Mario

Why is Luigi green? “…because of memory limitations, the second character had to be identical to the first character in appearance,” says Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. “And so we looked at that and said, ‘Well even if we have the same character, we could potentially change the color of the character.’ But again we were…

300 People Combine Like Voltron To Form The Super Mario Bros. Theme Song

Taking to the streets of Israel, filmmaker Eran Amir recorded over 300 people singing a single note. In isolation, they were just singing a single note. Who cares. All put together, they make beautiful, beautiful music. The Human Piano! [YouTube, via Laughing Squid]

Nintendo Is Rolling Out a New AR App for Japan

Later this month, Nintendo will start selling pre-paid cards for downloadable 3DS games that come with AR cards for Issho ni Photo: Super Mario (“Photos Together with Super Mario”). It’s a new 3DS app that uses the AR cards to allow you to take snaps of and with the Mario characters. The first set, on…

Old Spice Commercials Mashed With Super Mario Bros. And…WTF Did I Just Watch?

Uhhhhhhh wait a minute. I have a question about this. This’ll just take a second, bear with me. Um: What? The video above video, uploaded by Mowtendoo in celebration of a million views on this… …equally confusing video, is a little over a month old, but I couldn’t help but share it with you so…

Crazy Guy Builds Awesome Instrument To Rethink Super Mario

Meet Chris Novello, alias Paper Kettle, who shows in the video above how he can manipulate Super Mario on the NES with his glitch instruments. The smaller one is a USB device with arcade buttons called Illucia made by the man himself, and the other, multitouch thingy is a Soundplane The technical details on the…

Terrible Star Wars Figures Become Incredible Video Game Figures

Dan from Chicago Toy Collector has taken some crummy old original Star Wars figures – and come on, nostalgia aside, with that range of movement they were crummy – and turned them into something a little more video gamey. Cannibalising parts (I can see some Bespin Cloud Car pilots, Leia and Obi-Wan) and doing some…

Canned Food Super Mario Looks Better in 3D

Forgive me for another Super Mario 64 post, but I just had to point out how the career path of Canned Food Super Mario has so closely mirrored that of the real thing. After a couple iterations with minimal graphical improvements, Canned Food Super Mario has finally made the leap to 3D. I think he…

Washington DC’s Metro Line Makes A Perfect Super Mario World Map

Designer Dave Delisle did a really great job recreating the Washington DC Metro Line as a Super Mario Bros 3 world map. With its 86 stations as separate levels, Washington’s Metro would be an extremely long Mario game (and a damn good one, with names like The Pentagon). This is not Delisle’s first such work.…

Mario, Where Did Your Skin Go?

Check out this vinyl Mario by Rsin Art. They call it “Death Blooms,” and it’s easy to see why. The aesthetic is reminiscent of Dia De Los Muertos art—specifically, calaveras. Which, you know, is pretty cool even if it’s weird to see Mario like this. This Mario will be featured in the Game On show…

If You’re Going to Deface Your School Books, Do It Well. Like This.

Doodling in your text books is bad! I do not recommend it. At all. However, let’s say you have to doodle in your text—like, if you don’t, you get in trouble. Then, by all means, please deface the book in the most entertaining way possible. Above, you can see Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen getting the…

What A High Definition First-Person Mario Game Looks Like

Now all Mario needs is a gun—then this would be truly modern No but seriously though: take a look at this awesome rendition of a Mario level by freddiew, which shows us what playing the franchise in first person could look like. Well, if Mario was a little grittier. You might remember freddiew from this…

Mario Comes To Life In This Dramatic Speed-Painting

This dramatic piece of Mario art starts as a sketch, but winds up displaying the plumber at his most badass Posted by 8-Bit Ego, this speed-painting is the work of artist Josh Summana, who is doing a new “Heroes” series to accompany his “Bosses” set from last year. Nice. (Thanks, Jehrome and Adel.)

Don’t Look Now, But The 3DS Has Become The Best Gaming Machine Out There

Two years ago, Nintendo was in trouble. The House of Mario had just released a brand new handheld system with impressive 3D graphics, but nobody seemed to care. Sales were sluggish and reception wasn’t great. So they did something drastic: just six months after releasing the 3DS, Nintendo slashed the system’s price from $250 to…

God Save Mario The Anarchist

We’ve seen Mario as a GTA character, which is badass on its own. But have we seen him fully outfitted as a punk rock anarchist? Brazilian graphic designer Butcher Billy has quite an impressive, pop culture-filled profile on Béhance, including his latest, stunning crossover, featuring Super Mario characters and legendary punk rock band Sex Pistols,…

If Mario Starred In Grand Theft Auto

We’ve posted one of Amirul Hafiz‘s Mario X GTA creations before, but he’s recently created a few more. I couldn’t help but share them with you all, especially because that Bowser one is genius. Potential new phone background? Definitely a contender. And here’s a bonus Sonic conversion to GTA. Mario Mugshot [deviantART via CyberWolf]

New Wii U Mario And Mario Kart Games Will Be Revealed At E3

Nintendo today promised that new 3D Mario and Mario Kart games are coming to Wii U. That shouldn’t surprise you: Mario and Mario Kart are staples of any Nintendo hardware platform. But the new 3D Mario is coming from Nintendo’s A-Team, the developers responsible for classics like Galaxy and Super Mario 3D Land for 3DS,…

One of the Most Impressive Nintendo Collections in Japan

By day, Tokyo resident Isao Yamazaki is a website developer. By night, he’s at home, perusing one of the most amazing Nintendo collections you can find in Japan or anywhere else. Yamazaki fell in love with Nintendo early on. “I started collecting Nintendo items 30 years ago, in 1982,” he told website Before Mario. “My…

These Pikachu and Mario Skin Suits Cover You From Head to Toe

You thought the full body tights stopped at Totoro? That’s just the tip of the iceberg. There are more nightmares to be had. Many more. This post contains imagery and a subject matter not suitable for all readers. However, it is free of GIFs. In Japanese, these outfits are called “zenshin tights” (全身タイツ), with “zenshin”…

Dead Island Shouldn’t Be The Only Game That Comes With A Severed Torso Statue

By now you’ve probably seen the ridiculous bikini-clad severed torso that publisher Deep Silver is packaging with the European/Australian special edition of zombie action-RPG Dead Island: Riptide It is gross and awful—to the point where Deep Silver just issued an apology for the statue—but hey, why let them have all the fun? We’ve put together…

There Was A Genesis Version Of Super Mario World (Huh, What?)

It wasn’t official, of course, but thanks to the magic of bootleg cartridges, there was indeed a version of Nintendo’s classic platformer ported to Sega’s rival console. The game is a little janky, and missing some features altogether (no Yoshi, for example), but as you can see, there’s some kind of Super Mario World experience…