I’m GLAD Mario wasn’t designed in 2010. All this catering to low attention spans, having to hold the player’s hand every two minutes, and the need to post every other action to Facebook, etc. is for the birds.

It wouldn’t be pixel art either. Would probably be lots of vector art, or probably some pseudo, 3d-ish art, or something else that looks gimmicky.

Oh, and there probably would be zombies, ninjas, pirates, dragons, or some other overused creature or character.

It probably would be a more elaborate physics system (Box2D, etc.) Not that Box2D is bad (it’s amazing) – it’s just not a good fit for this type of game – you’d have to hack the library to get that feel of control.

And let’s not forget some upgrades system that’s presented at the end of each level.

Now, if Super Mario 3, which was a HUGE hit back then, was designed for the current day – I can already see some attempt on trying to make that into some kinda wannabe-RPG/Platformer/Action/MMO mix, designed by those who are trying to cater to everybody, rather than focusing on a specific element, and realizing that they’re simply not going to get everyone, and they should be ok with that. It will be full of stats, hit/miss ratios (imagine clearly stomping a Goomba, or hitting a Koopa Troopa with a fireball, and it said “MISS”), and luck-based gameplay.

The design would be hell.

- Ziro out.