2005 SMBHQ Holiday Gift Guide

The GameCube Mario Party 7 Bundle turns your house into a constant party! Mario Party 7 contains 80 new mini-games for up to 8 players. Family & friends can compete in a family-friendly game that plays like a virtual board game. The game includes he Nintendo GameCube Mic, which accepts voice commands to control the action in some games. The bundle includes a Nintendo GameCube, two controllers and Mario Party 7 - at a price that's almost half what you'd pay if you purchased all this separarately.

Super Smash Bros. Melee is one of the best games the Gamecube has to offer. Now you can get both at once!

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Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix lets you boogie down with Mario in his own dance party! Someone has stolen the Music Keys and released the music they held. Mario must recover the keys before the unstable power of music destroys the entire Mushroom Kingdom! The path to the keys is simple: Dance your way to them!

Mario Party 7 brings back the party fun, as you kickstart the party with Mario and his friends! Set up your controllers and prepare for fun, as you run, jump, swim and fly through more than 80 new minigames. The party's a lot bigger now, too -- up to 8 players can battle each other!

The Mushroom Kingdom is your new field of dreams. Mario Superstar Baseball brings a new brand of fun to the ball diamond. The game's intuitive hitting system, easy-to-learn fielding and pitching controls and wild, character-specific power moves go together like peanuts and bleacher seats. Mario Superstar Baseball delivers a terrific arcade-like experience that will appeal to baseball novices and hardcore fans alike.

SSX On Tour lets you get on the pro snowboarding circuit, for the chance to turn your wannabe into a mountain rockstar. Create a rider or skier and build a career as you progress, earning medals & tearing up a massive new mountain. Just make sure you look good doing it, because your reputation is always on the line: Pull off jawdropping monster tricks to out-style your competition while you hurtle down the slopes. You create the hype -- the hype creates a legend. For even more fun, Nintendo All-Stars - Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach hit the slopes for even more fast paced action.

Super Mario Strikers is a new soccer game that's unlike anything ever to hit the pitch! You'll combine classic Mario gameplay with real soccer fun -- whether you freeze an opponent with an ice-cold shell, kicking over a spiny shell or scaring off an entire team with the roving Chain Chomp, you're sure to see something new around every corner kick.

Dr. Mario/Puzzle League lets you revel in pure NES nostalgia, with two unforgettable video games from the early days of Nintendo! In Dr. Mario you'll help cure a virus outbreak by using pills to stop the germs. Use the Game Boy Advance Wireless Adapter or the Game Boy Advance Game Link cable to play the game head-to-head with a friend! In Puzzle League you've got a real challenge to your thinking skills. When you align three blocks of the same color in any direction, these blocks will disappear, and the ones above them will fall down. Create chains and combos to score higher. Make sure you stay in control and do your best to be a puzzle master!

Test your backhand in this role-playing tennis adventure! In this sequel to Mario Tennis, train hard at the Royal Tennis Academy to be a champion. Gain experience and improve your skills through lessons and tournaments, and rise to the top of the ranks. Play as Mario, Peach, Waluigi, or Donkey Kong in a slew of wild modes. Advance through the story and unlock even more characters, all with their own power moves. Beat Mario at his own game, then link up with a friend or three for even more frantic fun!

WarioWare: Twisted! brings back the fun of the 5 second microgames that made the first WarioWare such a hit. Dr. Cry-Gor is back and he changes things by adding a new gyroscope to Wario's GBA. Now you can control the action by rotating the entire GBA and pressing the A Button. Along with this new motion sensor, the cartridge has a rumble pack for force feedback. Tons of crazy, spin-controlled games are waiting for you!

In Yoshi Topsy-Turvy, Yoshi Island has been turned into a picture book. Yoshi heads off on an adventure to return things back to normal, with help from some powerful spirits. Tilt the environment around Yoshi, knocking over enemies, swinging pendulums, and letting Yoshi run up walls and leap huge pits!

Nintendo DS with Mario Kart Bundle brings together the latest Nintendo innovation with one of its most popular games! This Red Hot Nintendo DS gives you a unique game-play experience using features never before offered, by any other system. With Mario Kart DS, you'll go wireless for great kart racing action! Race and battle with up to eight karts at once, with Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Wario, Bowser, and Toad. With over 30 courses and all the crazy items and frantic speed players would expect, this game is a Mario Kart fan's dream!

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And you thought their last adventure was insane? In this sequel to Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the brothers travel back in time to retrieve Princess Peach, only to come face to face with baby versions of themselves, the princess and Bowser. Teaming up with their young selves will soon send Mario and Luigi on a quest of lunatic proportions as players must control both the adult and baby versions of the Mushroom Kingdom heroes.

The acclaimed Mario Kart series has gone wireless! The all-star cast includes Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Wario, Bowser and Toad. Players may tour many of their favorite courses, as well as all-new tracks and battle arenas. The game has a new dimension of fun, since players can battle others around the world by connecting to Nintendo's new wireless WiFi gaming service.

WarioWare: Touched! is the debut of Wario on the Nintendo DS. Go wild with 180 all-new, factory-fresh microgames with a new twist. The unique DS double-screen and built-in microphone offers a new set of crazy mini-game controls. Super-fast, addicting action that's never the same game twice.

Using the Nintendo DS system's two screens and touch-screen capability, you'll have to help Yoshi guard Baby Mario and guide him to safety. On vertical-action levels, players must use the stylus to draw clouds on the touch screen to protect Baby Mario from enemies and lead him to Yoshi. On horizontal side-scrolling levels, players must use the stylus to look out for Yoshi as he gallops across the countryside. On top of all that, Yoshis Touch & Go also features two-player wireless play.

Buckle up and hang on tight -- the discovery of a parallel universe launches you into the adventure of a lifetime! Mario and Luigi, two wacky plumbers, undertake a daring quest to save a princess in "Dinohattan" -- a hidden world where the inhabitants evolved from dinosaurs! Mario (Bob Hoskins -- WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT) and Luigi (John Leguizamo -- REGARDING HENRY) face deadly challenges from a diaboloical lizard king (Dennis Hopper -- HOOSIERS) and must battle giant reptilian goombas, outwit misfit thugs, and undermine a sinister scheme to take over the world! Blast off for nonstop excitement with SUPER MARIO BROS., the live-action thrill ride that dazzled moviegoers everywhere!

SMBHQ's BEST SELLING ITEM!! A weeks worth of episodes from the Super Mario Bros Super Show. Episodes Included: "The Bird! The Bird!", "King Mario of Cramalot", "Butch Mario and the Luigi Kid", "Mario's Magic Carpet", & "Legend of Zelda: The Ringer"

The latest Super Show DVD. Contains the following episodes from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show: Star Koopa, Robo Koopa, Toad Warrior, Her Majesty's Sewer Service, & Raiders of the lost mushroom

It may not be Mario, but it's definitely worth getting! Link is back to protect Princess Zelda and the Triforce of Wisdom from the clutches of the evil Ganon. The Legend Of Zelda – The Complete Animated Series (spawned from the massively popular and influential ‘80s Nintendo game) is an exciting classic that captures all of the adventure, action and nostalgia that makes The Legend Of Zelda a beloved fan favorite! The Legend Of Zelda – The Complete Animated Series (all 13 episodes) is available for the first time on this expansive 3-Disc Set. Each episode features the original Mario Brothers introduction from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show.