Super Mario Bros. Wonder nearly featured giant live-action Mario
'Super Mario Bros. Wonder' nearly featured a giant live-action Mario that says "Boing!" to himself. There were more than 2,000 ideas that the developers came up with for the new 2D adventure and they tested out some pretty "extreme" stuff. Game designer Koichi Hayashida revealed in an Ask the Developer interview on Nintendo's official website: “With these things in mind, we decided to have an idea-sharing session. “Everyone from programmers to designers and sound designers joined in and wrote down gameplay ideas on sticky notes, which could be unrelated to their field of expertise, and we made...