The BIG Mario Vote Thread! Voting Closed, Top Ten Unveiled - Thanks For Playing!

Bah! I didn't vote for either of those, I saved my votes for much better games in each genre.

I will accept that differences of opinion may be had about the Mario Kart series, but a better Mario Tennis game!?  It's up against Power Shots, unbalanced Miis, or eye-bleeding.

With the Mario Tennis games, I did find that people voted for one or the other. Whether Power Tennis was more popular than Tennis 64...I guess you'll find out in the next few days.

(Without revealing too much, Mario Tennis Open was one of the many Mario games not to get a mention whatsoever. "Nul points").

Balladeer wrote:

I will accept that differences of opinion may be had about the Mario Kart series, but a better Mario Tennis game!?  It's up against Power Shots, unbalanced Miis, or eye-bleeding.

I much preferred Power Tennis, had a much better time with it than any other Mazza sports game.

Don't get me wrong, I liked Power Tennis, but nowhere near as much.

Phillips wrote:

(Without revealing too much, Mario Tennis Open was one of the many Mario games not to get a mention whatsoever. "Nul points").

Hey, I gave it a dishonourable mention!

I can see your white text, cur.  

That's for Open, not Power Tennis. The 3DS game. Nobody likes that one. Like I said, I enjoyed MPT, but it made Power Shots mandatory for the tournaments, required you to play on the stupid gimmick courts to unlock things, and nixed Donkey Kong Jr.

Ah, I misread. Cur status retracted...for now.

Happy with Mario Tennis - of course! - and though I didn't vote for Double Dash!!, it's probably my second favourite Mario Kart. Good to see we're kicking off (ha) with sporty Mario titles, too. May there be many more of them higher up the top ten, too!

For the record, I enjoyed Mario Tennis Open, though it's the only MT game (apart from the GBC version) I've played enough to give an opinion on. My younger brother hogged the N64 version something chronic when we were kids.

I'm just reeling over all the Double Dash!! love we have on this forum. Not my cup of tea at all.

I'd just like to point out that I still think Balla is a cur, the big bleddy cur.

Phillips wrote:

Balladeer - I think it was fourteen, including myself. The most high-profile absentees (off the top of my head) were Buskalilly, beemoh, Sporkhead and Shanks. BOO THEM ALL.

Andyman - Mario Tennis 64 is outstanding. Well worth a Virtual Console download!

Yeah, sorry about that. I did try and sit down to write you a list last night but I couldn't get the site working on my phone and I wasn't about to pay 15 quid for Butlins WiFi. I might as well have done though; I ended up spending more than that on a clear machine trying to win a Princess Peach plush. I didn't even get her before I ran out of cash...

I'm just disappointed that you didn't send me a drunken message like you promised on Twitter. You're one of this forum's best drunken posters, Buskalilly; I don't think I could take the heartache of you letting the side down again.  

Phillips wrote:

I'm just disappointed that you didn't send me a drunken message like you promised on Twitter. You're one of this forum's best drunken posters, Buskalilly; I don't think I could take the heartache of you letting the side down again.  

I'm sorry mate. I did try. I managed to get on the page and it let me write in the post title but not the message body. I tried to write you a whole message in the title...

You're all right man, no worries!

S*** - I forgot Mario Tennis. I KNEW this was going to happen.

Jimbob wrote:

S*** - I forgot Mario Tennis. I KNEW this was going to happen.

And he did as well: his PM to me was titled "I wonder how many Mario games I've forgotten".  

WHAT?!? THERE'S NINE MORE? JESUS H. CHRIST.

Okay. Have one tonight:

In ninth place...:

Superb news, a wonderful game that I'm very glad made the top 10! Bring on number 8!

Mario Tennis Open is definitely great fun but it missed out on a vote from me because it was one step forward, two steps back. Can't argue with the 3 shown so far, even though I didn't vote for one of them.

Hmmm. Paper Mario is good and all, but I'll be sad if it's the only Paper Mazza on the list.

Good to know that others feel the same way as me about Paper Mario! Time to break out this li'l fella for the second time this evening:

I can't believe I forgot about MK double dash, I really should look into getting the original paper Mario & Mario tennis 64 as well.

JayMoyles wrote:

Hmmm. Paper Mario is good and all, but I'll be sad if it's the only Paper Mazza on the list.

That's exactly my position on the matter. Also, I quite liked Mario Tennis Open too but there was not enough of it.

The_Jaster wrote:

I can't believe I forgot about MK double dash, I really should look into getting the original paper Mario & Mario tennis 64 as well.

By all means pick up Paper Mario, but if you've already played TTYD (AS YOU SHOULD HAVE) and you're anything like me, you'll find it a poor second place.

So yep, don't agree with this placing, but so it goes. And I hope that both ZJ and JM are referring to the right "other paper Mario", because there's a right one and then two wrong ones.