The Most Obscure Mario Games Iceberg (Explained)

[@SuperKlondike64]

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

[@Alphachad0]

Same thing with Mario is Missing

[@SuperKlondike64]

@brare45996 i forgor 💀

[@themonsterunderyourbed.7620]

​Last I checked, Mario didn't give Isaac newton the apple that helped him discover gravity, so there's one.​@brare45996

[@newsuperbowserworld]

I think the NES version is more enjoyable

[@SammEater]

So not only it's a bad Mario game but it's also a bad educational game? That is quite hilarious.

[@dimples9746]

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

[@chompythebeast]

Nahh Mario would've immediately joined the VC. Working class man? Red clothes? Raised fist? Weilds a hammer? Stomps goombas? Fights for liberation? Mario is a comrade for sure

[@dimples9746]

@@chompythebeast Mario is the sole defender of an autocratic ethnostate. To think of him as a comrade is shameful

[@Heavy_weapons07]

Mario was a marine man in the war, meanwhile luigi was flying a f4 phantom bombing jungles

[@chompythebeast]

@@Heavy_weapons07 Jungles weren't bombed. Men, women, and children living in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia were bombed. There isn't a single innocent US Vietnam vet

[@Heavy_weapons07]

@chompythebeast hey so weren't the vietcong, some men were forced to fight

[@AbsnormalCoolest]

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

[@k-berry8771]

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

[@Alphachad0]

And it’s the pack in title for the Wii gun blaster thing add-on.

[@Josuh]

And to think Link's Crossbow Training could've been a full on Twilight Princess sequel...

[@Alphachad0]

@@Josuh Yet it achieved more than that…

[@SniperOnSunday]

Oh yeah, I know I've got a copy of it somewhere

[@Alphachad0]

@@SniperOnSunday do you have the gun add-on?

[@phyllojoe5346]

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

[@popularvote3613]

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.

[@ScreamingAllTheTime]

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 KZbin 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.

[@aortaplatinum]

Same, My Nintendo Twilight Princess Picross was a fucking gateway drug, these games steal dozens of hours of my life each. They're super chill, it would make a really good live service game, just cranking out puzzles constantly.

[@FixedUser4u]

i absolutely need cheat sheets for wario's levels in picross

[@ScreamingAllTheTime]

@@FixedUser4u I save scum those ones tbh. Love that rewind feature

[@FixedUser4u]

@@ScreamingAllTheTime yeah it lets me cheat at punch out

[@shyguy85]

whats really fucked is that the snes Mario picross was japanese exclusive

[@animeluigiboy]

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

[@Nar31]

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.

[@aortaplatinum]

Right, the DDR mat was just a collection of buttons disguised as an ugly rug. So there are way fewer variables with 8 binary inputs compared to a microphone and game having to measure volume and pitch and the player having to be the right distance from the mic to get accurate results.

[@Katie-hj5eb]

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.

[@PimpaneerThePimp]

"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.

[@concerneddennizen1027]

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.

[@MarioMario-iy6ww]

You missed "Mario passes 20 Kidney stones"

[@PikTheRedPikAUTTP]

It is fake.

[@sethhorst6158]

@@PikTheRedPikAUTTP You hear that? That's the sound of a joke flying over your head

[@it5br3ad]

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

[@SillyLilFella]

Hey I had one too, I think I got it from a garage sale or McDonald's.

[@sillyname3969]

Same

[@algotkristoffersson15]

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.

[@eliotgierat9462]

what is this comment even in response to dude? no one said anything about having emotional reactions, it's just the fact that Princess Peach's game suddenly introduces a system where you need to micromanage her emotions that appears in no other game. we... really gonna pretend like it's not because the protagonist is a woman? Man, we all have brains that work. I just don't get the logic of constantly excusing everything you possibly can, instead of just accepting that something in the past could have been done differently? pointing stuff like that out isn't people whining or trying to get mad at Nintendo, it's just pointing out the obvious and not intentionally acting stupid 😭 that last sentence is... absolute bullshit and you should read a book, but aye that's just my opinion. Depression isn't the thing I'd personally go around lying about or using as an attack, you know, because I'm not a mouth breathing inbred. But you do you. 🤣

[@NicolARark]

22:19 i got tally hall jumpscared by the music

[@mattguy1773]

I always love a iceberg video and especially one about mario

[@WesDoesGames]

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

[@weepingkoopa2862]

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.

[@VideoGameStupidLC]

Was waiting for him to mention that, especially with several shots showing a Moogle/White Mage/Black Mage, and he never did... wth...

[@Street321]

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

[@skeleton819]

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

[@WesDoesGames]

Wow, playing backgammon with Mario is an unlocked memory

[@johnnybeasley3675]

I never played backgammon with Mario, but I sure got my ass whooped by his brother in Black Jack plenty of times.

[@gigaslave]

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

[@paperpopper2586]

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

[@JJMcCullough]

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.

[@ProGremlinPlayer]

JJ Spotted ‼‼‼‼I love your videos!!

[@0DRONZER]

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

[@stachedghostx7171]

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

[@BobHenri2011]

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!

[@silly_cow123]

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.

[@nonplayablecharacter.]

It might be fake, the only thing to show is a possibly photocopied screenshot of the title screen.

[@ashmander3465]

It exists it's technically a actual Mario game

[@YoursTrulyMrsMoores]

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

[@phyllojoe5346]

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

[@realgambadogaming]

Heard that, having better upload consistency is my goal moving forward into next year, thanks for the support!

[@hypnovertigo7200]

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

[@hypnovertigo7200]

Hope the Mario sewing machine game is on the next one

[@thepaperunicorn09]

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 !

[@BinglesP]

🤓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.)

[@BioPhoenixReviews]

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

[@Marina-kb9hi]

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

[@colonelspicymustard]

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

[@ibigfire]

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!

[@hatkidshawn4952]

OH SNAP NEW ICEBERG BY GAMBADO!!

[@Lattice]

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.

[@geothepoly]

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

[@MrPhantaze]

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

[@KuramiRocket]

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

[@raymanismywaifu]

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

[@Rafix]

awesome video man!

[@razorbackroar]

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

[@StanLeFox]

22:11 TALLY HALL JUMPSCARE

[@dabort]

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

[@natalijatheghost]

I deadass forgot about ddr Mario until now lmao

[@UnstoppableGiant]

Is that a Mario cover of ‘Never Meant To Know’ I hear???

[@altformusic]

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.

[@VideoGameStupidLC]

"What's Going On" from Persona 5. Uploader could've put in it description something with the amount of comments asking about it...

[@kingradbod_]

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.

[@HartoTarto]

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

[@juppukun]

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.

[@CorruptedHyena]

the sm64 soundfont tally hall bg music is sending me this is incredible

[@muffetlover]

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

[@geldofpunk32]

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

[@FirecrackerTNT]

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

[@FinalMegaFangirl1230]

5:05 you didn't even mention Final Fantasy once. there are Final Fantasy characters and you couldn't at least mention that?

[@naomii_star]

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

[@Temmie_gaming]

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

[@realgambadogaming]

Good point, thanks for the feedback!

[@maxonreese]

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.

[@VideoGameStupidLC]

The song that plays during the intermissions/transitions with Futaba as Peach is "What's Going On" from Persona 5.

[@ZipplyZane]

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.

[@fco64]

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

[@hermanpech8360]

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

[@nicholasrusso7701]

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!

[@zacharyspaghetti6988]

You don't miss, every video is a W

[@SleepyGaming-qz8dp]

Unreleased games: 12:21 21:17

[@bruceaskew2107]

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

[@luginess0]

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

[@NinjaArdin]

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!

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

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.

[@milliondollarmistake]

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

[@Savannah_Simpson]

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.

[@clarinetpride55]

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

[@helmeren3828]

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

[@Mradamluigi]

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.

[@thatoneguythatexists4189]

Looking forward to the next one.

[@demontamerbf18]

I really thought I was gonna be able to recognize all the games that were gonna be mentioned in the video as I love video game trivia videos, I was wrong, it's incredible how many Super Mario games there are out there.

[@richarddavis8863]

I actually own Mario Teaches Typing 2, Mario's Time Machine AND a framed poster of it and a Japanese copy of Super Mario no Picross 2 and even I learned of a couple games haha

[@demontamerbf18]

@@richarddavis8863 Wow, congrats for your collection, that sounds so cool.

[@richarddavis8863]

@@demontamerbf18 wow thanks bro. Yeah I write Mario fanfiction still so I try to play all the obscure games for ideas

[@Emery_Pallas]

I think the only two I learned of was the Disk port of SM64 the DR Mario DSi port (though it looks familiar) and that scrapped fly swatter minigame. (I even had the 3DS Mario Maker and Puzzles and Dragons games, alongside both Mario lands and I believe Mario's Cement factory through a DSiware port. Oddly enough, I can still think of more Mario games (like the original game and watch port of Super Mario Brothers, which featured bullet bill, bowser, fire bars, and a lakitu who throws hammers as its only hazards, the BS Satellaveiw Mario 2, Allstars and Excitebike ports, and even an official "virtual magazine" for the Satellaview where in one broadcast Mario kills peach and toad for engaging in oral sex (If you don't believed me, look up Lower City Empathy theatre / Lily Franky theatre, that one might be the obscure Mario trivia singularity).

[@demontamerbf18]

@@richarddavis8863 Fanfiction huh? I've been wanting to try writing some myself but I never find the time to do so.

[@LandonEmma]

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.

[@theadventureformula40]

22:36 what song is this? and please give me a YT link to it if possible.

[@gabesyt4863]

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

[@simplyrenirambus2982]

Why’s Futaba from Persona 5 called Peach and why’s she wearing Peach’s crown? Also, Charles Martinet as Mario is annoying?

[@SykoMuffin]

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.

[@thomasverslycken2563]

31:38 I didn't play either 1 of these version, but i did technicly play a version of this game... in a platform fighter. You see, there is an indie platform fighter named rivals of aether, the base game is somewhat small, specially in it's roster, the gameplay feels inspired by smash mellee but it's unique & has a world of it's own & it supports steam workshop It has way more then just character & stages & someone has literally put a whole game mode into rivals that is an unnoficial version of this game Well... it's more specificly based on the gameboy gallery version

[@kayleeclassic]

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

[@davidthecommenter]

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

[@clockworkofthestars]

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

[@tripleavatar333]

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. 😂

[@heeheex2]

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

[@motomoto917]

I like how he made futaba be peach.

[@bytewizerd2712]

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.

[@Josuh]

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

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

I heard puzzle and dragons is still going strong in 2023

[@glowkirby]

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

[@kirklinguinihoodinithecubo8525]

I wish there was a list of songs used

[@SniperOnSunday]

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

[@stanleycentipider]

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

[@TheMogrymilian]

Holy moly, I loved Fortune Street! I used to play it sooooo many times with my ex-room mates all those years ago!