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The New Super Mario Bros. Wii was announced at E3 earlier this month. In addition to it being the first wide-screen Mario Bros, complete with new powerups (like helicopters and penguins) they're finally introducing 4 player coop to the franchise!

That's made me really excited for this game. Hearing more news about people who were able to play the demo, it seems like there's even a 2 vs. 2 mode where you play the level while trying to disrupt or kill the other team. At the end of the level you're ranked (a la Mario Kart) based on coins, powerups, number of deaths, etc. It appears they've brought a little Smash Bros. element into humble ol' Mario Bros. And I, for one, can't wait.

 I wonder how they do the lives in this mario. I wonder if you are playing with 3 or 4 people if you die do you respawn or do you have to wait till the other people complete the level. If you die do you go back to the begining of the level or are there checkpoints. That's what I didn't like about the old NES games is that if you died you had to start over and if you ran out of lives the game was over and you had to start again. I guess that was what made it difficult. I think this looks like a lot of fun. I think that nintendo needs to get more of their games out for download on virtual console before someone makes a black market Rom player that you can download all the video games ROMs and play them all on your TV. That would be a gang buster product. You see that they already have the hand held emulator that I wrote about on my Geek Stuff blog. But anyway nice review.