I, Dr. Mario: Revisiting the Operating Room

[shpladoink]

Let's reconceptualize Dr. Mario into a realistic, medical simulation game, where Dr. Mario is a real, fat Italion doctor from New York City, who falls into an open incision and comes out in the... uh... inside a dude. He's immediatly set upon by viruses, that he throws pills at in an unsettlingly realistic treatment of violence and death. He wanders through this alien world, wondering if he's gone out of his mind or died and gone to hell, and is attacked on all sides by monsterous viruses.

The viruses would be something akin to the alien from the movie Alien, who are attempting to kill Dr. Mario's patient because his asexual race can only procreate by implanting their parasitic eggs into unsuspecting host bodies, who slowly waste away under the ministrations of the prenatal viruses. There'd be a disturbing silhouette cut-away rape scene.

It would be even better if they could work in an eerie, string-quartet version of the "game over" theme during the cut-away.

Nurse Luigi would die at some point, and Dr. Mario would go find a Toadstool drug dealer who'd get him hooked on "Pills," a super powerful amphetamine, which Mario uses to plow through the virus' subjects in a violent haze, impervious to pain.

At one point, Mario would use his cigarette lighter to ignite an ultra-flamable "fire flower," a native species of the Mushroom Kingdom, and throw it at the virus' castle.

I'd call it "I, Dr. Mario" and the box art would be the title in gothic lettering, with a photo-realistic image of Dr. Mario, filthy, sweating, bleeding, wounded, stubbly and half-insane, staring horrified into an open wound, with bottles of pills and mushroom stems strewn about the floor of his run-down, Brooklyn apartment.

[supremespleen]

[Pyrion]

Hahah yes that immediately came to mind.

[Cecilff2]

[Doulifée]

ahah that's just awesome.

[Thylacine]

I do think the idea of a plumber-turn-doctor operating on me is a little creepy.

Although, if I wanted everything to be hooked up right and have a lifetime "bursting" warranty, I find the idea rather appealing.

[JH Sounds]

This I can get behind. I'll set up a draft by Tuesday, if not earlier.

[PassivePretentiousness]

is it lupus

[Amayirot Akago]

It's never lupus.

[Captain Huge!]

actually it might be lupus

[Imagist]

actually it might be lupus

[awesomeman500]

*puts a bullet-proof vest on and shoots self in head*

[Shining Mirage]

*puts a bullet-proof vest on and shoots self in head*

...Patient cured.

[whatfruit]

Have you just stolen this Idea from the Dark Mario game that was being made by some developers or it may have been on this very site. The idea that Mario goes to the "MUSHROOM KINGDON" after getting whacked out on drugs and that mario IS just a fat plumber from new york but in his drug induced madness he thinks hes a super hero.

[Antelucan]

I believe this is the image that was meant to be posted on page 1.

[Gollgagh]

Any less than 15 posts per page is too little.

[eternal Zero]

Have you just stolen this Idea from the Dark Mario game that was being made by some developers or it may have been on this very site. The idea that Mario goes to the "MUSHROOM KINGDON" after getting whacked out on drugs and that mario IS just a fat plumber from new york but in his drug induced madness he thinks hes a super hero.

...am I to take this seriously? Or are you just new?

[Beatdown]

lol serious Mario

I see him as more of a scruffy street doctor who has a pill for whatever ails you, and his scrawny, strung out assistant Luigi as the guy who fills prescriptions by any means necessary.

[Effef]

*i am a faggot*

right then carry on everyone

[Omega]

nothing to do with doctors, but...

[Mahaboo]

nothing to do with doctors, but...

Alright you got me here, I laughed..loudly.

[JH Sounds]

That's almost exactly like some Mario fiction I wrote, except it's different.

[Predmid]

After that, we can take a realistic approach to Smash Brothers. Make it a Battle Royale clone except that each participant can choose their own handheld weapon(s).

Mr. Game and Watch would have to win.

[Darklink42]

That's almost exactly like some Mario fiction I wrote, except it's different.

Okay then.

In all seriousness though, that is one weird concept. I'd go with it, but only if at some point he stands silhouetted in a doorway and says "It's a-me" in a serious manner.

[JH Sounds]

Okay then.

Since I've piqued your interest, here it is.