Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoFair enough.
My point is that the reason you played this game so much is that it existence because of Super Mario.
Thus the answer to OP’s question in relation to this would be Super Mario Bro’s, from which Crash is derived.
somnuz@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Well then… To stay true to the history, we probably would have to go back to Galaxian from ‘79, which introduced 1-UPs / additional lives, bonus stages and player upgrades, plus simple summary / statistics for hits and misses.
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
See but the question isn’t “originated”.
It’s “popularised”.
Which Mario clearly did, outpassing both “Galaxian” and Crash in terms of popularity.
I know that Crash is bigger for you, but in the big picture, comparing Mario to Crash is like comparing Pokemon to Digimon.
vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Mario
Super Mario Bros. 1985 NES, estimated revenue $1,652,300,000
Have to scroll quite far down this list …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_best-selling_video_game_… to find Crash.
somnuz@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
See, you are right and that’s exactly why I started with “This might be a little on the side of the main topic”…
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Hmm. Fair enough, fair enough.