[Shoot. Move this to Gaming, please.]
I've only realized recently that I did play a number of Mario fangames as a kid. Just the online ones; I didn't trust downloads. I had fun with Super Mario Defense. I mistook Super Mario 63 for the genuine article. I played some terribly buggy Mario-Bowser 1v1 fighter. I didn't care. It was Mario! For free!
But there was one little thing that stuck out to my tiny brain. Something I couldn't get over. Bowser was occasionally referred to as 'Browser' with no explanation whatsoever. Strange, I thought, they look exactly the same. Was it a typo? It was everywhere. I knew it couldn't be right. I Googled my eight-year-old hardest, but I could not find the difference between these two individuals. I was, however, very confused as to why it kept returning results about internet navigation tools.
Returning to the memories now, I realize this must have been some sort of in-joke or house rule among a certain fangame community. It felt very prevalent, but that was probably my imagination. Can anyone here shed light on this little loose end in my head? Heck, did it originate in an ancient MFGG? Or was it just one guy laughing to himself as he confused internet-endowed kids the world over? Any answers will be appreciated to an irrational extent.
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I've only realized recently that I did play a number of Mario fangames as a kid. Just the online ones; I didn't trust downloads. I had fun with Super Mario Defense. I mistook Super Mario 63 for the genuine article. I played some terribly buggy Mario-Bowser 1v1 fighter. I didn't care. It was Mario! For free!
But there was one little thing that stuck out to my tiny brain. Something I couldn't get over. Bowser was occasionally referred to as 'Browser' with no explanation whatsoever. Strange, I thought, they look exactly the same. Was it a typo? It was everywhere. I knew it couldn't be right. I Googled my eight-year-old hardest, but I could not find the difference between these two individuals. I was, however, very confused as to why it kept returning results about internet navigation tools.
Returning to the memories now, I realize this must have been some sort of in-joke or house rule among a certain fangame community. It felt very prevalent, but that was probably my imagination. Can anyone here shed light on this little loose end in my head? Heck, did it originate in an ancient MFGG? Or was it just one guy laughing to himself as he confused internet-endowed kids the world over? Any answers will be appreciated to an irrational extent.