Nintendo is one of those companies that will stand the test of time. They’ve been around through multiple presidents, emperors, but have seen only one Queen of England. But that’s not really a fair measure since Queen Elizabeth is pushing 100. She’s probably a huge Mario Bros. fan anyway. Nintendo is the only gaming company that is truly synonymous with video games themselves. Just think back to any time someone in the older generations told you to turn off your Nintendo, but you were really playing Call of Duty on your Xbox.
There isn’t much to argue about with the awesomeness that Nintendo offers us. Just think back to those years when all you had was an analog television, Mario Bros., and a rival sibling to game with. The younger gamer generations may never know what it’s like to be forced to sit 5-feet from the screen due to a shorter controller wire. Everyone now has wireless controllers and 52-inch screens to game on, but that’s a good thing. Video games aren’t about humble consumers, they’re about escapism and hero building.
These Nintendo comics should remind you all who have played these games that they made you feel something when you were a kid. The coolest thing about Nintendo is that a group of mostly Japanese people created fantastic worlds and characters that shaped the lives of so many American children. If that’s not promoting peace on Earth, then what is?
24 Sometimes You Have To Suplex A Train
We’re not sure how familiar all of you are with Final Fantasy 6, a game previously known as Final Fantasy 3. For some wild reason, Japan didn’t want to give us all of the games in the series right away so we only got a select few on Nintendo and they were out of order. Eventually, we got them all years later and in order. They’re also super awesome, especially number 3/6, and we’ll tell you why.
This is a comic about a man named Sabin Figaro.
He’s a monk that lives in the mountains constantly training his martial arts. He’s also a prince. Sabin has a move called Suplex that flips the enemy on its head and pile drives them into the ground. This works for nearly every enemy, including the Phantom Train. Which is a train… that Sabin suplexes…
Comic by 4hcomic.
23 Ash Touches Us All
Well, that certainly is shocking. But not very surprising. Maybe Pikachu should find a better way to deliver news that ruins all of our childhood images of Ash Ketchum, the guy we all wanted to be. Actually, I still want to be Ash Ketchum, his life is way better than mine. Unless you count having the freedom to eat more pizza in one sitting than any other human should ever attempt.
There would certainly be an inquiry of Ash to find out if these shocking claims from the electric mouse have any validity. Let’s not get into victim shaming either, because we all need to recognize that for Pikachu to even come out and say these things is brave. Though to be honest, there may not even be any laws against what Ash is accused of in this world of theirs. It might be one of those things that people always did back in the day and they haven’t updated the rules. We hope not. We love Pikachu.
Comic by LemonSandwich.
22 Goodbye, Childhood
This comic is pretty hilarious, but it’s also sort of sad. But it’s so very hilarious because it happens to be so very sad. It’s funny how things work like that. Characters often saying in the movies that light cannot exist without the darkness and evil not having any balance without the righteous.
But does it really apply in a comic about a mother and her gamer son?
Perhaps this gamer is processing the loss of a family member with video games and we understand that. But the hilarious scenario is just too much to overcome. Imagine a kid jamming out with some Nintendo Switch games at a funeral, and his family tells him he needs to pause the game. But he’s playing a multiplayer match and that he can’t pause the game otherwise he will lose. Tough decisions.
Comic by ShortGiraffeComics.
21 Follow Your Dreams
Oh, Mario, we know how you feel. All of us in the world have dreams whether we realize it or not. And we’re talking about the dreams we have at night that are natural and uncontrollable, daydreams, and also the aspirations we have for our lives. Sometimes those three dream-types have similar narratives and if anyone were watching, they’d know our deepest desires. Dreams reveal more than we know even about ourselves.
To think that Mario merely has fabricated all of his deeds due to a longing for a better life is sort of a childhood-ruining concept. But if you had to work manual labor every day of your life to pay the bills and sacrifice your dreams, you too might hope for some grandeur. Another possibility is that after Mario saved Peach the first time and defeated Bowser, that the world was saved and no longer needed a hero. Thus Mario still needs a new job, or to go back to the old one.
Comic by SafelyEndangered.
20 Your Love Life Ran Away
How many of the people in the world are searching for love? Everyone? Close to everyone? If that’s the case, how many have used tactics learned in Pokémon to achieve this goal? Not that we have little balls to capture a love interest after we’ve put them to sleep or beaten them into submission, as is the Pokémon way, but just imagine a similar encounter. Love is an often cruel batch of spoiled meat.
You meet a person who you find as a suitable partner, do your best to ensnare them with your personality, but they still end up running away. Waiting to be caught by a more capable adventurer in the game of life. And in Pokémon battles where the enemy runs away, you don’t receive as much, or any, experience. The heartbreaking fact is the experience only comes with success in the game of love.
19 Fairy Juice
We don’t know about any of you people out there, but we who have played enough video games know that there is nothing wrong with having mythical creatures to prolong your life. It’s part of what helps us survive as heroes in the first place. Whether it’s unicorns or elves, or fairies on the half shell, they are all getting gobbled. And why shouldn’t they? We have Dark Lords and evil to defeat, or else the entire world will be covered in evil. You gotta spend money to make money. The problem is that after the Dark Lord is defeated, our hunger is not something we continue to ignore. After the invigorating digesting, how can you go back to Gatorade? You can’t, and we don’t expect you to.
Comic by The Gamer Cat.
18 Team No Thirst
We all know that if we had pets that could produce water from their mouths or their metal jets on their backs, we would totally take advantage. Some of us would even take a dangerous trip into the desert knowing that we had an unlimited amount of water at our disposal just to see if we could do it.
If anyone you know has ever been the victim of waking up sick after a night out, they’ll know that water is the only true cure because the real enemy is dehydration. Doctors say that in the desert if you were slowly losing life energy due to hydration, that it would feel like the worst one ever since the symptoms are similar to expiring due to thirst. There’s really no situation in life that a Squirtle friend wouldn’t be useful.
Comic by Darkkenjie.
17 Shy Guy’s Self Esteem
Most of us wear masks in our own special ways. Sort of like Shy Guy but different and way more sinister. It looks like Shy Guy has been led to believe that the world holds a standard of beauty that he cannot compare too. Thus the usage of the mask to conceal his face. It was probably Bowser who put the Shy Guy race up to conceal themselves. So we are glad that they’ve finally been accepted.
We always wondered what a Shy Guy looks like under the mask. Or if there even was anything underneath the mask. There was always the thought that maybe Shy Guys were ghosts or something made out of dark energy that’s covered up by their robes and mask. But this Koopa has made it clear to us all that Shy Guy is beautiful and need not hide anymore.
Comic by Mr Lovenstein.
16 Good Old Slippy
A lot of hate gets thrown at Slippy Toad because he is arguably the most annoying character in all of video games. Peppy Hare, another Star Fox team member, is also in the top grouping of annoying characters as well, but he’s not even in the conversation when Slippy is involved.
See, the problem with Slippy is he’s always in trouble with the enemy and we have to save him otherwise we won’t get to see the boss’s health meter.
Samus doesn’t have time for that sort of nonsense, and Slippy sort of looks like an enemy Samus would face in Brinstar anyway. Thinking about Samus’s mindset, she probably had no problem “solving” Slippy’s issues with a missile. It’s funny to realize that this is exactly how you defeat a Metroid in the games.
15 Luigi’s Uses
Luigi is the constant “fall guy” in the Nintendo universe. It’s not even that Luigi is that bad of a fellow, it’s just that his brother is so much better than him that you can’t help but recognize the differences. It’s like if Master Chief had a younger brother or sister who was a regular Marine in the UNSC, you’d totally rip on them in the memescape.
Unfortunately for Luigi, he’s turned into a bookshelf by Dr. Mario. The reason this is hilarious is that Dr. Mario probably has a lot of books but only has one brother. That would mean that he cares more about his books than Luigi. Which, when you think about it, makes Dr. Mario a pretty dedicated physician and someone you’d want to take care of your sick children. Well done, Mario. You’ve outshone Luigi once more.
14 Hunting Fairies In The Tall Grass
If we’re expected to take the side of the perspective of the fairies, then the universe is out of its mind. Because if we were in a situation where we were injured and we found some magical healing fairies with magical healing properties, we’re using them. We’re going to grab them and humanely utilize their lives for our healing.
No one can be expected to choose the selfless path.
Really, most people probably use the selfish path 99% of the time. The selfless heroism we see in films is sort of as unrealistic as fairies themselves. Survival is a natural instinct. Plus, we should mention that Link is sort of important and needs to rid the world of a Dark Lord and pretty much any sacrifice is necessary to prevent that from happening. The fairy was a martyr.
13 The Super Sacrifice
Our older siblings used to do this to us all the time when we were younger. We’re not sure if any of you realized this, but the older siblings who always got to play as Mario or as the 1st player were only inviting us to play so they could steal our lives. They can easily hide their true intentions as spending quality time with their younger family members, but we know the truth.
Some of us were fooled for many years, just happy enough to be jamming out with our big bros or sis. But they got all the glory, just like Mario does at the end of the games. Even though without Luigi as their partner, none of this greatness would be possible. It might have something to do with us younger siblings being terrible at the games and simply being there to assist our more capable brothers or sisters.
Comic by Brawl In The Family.
12 The Life Of Red
First of all, congrats to Red and Blue finally getting together and allowing their love to grow into something beautiful. We always hoped it’d turn out this way. Even if Red does look super salty in this panel, he’s got to be happy overall with some healthy kids and a loving partner. Isn’t that we all sort of want eventually?
Families are great, and while it may be annoying to other people who don’t have families of their own, we hope they will one day figure that out. Battling Red is no joke. So if you’re able to defeat him on the mountain top but are still a bit disappointed at the meeting, then you must be a bit of a master yourself. Only a true master would see battling the most intense character in any of the games as uninteresting.
Comic by WoodenPlankStudios.
11 It’s Not A Mouth
Birdo might possibly be one of the most complicated characters in the Mario Bros. universe. She was a major enemy in Super Mario All-Stars, but in many of the sporting games, she’s a regular competitor and often a rival/love interest of Yoshi. That, coupled with her pink color scheme and cute red bow, means we don’t really know what to make of old Birdo.
Most normal humans would think of that thing as a mouth or something alien like a nose-mouth hybrid for all consumption and sniffing needs.
But this comic says otherwise. The comic is funny but it’s probably not too accurate. Because if that thing on Birdo’s face is what this comic implies, then where does Birdo eat its food? Not to mention… that mouth thing is where she shoots her egg bullets from.
Comic by TumbleDryComics.
10 The Toad Conundrum
This sort of thing happens in dozens of video games and it happened especially in old-school Nintendo series. It’s a matter of development. If you’ve seen the meme on the internet that is a photo of the original Mario Bros. gameplay where it explains that the game was only 40 kilobytes and the photo taken is over 200 kilobytes, then you’ll know what we mean.
There just wasn’t enough space to go into the games where each character was individually named or rendered as individuals. The focus of the space used in those 40 kilobytes was gameplay. Story and character didn’t matter as much and none of us really noticed. Nowadays with games like Skyrim, every character has a name, family, lifestyle, and routine.
Comic by RGBros.
9 Greatest Fairy Fountain
When the N64 was released to the public, it was one of the most magnificent items on the entire planet. That includes rocket ships and medical equipment as well. Nothing touched the hearts of so many people as the N64 with its wonky new controller, except maybe the medical equipment we just mentioned.
But even with its intense greatness, the N64 has some wildly blocky graphics.
At some point, every gamer should check out the great games of N64 like Super Mario 64, Star Fox 64, Ocarina of Time, and GoldenEye for the nostalgia and memories. But they should also recognize how the graphics really don’t hold up too well. That doesn’t change the fact that these games changed the world for many of us, but we may have poked our eyes with some sharp body parts if we got a bit too close.
8 Goodbye, Iwata
This comic image is a bit of a sad piece of the internet, as well it should be. Satoru Iwata was a head programmer for Nintendo for many years and took part in the development and planning of many of the games we love. He has a career that any game developer would dream of having. Unfortunately, Iwata passed away in his 60s and left a huge hole in the development team at Nintendo.
The sentiment of this comic strip is that the characters in the games that he helped develop are trying to give him another life or trying to revive him. If only it’d actually work like that in real life. Iwata was a man who focused much more on gameplay that was fun and exciting rather than top of the line hardware. Which may be why Nintendo to this day stands outside of the console wars.
7 Peach’s Warren
Many of us never really stopped to think where Peach was actually pulling these items from in Super Smash Bros to defend herself from attackers. It turns out that Peach is actually some sort of magician with a control of a warren or portal to some other place where Toads and Koopas live.
A magical warren being a place accessed by the user that defies all logic in the real world.
But imagine being this Toad. You live in this portal world, or in this world that is subject to direct involvement from the Princess, and you’re just strolling along having a swell day. When out of nowhere you’re torn from your sunny day and thrust into a brawl with some of the most iconic and powerful creatures in the Nintendoverse. Not a great day, but a day for glory nonetheless.
Comic by Stupjam.
6 Wish We Could Do This
It should be noted in the annals of history that Samus Aran has one of the coolest suits in all of the fiction world. Imagine an entire military equipped with those things. Rolling around in balls and using the “screw attack.” Everyone would take advantage of morph ball travels. Especially if someone carried you around all the time.
Samus has it right going into morph ball mode for Falcon to carry her. She’s probably in there right now catching up on internet research or reading another TheGamer.com article. Thinking about the power suit’s abilities really gets us thinking about video game movies and why they are all bad. It’s probably because all of the very best games haven’t been made into films yet. Samus rolling around in her Morph Ball saving a space station would be something awesome to watch.
Comic by Johnsu.
5 The Nintendo Labo
What makes us say “same” about this article is that we are all pretty much in the last panel of this comic. With all of the money, innovation, and staff that Nintendo has, it is a bit suspicious when they offer us a bunch of cardboard to enhance our gameplay. But then you stop and realize that Nintendo wouldn’t dare make such a massive mistake, they’re better than that.
So we end up thinking that the Labo isn’t a bad idea and that we’re all ready to give it a try. Meanwhile, the children around us are starry-eyed and absolutely ecstatic at the new toys they’re getting with their video games. When you realize that children love the idea, you realize the genius endeavor of Nintendo development. Video games mixed with toys that are produced at low cost. Brilliant stuff.
Comic by NerfNow.
