So long, "gay Bowser" - fans lament the loss of Mar 64's most famo le Super Mar 3D All-Stars |

Contents:

• INTER POURS ONE OUT FOR SUPER MAR 64’S ‘GAY BOWSER,’ WHO IS AD NOW
• SO LONG, "GAY BOWSER" - FANS LAMENT THE LOSS OF MAR 64'S MOST FAMO LE SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS
• WHAT DO MAR ACTUALLY SAY WHEN HE THROWS BOWSER? "SO LONG EH/GAY BOWSER"?
• SUPER MAR 64’S WEIRD 'GAY BOWSER' LE ISN’T IN SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS
• SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS REMOV BIZARRE ‘GAY BOWSER’ LE OM SUPER MAR 64
• INTER MOURNS LOSS OF SUPER MAR 64’S BELOVED “GAY BOWSER” VOICE LE
• “SO LONG, GAY BOWSER”: A QUEER READG OF SUPER MAR

INTER POURS ONE OUT FOR SUPER MAR 64’S ‘GAY BOWSER,’ WHO IS AD NOW

Durg this heroic act, sounds like Mar says, “So long, gay Bowser” — but that inic misheard le is no longer prent the versn of the game that appears Super Mar 3D All-Stars on Ntendo Swch.

SO LONG, "GAY BOWSER" - FANS LAMENT THE LOSS OF MAR 64'S MOST FAMO LE SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS

To be clear, Mar never actually lls Bowser gay. There is a lot of fan nostalgia and love for the “gay Bowser” le that ’s pretty much a meme.

Former gay in Bowser did not rpond time for prs. Mar's famo "gay Bowser" le isn't Super Mar 3D All-Stars' versn of Super Mar 64 - and fans are wavg a sad goodbye. In the origal N64 masterpiece, Mar shouts "so long, gay Bowser!

A fan rtoratn published July 2020 mak sound even more like Mar is sayg "gay Bowser".

WHAT DO MAR ACTUALLY SAY WHEN HE THROWS BOWSER? "SO LONG EH/GAY BOWSER"?

As reported by Kotaku, Mar don't say "gay Bowser" or anythg of the sort the Mar 64 that's Super Mar 3D All-Stars on Ntendo Swch. " as he throws Bowser, and that's apparently bee Bowser is known as Kg Kooper Japan, and so the "gay Bowser" le had to be replaced.

SUPER MAR 64’S WEIRD 'GAY BOWSER' LE ISN’T IN SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS

As you'd expect, there are plenty of people lamentg the loss of the "gay Bowser" le. So long, gay Bowser, you uld say.

Ntendo removg “So long gay bowser” is them directly acknowledgg that the origal le was fact “So long gay bowser”— wuhu ? SSC (@LegalizeWuhu) September 18, 2020. If we n all agree Martet isn't sayg "gay Bowser", what is he sayg? Or is he actually sayg so long, gay Bowser?

In Super Mar 64, Mar lls bowser gay. "So long eh/gay Bowser"? Mar says different thgs when he throws Bowser pendg on what versn of Super Mar 64 you’re Ntendo / KotakuSuper Mar 3D All-Stars land on Swch today, but wh that ocsn some bad news: Mar no longer says, “So long, gay Bowser!

SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS REMOV BIZARRE ‘GAY BOWSER’ LE OM SUPER MAR 64

While he’s obvly not llg Bowser gay—eher as a pejorative or a simple scriptor of the Koopa kg’s sexualy—no one n e up wh a good alternative read on what he’s actually sayg. Let Mar ll Bowser gay! But not beg able to experience “So long, gay Bowser!

INTER MOURNS LOSS OF SUPER MAR 64’S BELOVED “GAY BOWSER” VOICE LE

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsA bizarre le om the classic Ntendo 64 game Super Mar 64 has been removed om the new re-release, Super Mar 3D the origal le, which has long been the source of cursy om players, Mar appears to say, “So long, gay Bowser, ” while flgg his spiky foe durg the game’s boss utterance self has been subject to much bate among the game’s fanbase, wh the sheer ngy of leadg to claims that Mar was actually sayg “So long, kg Bowser, ” or, “So long, ay, Bowser. Consequently, some players still rema nvced that the origal d featured the phrase “gay Bowser” Mar 3D All-Stars, released on the Ntendo Swch nsole yterday (18 September) offers remastered versns of three classic Mar gam – Super Mar 64 (1996), Super Mar Sunshe (2002) and Super Mar Galaxy (2007) to why Ntendo would remove the le om the game, ’s been suggted that ’s bee the game is ported om a Japane “Shdou Pak Tau” versn, released roughly a year after the game’s origal Shdou versn featur different d to the versn played wily the Wt, bee Bowser has a different name his native Japan ("Kg Koopa").

However, when Super Mar 64 me out 1996, we wanted to be more obv about the hidn relatnship between the red-sued plumber and Kg Koopa, so we serted the subtle le “So long, Gay Bowser” where his tert Mar was revealed (hidn unr layers of iendly rivalry and “enemi to lovers” trop). ” But for years, the le has been misheard—likely thanks to the poor Italian accent of Mar’s voice actor Charl Martet—as “So long, Gay Bowser. ”While is unlikely, a game tailored to large youth markets both Japan and North Ameri, that Ntendo would pejoratively refer to what some have lled “the most succsful vio game character” as gay (though, my rearch I have not found nfirmatn of the actual le), left me wonrg: What if Bowser was gay this entire time?

“So long, Gay Bowser”Femist readgs of the tradnal story arc Mar gam suggt s characters fall to typil patriarchal rol: Prcs Peach is the “damsel distrs” need of savg om a big bad, and Mar is the only man macho enough to help her. But, if we step asi and nsir the Mar narrative om a queer perspective, Bowser’s inty be far more theory that Bowser is the strong gay woman we’ve all wanted vio gam would pos that Peach, always thought to have been need of rcue, is actually happily livg wh Bowser. In this way Mar parallels the stereotype of a straight man sistent on “flippg” gay women, pecially those viewed as straight-passg, like Peach.

“SO LONG, GAY BOWSER”: A QUEER READG OF SUPER MAR

” (Paper Mar)In an even queerer readg of Mar, my iend Alex Tar has suggted that perhaps even Mar and Luigi intify as gay, and that, their world of pulsory heterosexualy, the pair mt pass themselv off as brothers orr to be together.

Further evince to support this is snt, held up by mere stereotyp: The two lour -ordate their outfs, and wear matchg overall sets (pretty gay). They are equently together, willg to hold one another up pursu of goodns (also kd of gay).