I stumbled upon this article where Shigeru Miyamoto talks about Luigi:
Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/pic ... en-0338921
And now I have to ask: What the fuck is this guy talking about? Luigi is green because he shares the palette with the turtles? That's total bullshit, isn't it.
The turtles/shellcreepers in "Mario Bros." don't have the same skin color as Luigi:
http://www.vgmuseum.com/images/arcade/00/mariobros.html
Also, aside from green (and maybe white), they don't share any color with Luigi. His hair, his shoes, his shirt: Those are all individual colors.
So, why does Miyamoto say something that's obviously completely false?
I mean, I always thought that he talks a lot of nonsense:
Mario wears a hat because they didn't know how to animate the hair. Yeah, as if two pixel lines of short hair of a man need to be animated.
Or this one video where they talked as if Mario riding a cloud from "Super Mario Maker" was based on an old design document from the times of "Super Mario Bros. 1". Something like "After 30 years, this feature was finally implemented." Only that this very feature was already implemented in 1991 in "Super Mario World", so it's nothing new.
And now this: Luigi is green because he shares the palette with the shellcreeper. Except he doesn't. Or am I missing something here? I mean, isn't this an objectively wrong fact? Something that, unlike the hat story, can be proven not be true?
So, my questions:
1. Am I missing something? Does Luigi share a palette with the shellcreepers in "Mario Bros."?
2. If not, then why does Miyamoto make things like this up? He might be the greatest game designer of all time. But when it comes to things of the past, it looks like this guy cannot be truted about anything.
Quote:
"There's something I've been meaning to share with somebody," Miyamoto says with a grin, letting us in on a secret of the development of the original Mario Bros. "One of those constraints was that because of memory limitations, the second character had to be identical to the first character in appearance. And so we looked at that and said, 'Well even if we have the same character, we could potentially change the color of the character.' But again we were limited in the color palettes – we didn't have much in the way of additional colors that we could use. And so we looked at the turtles in that game. Their heads are sort of skin-toned, their shells are green, so what we could do is we could use the color palette from the turtle on this character. And so from those technical limitations we said 'Okay. We have these two characters. They look the same, other than the fact that their colors are different. Obviously they must be twins.' From there, we decided, 'Okay, they're twins and this other character [Luigi] must be the younger brother.'"
Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/pic ... en-0338921
And now I have to ask: What the fuck is this guy talking about? Luigi is green because he shares the palette with the turtles? That's total bullshit, isn't it.
The turtles/shellcreepers in "Mario Bros." don't have the same skin color as Luigi:
http://www.vgmuseum.com/images/arcade/00/mariobros.html
Also, aside from green (and maybe white), they don't share any color with Luigi. His hair, his shoes, his shirt: Those are all individual colors.
So, why does Miyamoto say something that's obviously completely false?
I mean, I always thought that he talks a lot of nonsense:
Mario wears a hat because they didn't know how to animate the hair. Yeah, as if two pixel lines of short hair of a man need to be animated.
Or this one video where they talked as if Mario riding a cloud from "Super Mario Maker" was based on an old design document from the times of "Super Mario Bros. 1". Something like "After 30 years, this feature was finally implemented." Only that this very feature was already implemented in 1991 in "Super Mario World", so it's nothing new.
And now this: Luigi is green because he shares the palette with the shellcreeper. Except he doesn't. Or am I missing something here? I mean, isn't this an objectively wrong fact? Something that, unlike the hat story, can be proven not be true?
So, my questions:
1. Am I missing something? Does Luigi share a palette with the shellcreepers in "Mario Bros."?
2. If not, then why does Miyamoto make things like this up? He might be the greatest game designer of all time. But when it comes to things of the past, it looks like this guy cannot be truted about anything.