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Javascript Nintendo emulator

2009 Sep 17, 11:12This Javascript Nintendo emulator works amazingly well in Google Chrome. You can play Dr. Mario, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, The Legend of Zelda, etc.PermalinkCommentsbrowser javascript nintendo nes game videogame google tetris emulator

Offworld Gallery: The games factory, how Mario, Tetris, Sonic, Pong were made | Offworld

2009 Aug 14, 9:58Photos of "...the smelting of Sonic's rings, the chiseling of the 1-Up mushroom, and the rubber-pressed rebounding blocks of Arkanoid."PermalinkCommentsvideogame mario tetris factory photo

Video: AI bot takes on Mario - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist

2009 Aug 6, 5:15Video of an entry to a Mario AI contest.PermalinkCommentsmario ai video youtube videogame

YouTube - Louis Vuitton "SUPERFLAT MONOGRAM"

2009 Jul 9, 10:53"...but the inside of his stomach is gateway to a psychadelic wonderland." Need I quote more? The whole thing made me think of a rather upbeat and trippy episode of Lain. Also, one of the repeating noises in the soundtrack made me think I was finishing a lap in Mario Kart.PermalinkCommentsvideo art ad commercial anime animation louis-vuitton superflat Takashi-Murakami cute psychadelic

E309: New Super Mario Bros Wii, the trailer

2009 Jun 3, 3:40The New Super Mario Bros for the Wii looks cool. I always wanted the multiplayer featured here in the previous games.PermalinkCommentsfor:hellosarah mario wii nintendo video videogame

FCEUX: cross-platform NES emulation for professionals

2009 Apr 15, 7:33The emulator behind those cool script based Mario hacks. "FCEUX is a cross platform, NTSC and PAL Famicom/NES emulator that ... gives the best of all worlds for the casual player, the ROM-hacking community, Lua Scripters, and the Tool-Assisted Speedrun Community."PermalinkCommentsemulator nintendo videogame software programming game

The Super Mario Bros. 3 'rainbow riding' LUA hack - Offworld

2009 Apr 15, 7:30Another cool Mario hack via some sort of awesome emulator: "...the FCEUX emulator includes a second LUA script that turns Super Mario Bros. 3 into the DS game Nintendo never made. The hack disables direct control of Mario completely, and only allows you to manipulate him (and protect him from the rest of the world) via mouse-drawn lines ala the DS's Kirby Canvas Curse and Atari's The Chase."PermalinkCommentsgame video mario smb3 videogame emulator

YouTube Super Luigi Bros.

2009 Apr 9, 1:39"Luigi is running after Mario"PermalinkCommentshumor youtube mario luigi video videogame

Boing Boing: - Cut down in his prime: the short and thankless life of the Goomba

2009 Apr 9, 1:33Funny, I can hear exactly where Mario is.PermalinkCommentshumor video mario videogame youtube goomba

Warp Whistle - Chunnel

2009 Mar 25, 11:03Mario blows the warp whistle and finds himself in Chicago.PermalinkCommentsmario video videogames warp-whistle matthew-dominick via:boingboing

The Super Mario Bros. drag and drop LUA hack - Offworld

2009 Mar 17, 6:02"With LUA scripting included in the latest version of NES emulator FCEUX, Rusted Logic blogger Xkeeper has woven some black magic into Super Mario that gives you full keyboard/mouse control over your surroundings."PermalinkCommentsvideo youtube videogames videogame hack mario

Epic! - Mario Paint Plays 'Paranoid Android' | taking tiger mountain

2009 Mar 7, 4:56Its my favorite song done Mario Paint style.PermalinkCommentsparanoid-android mario-paint mario radiohead music video youtube videogame

Finished Paper Mario Games

2008 May 12, 4:05
Super Paper MarioPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year DoorPaper Mario Title Screen

Sarah and I have finished playing through the games "Paper Mario", "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", and "Super Paper Mario" last week (including the various Pits of 100 Trials). We played them all on the Wii, because even though Super Paper Mario was the only one released explicitly for that platform, Wii maintains compatibility with Game Cube games such as Thousand-Year Door and Paper Mario although originally released for the Nintendo 64 is now available as a pay for download game on the Wii's Virtual Console. So, yay for Nintendo!

I think my favorite of the three is Thousand-Year Door mostly because of the RPG attack system. In Thousand-Year Door and Paper Mario when you come into contact with an enemy you go into an RPG style attack system where you take turns selecting actions. In Super Paper Mario you still have hit points and such, but you don't go into a turn based RPG style attack system, rather you do the regular Mario jumping on bad guys thing (or hitting them with a mallet etc...). Thousand-Year Door and Paper Mario are very similar in terms of game play but Thousand-Year Door looks very pretty and has made improvements to how your party-mates are handled in battle (they have HP and can fall as you would expect) and there's an audience that cheers you on during your battles.

Even if the gameplay sucked the humor throughout the series might be tempting enough. Mario's clothing and mustache are mocked throughout and standard RPG expectations are subverted. I hate to describe any of these moments for fear of ruining anything but, for instance, an optional and very difficult enemy who may only be killed after hours of work only results in one experience point, or a very intimidating enemy who you imagine you'll have to fight actually challenges you to a quiz.

Despite how I personally rank them, all the games are great and I'd recommend any of them.

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door FAQs - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Walkthroughs - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Guides

2008 May 4, 12:07Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door Guides. Having finished the game its fun to see various hidden things...PermalinkCommentsfaq game mario videogame walkthrough howto paper-mario

Mario Theme Played with RC Car and Bottles Video

2008 Apr 15, 11:23Reminds me of the sequences where you must collect notes in Super Mario Galaxy.PermalinkCommentshumor mario music video videogame via:boingboing

IndieGames.com - The Weblog - Freeware Game Pick: Rom Check Fail (Farbs)

2008 Apr 10, 3:23Recommended by AV Club. Play pieces of classic games mixed together.PermalinkCommentsgame humor mashup mario zelda remix videogame art

Mechanically Separated Meat - Blog Archive - Super Mario World vs. the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics

2008 Feb 19, 8:57A video of a player's many attempts at the same level in a hacked Super Mario World game overlayed on top of one another.PermalinkCommentsvideo mario game quantum-physics via:boingboing

Cute Things Unknowingly Imitating Real Things

2008 Jan 22, 11:24

I saw this odd looking cute cat and it reminded me of Thom Yorke. On a related note also see the myth buster lol-cat.


Also I think the whistling puppy (~0:05) and hungry lumas transforming on Super Mario Galaxy (~0:15) sound very similar.

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Mario - Communist Edition (from OMG LMAO)

2007 Mar 5, 7:30Flash video depicting Mario in stylized communism form.PermalinkCommentsflash video humor game nintendo mario animation communism neat-fp
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