At last, with some delay after some website plug-in problems, I finally present to you:

The first entry of our second take on video game rivalries, Bowser vs Mario!

There were a lot of themes to choose from for this one, although the musical contrast between Mario’s happy-go-lucky music and Bowser’s dark and badass music certainly didn’t make this easy. In the end I went for the Super Mario Bros. Ground Theme, Bowser’s Theme from Super Mario 64, the Final Boss theme from Super Mario World, the Mega Starman from Super Paper Mario, Dark Bowser from Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story (to show Bowser joins the “good” side if he has to), Final Battle with Bowser from Super Mario Galaxy and an arranged version of the Slide theme from Super Mario 64 in a victory-like way by Dr. Fruitcake on VGMusic.

Bowser and Mario have been maintaining a healthy rivalry over all this years which lead to many, many successful games. To this day I’m still not sure what Bowser’s actual intentions are. Conquering the Mushroom Kingdom? World domination? …Princess Peach? If the latter were true, there would be a certain rivalry between these two.

But even without that, Bowser knows that his only true enemy is Mario, whom he has tried to overcome countless times. And we certainly don’t want to forget the times where someone stronger shows up, in which case Bowser can to put his pride aside and team up with his arch nemesis if the situation calls for it.

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Bowser vs Mario (2246 downloads )

And here’s the video:

And that’s number 1, next in line is something we didn’t have for a while now: Gruntilda vs Banjo & Kazooie! This one hopefully in time…