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| To place sprite in your signature, simply find a picture of a sprite and put it on your signature page. It doesn't look like you have one yet. If you want a signature, create [[User:Toad85/sig]] and make it. I can't really explain how to start off with it, but [[Help:Signature]] helped me make my signature. You can add sprite to your signature just like any other image. For example, if I wanted to put [[:File:CharizardSig65.png]] into my sig, I would put it in as <nowiki>[[Image:CharizardSig65.png|30px]]</nowiki> (the 30px part is the size). I hope this helps. {{User:Fawfulfury65/sig}} | | To place sprite in your signature, simply find a picture of a sprite and put it on your signature page. It doesn't look like you have one yet. If you want a signature, create [[User:Toad85/sig]] and make it. I can't really explain how to start off with it, but [[Help:Signature]] helped me make my signature. You can add sprite to your signature just like any other image. For example, if I wanted to put [[:File:CharizardSig65.png]] into my sig, I would put it in as <nowiki>[[Image:CharizardSig65.png|30px]]</nowiki> (the 30px part is the size). I hope this helps. {{User:Fawfulfury65/sig}} |
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| == 'Shroom Audition: History of Gaming ==
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| Hello there, 'Shroomies. As an avid retro gamer, I feel obliged to recreate this article. In this section, I will discuss events in the past that made the video gaming world what it is today. As this is the first issue, I feel that I should discuss the event that created the video game industry as we know it: the founding of Atari and the release of ''Pong''.
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| ''Pong'', to set the records straight, was NOT the first video game. That honour goes to ''Tennis For Two'', developed and published by William Higinbotham to cure boredom at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. ''Pong'' was not even the first video game released to a wide audience, that will be told of later in the article. It did, however, was the first game to mesmerise the public, and create a niche for gaming in the popular eye. Without ''Pong'', there would be no video game industry, or not much of one.
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| ''Pong'' was the brainchild of Nolan Bushnell. After viewing ''Spacewar!'', an early experiment in gaming, at the University of Utah in 1996, he had a vision. He figured that if he could produce a commercial version of ''Spacewar!'', he could make a killing. With this in mind, he and Ted Dabney concocted a hand-wired computer able to play a game similar to ''Spacewar!'' on a black-and-white television. The game, now dubbed ''Computer Space'', was released in 1971 by publisher Nutting Associates.
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| Unfortunately, ''Computer Space'' was an utter failure. Bushnell figured that the game was just far too complex for its target audience: bar patrons. Coupled with the customers' unfamiliarity with the new technology, the learning curve took a huge bite out of ''Computer Space''. Bushnell forsook ''Computer Space'', co-created a new engineering company, Syzygy Engineering, and started looking for new ideas.
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| At Syzygy, Bushnell and Ted Dabney (remember him?) hired Al Alcorn as their first design game. Bushnell wanted to start off Syzygy with a driving game, but axed the idea, fearing it would be too hard for the young Alcorn to produce.
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| At last, in May 1972, Bushnell attended a demonstration of the Magnavox Oddysey, the first home console. One of the games demonstrated was a simple tennis game, in which two players would hit a ball back and forth, and try to not let it fall on your side of the screen. Bushnell thought that a game like this would be perfect for Alcorn's skills. This game would go on to be called ''Pong''. Unfortunately, Syzygy was caught in a copyright issue with a company in California. Bushnell renamed the company "atari", after a condition in the chinese board game "''Go''".
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| By the November of that year, the first ''Pong'' cabinet was completed, and was shipped to a Sunnyvale, CA tavern by the name of ''Andy Capp's'' to test. It took only one day to realize how much of a success Atari had become.
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| The video game cabinet would be played countless times by the patrons of the tavern, until the machine mysteriously broke. When the repair crew arrived next morning, there was literally a line of people around the block waiting to play the new game. The cause of the cabinet's breakdown was simple: it had simply run out of room for quarters. When it was realized that ''Pong'' would be a hit, Bushnell and Dabney decided to release ''Pong'' to the world, and Atari, Inc. was established as the world's top video game producer. The rest, as they say, is history.
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| '''- Please do not edit this. This is an audition for the 'Shroom. Thank you.''' {{User:Toad85/sig}}
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| == You're welcome ==
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| Too bad I can't delete that page, though. {{User|Yoshiwaker}}
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| ==Yes, I am==
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| Yeah, I'm Baby Luigi on the forums. You may use it if you like. {{User:BabyLuigiOnFire/sig}}
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| == *witty subject title* ==
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| Yes, you can use it. Here.
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| {{userboxp|border=blue|mainbkgd=lightblue|codebkgd=blue|code=[[Image:Lucario Sticker.jpg|40px]]|msg=This user is friends with [[User:Smasher 101|Smasher 101]].}}
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| {{User:Smasher 101/sig}}
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| == Hey there ==
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| Hi, I'm Tails777. Would you like to be friends. I love Toad as well. {{User:Tails777/sig}}
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| No problem. Here you go. {{userbox|border=lime|mainbkgd=green|codebkgd=lime|codecolor=yellow|code=[[File:Super Yoshi.JPG|45px]]|msg=This user is friends with Tails777.}} {{User:Tails777/sig}}
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| YO BRO ITS ME SM25 WANNA BE FRIENDS?{{User:Bowser jrs number 1 fan/sig}}
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| :I thought we already were! :p. {{User:Toad85/sig}}
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| == M&SG ==
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| ===Misspelling===
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| *Sorry to bother you, but you have a spelling error in your proposal vote for [[MarioWiki:Proposals#Minigame_or_Mini-game|Minigame or Mini-game]]. You said "asthetically", when the word is actually "aesthetically". {{User:M&SG/sig}} 13:20, 17 September 2011 (EDT)
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| *You're welcome. {{User:M&SG/sig}} 16:12, 17 September 2011 (EDT)
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| == It's that time of the month... ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|November 12<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 19:15, 5 November 2011 (EDT)
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| ::Of course, I ''do'' already have your section for this month since you had to include it in your application, so you're all set for the November issue! {{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 19:19, 5 November 2011 (EDT)
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| == HEY ==
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| Hey! I love toad EXTREMELY MUCH TOO! so wanna be friends? Take the userbox:D{{userbox|border=#99B3FF|mainbkgd=#E0E8FF|codebkgd=#99B3FF|codecolor=#000000|code=[[File:BlueToadEmblem.jpg]]|msg=This user is friends with BlueToad253!}}--BLUETOAD[[User:BlueToad253|BlueToad253]] 18:16, 19 November 2011 (EST)
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| Oh can I also use your userbox? --BLUETOAD[[User:BlueToad253|BlueToad253]] 19:34, 22 November 2011 (EST)
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| == Happy Holidays! ==
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| {{ShroomHoliday2011|ForumID=979|DirectorName=Edofenrir|Team=[[The 'Shroom:Main Page|'Shroom]]|DirectorName2=Super Mario Bros.|DirectorSign=[[User:Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Bros.]] and [[User:Edofenrir|Edofenrir]]}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 21:47, 3 December 2011 (EST)
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| ::This is an '''important notice:''' the New Year Special Issue and the December issue have been merged together into the Holiday Special Issue. Please reread the special Holiday 'Shroom template above for updated information. {{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 18:54, 4 December 2011 (EST)
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| == Happy 'Shroom Year! ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|January 14<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 16:30, 7 January 2012 (EST)
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| == The 'Shroom ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|February 11<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 17:24, 4 February 2012 (EST)
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| == 'Shroom Madness ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|March 10<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 20:13, 3 March 2012 (EST)
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| == The 'Shroom ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|April 14<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 22:37, 7 April 2012 (EDT)
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| == May Shroomwarning ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|May 12<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 12:00, 5 May 2012 (EDT)
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| == 'Shroom Warning (June 2012) ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|June 9<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 21:32, 3 June 2012 (EDT)
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| == July 2012 ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|July 14<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 12:09, 7 July 2012 (EDT)
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| == August 2012 ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|August 11<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 23:25, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
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| == 'Shroom September Issue ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|September 8<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 20:03, 1 September 2012 (EDT)
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| == Boo! ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|October 13<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 12:55, 6 October 2012 (EDT)
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| == The 'Shroom (November 2012) ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|November 10<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 21:45, 3 November 2012 (EDT)
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| == The 'Shroom Special Holiday Issue - Warning I ==
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| {{Shroomwarning|December 15<sup>th</sup>}}
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| :{{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 16:27, 17 November 2012 (EST)
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| == The 'Shroom December Issue - Important Notice! ==
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| This is an important notice! Please be sure to send your 'Shroom section for December 2012 to '''me''' ({{User|Super Mario Bros.}}) on the forum rather than {{User|Kibago}}– Kibago will be unable to carry out his duties as the editor for this month's issue. Should you send your section to him, ''it will not appear in the Holiday Issue''. [[ForumUser:911|Here is the link to my profile on the forum]]. Thank you for your time, {{User:Super Mario Bros./sig}} 01:19, 29 November 2012 (EST)
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