The Most Obscure Mario Games Iceberg (Explained) 

One more thing about Mario's Time Machine: It's RIDDLED with historical inaccuracies, so it even fails in the education department, too.

Mario’s Bombs Away has always been the most baffling out of every obscure Mario game. The implications that Mario was sent to die in the Vietnam war is so outlandish, especially considering that it’s never been acknowledged since

People fear the wario apparition when the mario teaches typing apparition is far more terrifying

"Link's beer pong odyssey" honestly has strikingly similar vibes to "Link's crossbow challenge" which actually exists

I feel bad for the Wacky Worlds staff. They really wanted to make a true Mario game after Hotel Mario was such a weird departure.

4:27 dissin’ my boy floating mario head? sleep with one eye open.

I am a guy who knows Mario a bit too much, but I always do like looking at obscure Mario things.

Mario picross is lowkey one of my biggest obsessions. The SNES one is on the nintendo switch online and it’s so fun to play with a long RU-vid video in the background. Dr Mario Express somehow came with my DSi and I loved it on a long car ride and the couple games I brought with me were getting boring.

I remember DDR Mario Mix since my sister bought it when it was brand new; the mat was actually very reliable unlike the mic, so it was actually fun to use.

You missed "Mario passes 20 Kidney stones"

I had a friend that had the mario DDR, she was really good at it so must have been decently responsive. Mario would get into trouble and solve every situation with a dance off it was pretty funny.

i had the toy ball of the mario from mario pinball when i was a kid too, the wink & all, no idea how i got it tho lol

My buddy had DDR Mario Mix on the Gamecube and it kicked ass. There was always something so bizarre about watching Mario pull off those sensual dance moves. Was still fucking great, and Waluigi is a main villain, which is fucking wild.

"sucking up and flashing ghosts" i wasnt watching the video and just listening to audio, so that gave me a really hearty chuckle. Cheers Gambado, banger as always.

I always love a iceberg video and especially one about mario

i was kinda disappointed that the part of the iceberg you covered here was 99% games i already knew, but im hyped for the second part anyway cuz this video is fire

I feel like wacky worlds almost certainly inspired odyssey so many years later

Wow, playing backgammon with Mario is an unlocked memory

🤓Akshully, you forgot the most obscure Mario game Hôtel Mario 2. It was only available to download on flip phones in Canada, and was a crossover between the original Hôtel Mario and Ed Edd n' Eddy with a dedicated "I Hope She Played Lotsa Spaghetti" controller peripheral, and a minigame where you pinch Wendy's pennies and avoid them pinching back- (Okay, I made that up, but that's basically how insane some of these real games can really be.)

I played Mario Slam (same as hoops 3 on 3 but renamed for my region I guess) a lot on my ds. One of my favorites ever. special moves were so fun!

22:19 i got tally hall jumpscared by the music

I love your icebergs, it's always a good day when there's a new one

I feel like Mario’s fundamentals would’ve been better as a series of physical board games or maybe a skin for clubhouse games

The iceberg will never die!! Probably the most obscure Mario game i can think of is Super Mafia Bros, anyone remember that one?

Mario's Erectile Dysfunction for PC (2001) has gotta be the most obscure one yet.

yes. please, more of this, youtube. this is my exact type of autism

I remember playing Mario's Time Machine ONCE as a kid, and never again. I don't ever recall being told any of that stuff about the surfing mini game, so I'd wander aimlessly there, then be transported back to an area where you could put in a date in the machine, but I was maybe 6 when I was playing it, so I didn't know too many famous dates. Perfect waste of a rental

Puzzles and Dragons is an awesome game, the gameplay is really fast-paced and addicting, and it's a lot of fun making the ultimate party, given the sheer amount of characters you can mix and match.

13:42 its so annoying how few mario games let you play as basic enemies, and the few that do are not great games

Super Princess Peach was genuinely a lot of fun imo, I've always been sorry it didn't get as much recognition as it deserved imo. Would have loved a sequel!

Fortune Street is basically Monopoly meets Mario Party meets the DQ Traps n' Treasure with a little stock market shenanigans included.

Wow , the only ones I didn't knew about were fortunate street and the peaches castle demo , I guess I'm a real mario nerd huh ? Great video though !

22:11 TALLY HALL JUMPSCARE

I hear you on the "shoddy multimode" remark, one of the things i love about Mario Party is even tho they're "party games" they don't handcuff you to the internet with other players just to play it, meaning they actually provide a really fun sp experience as well. Also Mario Strikers wasn't good? damn.. i've actually been considering getting that game.

I got obsessed with Mario this year because childhood memories and nastolgia and glad to see that I have heard of most of these xD

I owned and played through DDR Mario Mix, and that was indeed core memory unlocked for me. It was entertaining to me since I enjoyed rhythm games, and if I could play DDR at home (plus if that was Mario themed), that was more than enough for me. My only complaint was the difficulty, with even the hardest mode being a little too easy.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who felt that way about the Luigi's Mansion 2 arcade game. I didn't last two seconds in there before leaving it. Thankfully, no money was spent.

in school i knew someone who had the Mario DDR game and one day during a special event at our school he brought the game to class and it was a pretty fun game. DDR in general is also just a fun rhythm game

OH SNAP NEW ICEBERG BY GAMBADO!!

I remember I rented Mario is Missing and Mario's Time Machine as a kid from the local video store and I remember I was at a total loss when I found out it wasn't like Super Mario World. I didn't even understand english then so I was like ''WTF did I just rent?''. I just supressed my memories from those game aside from the surfing minigame for Mario's Time Machine.

3:32 Mario Teaches Typing 2 box: Ages 6-101 102 year-old's: "Thank Christ."

Fun fact the Mario racer arcade uses the GameCube graphics cpu & gpu but a beefier version of them. like the old iPhone & the iPad example iPhone 6s max uses the A9 chip & the iPad Pro 9.7 used the A9X chip

I remember wanting Mario Maker 1 but I didn't have a WiiU so I was pretty excited for the 3DS version back when it came out

4:25 So now do you understand why Charles never speaks more than 5 words in the main games?

Nah, one of the most obscure/missing Mario games is Waluigi’s toenail clipping party. It was an official flash game that was used to promote Mario Tennis 64 and yes, it's supposedly disgusting as it sounds.

I actually had the real DDR Mario with the mats and everything. Gameplay wise it was as any DDR you’d expect and some of the remixes were fun, but it was more targeted to kids (the story is generic and every conflict is resolved by a dance off, which is kinda hilarious) and if you were already quite good at DDR, the game was easy. The hardest songs were way less challenging than any other DDR game I ever tried. And I was 19-20 years old at the time, so the game didn’t cut it for me, but had I been 5-10 years younger I think it would have been great. Hope you enjoyed my review!

I'd say the biggest thing about Mario Teaches Typing 2 is that this is the debut of Charles Martinet's Mario in a home video game. That head is based on a live 3D model he was hired to perform before becoming the official voice of Mario. For some reaon, a lot of sources lwave out the 2 when talking about this, acting as if Martinet played Mario in the original Mario Teaches Typing, but he did not. That game still uses the typical Brooklyn voice, and Martinet himself says he used the high pitched voice in his first game, ehich he also said was a typing game.

awesome video man!

Glad you posted this, sick of rewatching your previous vids!

I owned DDR mario mix on gamecube back in the day with the dance pad and everything. I was a mario-obsessed 8 year-old so take it with that grain of salt but I had an overall positive experience. It’s definitely a solid DDR title with a lot of content (at least 20-30 songs) and great visuals from the various mario worlds/assets, as well as a few new ideas (i remember a theme park level). My friends would come over and it was enjoyable in multiplayer. I was say a good amount of replay-ability due to the multiplayer as well as various difficulty levels you could try out as you get better. It was definitely solid for what it was trying to be!

I played DDR Mario Mix (on the GameCube, not emulated!) so much my dance mat died. It held up for a few years, because they were made by the same people that made all of the DDR mats for Konami. If there is one thing it could have benefitted from, it would be more actual Mario music. 10 of the 29 songs are just public domain folk and classical music pieces. Nothing from Mario 64, Luigi's Mansion, or Sunshine. Admittedly three of the classical tracks were used in Mario games, but they were the weird games like Mario Bros. (no Super) and Yoshi's Cookie. My wife actually still has her copy of Puzzle & Dragons Z/P&D SMB Edition. She didn't play the Mario version, just the regular one. There's a hard wall when you get the the Dark element portion of the game, where the first stage requires you to be over level 30 to stand a chance of beating it properly. You're probably level 15 by the time you get there. I hear the Mario side is more straightforward and doesn't require as much grinding.

4:55 You forgot the coolest part of that game. The game was a collaboration with Square Enix. Meaning that you got to play as many iconic Final Fantasy characters redesigned in the Mario style.

I deadass forgot about ddr Mario until now lmao

Every time I hear "Mario is Missing" I have a vietnam flashback to when I was a kid discovering the old flash game

I like how he made futaba be peach.

Love your vids! probably not a big deal to you but I love your transitions

You should say when the layer changes like "onto layer 7" or something

I actually remember the Princess Peach game being advertised on one of the flash game websites I would visit regularly, but the ad was masked as a game banner. 😂 As a kid I was really into all that cutesy pink stuff and cute female characters, and I also loved platformers, including the Mario rips that my favorite websites had to offer, so I thought the Peach game looks really cool and was a bit disappointed I couldn't actually play it on the PC. 😂

I do remember playing a bit of that Mario x Puzzle and Dragons game, although I haven’t played the original phone release lol. I think the version I got allows you to switch between the original and Mario themed one (and so I played more of the original unfortunately :P). It’s fun

I grew up with DDR Mario Mix, even beat it a few times as a kid. Honestly it was great. The mat worked well and the songs were fun. I'll never forget beating bowser in a break dance battle.

I heard puzzle and dragons is still going strong in 2023

I would play DDR Mario Mix at my cousin's house a lot when I was younger. it was actually really fun

24:25 My boys wasn't expecting to see Dashie here on this video

Ok, but the DDR Mario was actually my favorite at-home DDR game. I am the demographic lol

Ive heard of all except mario the juggler. Thank you for adding to my knowledge

the only thing good about mario is missing is that it brought us the wonderful YTP meme "Weegee"

Shocked this has so few likes, this is an excellent video!!

I think the inspiration for Fortune Street came from the Koopas Tycoon Town board in Mario Party 8 which has a similar Monopoly like gimmick, but more simplified.

You don't miss, every video is a W

OMG! Mario’s Game Gallery! We played this all the time on the school computers. Mario’s checkers ai was like a freaking chess robot. I swear to God he was borderline unbeatable. But in Go Fish he was a joke.

I unironically think Puzzle & Dragons Z + Super Mario Bros is a certified 3DS hidden gem. It was so underrated in its time, yet such a fun experience. To this day the game still has one of my favorite osts of any game

I played the Puzzles and Dragons Mario Demo on the 3ds, seemed fairly fun despite how short the demo was, it's only like 1 or 2 matches i think

Its weird how mario land 2 was obscure i mean it was one of the launch games for the game boy nintendo switch online emulator for crying out loud! Its also weird how I knew every single one of these. Great video btw

Looking forward to the next one.

2:59 people are supposed to have emotional reactions to trivial things. In fact people are supposed to have emotional reactions to everything. If there is a single thing in the whole world that doesn’t make you feel any emotion at all you objectively have depression.

I actually played ddr Mario mix on an actual GameCube and I was on a time crunch so I ended up beating the game first try in one hour and when I needed to leave I had JUST got to the credits it's a memory I keep remembering every once in a while

I remember the classroom computer in 2nd grade had Mario FUNdamentals on it and I loved playing Go Fish and Backgammon even though I didn’t really know the rules at first but then I got good at it

In on the ground floor of a new gambado FUCKING GAMING vid LETSFUCKINGGOOO

Favorite Mario game by far is “I am a teacher: Super Mario Sweater”

24:40 - 24:57 I mean you're not wrong, As far as I know DDR Mario Mix was built off of the Mario Party 6 engine.

9:32 thats the lce land noard from smb 3 , i think thats one of the coldes beats i ever heard in my life 💯

I was a huge DDR fan during it's heyday, I played Mario mix when it came out. It sucks. The game is very easy, it's great for kids and parents but hardcore DDR players would fall asleep. Also, there were not that many songs, less than half of a standard console DDR release IIRC.

Oh my god I loved Mario Puzzle Dragons so much as a kid!

I played DDR Mario Mix on both the original GC and an arcade with a modified version of DDR using stepmania. The problems with soft pads is that they slip and are hard to use, but the game itself is the real problem. You need to beat the game to unlock the next difficulty and it already feels like a game aimed for small children. The only "hard" stage is the Bowser Castle remix in the hardest difficulty, but even that is still not that challenging compared to DDR songs. To give an idea, DDR goes from level 1 to 19 in difficulty, from memory Bowser's Castle is like a 12 at best.

Before watching I'm calling it Mario's Cement Factory is on here

There is also a arcade version of Luigi's Mansion Three. I went to Dave and Busters once and that was there.

What's the music that's playing when he's talking about Super Mario spikers?

I actually like fortune street me and now my wife used to play it a good bit

Bro I love the underrated DS games aka super princess peach and Mario hoops 3 on 3, I loved Mario hoops 3-on-3! It gave us White Mage in a Mario Style! Also love Mario Land 2! That’s the better one, also my nephew has Mario maker 3ds. I also had Mario pinball land on the Wii U and I hated it, I was so bad at it, it was horrible I hated it so much.

I've been binging these all day. Please help me.

12:16 as far as rail shooters go, I thought it was pretty good. Granted, it's been years since I played it.

I wish there was a list of songs used

what's the song that plays for a few seconds between each game description? It looks like a character from persona on screen so im not sure if its that? Ive never played persona.

what is the name of the song that plays in the beginning of this video?

29:52 omg this game is so nostalgic for me. i remeber playing it on my old 2ds when i was like 5? but i never wanted to play the mario mode i always wanted to play the other one for some reason

What is the name of the lofi jazz song with the persona peach in the transitions with the picture of the sm64 castle

22:12 is that fucking tally hall never meant to know with dire dire docks instruments

Fun fact, in europe, mario hoops 3 on 3 is named mario slam basketball

Proud DDR mario mix fan here. The game is extremely basic, and the pad is completely optional, which trivializes the game even more, but it can be fun. The music is largely very good.

Also it's a shame the Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS doesn't have the costumes... What the hell? I WANNA PLAY AS MARIE!!!