The 'Shroom:Issue 145/Pipe Plaza

Director’s Notes
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Welcome to another Pipe Plaza, fresh and ready for your visual consumption. April's here, and with it comes some certified New Returns. is back with another season of Anniversary Announcements, all about the ongoings of this year's Mario Awards. Check it out below. Other than that, there's the usual hotspot of information all here. Interviews, Discussions, Reports, and Spotlights- you know how it is.

This April brings beautiful days with it. Looking outside, I can finally see the sun shining, the flowers blooming... days like these remind me to look forward to the Summer even more. I hope your seasons are as bountiful as mine. Enjoy the content!

Section of the Month Congratulations to LudwigVon for his Community Report contribution! Raregold, Pitohui and Geeky all did splendid jobs with 'Shroom Recap and Poll Committee Discussion, respectively.

Monthly Report
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Hello 'Shroom readers! Not much to say, because I am busy lately, but that does not stop me from keeping you informed with my Monthly Report! Let's take a look at the Mario Wiki's statistics for April, but also with a comparison with the previous month. Without further ado, let's take a look at it.

*EDT Time.

Conclusion: is now a patroller! A big congratulation for his promotion. Aside from that, many things went up this month and especially in the number of active users. Let's just hope that this trend continues for the next months. To conclude, a more active month in comparison to March, which had received a small decrease on the edits per page.

And that's all for Issue 145's Monthly Report. Thanks a bunch for reading it, and come again next month. Meanwhile, have a great time!

Anniversary Announcements
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Hello again! Welcome to the first Anniversary Announcements of 2019! We're a month later than usual, but that's because we had so much time last year that it was decided to just start later!

For the people that are new to this section, Anniversary Announcements is a section that tells you about the behind-the-scenes developments behind the Mario Awards, the yearly event that celebrates the anniversary of our beloved Wiki. This includes the Awards themselves, tournaments, prizes, and all other things that influence the event.

First, let's give a hand for...

The Awards Committee
The people that will go through all awards for you, the Awards Committee! They are the awesome people that have been selected this year.

At the helm of the committee:
 * – Awards Director and Mario Awards host since 2015
 * – Sub-director and Fail Awards host
 * – Community Awards host and freshly elected director of The 'Shroom
 * – Awards Staff consultant
 * – Awards Staff consultant
 * – Awards Record Keeper and writer of Anniversary Announcements

A full list of all members in this years Committee can be found here. You can contact any of these people if you have questions, and if they don't know the answer, they will pass it through as needed. For questions or suggestions relating to Anniversary Announcements, you can contact me.

Among the committee are six newcomers! This means that in a few months, they will be featured in new Committee Interviews in this section!

The Munchers
Let's start with the bigger happenings! First of all, last year thoughts have spawned to rework or abolish the token and prize system we've had for years, because of the burden the upkeep of it. This with an eye on maintaining a list of interesting prizes and the financial costs of them, as well as acquiring the prizes to be gifted since Steam changed the way gifting works. It has now been decided to completely abandon the system, meaning there will no longer be tokens to win from tournaments. Public reactions have it that this will likely have minimal effect on participation in these, however. Tournament hosts are also free to provide prizes of their own. This also means that The 'Shroom Achievements has lost its source of prizes. What will happen to that is not yet decided upon.

Other than that, a few tournaments are already in the planning or interest gauging phases on the public Awards board on the forums. For Nintendo Switch-based tournaments, which require a Nintendo Switch Online plan to participate in, at least two users have expressed that they are willing to provide access to a family plan for others to participate without requiring them to have a plan of their own.

Awards
In this part of Anniversary Announcements, I will list all awards that have been discussed and changes made to them. This includes existing awards, completely new ones, and removals, and the additions, removals, and changes within each award.

Before going in greater detail, the headlines. Plans are to rework some duplicates, redundancies and irrelevant awards within the Community category. Some of the issues are leftovers from when the User and 'Shroom awards were merged a few years ago. Several other awards are up for rework as well.

M5 through M7, Favorite DK, Wario, and Yoshi Level respectively, are rotating awards since last year, and will be changed to Favorite Character awards of their respective series.

M10 Favorite Song is up for discussion, as it was created last year with the intent of only having vocal pieces, but had a lot of non-song write-ins. These have been kept because of the sheer amount of them. Discussion will point out whether the award is going to be all-inclusive, is going to be split, or just renamed.

Refer to this document for a full list of nominees.

And that covers it for all awards that have thus far been discussed, all in the big table you know and love me for! Stay tuned for the other awards and developments around them in the following months, and until next month, keep that touch screen smokin'! Buh-bye!

All information above was correct as of 2019-04-14.

Interview
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Hello, 'Shroom readers! It's Superchao again, after yet another interview, here to bring you the results! I had planned to make a wiki staff trilogy, but unavoidable circumstances meant I had to delay one of my planned interviewees. So I moved up someone I was going to interview late in the year - Snack! He's been around since 2007, but if you're active only the wiki, you might not even know that! Primarily focusing on the community, Snack's been around the boards and IRC for years, but sometimes not as active as other times. Still, he's a longtime guy who's been doing things even in the present day, so why not listen to what he's got to say?

 The Interview:  maroon Hello, 'Shroom readers! Superchao here, ready to bring you another interview! Hopefully you're reading these so that this isn't just an exercise in futility! maroon Today I've brought in someone who's been around the block more than once - longtime user Snack! navy For some reason it’s kind of funny to me that is actually in the interview and not added after the fact or something navy I dunno if I’m allowed to say that and reveal the process to readers but still maroon Hit 'em hard and hit 'em fast, I'd say. And honestly, I'm pretty sure at least half of my readers have been interviewed by now, so they know. navy True maroon So! The basics. How did you, personally, find the wiki? navy Uniju actually found it before me, and then one day for whatever I reason I was annoyed with him for something – probably stupid seeing as I was like, 14 – and so I logged on to #mariowiki IRC to heckle him navy I was “Snackserv” because part of it was some silly persona of an irc service bot but for snacks maroon The three great -servs: Chanserv, Nickserv, and Snackserv navy yeah navy I doubt I would’ve stayed long term honestly if not for the fact that this happened in 2007, and Super Mario Galaxy came out a few months later and Super Smash Brothers Brawl not long after that maroon So basically, it's a good thing Uniju ticked you off then. Thanks, Uniju! navy lol maroon What made you actually stick around on the wiki and/or boards? Making the jump from IRC to those? navy If there was anything in particular besides wanting to talk about SMG and Brawl I can’t remember it at this point maroon Funny how Brawl was such a big deal for the wiki, and yet since then we carved down a lot of our Smash coverage. maroon Truly, our past selves would be disappointed in us! (But they were all idiots so they don't get votes.) navy I’m pretty sure the work I did on the articles for the boards (Bill Board and et cetera) in Galaxy is still the only noteworthy thing I’ve done on the wiki itself actually maroon I looked at your user contributions to prepare for this interview, and... that is pretty much correct maroon You did a pile of work in 2007 and then stopped. navy I got Galaxy the day it came out so I wanted to record stuff I saw in it and that was the first thing I saw that hadn’t been mentioned yet, I guess navy Then Galaxy 2 got me on BJAODN navy I’d like to challenge anyone to prove to me that what I wrote was inaccurate and that Whittles in fact do not speak very good English for being entirely made of wood maroon In fairness, just because you're made out of wood doesn't necessarily preclude you from taking the time to better your grasp of the language navy I guess maroon So what made you, well, not interested in continued contribution? navy I dunno navy I guess there just hasn’t been anything I felt the need to contribute that someone else hadn’t already done maroon I think that really seems to be one of the two really big barriers of entry to new editors maroon Namely, that the dedicated crew of editors tends to work so fast and quickly there's no real time to add anything that isn't obscure or cleanup work of some kind. maroon On the plus side, the community aspect sure kept you busy! navy Yeah navy There’s a lot of stuff I don’t think I’d be doing or interested in if I hadn’t stuck around really maroon Wiki-wise, or just in terms of your general interests? navy General interests maroon Now that's something to dig into! ...Though I think we should discuss your history a bit, first. maroon What interested you when you discovered Userpedia? navy Probably it being a creative outlet basically; even beyond things like comics and stories I could just write stuff that came to mind and seemed interesting to me and put it down in an article navy Which is something I’ve done for as long as I can remember, I just didn’t put it to writing nearly as much maroon Honestly, I feel like the relative... lack of expectations? Is that a good phrase? Anyhow, I feel like that contributed to the 2007/2008 Userpedia Boom in a big way. navy In hindsight it was all really goofy so I don’t care to think about it, but, yeah, when you put it that way, like navy EVERYTHING was sort of goofy, that’s just what people did, partly because everyone was really young maroon And then everyone got just a little older and suddenly there were 8 million dramatic super long epics maroon (7 million of which were Scarecrow's) navy Oh, I was always writing stuff that was goofy in that sort of way maroon That's true! Unfortunately, we had to bring this up sooner or later, so brace yourself: maroon What made you decide to make a big comic in the form of Legends of the Fallenstar? navy A collective episode of madness like the 17th century Dutch tulip bubble or the late 1990s web bubble maroon The 2008 housing bubble was nothing compared to the 2008 userpedia comic bubble, then? navy Besides that and just having silly overdramatic ideas I wanted to do something with I can’t think of anything navy pretty much maroon I feel like I can't give an objective assessment of anything from 2008 because I was dumb and 15. Alas. maroon And then the scribblewiki crash happened! I forget, did your comic survive that?? navy I really can’t remember the timeline of all the different userpedias maroon Imagine if MarioWiki itself had as convoluted a history as Userpedia maroon scary thought, huh? navy yeah navy Anyway, if you mean did it kill it as an ongoing project, I’m not sure honestly because it was something I gradually lost intererst in I think, and I’m not sure offhand when Scribblewiki died navy If you mean killed it as in it got wiped out and lost like a lot of other userpedia things, fortunately (or unfortunately, perhaps), for whatever reason it survived maroon I primarily meant as an ongoing project, so... yeah, honestly, that doesnt' surprise me too much. A lot of the Big comics died to a case of "more ambition than energy" maroon Come to think of it, I'm not sure anyone except Jorge ever completed a long-running comic series. navy I’m not sure at this point if I still had the files – I’ve had at least one computer die and switched computers one or two other times, so I think a lot of my files from that time or before or lost – or if I managed to find them from somewhere, but it definitely still exists maroon I look forward to when your run as a presidental candidate is disrupted by someone posting LotFS navy I know I’ve made this joke a few times, but I can definitely never run for president; we’ve only had bad presidents named “Andrew” maroon Thanks for preventing a 3 for 3, I appreciate it! maroon So, eventually you drifted off Userpedia, and then what? Just stuck around the forum for a while? navy yeah, that’s pretty much it navy Although I’ve drifted on and off the forums/IRC a lot over the years maroon Yeah, I remember that when I came back to the forums full-time, you... weren't so much completely absent as you kind of existed only on the periphery maroon Is it just a tendency to lose and gain interest over time? navy Yeah; I feel like my interests shift a lot actually, and for a while I had other communities that I was more involved in that for various reasons I’ve now drifted out of too and ended up back here maroon That happens to me, honestly; I've got two major communities I'm in, and it feels like there's a push and pull between them for me maroon I don't fully leave Marioboards or the other one, but I have a tendency to focus on one more than the other depending on various factors navy I think part of why I stuck around has been the minecraft servers we’ve had for #mariowiki too and on this laptop I’ve had issues with the keyboard – I guess I’m just a bit hard on it – and so for a while since I couldn’t play with a broken keyboard I stopped for a while navy I can’t actually remember if that was a time I also wasn’t so active on the forums or IRC though now that I think about it navy so, uh, that might not actually be relevant to anything maroon Keyboard issues are the worst non-fatal laptop issues, honestly maroon Sometime I definitely need to get minecraft though. Maybe this year will be the year. navy If you do you should get it by august for the awards maroon Minecraft Games is pretty much the #1 motivating factor for me in the decision, so good work team navy I didn’t really mean that as a public plug for the Minecraft Games but now that I think about it that’s what it’s going to be, lol maroon If you've seen some of the shameless shilling I do in interviews, you'd feel just fine! navy I really need to read more of them maroon Everyone does. maroon You've done some more recent writings, though, like Rideable Minecart High School. Anything in particular that got you interested in making up your own cast and world of sorts? navy I’m not sure what specifically interests me about it; I guess I’ve always been interested in fantasy though; not necessarily only in the genre sense but in the idea of worldbuilding in general navy Like how I mentioned earlier that I wrote a lot of articles for userpedia that were just ideas that came to me maroon That makes sense - the premise means you get to explore both the characters and the minecart world too. maroon Do you have a favorite Rideable Minecart girl to write? navy Yeah, although it’s setting isn’t so much a fantasy world honestly, although the towns themselves are fictional maroon True, but it's still the chance to write in a world out of your own personal experience. maroon In its own way, that's pretty fantastic! navy Anyway, it’s been a long time since I’ve actually written it – it’s another thing I sadly lost interest and momentum in before I could tie it up really – so it’s a bit hard to say, but I always liked writing Subaru; she’s very much a what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of character and just a ball of big dumb energy navy Which makes it sound like she’s not a very deep character, and she honestly might not be, but I mean that in a good way maroon Heheheh, those are always fun characters. Here's hoping that someday you regain that spark - I'd like to see them again sometime! But not until you feel ready. navy like, I didn’t really want her to be that archetype of someone who’s putting a front despite being really troubled internally navy I always found her fun to write and it was easier for me to think of what she’d do in a given situation than some of the others – I struggled with Ran for instance, and I struggled with the group dynamic after I introduced the transfer student character who I doubt anyone remembers, which is probably part of what stopped me from continuing it since that happened right after I’d finally gotten in to a good groove with the original four main girls maroon Maybe try writing a few one-shots with the four main girls when you want to return to it? Get back to them, then maybe expand out from there navy maybe, yeah maroon So, coming back to an earlier thing, I'm curious. What are some things you got into/stayed into because of the community? navy I don’t think I ever would have watched Detective Conan without talking to marty about it, for one maroon I appreciate Marty's interest in lesser-known anime/manga properties, mostly because it means I have someone else who recognizes Kinnikuman navy I don’t know if I would have ever gotten in to Love Live without knowing TFP, NEX, and Star either, and without hearing Turb and GBA talking about it Fire Emblem would still just be “those weird games with anime sword boys in smash where you pet your wife with the touch screen” to me navy Although I feel like when I put it that way it’s pretty maroon I also got into Love Live thanks to this community, so we can be buddies! navy obvious, I guess; everyone checks stuff out because they hear about it from their friends and think it sounds intriguing navy But if I hadn’t been here it would probably have been other stuff for me maroon I mean, it's always neat to have specific examples. I wouldn't have ever checked out F-Zero if not for specific friends, and I'm the guy who writes a section about it! maroon I take it you don't mind getting into any of those, huh navy Not really navy well, Love Live gets kind of a bad rap and that’s something I can get too hung up on, honestly (and I’ll admit it’s not like, a masterpiece of modern literature or anything), but I enjoyed it maroon I feel like as long as people can respect my positive opinion on Love Live, I will happily respect their negative opinion on it navy I do feel bad sometimes that I can’t seem to stay interested in things for more than a couple years, but I can’t really do much about that maroon I feel it's kind of natural? You get some things that stick with you forever, but then some that are just flashes in the pan. If I ever get an interview, remind me to put forth a couple examples of that I've got navy This is another thing I dunno if you want me to give away, but I think you said you were planning on retiring in the next year or two? Whoever picks up interviews next should definitely interview you first maroon I'm okay with sharing it now, honestly. It means my regular readers will know the job is open and might be inspired to think about taking it over eight months instead of one maroon So, there you go, 'Shroom readers - the last interview I do (for this particular tour) will be in December 2019. Look forward to it! And the seven others in between then and now. maroon anyhow clearly i should just use my 'shroom influence to make interviewing me a mandatory condition to take my job maroon Out of curiosity, do you still follow Mario that much? A lot of long-time wikigoers have had their tastes shift and aren't that into the series these days. navy Not all that much navy I loved Odyssey though and whenever the next main series game gets announced I’ll probably tune in more, but that probably won’t be for a while now navy I’m always down to watch when people here stream Mario games too, especially SM64 speedruns maroon I feel like Nintendo decided to frontload the Switch with big series - Mario, Zelda, technically Metroid, and by now they've got Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing on the way. maroon Should make the next couple years pretty interesting... hopefully. maroon someday the marioboards will produce a world record speedrunner maroon and by that i mean it's going to be marty speedrunning katamari navy Oh, it has navy pretty sure marty still has the world record for Doraemon N64 100% maroon Oh wow, I forgot that. Marty: world record man maroon Do you have any interested in speedrunning, or just watching streams? navy I would like to try doing an SM64 run again sometime navy I feel like I’m not a very good streamer though, plus it can be a pain to set everything up maroon I've never had much trouble streaming off my computer but I've never tried streaming from a console, and somehow I imagine that's juuust a bit more complicated. navy Maybe not something to say in an interview given the Implications, but I’ve never tried streaming from a console navy In my defense I’ve bought Super Mario 64 twice though navy three times if you want to count DS, but I don’t maroon I mean, I'm pretty sure we've implied worse in the interviews. Just don't post links and it's technically not against the rules! navy Good to know navy The main thing is there’s just a lot of windows to have open for a speedrun and you need to make sure they’re all set up right in a scene in obs navy plus the timer software that most people use for speedruns is windows only which is an annoyance maroon Oh, yeah, the timer and such - I just think of my own non-speed streaming navy Yeah, it’s easier if you just have the game itself to worry about maroon Would you say 64's your favorite Mario game, or something else? navy It’s hard to say; it, Sunshine, Galaxy, and Odyssey are all really close for me, and I think in the end I might say Sunshine is actually my #1 favorite, but 64 is special to me since it’s one of the first video games I ever played navy or at least remember playing maroon Sunshine is a really good pick and I wish it got more appreciation, but I feel like being a followup to 64 that changed the formula and being followed by the highly popular Galaxy didn't help it much navy Personally I feel like it’s hurt in people’s minds by the plot and voice acting being cheesy and a little weird for a Mario game and, perhaps also that it’s probably the hardest of the main series 3D games maroon i'm a chuckster navy h maroon It is weird, but I think it's still got a lot of solid gameplay, and Delfino Plaza felt like it had a lot more life to it than any of the other hubs maroon Also hot take the blue coins were a good concept navy Yeah, Delfino Plaza is great maroon So in general, you're a fan of the 3D gameplay, it sounds like. navy Yeah maroon In that case, am I right in assuming the Mario games you don't care for are 2D? If you've even got any you dislike. navy Honestly going back to older 2D games they feel kind of punishing to me navy I might’ve beaten some of the NSMB games, but I’ve never beaten any of the SMB games or Super Mario World navy I was never able to beat any of the OG Sonic games either navy I’ve gotten close in Sonic 2 but that’s it maroon Maybe you're just not really used to 2D gameplay compared to 3D? navy Probably, yeah maroon Clearly we know exactly what game will fix this navy I don’t dislike the 2D games though; I actually really liked NSMBWii and NSMBU because its great to screw around with four or five people maroon I never picked up Wii or U in part because I didn't have anyone to play with; with how many people recommended it based off of multiplayer shenanigans, it just didn't seem worth the price to me navy Yeah, that’s fair navy the one game I really didn’t like much was 3D World though (was that the the game you were alluding to, actually?) maroon (actually no, it was a Tobari joke) Oh, why not? navy it just felt like a bit clumsy how it tried to map the 2D Mario mechanics into a 3D space, especially with how refined the SM64 and et cetera formula is navy Playing it I just felt like “I wish this was more of a conventional 3D Mario game" maroon And then you got Odyssey! So that worked out. navy I’m still holding out for Tobari 2 getting a Switch release in English even though I know I’d die if I tried to play it maroon If any Desunoya platformer ever gets an English Switch release that's a day 1 buy for me maroon Outside of Mario, are there any game series you really like/would recommend? navy outside of Nintendo games a lot of what I’m interested in are strategy and simulation games, which are sort of niche and can be daunting at times, so I’m not sure they’d make good general recommendations to be honest maroon To be fair, I think people read interviews expecting to learn about specific tastes maroon I know I did back when I actually read them instead of writing them! navy In that case, I’ve mentioned it a lot in my ask thread but Railroad Tycoon II is a game I’ve been playing for a veeery long time that I still love; plus it’s on Steam for pretty cheap afaik maroon It is! And I'm probably the one other Railroad Tycoon II fan on this forum, so you're talking to the right guy. maroon About the only problem is that I could never transfer save data from laptop to laptop, but that's just an excuse to replay campaign mode. navy Besides that, Civilization V is another one I’ve had a lot of fun with over the years maroon What draws you to strategy/sim games? navy Part of it is definitely my interest in history and especially geography navy Something like Railroad Tycoon II is especially fun because of that maroon you get to be a robber baron AND live in the 21st century! maroon ...Speaking of, I just realized time is catching up to the originally-set-in-the-future campaign maps. Trippy stuff. navy Stuff like that can be weird navy I was playing Ace Attorney a little while ago and realizing that it was set in what was the future when it came out but is now, like, a few years ago was kind of wacky maroon As someone who has plenty of science fiction from the 50s and 60s, the 2010s are so much different than what they speculated. maroon -Honestly I have a theory about Ace Attorney being set in 2016. maroon Namely, that it wasn't supposed to be navy That’s interesting navy why’s that maroon The only time in the entire franchise that a specific year was ever said was the DL-6 case file saying DL-6 happened in 2001, and every other year has been calculated from DL-6. Buuut, Phoenix mentions in the first game "it's the start of a new century", and nothing is done to make the game look or feel Ahead Of Its Time navy ah maroon So I've always personally thought the game itself was meant to be set in 2001 and DL-6 in 1986, but one guy mixed up one date and turned the entire Ace Attorney franchise into being set in the near future maroon good work, one guy navy I do feel like it’s implied that the setting is sort of a dystopian future though, even if it was also intended as a satire of contemporary Japan navy Of course part of that may be the localization too maroon That's a fair point. maroon So, did you like Ace Attorney, anyway? navy Yeah, it was pretty entertaining navy I only played the original cases from the first game and I should really get back to it, especially since people rave about Rise From The Ashes maroon Are visual novels a thing of yours in general, actually? You've mentioned a couple in the past. navy I’ve played a fair few of them, yeah navy It’s hard to compare them to “traditional” video games in a way, but a few I’d probably list among my favorite games of all time maroon Oh, like which? navy namely Analogue: A Hate Story and Highway Blossoms maroon I keep intending to look into the first but then I just... don't. maroon An unfortunate common occurrence of mine navy It’s a pretty challenging navy Well navy I was going to say challenging GAME but that doesn’t really capture it; it’s not challenging as a game but it’s a challenging narrative, which is kind of a given with the subject matter it tackles maroon Easy to play through, yet hard to actually get through? navy yeah maroon I've had a few cases like that. They're usually worth it in a emotional way - it hurts but you feel better when you come out the other side navy I’m not sure if I’d say I feel better for things like that or no navy A lot of times they leave me kind of in a funk for days maroon Probably the kind of thing it's good to save for rare occasions, then navy Yeah, maybe navy Although – this is maybe too heavy a subject for a Shroom interview honestly, but – there was one thing sort of like that kind of helped me in a way just because, like navy I kind of hate how “come to terms” sounds honestly but I guess after it I realized better that depression is really an illness and not just rational responses to things maroon I've had an experience or two like that, honestly. Not with that specific thing, but I remember watching a Bionicle web series with some serious moments that helped me understand "this is why I don't like people disappearing without warning/things being deleted without warning". maroon It's kind of amazing what can help you, y'know? navy Yeah maroon So, this is probably not a good segue, but if theres one more question i wanted to ask you, it's this maroon What keeps you coming back to the community, even after all this time? navy I suppose just because I’ve known a lot of people here for a long time and I have a lot of friends here, mainly maroon like me! hopefully navy yeah maroon It's a good reason, really. I'm honestly always happy to know how strong a friend group this little forum has ended up making maroon I gotta ask, though. maroon Is this the last question? navy Good question maroon Thanks maroon And thanks for the interview, too! navy You’re welcome

Conclusion: Honestly, I'm not really good at these conclusions, am I? But I'll keep on trying, because why not! Anyhow, I hope you've enjoyed learning more about someone you might not have thought that much about. The next time you see Snack, give him a hello, would you? Unless of course you already do, in which case... keep on keeping on! See you next month, 'Shroom readers!

NIWA Spotlight
Written by: Hello everyone! Welcome to NIWA Spotlight, a focused list that covers one article from each of our partnered wikis that need help. These can range from articles that need more information or created to images that need replacing or uploaded. Notice something on a different wiki you can't fix or aren't sure how to and want to get the word out? Let me know on my talk page or in this forum topic and it will be added to a future issue. For our Mario-related topics, check out the current The 'Shroom Spotlight!

Superjustinbros and ERROR worked on bringing Tetris 99 up to speed, Fubaka gave ChuChu her much needed list of appearances and moves, GloverMist made the Known Occurrences more known with images, and I replaced so he has legs.


 * The F-Zero Wiki is undergoing an update, so editing is restricted for the time being.

Poll Committee Discussion
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Hello Dear Readers,

Hi, it's Yeet the Jeek back with your discussion for this month. Hear my plea and follow me. Poll Committee and I had a head full of ideas for the plentiful polls for this month. I hope there are no holes within our polls. Now sit tight it might be a sight. Now take my hand and I will show the land!

Would you ever like to see Princess Peach get her own spin-off franchise to herself? (PriPeachFranchiseSupporter1337 (MFGG) and, March 10, 2019)
A lovely lass should have a mass of attention. She is royal and loyal to those of mushroom. A beautiful peach at the highest point of a tree. What’s that? Peaches are not found in trees. Peaches come from a can. They were put there by a man. Now that you know how the Princess was created. I believe that we should properly look at what was stated about this fine lass before we run out of time. Alas! A large mass majority of you have said that Mario could potentially benefit from having Peach have her own series. She is essentially like the Black Widow of the Mario gang. Black Widow is also getting her own movie so why shouldn’t Peach have her own video game. After Princess Peach was given her own game, “Super Princess Peach” on the Nintendo DS. With the amount of success that the game has received. Wouldn’t it make sense for her to receive her own series? While there are some that agree there are some that disagree. There are those that have stated that other characters should have their own franchise. Maybe it’s about time we got to see that Waluigi video game that we’ve always wanted to see come to life. However, there are those that are still hoping that Peach gets her own game. The only difference being that they would like to see her being the main character of a spin-off game. The mechanics within the “Super Princess Peach” game must have great enough to make a difference. Let’s just hope that Mr. Bowser decides that Princess Peach should be more of a hero than a damsel.

What new game styles would you like to see in Super Mario Maker 2? ( and, March 17, 2019)
A setting is quite fetching when done right it can be as bright as a light. It can be classic and fantastic. There can be areas full of stars that might close to Mars. Many different worlds are full of undiscovered pearls. Let’s go explore the amazing world of whirls! Super Mario 2 seemed to be the most popular one that had won your votes. The game style is nostalgic for those who enjoy a time of iconic. A time where gaming was so simplistic you might even call it bombastic. Although that is not all there was a Birdo and a Shy Guys plenty. What a spectacular time that was. What a memorable memory that was. Now let me take you to a place where star bits were plentiful. The time where a Galaxy and a poor hero was full of agony. A certain game called Super Mario Galaxy. The structure of the game gave off a nice 3-D feel. That almost made the player feel that it was real. There were planets so different just waiting to be explored. With an awaiting princess with her star children wanting for their home to be restored. The last game style shall not be forgotten. For this place is what had started it all. It may have had you fall into the Mario fandom. That is the companion Super Mario 64. The game of a hero who won’t be a zero running off to save his beloved Princess. There is a series of indexed doors within his beloved’s castle just waiting to be explored. When he journeyed through these doors. Lands of ice, bombs, and koopas galore. Giant blocks just waiting for a player step in the frame. I hope these games of nostalgia are ready for action with the release of June 2019.

How do you feel about the upcoming retirement of Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aimé? ( and, March 24, 2019)
A man who has worked and showed us a world of mushroom, princesses, plumbers, and different creatures plenty. Deserves some time to relax. We will not forget the countless accomplishments had made to turn the world of Nintendo so great. Although it would have been nice if he stayed. We must remember all great men must rest. With a heavy heart, we all see the great man Reggie leave. Although it is sad to see him leave many answered he has earned his retirement. He has taken his position with years of ease it is time for him to finally relax and see a vacation. Other do not want to let go of the beloved President wanting him to continue to be above the corporation of Nintendo. There are some who would disagree. The primary work of Nintendo should not be impacted that they do agree. However, Reggie did decree that he shall retire to that Nintendo did agree. Where Reggie goes, we can agree let him find peace with his cease.

Which upcoming Educational Mario Game are you looking forward to this year? (April Fools) (, April 1st, 2019)
I’m honestly not sure why these games exist. When I look at these games I must exit. Although I suppose games are a great tool to enlist. Let’s just hope that none of these are math so that a pour soul does not go through that wrath. Fortunately, the first game that was selected was about getting your Master’s. Getting a degree is important but does Nintendo think it will prepare those that want to get ahead of their life faster. Allowing those to experiment with chemicals is a great way to learn about chemistry. I just hope that no one experiments with the selective chemicals used. Perhaps including a warning in the opening screen would help Nintendo from not getting sued. The last game that was voted on was the newest Pink Mode Donkey Kong Jr. game that involves…. Math. Math out of every subject….it just had to be math. Although I have heard that there’s a fun portion that focuses on Calculus. It doesn’t matter… for that’s all I will say on the matter.

Conclusion
My time is currently up as your host. I hope I made the most of your time. I have also run out of rhyme, so I shall end it here. Next month tune in for there will be a Raregold who will be taking over for me. Thank you all your time it sure was sublime. Now enjoy your day while I say, thank you for reading dear readers.