Hotel Mario

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What looks like a cartoon is really a cutscene.

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.

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

YouTube Poop

The cutscenes for Hotel Mario are often used in the popular internet fad YouTube Poop.In fact, the slogan for YouTube Poop(Where There's Smoke, They Pinch Back.) is taken from 2 lines from the game's cutscenes("Where there's smoke, there's fire." and "When you pinch Wendy's pennies, they pinch back.") Other cutscenes often used on YouTube Poop are the Toaster cutscene(from Morton's WoodDoor Hysteria), the opening cutscene, the closing cutscene, the Morton's WoodDoor-Hysteria cutscene, and the Roy's HardBrick Hotel cutscene.

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

• A mini-game in Mario Party 5 called Hotel Goomba may have been a reference to this game.
• This game placed first on Screwattack.com for the "Top 10 Worst Mario Games."
• Iggy dosen't have his own hotel, but appears as a boss in Bowser's.
• Roy's HardBrick Hotel is a possible reference to the song Heartbreak Hotel.