Nerdy Show Microsode: Mario Paint and Beyond – 90s Creative Games with Jazzy Boho
When The Nerdy Show Network’s flagship podcast isn’t unloading on the latest geek news and happenings, we’re diving deep into super-specific discussions and interviews.
Once upon a time there was a short-lived era of gaming based specifically around empowering the user to create. The era of Mario Paint – a console game that came with a mouse, explained how to interface with your VCR, and had full illustration, music, and animation suites… all for the Super Nintendo. It’s the best-known, but it wasn’t alone.
In this episode, Cap, Brandon, and Jon team up with Fangamer’s Jazzy Boho to discuss the obscure genre of creative games. These “games” blurred the lines between children’s entertainment and art applications and were made to empower users with tools only limited by their imagination and ingenuity. We share stories of software both awful and awesome from the era of 90s gaming when just about anything was possible. Their day may be done, but the legacy lives on! Jazzy is an avant-garde animator who uses Mario Paint in ways heretofore unknown to humankind – she shares some of the secrets of making her surreal and hilarious videos as well as some other retro tools of the trade.
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Jazzy’s Links:
- Jazzy’s videos
- Battle of the Millennial Mind
- The Wing Man
- Earthbound USA
- Fangamer
- Learn about past years’ Camp Fangamer
- Camp Fangamer 2018 – July 21st-22nd
- The Undertale Little Buddies commercial
Links:
- Our original obscure video games episode
- Our episode “Cinema Obscura”
- Triforce Mike’s Last Will & Testament
- A SNES that has HDMI out (The Super Nt)
- A new edition of the SNES mouse
- Pickle and Peanut
- Joe Quiones’ 6th grade Mario Paint art
- Mario Artist game series for the 64DD
- WarioWare D.I.Y.
- Cap’s NSFW WarioWare D.I.Y games
- Cap’s PK Siege WarioWare D.I.Y. game
- Mario Maker
- Our experience in “Secrets of the Empire” – the Star Wars VR
- Videomation
- Color a Dinosaur
- Fun ‘N’ Games
- The Playroom / The Treehouse / The Backyard
- Opening Night – Download
- 3D Movie Maker
- Cho Aniki
- Mayonnaise Hole
- Episode art photo by @Duaneshootstoys on Instagram