodaca. Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone. We're doing it. Are you guys ready for this one? Are you guys ready for this one are you fucking ready for this one i'm man already i've rarely been less ready but i am i'm very but i'm excited just to talk

about this because this is uh fucking bananas well i, I'm concerned that we're going to receive a cease and desist. But I think we should just plow ahead. I think we should just give them what they want. I mean, I don't think... Look, anyone can talk about a bad movie.

I think that's fair game. This is within our rights as human beings. it's our right 100 it's our yeah it's our freedom of speech yes yeah hey free speech yes i'm i mean i'm i'm not i oppose free speech but i think that that it protects us in this case and the law is on our side and, the reason we are talking in these terms is because we are talking about a hot topic. Or at least it was a hot topic back in 1993.

The film Super Mario Brothers. The only live action Nintendo film outside of Pokemon Detective Pikachu. That's it. Super Mario Brothers and then they shut it down for 25 years before trying again with Detective Pikachu, which I love. You guys like Detective Pikachu? I did love it. I thought it was great.

I learned a little insider info about Detective Pikachu, which was that the reason Detective Pikachu exists is it was proof of concept for the studio to nintendo for a pokemon movie and if it did you know gonzo business and didn't ruin or tarnish the brand in any way then they were going to move forward with a pokemon movie with the same people involved. But, as we all know, it did not set the box office on fire. It did great. It was it. But it wasn't, like, representative of the strength of the Pokemon brand.

Especially when you consider that Sonic the fucking Hedgehog beat it in the box office. Oh, yeah. The most successful video game movie of all time is now sonic the hedgehog detective pikachu was so good i thought it was i guess it's probably the thing of people were like what is detective pikachu that extra layer probably was just enough to make people think it was a weird movie that they were maybe a little skittish about seeing

theatrically but i thought it was it was fantastic uh contra the film we are discussing today so super mario brothers the film was directed by co-directed by rocky morton and annabelle jankle uh and it was it had number of credited writers one of whom was ed solomon ed solomon has a lot of of of things he's worked on that have turned out great uh Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Men in Black. He's got some real credits, but this was one of those ones where I feel like it probably got... It went through so many passes by so many writers,

credited and uncredited, and then also got probably so many notes from the studio, and is just this big, ugly glop of a film uh but had you guys so i hadn't seen this film since vhs heather i know you're very very familiar with this movie yeah i i i have seen it a lot uh and that being said when this movie enters your brain, it immediately passes beyond your your your cerebellum and right out the back of your head. It's like it's like you're taking in a movie that you cannot see or watch. And I should note that you're maybe listening to this podcast where, you know, almost five minutes in and you're like, what do you get this guy? They're talking about movies.

What is this movie? This is a movie podcast. Am I? Did I subscribe to the wrong? How did this get? But the truth is, this is a video game podcast. Yes, but we are doing a video game based movie. This is the first edition of a premium DLC concept we are doing called The Game Was Better.

So we are reviewing a movie that is based off of a premium dlc uh a concept we were doing called the game was better so we are reviewing a movie that is based off of a video game where we prefer the game which pretty much encompasses all of them i would say is there any video game movie where you're like the movie is better than the game i've seen quite a few of them i can't think think of one. I've seen, I've seen like, I mean, I mean more like ones that even that I like, like Mortal Kombat is still like, I'd still rather have the game Mortal Kombat than watch this film. What about Rampage? Rampage is crazy.

There's a case for Rampage, but the game is repetitive and kind of boring. And so like, arguably we couldn't do an episode on Rampage because I'd be at least one of three dissenters on the opinion. I think I can say this. I met for the Rampage movie like fucking like 11 years ago or something like that. And I was like, that's a great idea because that's just as it's already. It's the game is based off of a movie concept that works. So now you're just taking this license that you have and now you can make it into a fucking movie.

But here's my whole issue. The whole thing in Rampage is that it's human beings turning into giant monsters. Yes. And then you get the hilarious thing where they're naked walking around covering their bodies. You don't get that in the yeah, they, they escorted me out quickly, but I, I thought like, I was like, that is a,

it's to me. Yes. I think there's a case for rampage the movie because the game is pretty thin, but I do feel like that was a movie that should have been a home run anyway. So this, you know, it was a staying in the bait in baseball terms. This is a big time whiff of a film.

A super Mario brothers was, and this is a big time whiff of a film. Super Mario Brothers was, and this is a thing I saw on Wikipedia that I just thought was interesting. I'll just read this verbatim. The screenwriters, this is a quote, the screenwriters envision the film as a subversive comedy with a weird and dark tone similar to Ghostbusters. And that definitely bleeds through as you're watching this. It's a dark movie. And honestly, I feel like I didn't I was I saw this when I was old enough to not be scared by it. But I feel like if I saw this when I was like six or seven or eight, I'd be like, I'd have the shit scared out of me by this. It's so dark and creepy. You've got human beings turning into monsters and and goop.

At one point, you've got like you've got all these weird looking like the goombas look fucking horrifying the the goombas look awful look they look like absolute shit they've got these gigantic broad shoulders and these tiny little softball heads and then they're covered with the scaly texture that is just repulsive creatures that i feel like would scare the shit out of me if I was a youngster. I'm going to send live here on the podcast, I'm going to send you guys a website. And the website is the Internet's most thorough Super Mario Brothers, the movie repository. So it lists every deleted scene some of the deleted scenes are in on this website it's smbmovie.com which i've uh been going to infrequently over

the last few years uh it also has props it has props for sale uh it has breakdowns of different drafts of the script. It's a robust but archaic. The website itself looks like it was designed in like 1999. It's funny because, yeah, it looks very, very old, very frozen in time in the Angel Fire slash GeoCities era of

web design, except it's been updated as recently as August 15th 2019. So they're still they're still making regular updates to this site so i i guess the way the the the big thing here the the big uh the big swing they take here is they set it in a like real life like real like actual Brooklyn. I don't mean like it's like... Hey, it's Brooklyn! It's Brooklyn, hey! Hey, we're Super Mario Brothers! I'm walking here on my way to get a slice!

Do you think that they did that because of the Super Mario Brothers animated show? Yeah, the Super Mario Brothers Super Show? Where Mario and Luigi lived in Brooklyn? I think there's a good chance they did that. I think that's also just production-wise. It's just like you don't have to build this whole fantasy world, this Mushroom Kingdom. But also it's I think there's a tendency and you saw this even with Sonic, which we mentioned to have these films be the video game world is crossing over into our world. Yeah. In fact, I'd say a lot of children's adaptations do that. A lot of animated

adaptations. The movie that I think is closest to this and I think is a much better, much more watchable film, much more satisfactory from a fan service standpoint, is the He-Man film Masters of the Universe, which has Dolph Lundgren as He-Man and has a similar plot of the Masters of the Universe characters come to our world to try to find the fucking cosmic key or some shit. I got a bone to pick with you on this weiger i don't think the super mario brothers movie is about them coming to our world it's us it's humans going to their world yes you're right it's a connection of the two worlds that's what yes we spend most of the movie in Dinohattan, which is Bowser acted by Dennis Hopper. It's Bowser's kingdom, which he has taken over from the former king who is made out of mushrooms. He's a fungus. And they've devolved the former king. There's so much to talk about in this fucking movie.

There's so much. It's how they... This is my issue, is that they... Their way of integrating the things that we know from Mario, the way we know from the Mario universe, are so unsatisfactory and so many steps removed from what we know. Like, there is ultimately like a mushroom a super mushroom joke but the main way you're seeing mushrooms is what you said uh heather

which is that a the the daisy's father the character of daisy's father has been turned into a big fungus mushroom like creature who is just like it's just gross to look at i guess i don't want to like i i want to root for this fucking weird fucking mold that's everywhere i don't want i don't want that i'm not on this thing's side well so if i i'm going to try and summarize the entire plot of super mario brothers the movie in like two sentences maybe three wow all right yes um in brooklyn a girl named daisy is actually the daughter of king koopa from the mushroom kingdom left on the steps of an orphanage when she was a child but now in modern day, she's being sucked back into the Mushroom Kingdom against her will, where she is going to inherit the throne of King Koopa. Enter after her to save her from this nightmare world where King Koopa has designed a new technology that devolves human beings and reptiles.

Because in his kingdom, humans evolved from dinosaurs. Yes. But in our kingdom, they evolved from monkeys. That's right and he's going to use this new technology to take over both the mushroom kingdom and brooklyn which he does by crossing over and reenacting 9-11 yes that's a key plot a key plot point uh well reenact more seeding the idea for 9-11 because this predated it by several years the craziest thing about that description is that it it sounds nuts but that all of that is true like every single thing you said is true so yeah so daisy that's the the character who's left off in an orphanage.

That was the thing that I, like, watching that opening scene, because I'd forgotten so much of this film, having not seen it for probably 20 years. And, like, I was, you had to get a, we had to use a VPN to watch this on Japanese Netflix. It's not streaming anywhere and on any u.s service or even available for like rental so i was watching it on japanese netflix and i'm watching the scene where this like this little i think an egg i think she's in a fucking egg

is dropped off at the orphanage yeah and i was just like texting texting you guys like i forgot this movie immediately sucks like it's just just right away you're like oh this is fucking terrible well it starts with that animation of the dinosaurs the talking brooklyn ass dinosaurs yeah that's supposed to be i guess like like a pixel art thing yeah kind of it's kind of got that that filter to it i have a theory on that uh on the opening uh scene which is the cartoon which is that it was added very late in production. Oh, sure. I can buy that. Because it is tonally extremely different from the rest of the movie. You open with a cartoon explaining the history of the Mushroom Kingdom and how the dinosaurs, some of the dinosaurs survived the meteor impact

and were splintered off into a separate multiverse where the dinosaurs evolved into people. But it's told like a cartoon. I think the original opening scene in this movie was fucking Daisy as an egg smuggled into the real world. That makes sense because it's kind of like a little preamble to what is effectively a cold open. And I think they probably added that to try to make the story make any sense at all, which

it makes very little of. It's also you spend so much of the early part of it. Here's another issue. So I mentioned that all the way that the lore you know from Mario is integrated is not satisfying. One way is that King Koopa is just a man. He's just Dennis Hopper doing the best he can, but he's just a man for 90% of the movie. The mushroom thing I mentioned.

Another thing is when you get to Dino Hatton in the Metropolis NYC analog in the Mushroom Kingdom, there is a toad character who is a man with a spiral haircut on his head head which i guess is meant to to replicate a fucking like toadstool like a mushroom cap but it looks fucking gross and then he's kill he's like turned into a goomba in short order that actor the actor by the way who plays uh toad in super mario brothers his name is Mojo Nixon, which I love. Wow.

And then one of his credits shortly after Super Mario Brothers was in the film Butt Crack playing Preacher Man Bob. So there you go. Guys, I've got a live update right here. While you were telling us a little bit about that actor, I went ahead and looked up some background on that animated dinosaur prologue. Yeah. And I have confirmed that, according to smbmovie.com,

the dinosaur prologue was the final addition to the movie during the post-production process. According to Parker, the producers had held screenings of the film that left the audiences confused. In order to avoid theatrical frustration, they opted to add the prologue to the beginning of the film to simply spell it out. The prologue never existed in any of the scripts. Rather, the film was meant to start on a primordial setting, complete with realistic dinosaurs, before a meteorite catastrophically obliterated the landscape a brief portion of this original opening can be seen at the end of the animated sequence so this was an error in video game movies

and and that that like the way you're describing it and and what you're talking about dinosaurs which is such a big theme in this movie is is is all the shit about dinosaurs going extinct in our world and surviving the other as you mentioned earlier heather and evolving into to human-like creatures the it was it was from an era where the writers were everyone behind it the producers everyone behind it had no idea what the actual appeal of the intellectual property was so they just made a bunch of rash decisions that they felt make made sense and or were interesting on their own but still kind of like had elements of the of the intellectual property of the game and so like there's like the thing about mario that's there's nothing in that there are dinosaur creatures in mario and yes yoshi has

an appearance as again another a gross fucking uh as a gross stop motion lizard like creature or slash puppet i think he might be a puppet but they have like a fucking nothing about like the the the super mario world is like oh there's a lot of dinosaur shit it's dinosaurs exist in it but we don't want to know like, oh, this is all tied. We're trying to make the presence of dinosaurs in Mario make sense somehow. Like, who gives a shit? Yeah, this is my first time watching it. I had never seen this movie before.

I was aware of it. And so this is one of two movies that I've watched for this show this and water world for when we did the water world game episode that both do feature dennis hopper as an antagonist and now and these are the only two movies i've ever seen dennis hopper in before and i understand him to have this like legacy as like a like a renowned actor and now i'm just like was this a prank was dennis hopper a prank i don't get it i guess i gotta watch something that he's in that's good um but easy rider man i guess i'll pop on easy rider because i want to understand him he is compelling as a villain he's very interesting he was doing the best he could but my main takeaway watching this

thing was just like it's like yeah like like we were saying, nobody making this understood Mario. Like, they did way too much work to make any of this. They should have just made it like a fun. They should have just made it fun. None of this is fun. There's nothing fun. It's just gross and dark. Yeah.

You guys think that it doesn't understand the appeal of Mario. that it doesn't understand the appeal of Mario. Let me tell you, there was also a version of this movie that audiences didn't understand. And I'm going to pull from the SuperMarioBrothersMovie.com website again from a 2010 interview where they talked about how much ADR they'd done. Now, ADR is when you take a scene where a character's back is to camera or they are off camera and you put in dialogue that uh helps explain plot or fills in holes uh that you have to edit around uh and apparently apparently the post-production supervisor at Super Mario Brothers

the movie said it was the most ADR looping she'd ever encountered. Jesus Christ. It was a struggle to make the story come together even as much as it did. There's an original document on the website that shows all of the ADR that they did, and it includes huge numbers of scenes that didn't make it into the movie. So as they're mastering this film,

it was an even longer cut also. So this like two hour Blade Runner version of Super Mario Brothers was probably two and a half hours. Jesus. Cause this movie, how long is it? The runtime now it's like an hour 30 probably or something i think i think it's closer to like an hour 40 it's it's you know it's not super long but it was

an hour 44 is the official runtime it's not super long then that's just that means it's the regular mario brothers movie high five this has been dlc i'll see you later I have this quote from Dennis Hopper describing the film's production that I think is very funny he goes it was a nightmare very honestly that movie I was a husband it was a husband

and wife team directing who were both control freaks and wouldn't talk before they made decisions anyway I was supposed to go down there for five weeks I was there for 17. Jesus Christ. So Mario is played by, we mentioned Dennis Hopper, the Mario Brothers, the titular Super Mario Brothers, who are designated the Super Mario Brothers

towards the end of the film. It's like you guys are the Super Mario Brothers for your heroism. The Mario Brothers who have a Mario plumbing business, Mario Brothers plumbing business. Mario is played by Bob Hoskins, hot off of his, something of a movie star in the late 80s, early 90s, great actor, hot off of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which was a big hit and hook uh and um and so he was cast in this in this very desirable role apparently i read i read somewhere

that dennis or not dennis um dustin hoffman was trying to get cast as mario because he wanted to impress his kids so they so bob hoskins is mario i believe he's a British actor. Yes. And he is doing the most Brooklyn-y. I'm from Brooklyn. Ah, hey, it's me. I'm Benedict Cumberbatch playing a Brooklyn guy. Oh, this is where I'm from. I was down at Canal Street this weekend. And then all the jokes in the movie are things like, you know, whatever.

And then all the jokes in the movie are things like, you know, whatever, like Luigi, who's played by John Leguizamo, who will like, like, you know, catch something and be like, hey, I should. Oh, boy, I should try out for the Yankees. You know, it's like all just like the most broad Italian stereotype slash Brooklyn ripped from Sebastian Maniscalco's act like comedy. Brooklyn ripped from Sebastian Maniscalco's act like comedy. It's very, I mean, and I think that again, it's just like they don't know the appeal of the Mario Brothers is not that they, it's not that they're these Italian stereotypes. Like that's an element in the vocal performance or ended up being an element in the Charles Martin at vocal performance, but it's not really the characters are.

I think it was, I think there was a lot of influence by the Super Mario Brothers animated show. I'm sure there's no way because you had Lou, Lou Albano. Yeah. Yeah. Lou Albano is playing Mario and he's playing Mario like this. And Luigi is played by another wrestler.

And I don't remember who played Luigi. And he's he's talking like this. I'm right. Why don't you who played Luigi. And he's talking like this. Hey, Mario, why don't you give me a slice of pizza? I feel like the only introduction that a regular human audience had to the idea that Mario might talk were those two actors. And so they were like, well, the one thing we know for sure is they talk like they're from Brooklyn. Yeah, for sure.

The actor who played Luigi, it looks like Harvey Atkin. And I don't know if he has a wrestling. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Harvey Atkin played King Koopa. Danny Wells played Luigi. And I'm not sure if he has a wrestling pedigree or not. Ding dong, Danny Wells. Come on, man.

I was thinking of trying to do that too yeah and that makes sense because like if the only if that was the only access they had into mario i feel like a lot of people especially at that time would have been like well i'm not playing a video game i'm not i could never play a video game what you have something else for me to understand oh this cartoon yeah right also the so john leguizamo plays luigi just doesn't have a mustache no we couldn't grow one or what but it's just like there's no no mustache on this guy are you kidding me like they get the body types right like mario's a little stockier luigi's a string bean, but give him a fucking mustache.

Yeah, and they don't get their outfits. That's a problem. They don't get their outfits until Act 3. They could be the Mario Brothers plumbing company and one of them's wearing a red suit, one of them's wearing a green suit from the jump. At what point are we going to talk about the Attack of the Clones-esque bar nightclub that Mario and Luigi find themselves in? Very strange, where I believe Big Bertha runs the house.

Yeah, she's supposed to be a, what do you call it? The spiny that throws the, all of their costumes in the movie are like, if a human being had spikes on them, what would it look like? Right. She's got like a red jacket with a bunch of spikes on it because she's supposed to be a spiny, right? Yeah.

Anyway, I was trying to remember. Cause I thought the, I maybe I'm wrong. I thought the big Bertha was that big fish that jumps up, but maybe that's something else. Big Bertha, but her costume is a spiny.

Okay. Got it. Look, I, okay got it look i i'm not sure i'm not trying to justify their choices why would you what would be the point of that bar they go to a an adult nightclub bar and as a kid that was the scariest scene of the entire film for me yeah i'm fine with the goombas like they they're weird looking but i was like oh they got a little cute little smiles and they and they dance in an elevator uh it was the nightclub where i was like oh no mario and luigi are in danger because if i was in this nightclub i would be in danger because when you say adult nightclub like they go in and it's like an eyes wide shut masked

orgy like everyone's just fucking and sucking big bertha's overseeing the proceedings mario's like an eyes wide shut masked orgy. Like everyone's just fucking and sucking. Big Bertha's overseeing the proceedings. Mario's like, oh man, I'm getting hotter than Ma's lasagna. Mario does sort of, because she has the, what the fuck it's called. Daisy has a crystal around her neck. Yeah, but she has it at that point in the nightclub. And Mario tries to like suck it out from between her breasts at one point.

I was shocked by this. Yeah, they have a little kissing scene and then he swipes it. In the old mouth. Yeah. It's, um, fuck.

This movie's so fucking bad. It has so many layers. There's a Mario Kart section, guys. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yoshi we mentioned. There's, you know iggy who's one of the koopas the koopa kids is presented in human form yeah wait we've talked about yoshi yeah i brought up yoshi really quickly i would like to say that in 1993 the yoshi puppet is among the most advanced animatronic puppets that existed at the time i believe it yoshi uh was a jurassic park style photorealistic tiny velociraptor

looking thing yes uh and he serves no plot points in the movie. No. He just walked. Imagine spending at least $3 million on a fucking animatronic puppet. And its job is to walk into a room and somebody goes, oh, it's Yoshi. Yeah, exactly. I was going to say, it just doesn't seem like i mean because there's i mean when you're playing mario the game i don't know like like or you know the first mario you're not really

playing it like oh man the story you're kind of just you know going through it or whatever but the story presented in the game isn't that hard to adapt into a workable movie so i just don't know why they straightforward it's so simple it would be workable movie so i just don't know why they're straightforward it's so simple it would be the easiest thing and i just i'm just so confused as to how they took so many wrong left turns into like trying to make it into this other thing i was just baffled by it because i mean yeah i'd i'd never seen before and i watched it and i can't stop thinking about it. It's not left my brain. It's like an origami wrapped present where the paper itself you keep unwrapping forever. Like you never get to the actual joy of the thing. But you keep being like, how is it possible that in this photorealistic, creepy, crazy Dino Hatton,

they also have cartoon bombs that wind up and walk identical to the video game. They're just going to be called the bombs. Yeah, everything else in the movie, not a one-to-one recreation of something in the game. And then suddenly somebody pulls out a tiny walking bomb and winds it up and everybody panics

they look at it and they scream babam it's got eyeballs like cartoon eyeballs on it it's weird and then there's so much just plot about their rivalry with the Scarpelli brothers fucking plumbing firms. Like, what is it?

This is a complete invention. This doesn't even pay off. It doesn't. Well, it pays. I guess the lead Scarpelli gets turned into a monkey by the evolution. Ray. Anyway, let's let's. I mean, I'm trying to figure out how to wrap this up.

I think that maybe since we're saying the game was better, maybe we where we would rank this if this were a game in the mario franchise and okay i i would say that i think this goes above hotel mario i think that's probably where it got like like just like i i would i would rather watch this film again than try to play Hotel Mario. I would rather watch this movie again than play Mario Sunshine. Wow, that is a hot take. That is a scorcher. Because, I mean, Sunshine's real low on my list. I hate the mechanic, and I hate the core water mechanic.

You don't like Flood? I don't like Flood. I don't like Flood. I don't like the design of Flood. So Super Mario Brothers, the movie, goes above Mario Sunshine, but Sunshine's really low. It's not like I'm putting this in the top 10 of Mario games. Apodaca, let's add Mario Sunshine to the queue because I think this would be a fascinating one to discuss. I would love to play.

Knowing that Heather hates it. I would love to play it. I've never played it before. What the fuck? Wait a minute. I missed like a whole era. That's not a weird or bad game. It's weird as shit. It's weird as shit. It's fucking weird. You can't call a Mario game water backpack. What was that? If Mario

is a weird game all games are weird. Like we open the door and all of the games are going to come walking out. Great point. Apodaca, add every game to the queue. Matt, your verdict. Where do you rank this bad boy? I mean, yeah, I guess because I have a very basic relationship to Mario, but I know enough about Mario to know that this movie was wrong,

but I, and bad, and upsetting for many reasons. I feel like I could make, we could all make a better Mario movie. They're making a Mario movie right now that apparently is not delayed from what I understand. Wow. But I guess for me, a Mario game that I didn't enjoy would be...

What is it called? It's right here. Hold on. Matt is reaching for his shelf. He's opening something up. He has a game he hates right next to him. That's one of the pieces of information

I'd like to point out about what just happened. He's like, hold on. I hate this game. What's it called? I have it right next to me. Right out of frame and grabs it. Paper Mario Sticker Star. Wow.

Yeah, that was, you know what? They just, we mentioned origami earlier. Yeah. And there's that new Paper Mario. Oh, fuck. What's the origami subtitle because as of this recording yeah we this as of our recording thank you heather paper mario origami king has been announced today and that looks it looks very cool visually but the thing they did

with the paper mario series and superstar saga or not superstar saga uh sticker sticker star sticker star yes i confused it with a Mario & Luigi RPG series. The Sticker Star was one of them. They started to depart from the formula and they got real shitty. So yeah, I think that's good company for it. Yeah, and you know what? I'm the Origami King.

I'll absolutely buy that. Even knowing I hated Sticker Star, I'll give it a go go as long as the combat is like you know is like the original paper mario and like thousand year door as long as it's as long as they've done that and not try to do some got too cute with it like yeah like super paper mario and the rest hey be sure to follow us on twitter and instagram at get played pod or send us an email at get played pod at gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at 6162 Played. That's 616 275-2933

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