hmm... i don't know what to make of this so far.

This sounds awesome! Maybe if this does good they'll make a old school Sonic!

So...to request a point of reference, what does the Japanese "B" rating equal in ESRB speak?

@Stuffgamer
I think B is E10+ or low T.

This game certainly looks different. I would wait for the review.

@slambert215: So it seems. I'm sorry I asked, as it was quite easy to look up on Wikipedia anyway. doh!

It's funny. I would have thought this game would get a "D" or MAYBE a "C" given what little I know about it thus far. Then again, I suppose the Japanese do tend to be lenient.

I also find it funny that their rating system works in the way it does. Makes me think of school grades, which would make more mature games fail.

looks like a load of carp i use this word in stead of the other. because i am not sure if you are a lound to use the other word.

@dfalco: You mean "crap?" That's not even really a bad word anymore. Heck, my PASTOR has said it from the pulpit!

Reading further into the article on CERO, I found it odd to see that some M-rated games in America got a "Z" in Japan, including Assassin's Creed and Dead Rising. Then they've got this weird gem:

"For example, the game Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne was rated A by the CERO, but rated 12+ by the PEGI and M by the ESRB."

That's a heck of a difference! Why don't we just have one world-wide rating system, anyway? Wouldn't that be easier?

dfalco you're such a good boy for asking permission to use a naughty word. Your place in heaven is reserved. Then again, you dissed this game. HMM..

Sounds pretty good, in a weird "that's awesome" sort of way - here's hoping a western equivalent will be on it's way, although I hope that WiiWare isn't just going to get a load of flash-conversion-style games in future - I mean, it doesn't look too appealing, even though the concept is. I know what I mean...

@We CAN say halibut? SWEET!

If this is really risque I doubt we'll see it here. Would be nice if sega made one that we COULD have here. Crazy's great. Wouldn't have to be risque. Just do the spoof thing.

@QuarterRoy00-They aren't the greatest in the world, are they?

Is it me or do those graphics look almost Atari level?

Looks absolutly awsome. Another WiiWare game I'm going to get for sure...

This looks promising!

I bet Mara (from Shin Megami Tensei if... and Persona 3: FES) would feel right at home with this...

Sega would have to soften this up in order to let this game go to any other region.

@Stuffgamer1: "It's funny. I would have thought this game would get a "D" or MAYBE a "C" given what little I know about it thus far. Then again, I suppose the Japanese do tend to be lenient."

It's mostly just America that's prudent enough to throw M ratings on silly toilet humor like this.

@Stuffgamer
A worldwide ratings system would be SO much better. I mean SSBM got a T in America, a 3+ in Europe, and and an A in Japan!

.........................

Im scard......................

Butt all jokes aside (sorry. sorry. Couldnt resist ) this game dosnt look risque from the screens, but if it is, then I guess it will sell millions.......

Also, love the caption. "Family-Oriented". I dont exactly think any 6 year olds are loeaving comments and checking daily, but if the mod says so, then I guess it's true

@Adamant: Ah, so true. America is strict on ratings, eveything seems to be rated M now adays. I mean, Halo, rated M? Seriously, it's 15+, but since us Americans are too stupid to make a 15+ we have it M. Great, just great.

Oh and for good mesure: HALIBUT

There are so many inappropriates jokes I could make about this, just from the title alone! But alas, I shall resist the temptations towards vulgarity, and just say that I don't give a s**t about this.

Edit: Okay, after checking the official site and clicking on the mushroom that makes funny noises a gazillion times, I now care about this game!

I am very interested in this game and the whole humor and jokes about some classic games^^ (that's what i also read about it).

MUSHROOMS

As long as it is good, I'd like to see a SMB clone.

Lol, mushrooms. =P

Seriously though, the screenshots look awesome. ^__

Besides its obvious that Sega is flowlloring Capcom's 8bit trend but i heard that one of the injokes is that if you eat enouth mushrooms you grow beyond the size of the whole screen .

What about a halibut? Anyway, a classic Mario-esque game with crude/toilet humor? This could be interesting!

Hey guys, the website will be expanded in less than 24 hours. =o
http://pole.sega.jp/

Actually, I already realized why we DO need separate rating systems. The Wikipedia article I quoted said why, but I didn't understand what it meant until I'd thought about it a bit. Basically, cultural differences make it more or less impossible to have a game rated only once. That one game got an E or E10+ equivalent in Japan because of their values, and an M in America because of ours. So what would we do if there was just one rating system, split the difference and call it a T? If we did, we might wind up with nothing BUT T-rated games. Dumb.

As far as this game in America is concerned, I HIGHLY doubt it'll be released. If it is, it'll be at LEAST a T. And I won't play it, because I try to limit needless innuendo in my life.

It would be neat if it was rated T.
LIT, an apparent horror title, was rated E10+. x.x

M though would be a little crazy.

I do like halibut, but I think karp sounds better than carp. Plus they're all bones anyway (the carp that is). Then again crappie is fun to say.

Anyway, I think this game is rather boorish (another word that is fun to say). I will stick to good humour (note the "u") and keep my head out of the gutter.

@Corbie: No, it was fine. Your joke was just far ahead of our time and too advanced for us common folk to understand your superior knowledge

Oh, a halibut is a fish? I realized what post the joke was coming from but...
EDIT: This is my 1,000th comment here on WWW. Thanks for making a great site.

@Corbie: Thanks for thinking of me

I feel stupid. ()

Wow. We really get off-topic on this site. From fish, to swears, ratings, and me bringing up gears of war and maboshi all the time... (my two favorite games now)

Stuffgamer1-san: "And I won't play it, because I try to limit needless innuendo in my life."
You are looking at someone else who wants to pursue the "reduced innudeo" goal.

cool, re-interpolation of Mario.

_{(yes, multi-pun intended. sry lol)}

I want to see this in the United States, but I'm unsure if it will be released outside of Japan.

Poles and mushrooms, eh? The Wii must be the perfect platform. Sorry.
I doubt it will hit North America or Europe but I might be interested if it does.

Hnn... I should have thought of this earlier, but Sega and Nintendo were rivals who once mocked each other (that King Boom ghost in Sonic Adventure 2 was a parody of Nintendo's King Boo, while there were blue hedgehogs in a Yoshi Game), so I see the sense of Sega parodying Nintendo today.
That means... Nintendo might parody Sonic! (...not vulgarly, though, since they want the consumers to forget about Conker due to his "bad turn," so to speak.)

By the way, the site came on. Since I was lyping this while listening to the music of the site, I noticed something: if you keep hearing the song that plays at the main screen of the site (the one that has two moosemen attacking a cowboy), you hear a "de de de de de..." voice. If you keep waiting, you hear a "ga gou gou [...] pe pe [...] ay. Yay!" (To be safe, please do not click on anything else when you are on that screen, since I do not know what happens at the time I am writting this.)

So is this what SMB was really all about? All the time Mario was jumping on and eating mushrooms he was actually jumping on and eating, uh, "poles"? Kinda puts Nintendo in a whole new light, huh? I feel slightly sick.

Holy crap, the classic musical, "Segaaa!" plays on the site! Instant buy just for that!

@Stuffgamer1
Because the cultures are extremly different, one thing might acceptable in one country but bannable in the next.

I wonder if this will have motion controls?

@Bahamut ZERO. "Butt all jokes aside..."
That was probably the worst pun I've ever seen in my life.

@Adamant. Usually, when a game is rated M for dirty humor, there's other factors that contribute to it, like strong language or nudity. Games with just straight dirty humor usually get a T or E10 rating.

@Corbie. I thought the halibut joke was pretty good....
Btw, are we allowed to say flounder?

As much as I'd love to play a parody of SMB loaded with sexual jokes, I doubt we'll se this in America.

Just checked the (now updated) 'site - and from what I can make out, it looks pretty good, with one of my favourite things about it being the return of the old "SEGA" sound. The text on there also mentions something about the PS2 and 360, but goodness knows what it means since there is a lack of these logos on any of the other stuff that has the WiiWare logo on.

@Ricardo: No motion controls, but it is GCController / CC compatible, with standard D-Pad; A; 1; 2 affair.

Oh and also - this only costs 500 Wii Points, so this is a bit of a must buy... if you're Japanese

ADDED: Oh, I see that you've added that now. Good for you guys.

help. i just got my wii online and i have only 180 blocks left. so if i got a game more then 180 would the rest of the blocks transfer to an sd card

^Although MM9 took up only 69 blocks.
Retro games tend to take up less memory, since their graphics don't take long to load and are basic.

Also, if you click the blue bar on the left, you hear a puking sound. o.0

I really hope it comes in America. D:
It's my most wanted game right now. ;.;

It looks pretty neat, but so much of it is ripped off from SMB. It's awesome that Nintendo are letting this come out on WiiWare in Japan

@Wiiloveit. I was trying to make a bad sexual joke, but obviously you didn't catch it.

This looks insane! Judging from the videos above it might actually be a top secret Master System game from 1986 that Sega were too scared to release at the time for fear of being sued! hehe

Wow, not sure what to think of this.

Chicken Brutus- thanks

@MarkyVigoroth
What's wrong with Conker?

Still won't buy this even though it is a platformer. Can I have at least 16-bit, please? Why is every dev avoiding the 16-bit generation on WiiWare? Or how about Neo Geo quality graphics? Despite size limitations, it would be totally worth it to me. Why must my love of all things 2D be crushed by devs who want 8-bit or Atari level graphics? I am looking forward to Eduardo the Samurai Toaster mainly because of this. I would love to see some high quality 2D 16-bit or above graphics on WiiWare.

@Ricardo 48: I've never been able to be funny. Butt it was worth a shot

Gah! I did it again

beastman93-san, Conker turnel extremely vulgar at "Conker's Bad Fur Day." (If only they released the originl kiddie version...)

This seems like a very fun NES style game. And would you guys please shut up and actually talk about the game? You must be very hyperactive tonight.

To start with keeping back on topic, a part I keep watching was Pole overgrowing after he got that mushroom!

The music rules!

This looks funny and I love platformers, but I seriously doubt they'll release it outside of japan, of course some puns in the game must be international but I'm sure half of them are japanese directed and wouldn't be funny unless someone explains them to you, like the mushroom slang; still, I'd like to get it anyway.

@Ricardo: Ooohhh. Right. I get you. You dirty person.
@Bahamut Zero: Try starting off your comments with a "knock knock" joke.

@ beastman93 (#60):

This game makes jokes about some 8-bit games (for example SMB), so it wouldn't make much sense to do it with 16-bit graphics.

Can it be that some of you interpret too much sexual content to this game?

EDIT: Argh, sorry for the double-post =(.

Except for the mushroom, I have yet to see any real For Adults Only content in the game...

Okay, why the heck are there so many words for... nevermind. I don't even wanna know.

Oh, for the love of halibut. If this doesn't get released in the west, I'll eat my Slipper.
I'm kidding, instead i'll eat my Space Hopper.

No but seriously, this game does look like it could be quite good coming from Sega and with a Master System look, this could be quite good. it seems like "Old" is the New "New", with all these 16-bit and 8-bit retro styled games coming out/released through WiiWare

@Marky-Part of that could be that all the text in the vids/pics is in Japanese. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some verbal innuendos in there.

MarkyVigoroth (#71): "Except for the mushroom, I have yet to see any real For Adults Only content in the game..."

And why should the mushroom be a "For Adults Only content"? Because it is a Japanese slang term?

The game makes jokes about the 8-bit era, so it can (and i think it is) just be a reference to Super Mario Bros.

Oh, for the love of halibut. If this doesn't get released in the west, I'll eat my Slipper.
I'm kidding, instead i'll eat my Space Hopper.
Don't push it, Terranigma

Did i say Space Hopper? I meant my Mattress.

@Wiiloveit
Whenever someone tells me not to push things further, i almost always do just to see how people react. It's usually quite funny but not always. i have become a bit more careful of certain things though.

@ness
I wasn't specifically talking about this game, but the games on WiiWare in general.

@MarkyVigoroth

There was a warning sign and mostly, this game may be for adults.

It even has the old "SEGA!!!" tune

@ beastman93 (#78): "Still won't buy this even though it is a platformer. Can I have at least 16-bit, please?"

I don't know how these sentences can't refer directly to Pole's Big Adventure.

Ladies and Gents, the unthinkable which i had foreseen over the last couple of weeks has finally happened. Shockingly, I am sticking to a more permanent avatar. Not just any avatar though, one of my old Ark Avatars. The weekly changes in Avatars was fun but it's nice to use one of my old one's again. This one (Probably) won't change for at least a month or two, instead of a week.

@Terranigma- I'm gonna be honest with you. That pic has too much going on to be a good avatar for the size it's displayed here, IMO.

I'm actually surprised here youd think that Nintendo would almost be slightly skittish about allowing an adult styled spoof of its big mascot.

@Terranigma: Well... that's naff. Now I've got nothing to look forward to every Friday (except new WW games every other week, I suppose). Either way, I suppose that it probably is better that you stick to one avatar, and although I don't really know what that one there is about, I'm just gonna say that it's not that bad.

This one's a picture of the protagonist of Terranigma, Ark. I changed the avatar by cropping the image so it focuses more on the shot of Ark and not so much on his surroundings.

@Terranigma

Yeah, it looks much better not Terr!. Before it looked like a Nuclear bomb blowing a huge crater into the planet (which would've been pretty cool too).

I hate to be picky with grammar and spellings but do you mean it looks much better now? If so, then thanks. I like it better like this.

uhh, .... this game is cooool!

1。~500 wii/nintendo points

2。gameplay video, 珍道中!!ポールの大冒険」実況プレイ動画（前編）

I probably would of got this game even if it was 1000 points, but with it being at half as much, as I thought this would be, I'll get it. Of course, assuming this game hits our shores.