The 'Shroom:Issue LXXVIII





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{{ShroomSection|background=shroomfall|title=Awards Director Election|issue=LXXVIII|content= Welcome.

What does the Director do?
The Director of the Awards Committee... }}
 * ...Shall determine the method by which individuals are to be able to join the Committee.
 * ...Shall be the official Host of the Mario Awards Ceremony.
 * ...Chooses one individual in the community to be the Sub-director (and can either invite this individual to be their runningmate in this campaign or can appoint this individual at the beginning of their term); also appoints the Hosts of each other Ceremony. The Director can then delegate various tasks to these individuals as seen fit.
 * ...Directs the Anniversary Planning Meetings that are held during the year and determines the schedule for said meetings.
 * ...Decides the date of the Awards and maintains a schedule of events for the celebration.
 * ...Maintains a sign-up list for presenters and enforces the rules that are established for presentations.

{{ShroomSection|background=shroomfall|title=Critic Corner|issue=LXXVIII|content= Sleep mode activated.

August Section of the Month
I… cannot be stuffed! To the point; victor was for his new section Smash Time, which broadly put is discussing his opinions on updates for the upcoming Super Smash Bros. 4 as well as his own personal desires for the game. Good debut there, mate.

Second place was my shitty review of The Last of Us in Crocodile Style Reviews, and third place was New Super Mario again for NSM's Review Corner which covered Pikmin 3. So there you have it, folks; we're getting more votes now, so keep reading and voting, you're doing God's work here! }} {{ShroomSection|background=shroomfall|title=Interview|issue=LXXVIII|content= Greetings, Shroom readers! It's your continuously regular interviewer and successful but stressed Awards Subdirector, Superchao!

This month is the special Awards Issue. Therefore, who better to interview than the AC director, Turboo? She's been around the community for five years or so, and has been pretty active on the forum and chat all that time. She also recently started becoming active on the wiki, but most significantly, has been the Awards Director for both 2012 and 2013.

And that's enough of an introduction. Time for the important part!

The Interview
Superchao: Hello, 'Shroom readers! Since this is the special Awards Issue, I've decided to go ahead and interview the Awards Director, Turboo! Turboo: Hello everyone! Superchao: Now, since this is the Awards Issue, naturally I'm going to completely put off the awards stuff until halfway through and start with the basic questions. Superchao: How and when did you find the MarioWiki? Turboo: I think it was in... probably 2007 that I came across it. Turboo: I don't remember what I was searching for, but I did end up lurking around the forums more than the wiki. Superchao: From what I remember, I don't think you joined until around 2008? Is there a particular reason or was it just because :effort: }}


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{{ShroomSection|background=shroomfall|title=Upcoming Games|issue=LXXVIII|content= In memory of former President of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamauchi (Kyoto, Japan; November 7th, 1927 – September 19th, 2013)

Hello, and welcome to this month's issue of Upcoming Games. As stated in my Notes for the Pipe Plaza, this will be the first UG issue written for the Main Team, after it was moved from the Pipe Plaza team a few days before the release of Issue LXXVIII. However, as in Mario Calendar, the section will retain its usual format, which means it'll cover the latest news on the upcoming Mario-related games.

Mario & Nintendo News
There was plenty of interesting Mario-related and Nintendo news in the past two months, so let's take a look at those announcements! }} {{ShroomSection|background=shroomfall|title=A History of Video Games|issue=LXXVIII|content=

Welcome
Welcome to the first ever History of Video Games as written by me, Chuck Ballymoo. I hope to carry on a tradition of quality video game history articles such as Toad85 submitted before retiring nearly one year ago. On this month in 1996, Nintendo launched the Nintendo 64 in North America and changed the world forever. Mario emerged.

Nintendo was in deep trouble in her home country of Japan back in the long ago days of 1996. The 16-bit era was folding, and Nintendo faced some serious competition in the next-gen hardware arena from neighboring Sony. The PS1 was in a dead-heat with the Sega Saturn in Japan, and in America was making inroads. The PlayStation and Saturn used CD-ROMs, but Nintendo was the last holdout with using cartridges for the 64, which was named after the console's 64-bit graphics-processor. This riled many a game developer, and resulted in some of them to migrate their popular Famicon and Super Famicon video game series over to the Saturn and PS1. That left Nintendo in quite a pickle, and had only Miyamoto's brilliance to stand on. }} {{ShroomSection|background=shroomfall|title=Awards Committee Commentaries|issue=LXXVIII|content=

I think that last year, I said something like "I hope that we can make next year's ceremony the best one yet," and what can I say? Despite needing to replace quite a few presentations and getting down to the wire with things, I think that this year really improved on a lot of things. Even with the last-minute rush, there were a lot of stand-out presentations, and the ceremony itself went pretty smoothly.

Once again, there's not much to say here due to the lack of anything super-notable happening (which might be a good thing). I have no doubt that we can improve even more next year, and I hope to be there for it! }}

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Sub-Director's Notes
Well I'm leaving after this month, but my astrologer tells me you won't be getting Gabumon back. In other news, SMB and Tucayo were tragically murdered earlier this morning, so I put the issue up myself. If there are errors I apologize; it's the first time I've ever done this. }}
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