Mario Minigame Mayhem

Overview

Mario Minigame Mayhem is a compilation of four minigames in one game. It was made by Mario350 with Game Maker and accepted to the main site on the 10th of March 2013. In all of these minigames the player takes and tries to achieve a highscore. When the minigame is over and the conditions to advance to the next one are accomplished the player is taken to the next minigame. After the last one, the player returns to the title screen and gets the chance to play again. Unfortunately, due to the game using Game Maker's standard highscore table, all scores of all games are saved on the same table, even if the score can differ greatly depening on how much the score the game awards you.

The Minigames

In the first game the player takes control of the protagonist Mario and has to shoot Goombas to earn score. Once a Goomba touches Mario, the game is over and the player can advance to the next minigame. The player can also move and jump but those moves are optional since all you have to do is shoot. The Goombas take quite some time to appear, causing many people to think the game was broken, even though that's the way it's intended to be.

The second game involves Mario in his Super Cape Form, as it appears in Super Mario World, released for the SNES, flying through the skies of the Mushroom Kingdom avoiding Shy Guys on ballons while collecting coins. To advance to the third game, the player needs a certain amount of score, which he receives by simply surviving or collecting the coins. Since the score is not reset when Mario gets hit and the room restarts, you don't really have to do anything here, either.

In the third minigame, Luigi is thrown in the role of a fast-food serving assistant who has to serve the guests. He moves right automatically and the player wins when he reaches the other side of the screen, without any user input necessary. When you click some items, the game accepts it, whereas others get Luigi fired. Many people don't understand the concept of the game.

The final installment in this compilation features Mario in the role of a pizzaman, having to serve pizza to all the houses. He can shoot Goombas by throwing pizza at them, but this is an optional move since the Goombas don't kill you when in contact with them.

Reception

Mario Minigame Mayhem has been received poorly. Many people voted it a 1/10 and Cap'n Coconuts from Fusion Fangaming even rated it a -2/10, being the first one to rate a negative score since Techokami did it back in the day. People got curious how to vote negative scores and tried it too and many of them succeeded. The site staff declined all reviews after Cap'n Coconuts, though, to prevent this feature from getting abused. DJane Coco had the idea of voting this game a negative score even before Cap'n Coconuts showed up, but didn't manage to do so immediately. For April Fools 2013 however, with the permission of VinnyVideo, she voted the game a -128/10, even though she intended to vote a -350/10. The total score was temporarily down to below -18, but is now back at 0.9. Still it is the only game on the mainsite with a total score below 1 and therefore voted the worst game to be featured there. Many people question why the quality control has accepted this game.