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Wrecking Crew (Video Game)

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Nintendo, before making the Mario Bros. "Super" but after having the elder brother square off against Donkey Kong, employed Mario and Luigi in Wrecking Crew, a platform-based Maze Game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. It was the first game design job for one Yoshio Sakamoto, kickstarting a prolific career.In this game, the brothers wield hammers (both the regular kind and the more powerful Golden Hammer), bombs, and falling oil drums as tools for demolishing various buildings. Posed against them is Foreman Spike, who sics Eggplant Men and Gotchawrenches on the Bros. while chasing after them himself. Mario and Luigi must dodge these enemies as they smash apart the demolition sites one wall, pillar, and ladder at a time. Every fourth level, they must race against Spike in a search for a hidden coin for extra points.Like several other NES games, it was adapted into an arcade game running on the VS. System. However, it was one of the few VS. System games to actually predate the home release, as it contains a 1984 copyright. VS. Wrecking Crew is also quite unlike the NES game, and allows simultaneous multiplayer.Nintendo released Wrecking Crew '98 in Japan only as one of the last games for the Super Famicom and would later officially reach the west in April 2024 on the Nintendo Switch via the Nintendo Switch Online app. This was a compilation of the original Wrecking Crew with an all-new competitive Match-Three Game. The story once again sees Spike, this time working for three-month younger Bowser, impeding Mario's demolition job. Foreman Spike himself would also reappear as an unlockable character in Mobile Golf, a Japan-only Game Boy Color entry in the Mario Golf series, and also appears as the Bros.' former boss in Illumination Entertainment's The Super Mario Bros. Movie, where he's voiced by Sebastian Maniscalco.Along with many others, this game would also appear in NES Remix.
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Cartoon Bomb: Appears on some stages and can be used to demolish surrounding walls. The manual calls it "dynamite", however.
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Dead All Along: Secret Character Onnanoko is revealed to be this after Mario defeats her.
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Palette Swap: Mario and Luigi are only differentiated in color. This also applies to Gotchawrench and Gotchawrench Jr.
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Easter Egg: In Wrecking Crew '98, clearing three overlapping lines of the same color (a very difficult task) drops a giant Bowser sign on your opponent, defeating them instantly.
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Unintentionally Unwinnable: Due to your inability to jump, if you walk off the wrong ledge or destroy the wrong ladder before destroying every wall on that floor it becomes impossible to get back up. For the same reasons it's common for the game to become Unwinnable by Foreman Spike. Unlike most NES games, pressing the select button returns you to the title screen, possibly because of this.
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Bad Boss: Foreman Spike is the leader of the demolition crew that Mario and Luigi are working in, but whenever he shows up his main goal is to hinder their attempts to work.
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Power-Up Motif: A rather awesome one when you get the Golden Hammer.
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Endless Game
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Endless Game: Wrecking Crew loops back to the first level after the Bonus Stage following the hundredth level.
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Jump Physics: Wrecking Crew is a rare aversion for Mario, who has to climb ladders instead of being able to jump. Wrecking Crew '98 has normal jumping controls.
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: Foreman Spike becomes this to Bowser in '98.
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Secret Character
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Secret Character: If Mario defeats a story mode opponent within a certain time limit in '98, he'll unlock a tower that contains an optional opponent. Should he defeat them, they become playable in multiplayer modes. Once Mario has defeated the first three secret characters, he will unlock a match against another character, Dogu.
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Collision Damage: Touch a Gotchawrench or Eggplant Man and lose a life. Touch Foreman Spike and just get pushed around.
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Color-Coded for Your Convenience: What kind of negative effect you can send at an opponent in '98 depends on what color panels you use in a combo. Red panel combos can summon enemies on your opponent's side of the screen. Green panels can turn panels into brick walls, taking more hits to destroy and reveal what's behind them. Yellow panels can summon panels that can only be destroyed by bomb explosions. Finally, blue panels can raise a column of panels for a short time.
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Level Editor
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Level Editor: Players can create up to four original levels.
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Stalked by the Bell
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Stalked by the Bell: Fireballs appear when Mario/Luigi is lingering on a floor.
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Dolled-Up Installment
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Dolled-Up Installment: The arcade version was initially advertised as an original game starring nameless construction workers, as can be seen in Japanese flyers. The decision to replace the original protagonists before the arcade game's release with Mario and Luigi came from none other than Shigeru Miyamoto, who suggested that the game would be more marketable with the now iconic heroes.
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Invincible Minor Minion: The enemies in '98 can't be defeated, but they will eventually take their leave once they reach the pipe at the bottom of the screen.
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Head Swap: Foreman Spike is a head swap of Mario (and Luigi).
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Evil Counterpart
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Evil Counterpart: Foreman Spike.
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Embedded Precursor: Wrecking Crew '98 includes a port of the original NES game.
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Bonus Stage: The "find the coin" stage after every fourth level.
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Our Monsters Are Weird
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Our Monsters Are Weird: Living wrenches and eggplant people, this game is where the franchise's enemies started getting really weird.
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Walking Shirtless Scene: If one looks closely, neither Mario or Luigi appear to be wearing shirts.
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Spin-Off: One of the first Mario games where the Bros. starred in a non-Platform Game spin off.
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Anthropomorphic Food: The series features Eggplant Men, who are giant eggplants with arms and legs. Wrecking Crew '98 also has a sentient onigiri rice ball as a secret opponent.
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Dub Name Change: In Japan, Gotchawrench was Spanner Gon, Eggplant Man was Nasubi Kamen (Eggplant Mask), and Foreman Spike was Breaky (though, in 2023, this was changed so that Spike was Spike worldwide, coinciding with his appearance in The Super Mario Bros. Movie).
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Spelling Bonus
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Spelling Bonus: Players are rewarded with an extra life for finding the letters M-A-R-I-O (or L-U-I-G-I as the second player) in that exact order.
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Wrap Around: A horizontal wraparound passage on every floor.
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