Ah! The animated gif. Somehow, it remains far more charming than its evolutionary successor, the embedded video. Would this amazing Super Mario Bros. ninja trick be nearly as cool if it had sound, or wasn't in widescreen, but instead entombed in the blurry, blocky sarcophagus of a 400x300 YouTube video?

We found this via Destructoid, a site we're linking so much lately we should probably just set up an RSS scraper. It comes from a guide full of such gifs. A charming resource on Mario oriented tricks you will never, ever, ever be good enough to do. Or at least I won't — after 20+ years, I still can't manage that infinite 1UPs trick on World 3.

Super Mario Bros. Tricks [Tasvideos]

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