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SUPER MARIO RPG IS COMING BACK!!!

The year is 1996. I was 9 years old, and had received a new game for my birthday: Super Mario RPG. Little did I know how much this game would have an impact on my life. It quickly became one of my favorite games. I remember finding some pictures of the 3D character renders (Mario, Mallow, Geno, Bowser and Peach) on AOL, printed them out and hung them on my wall.

Super Mario RPG was also when I started to realize that I really liked game music. My mom helped me record some of the songs onto cassette tapes by using a boombox with a record function and holding it up to the TV speaker while I let songs play. To this day, Super Mario RPG still has one of my favorite soundtracks, I’ve always ranked it as #2 behind only Final Fantasy VI. I even loved it enough to cover the entire soundtrack in one gigantic mega-medley back in 2012. Fast forward almost 3 entire decades since release. Super Mario RPG had seemingly long been left behind by Nintendo. Fans of the game had been clamoring for some sort of SMRPG content, or even acknowledgement, for years. The best we got was a quick Geno cameo sprite in a Mario & Luigi game, some character moveset references (Mario and Peach, Wario’s Booster punch) and the Geno Mii outfits in Smash Bros. The latest of which, a late Geno Mii outfit release in Smash Ultimate, seemed to be the final nail in the coffin, as there had been high hopes in the SMRPG community for a full Geno character inclusion (I commemorated this tragic event with the release of “Sad Song” in 2021).

Then on June 21st, 2023, something magical happened.

Super Mario RPG

is

BACK.

And….. from what we’ve seen so far, it’s looking BEAUTIFUL!

I’ve never in my life been more stoked for anything revealed in a Nintendo Direct, or any game-related showcase for that matter. I’m thrilled that not only will us older SMRPG fans be able to relive one of our favorite games, but younger folks who never got a chance to give it a try will now be able to as well.

And now, I begin my quest to remind the world that the Super Mario RPG soundtrack is much, much more than just Beware the Forest’s Mushrooms.

LETS ‘A GO!