Casino Mario! Nintendo’s Love for Gambling Style Mini Games

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Published on Saturday, 03 September 2016 06:26

Written by Luke Hackett

 

 

Casinos and casino games have featured in many popular video games genres across various gaming titles throughout the last few decades, non more so than in the different Super Mario games by Nintendo. These days with the advent of online casinos and also free Flash and HTML5 games, you can see more up to date versions of popular casino games that have made the transition over to digital format. Games such as lottery, poker, blackjack, roulette and even, check it out, craps - http://www.casino-online.com.se/ - have made their own online and video gaming debuts with complete success.
 

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Casinos & Betting in Super Mario Games - Super Mario RPG, Sunshine SML2

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Published on Thursday, 11 August 2016 14:02

Written by Luke Hackett

There are a number of instances of Casino's and slot machines etc in the Mario series. The least known of which is probably the one in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins which is based in a cave under a hill in Mario Land.

The player can use any gold coins they have collected throughout the game to pay to get into the casino and then you get to try and win bonuses by picking the right pipes. But instead of winning money in these games you'd actually win extra lives - if your bet won the main prize you'd get 99 of them; if there's one thing better than gold coins, its gotta be being alive to spend them right? So here's where you can participate in casino and slot games without having to put money into a betting site.



The next instance of casinos in Mario games chronologically speaking followed in the form of Grate Guy's Casino from Super Mario RPG which was entered through a secret passage in Bean Valley. Right in the middle of the valley in one of the pipes the player will come across a Chain Chomp once he or she has done this jump 3 times to make an invisible platform appear and gain access to Grate Guy's. Within this casino the player can play a slot machine, blackjack or a completely different game called Look the Other Way. Listen carefully to the music playing in the background of Grate Guy's Casino and you'll notice its actually a sort of remixed version of the N-Spade Card game soundtrack from Super Mario Bros 3.



And I bet you remember the final instance of a Casino (that I know of at least) is in Super Mario Sunshine where we have Casino Delfino which forms part of the main Hotel Delfino area. It's got two big slot machines in it that are operated by spraying water at them and a couple of littler ones, these little ones can be ground pounded for coins - but don't let security catch you doing it!


A video by hyrulesmasher on youtube showing how to get the secret shine sprite at Delfino Casino.

Should Mario games with a large proportion of the audience being too young to gamble really feature casinos and gambling? Well I don't know about you but I enjoyed playing my way through all 3 of the above mentioned in game casinos, 2 of which when I was a kid - and it didn't encourage me to go on any mad gambling binges.

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How I Would Design a Super Mario Slot Machine Game

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Published on Saturday, 25 June 2016 10:44

Written by Luke Hackett

Video games have permitted the entertainment genre in the last decade and have become mainstream, moreso than movies, music and book combined. That is due to the fact that they offer something that no other medium has achieved on such a level - interactivity, feedback, challenge, progression and sense of accomplishment, all in one!

As one of the greatest video games of all time and a force to be reckoned with in the world of gaming and beyond, Super Mario has attracted the attention of gamers and schollars alike. Thanks to its simplistic gameplay and tens of different game iterations (ranging from Super Paper Mario, RPG, Doctor Mario, Racing, etc.)

It is no wonder than that casino games have sought to copy Mario's success in their own "little" brand of games, namely slots. Sure there are a bunch of unlicensed games available, and some that are only available on machines in Japan (also unlicensed) but the name itself just attracts possibility. A nice little collection of video game themed slots and other high quality games can be found at UKMobile.casino so be sure to check it out.
 

 

But how would one approach the creation of a Super Mario themed slot? What if licensing wasn't an issue and we would like to build our own slot machine that would fly online and on mobile device and would attract the old school fans as well as the newer, millennial crowd? Well, here are a few pointers for a high quality design that is sure to be at least entertaining as an idea.

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