Hotel Mario



Hotel Mario is a rather obscure game that was created by Philips Media for the CD-i. Philips Media had acquired the rights to produce a Mario game after initial plans to make a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo fell through.

Released in 1994 to little fanfare, the game did very poorly due to a lack of interest in the CD-i system. Most Mario fans have never played Hotel Mario, and those that have generally disregard it due to its poor voice acting and bizarre format. In this game, Bowser and his children have taken over the Mushroom Kingdom, where they've built seven hotels.

The general goal in each stage is to close all the doors on every floor, However, various enemies will interfere and reopen them at times. Elevators are needed to travel between floors. Each hotel has around three stages.

Princess Toadstool is held captive in each hotel until the moment of its destruction, at which point she is taken off to a different hotel. Each hotel is run by a different Koopaling (except for the last one which is run by Bowser) who must be fought by Mario in order to destroy the hotel.

The game also has a two player mode, allowing a second player to control Luigi. As with previous titles, Mario and Luigi take turns playing during a two-player game.

Due to the fact that Nintendo had no involvement in the game, in addition to its lack of popularity, Hotel Mario is largely considered to be non-canonical among both Nintendo and its fans. As such, Nintendo fails to recognize it whenever they discuss the history of Mario, and probably never will. Due to a lack of interest and potential legal issues with Philips, it is very unlikey that Hotel Mario will ever be rereleased.

Hotels

 * Morton's WoodDoor-Hysteria
 * Roy's HardBrick Hotel
 * Larry's Chillton Hotel
 * Lemmy's High-ate Regency Hotel
 * Ludwig's Thump Castle Hotel
 * Wendy's Blitz Snarlton Hotel
 * Bowser's Seizure Palace Hotel

Enemies

 * Goomba
 * Koopa Troopa
 * Wiggler
 * Bob-omb
 * Para Bob-omb
 * Mini-Ninji
 * Buzzy Beetle
 * Monty Mole
 * Spiny
 * Paragoomba
 * Banzai Bill
 * Paratroopa
 * Boo Buddies
 * Big Boo
 * Skeleton Koopa
 * Pat the Bat
 * Evil Coin
 * Rhinestone Goomba
 * Mechakoopa
 * Bellhop Goomba
 * Z Koopa

Items

 * Coin
 * Super Mushroom
 * Fire Flower
 * Starman
 * Toad

Credits
The credits sequence from the game has been recreated below. A "Hotel Mario" logo appears first in large red letters and is then followed by the main staff. After this, sections for art and audio appear, organized by a large yellow header. Finally, a gap separates the audio section from the remaining staff. In the game, each person's position (shown in bold here) is highlighted in yellow and his or her name is writen in red. All text is capitalized Which voice actor provided the voice for which characters did not appear in the game. The copyright notice below followed the credits and stayed on screen until it faded to black.

Hotel Mario
Executive Producer Stephen Radosh

Producer Michael Ahn

Product Engineering Kevin Goldberg Thomas Lohff Stephen Martin Kevin Va. Hunt

Associate Producer Janice Convery

Art Director Jeff Zoern

Artist Mirena Kim

Art
Sprite Animation YEEEOWW!!! Digital Cartoons: Pat Campbell

Hotel Background Art Trici Venola

Animated Sequences Animation & Effects: Terry O'Brien Kathy Swain Bonita Versh

Audio
Audio Producer Lisa Brenneis

Theme Music Jack Levy

Voice Talent Mark Graue (Mario, Luigi, Bowser) Jocelyn Benford (Peach) Original Game Design Stephen Radosh

Technical Game Producer Kevin Goldberg

Additional Engineering Michael Diehr Ken Ellinwood Charlie Golvin Blake Senftner Howard Soroka

Tester Justin Merrow

Play Consultant Hollie S. Lohff

Special Thanks Cammy Budd Rosalyn S. Bugg Brian Conn Christ Dudas Annalisa Erickson Dennis Kopp Dave McElhatten Mark Yamamoto

Pima Technical Staff: Mark Greene Eliot Lipps Kathi Overton Frank Rada Lou Rios Mark Shakarjian Keith Touzin Jennine Townsend

©1993 Philips Interactive Media. All rights reserved. It is illegal to make unauthorized copies of this software. Duplication of this software for any reason including sale, loan, rental, or gift is a crime. Penalties include fines of up to $50,000.00 and jail terms up to 5 years.

Trivia

 * Although Hotel Mario has been largely ignored and forgotten over the years, clips of both the gameplay and the cutscenes surfaced on the internet at some point in 2006. Due to this, many more people were exposed to the game, and were able to see just how cheesy it truly was. Many people have since edited these clips humorously for use in parody videos.
 * A mini-game in Mario Party 5 called Hotel Goomba may have been a reference to this game.