After months of rumors, Super Mario 3D All-Stars was finally confirmed during the recent surprise Nintendo Direct. Three classic 3D Mario games will be released on the Nintendo Switch later this month including the plumber’s first foray into the third dimension with Super Mario 64. Considered a classic by many and beloved by players, a recent trailer suggests it won’t be entirely untouched.
In a recently released trailer on the official Japanese Nintendo Twitter account, it is at the 20 second mark that fans caught a very noticeable change. As gameplay from Super Mario 64 is on screen, a famous and ironically beloved voice line was entirely replaced.
The line in question is a long joked about bit of speech that many players look back on fondly for all the wrong reasons. Within Super Mario 64, during the boss fight with King Koopa himself, Mario can be heard saying “So long, King Bowser!” At least, that was the intention of the line performed by long-time Mario voice actor Charles Martinet. Due to both Martinet giving Mario a thick Italian accent and the compression of the audio file, fans have long heard since 1996 the line as “So Long, Gay Bowser!”
The misinterpreted line has become a famous meme even prompting Martinet to address the confusion last year and confirm the actual phrase. Martinet clarified that he added an “-a” to the end of a word as Mario tends to do. It was because of this that when saying “king,” Martinet added the “-a” suffix to make it sound a lot stranger to players. With all this in mind, it is not that surprising that Nintendo opted to remove the questionable line even if it is a case of an unintended soundbite. Now Mario just says a clearly heard and hard to misunderstand “Bye Bye.”
While some may find humor in Nintendo making the change with others giggling that they will no longer hear the line, Super Mario 3D All-Stars‘ announcement has not been without controversy. Nintendo has opted for an unprecedented move within the video game industry by utilizing a “Disney Vault” style release with Super Mario 3D All-Stars. This means that the game in both digital and physical format will be a limited release and only available for sale until March 31, 2021.
So with Super Mario 3D All-Stars being in a much bigger stir due to what many consider an anti-consumer release, most players will gladly overlook an odd line change. Even if the collection of games spanning three generations of Mario titles didn’t involve a release period, gamers would still likely not throw too much of a fit over an lost oddity and meme like “So Long, Gay Bowser!”
Super Mario 3D All-Stars launches on September 18, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
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