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Is Super Mario World On The List of Nintendo 3DS Remakes?
Mario creator and chief Nintendo fungineer Shigeru Miyamoto has given a firm “Maybe!” to that question, saying that a 3D revamped Super Mario World would be a “fun” fit for the Nintendo 3DS. In response to an IGN reader’s question about the SNES original version of Super Mario World—”What aspects of the game would you…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 30, 2010 -
Nintendo, Please Pay Mario’s Creator More Money [Update]
The long-held belief is that Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto rides his bicycle to work and doesn’t make more money than other Nintendo designers. Part of Miyamoto’s image is that he’s just a regular guy! And that he doesn’t take a larger salary than other employees, as Giant Bomb put it, “in order to prove…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 29, 2010 -
Too Bad All Salty Snack Ads Aren’t This Clever
There are two words that can be used to describe these ads. The first word is “funny”. The second word? “Brilliant”. A Russian marketing firm has created a series of “versus” short animated clips to promote potato chips. They are terrific. This is Mario vs. Pac-Man. Click to view Here is Contra vs. Tetris. Click…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2010 -
Finally, Dogs Can Cosplay As Mario, Too
And Luigi. And Peach. Not that they couldn’t before! Etsy shop Young Urban Puppy has just make things easier with these Nintendo-themed dog outfits. Spectacular. There is also a Game Boy outfit for your dog. Look! There it is. No, really. Yes! You can dress your dog as a Game Boy. If anyone ever asks…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 9, 2010 -
Mario Moves Up from Mushrooms
This isn’t run-of-the-mill blotter acid, this is some kind of souped-up Scandinavian hallucinogenic called Bromo-DragonFly, and as you can see, a new product needed a familiar pitchman to get a beachhead in a new market. Cops in Helsinki, Finland raided a drug den and confiscated that sheet, plus a bunch of cash and other tools…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 -
Mario’s Great And Terrible Secret
This won’t be news to anyone that knows enough about Mario to win a pub trivia night on the flora or the Mushroom Kingdom, but still. The delivery of this secret is as great as the secret itself. Yes, the clouds in Mario are the same as the bushes, just in different colours. Shocking, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010 -
Pick A Card, A Mario Card
Nintendo started out as a card maker, making hanafuda playing cards. Nintendo still makes playing cards. Video games, too. This July, the company will be releasing three sets of Mario branded playing cards. These are “premium” cards, and are priced at ¥1,050 (US$11) each set. I like the “dot” cards the most. They’re classy. Mario…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010 -
Will Top Kill Work On This?
As seen on Super Punch via Tiny Cartridge
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010 -
Who Is The Greatest Video Game Character Of All Time?
Totally subjective question, of course, but movie mag Empire decided to try and answer anyway, its writers nutting out who they thought were the greatest video game characters of all time. The winner? It wasn’t Mario. It wasn’t Lara Croft, either. Or Master Chief. Or Link, or Snake, or even Mai Shiranui. No, the winner…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2010 -
How Mario Celebrates Memorial Day
As seen on Topatoco
By Brian Crecente Published May 31, 2010 -
Once and For All, Mario Can Jump the Flagpole
GameTrailers took on, Mythbusters style, the legend that Mario can leap the flagpole in Super Mario Bros on the NES. and, whaddaya know, they indeed proved it true. World 3-3 is where you have the best chance of doing it yourself. Now, GameTrailers, next for you: Turning Smurfette naked in Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle…
By Owen Good Published May 27, 2010 -
The Princess Is In Another Birdhouse!
Thanks Eugenio
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010 -
A New Challenger Enters Super Mario Bros. Crossover
A deadly assassin stalks the back alleys of the Mushroom Kingdom, as Exploding Rabbit adds a new challenger to popular Flash game mash-up Super Mario Bros. Crossover. Those poor Goombas will never see it coming. During a recent interview, Crossover creator Jay Pavlina explained that several characters had to be cut from the game’s initial…
By Mike Fahey Published May 25, 2010 -
The Princess Is In Your Castle, And She Has Needs
So you’re off to save the Princess, huh? Might want to think it over, side-scrolling platform hero. Because when you do save her, she may well be more trouble than it was worth. At least, that’s the perspective of this cautionary tale, in which our intrepid traveller gets more than he bargained for when he…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 20, 2010 -
Bow Before Your Lord, Mario
An oldie, but goodie. As seen by はちま起稿
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 20, 2010
