E-mail 1: First Game
Cast (in order of appearance): Mario
Mario shows us a video of his very first game.
Transcript:
Mario is seen playing the NES game "Super Mario Bros."
Mario: Come on...
After hitting the axe, the bridge breaks apart.
Mario: Oh, yeah! I finished World 1! Holy Toledo! I need to check my email!
Mario turns off the game and switches his cartridge to Famicom Basic, which is written in all capital letters on the front and the top of the cartridge. He also changed his peripheral to the Family Basic Keyboard.
After the splash screen appears, he types Marioemail.exe.
Dear Mario,
What was your very first video game?
Shigeru Miyamoto
Mario (reading): Dear Mario, What was your very first video game? Shigeru Miyamoto.
Mario (clears screen, typing): Well, if you checked your time line, my very first video game would have to be "Donkey Kong." I recorded a full videotape of this very game when I played it on the arcade machine.
Mario shows us the VHS which he held on the left and right sides He held it up at a slight angle. It's labeled, "Donkey Kong" on the front top and on the front side it reads "All levels completed."
He inserted the videotape into the VHS player. He clicked PLAY.
It displayed the screenshot for highscores. A coin sound is heard, and Start is pressed. After level four is completed and Princess Peach is reunited, the tape stops. showing a still screenshot of the end of the game. He pressed REW on the VCR remote.
Mario: Join me next time for another famous e-mail from you know who!
The End
Easter Eggs:
Click the PLAY button to see the Donkey Kong video again.
While the Donkey Kong video is playing, click buttons other than PLAY to interact with the video.
Click EJECT to take the cassette out.
Click on the filing cabinet to open one of the drawers to switch videos. The drawers range from Arcade up to Nintendo Gamecube. (note: in order to change videos the EJECT button must be pressed before opening a drawer.) You can open up all the filing cabinet drawers at once. Click on the drawer again to close it.
Remarks:
Mario speaks with his old-timey voice.
Shigeru Miyamoto, the sender, is also the founder of Nintendo.
The filing cabinet is an example of those steel cabinet drawers that you could only open one at a time.
Goofs:
Even though Mario didn't read the text, there might be a space in it. When it reads, "Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle," the space is between the word "an" and the word "other" in the text.
Glitches:
When Mario turns the NES off, there is an after-image left on the screen.
DVD Version:
- All the Easter Eggs are still intact, except for the filing cabinet easter egg. You can only open one drawer at a time.
- Commentary is available for this e-mail. To access it, press the AUDIO button on your DVD remote.
Commentary Transcript:
Dash Parr: Welcome to the first Mario e-mail! The game that Mario was playing was Super Mario Bros.
Shy Guy 32: A familiar game I used to play when I was a kid.
Dash Parr: Well, our first e-mail asks about Mario's very first video game.
Shy Guy 32: He recorded a video of it, but how did he record it?
Dash Parr: I don't know.
Shy Guy 32: Quiet, let's watch this.
(The commentary is shorter than expected so the toon's audio takes over.)