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Apple Scores Nintendo Game for iPhone

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Sep 7, 2016, 12:17 PM   by Eric M. Zeman

Nintendo today said its famed Mario character will come to the iPhone for the first time. Nintendo plans to bring a game called Super Mario Run to iOS devices. The side-scroller features hopping and jumping movements based on tapping and swiping the screen. Super Mario Run will also feature "battle mode" for multi-player action. The game will be sold at a single price with no in-app purchases for unlimited playing. Availability is slated for before the holidays. Nintendo has long resisted making the leap from its own consoles to today's mobile platforms, iOS and Android.

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Zpike

Sep 9, 2016, 10:41 AM

You heard it here first

I gave you all time and no one wanted to say it. So here goes.

So many things wrong and missing with the new iPhone announcement. I would call the event a mass fail except for the Mario game. What may seem small at first glance is actually a pretty big deal. Mario coming to anything other than a Nintendo device is absolutely unheard of. It's Nintendo's most coveted IP, practically the only thing that drove sales of the flailing Wii U.

I'm also reminded of all the iDiots who bought the first iPhone. EVERY SINGLE ONE of them had the same response when I asked why. "The iPhone has apps." No matter how many times I heard this ignorant remark, my jaw still dropped as every phone I had ever owned had apps. But the fact remains, people have p...
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