


A game against the Red Virus is for advanced players.”). Mario is female (page 23: “Not only does Red Virus move very fast, she attacks very intensely. Luigi is the first female Virus, which contradicts an earlier statement from the American SNES Tetris & Dr. One of those edits was a line declaring that the Magenta Virus from Dr. Mario to account for the recent release of Dr. Super Mario Wiki recently made some edits to its article about the Viruses from Dr. Did I fall prey to this secret marketing, or was it just a coincidence? I don’t know, but I’m curious how many other Mario fans checked out Fire Emblem thanks to this!īecause this article is about the Mario series, I think I’ll ask while I have the chance: The funny thing is, I actually did go and buy Fire Emblem a short time after playing Thousand-Year Door. I guess in a way the original line was going for a bit of self-referential humor, but there’s something charming about Nintendo plugging its own current games to try and boost sales 😛

for the Famicom to Fire Emblem for the Game Boy Advance! Neat! It looks like the reference was indeed changed from original Super Mario Bros.

You ever heard of it? Man, it ROCKS MY SOCKS!!! Have you heard of it? I totally recommend it! There’s this one game that just absolutely rules. There’s a game I especially like called “Super Mario Bros.”… Hey, what’s up? I gotta say, I’m really hooked on playing GBA games lately. I’ve been hooked on playing Famicom games lately. Since Fire Emblem was making its first foray outside of Japan around this time, the question is – did the original Japanese text mention Fire Emblem too, or was it changed somehow to include a quick Fire Emblem advertisement?įirst, let’s take a look at this guy’s text in both versions of the game!Īnd here’s the translated text side-by-side for easier reference: Japanese Version (basic translation) One of the NPCs near the start of the game references the Game Boy Advance and the new Fire Emblem game. YoshiRider123 asked an interesting question about some text from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
