What sport should Mario tackle next?

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[QUOTE=qubit][QUOTE=Adamant]Football.
There's an annoying lack of non-realistic football games out there. It's a sport where tackling is a huge part of the game, people, it's perfectly suited for the Mario sports style gameplay. Much more so than golf.[/QUOTE]

Hello?  NFL Street?  Blitz the League?  But I do agree, Yankee Football would be awesome.  And so would hockey imo.  Just imagine the possibilites
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NFL Street is pretty bad. And there hasn't been a good Blitz game since the death of the Dreamcast. I could go for a Mario Football game.

[chrisbid1]

MARIO CORNHOLE!!!

MARIO POKER TOUR!!!

[Funkmaster V]

I second the dodgeball one

FUNK

[J.M. Vargas]

-Mario Chess: with characters from the "Mario" universe as virtual board pieces.  Totally unoriginal (been done to death by "Star Wars," "Monopoly," etc.), but can you imagine Peach as the Queen, Bowser as the King, Yoshi as the horse and Koopa Troopas as peons?  Fun for the intellectually obsessed and/or patient Nintendo fanboy/girl.  Now there's a niche' within a niche' if I've ever heard one!

-Mario Pachinko: what better way to ensue Japan stays Nintendo loyal forever than yet another version of this game served with "Mario" characters on everything: card symbols, on the border, timer, etc.
 
-"Sin City" Mario: Mario's first 'M' rated game, a "Vegas"-type gambling simulator.  Travel around a virtual mecha built from settings/worlds previously seen in past "Mario" games.  Those rings up in the air you're supposed to drive golf balls through?  Now you're tossing Kirby through them shot out of a cannon in a celestial Russian Roulette in your desperate attempt to repay your debts to kingpin Wario.  Or gamble your life away in Rainbow Casino where pit boss Browser will fry your ass at the slightest hint of cheating that doesn't favor the house.  Donkey Kong is the croupier in a card table game filled with undesirables like pregnant white trash Peach, mumbling-to-himself meth addict Luigi, down-to-his-last-residual dime Conker, high-roller Captain Falco and many more.  The Blackjack table houses the likes of couldn't-care-less gambler Samus Aren, heroic but cocky Fox McCloud, the fat guy from "Waverace" and many more.

Peppy the waiter mixes the alcohol up to mentally impairing levels while prostitute Yoshi uses its tongue to give the gamblers some relief where it counts.  Yowza!

[Adamant1]

[QUOTE=J.M. Vargas]- Mario Pachinko : what better way to ensue Japan stays Nintendo loyal forever than yet another version of this game served with "Mario" characters on everything: card symbols, on the border, timer, etc. [/QUOTE]

There is actually a Mario Mahjong game for the DS over there.

And the PC game "Mario's FUNdamentals" was a collection of various classic board games and card games, including chess, with the Mario license slapped on.

[Michael Danehy]

How about a Mario skateboarding / snowboarding type game using koopa troopa shells as boards? I think this concept has lots of potential.

[Alienblue]

I love Scrabble. How about a Mario Scrabble/Word game in which you must use only words from the mario universe, "koopa", "Yoshi", "Peach", etc....it could bowser!

[JustLikeHeaven1]

I would like to see one of three Mario Sports games get made...

Mario Football - This could be great fun, if done correctly. 

Mario Dodgeball -  I agree with the others who said this should be made.  There hasn't been a great dodgeball game since the NES classic, Super Dodgeball.  If they copied that game and added online play I would buy it. 

Mario Boxing - If they made this like Punch Out I would be giddy as a schoolgirl.  They would have to make the oppenents crazy muscular though.  Like a tiny Luigi faces a roided out Donkey Kong...Oh and Little Mac could be the Ref this time.

[smokeydadog]

[QUOTE=Michael Danehy]How about a Mario skateboarding / snowboarding type game using koopa troopa shells as boards? I think this concept has lots of potential.
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Mario was in one of the newer SSX games. Pretty fun. I also thought it was hilarious playing with Mario, Peach, and Yoshi in NBA Street 3. Mario dunking over Larry Bird is classic stuff.

[BigOldCar]

How about Super Mario Fight Club?  I've been wanting to punch that princess in the face since the first time she said to me, "Thank you!  But our princess is in another castle!"  I dunno, sweetheart, seems she looks an awful lot like you...