Marioesque
English
Etymology
Adjective
Marioesque (comparative more Marioesque, superlative most Marioesque)
- (video games) Resembling the character Mario or the games in which he appears, typified by bright, cheerful environments, platform obstacles, and often the rescue of a princess from a monster.
- 1995, "Emeka B. Okwuje", Survey: How many of you are thinking about getting a 3DO (discussion on Internet newsgroup rec.games.video.sony)
- Or the clever blend of puzzles and hair raisingly, chilling battles in the kitchen of the conway estate with undead chefs whipping meat cleavers at me, while I mow em down with my shotgun in Killing time, or The Marioesque approach to a 3-d shooter's paradise that is bladeforce, lotsa secrets, but lotsa stuff to destroy!!!
- 1999, "Frioniel", My Thoughts on Final Fantasy's Genre -- Narrative Games??? (discussion on Internet newsgroup alt.games.final-fantasy)
- Yes, it's becoming possible to do so, but the same can really be said of plenty of genres, including Mario-esque action games.
- 2000, "Wade E. Solowoniuk", name that game (discussion on Internet newsgroup alt.games.mame)
- It was a platformer type game. I do not think in [sic] was pengo, but more of a marioesque type platformer.
- 2000, "Joe Ottoson", Rayman 2 - WOW! (discussion on Internet newsgroup rec.games.video.sega)
- I wasn't aware that MDK2 was a Marioesque platformer...
- 1995, "Emeka B. Okwuje", Survey: How many of you are thinking about getting a 3DO (discussion on Internet newsgroup rec.games.video.sony)