8 Times Video Games Proved You Wrong
4. Tetris 99 & Super Mario 35
In a move more Nintendo than opening a theme park where you punch POW blocks and launch shells into question marks, the company's answer to the battle royale phenomenon was to... do it with Tetris and original 1985 Mario.
Even right now as you think about it, Tetris 99 and Super Mario 35 shouldn't work. The idea of "battle Tetris" had been done before, but not to such a large scale, where players are trading stacks of completed lines while actively targeting who's performing the best, resulting in a chaotic race to emerge victorious.
Same goes for Mario 35. Based on the original NES Mario, just take another seasoned veteran pool of players and pit them against each other in real time.
Who can complete Mario's iconic levels the fastest, and what about if scores of Goombas get thrown your way from other players?
It's damn-near genius, and opens up a gateway into various other legendary single player titles that would benefit from real-time battle royale leaderboards.
Synchronised GTA 3 races from Salvatore's mansion to the end of the airstrip in Shoreside Vale?
Let's GO.