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World Store Launches New Super Mario Bros. Wii This Afternoon
Friendly reminder to those in the vicinity of New York City – Nintendo’s World Store is throwing a launch party beginning in a couple hours (3 p.m. US Eastern time) for New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The shindig is more than just a line-up for an early purchase. Nintendo says it’ll deck out the store…
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Thank You Mario, But Our Princess Is In Another Game, Getting Kidnapped Again
New Super Mario Bros. Wii is released this weekend, continuing the proud tradition of Princess Peach getting her delicate bottom kidnapped by lizard creatures. Let’s explore her victimization record, shall we? Princess Peach gets kidnapped a lot. There are few women with more kidnappings under their belt than her royal mushroom highness, with only Daphne…
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PETA Releases New Super Chick Sisters
PETA returns to its Mario-parody Super Chick Sisters with the New Super Chick Sisters, switching gears from vilifying Kentucky Fried Chicken to vilifying McDonald’s. McDonald’s abuses chickens somehow, and it’s up to the New Super Chick Sisters to save Princess Pamela Anderson while learning about chicken abuse in this sequel to 2007’s Super Chick Sisters.…
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Awesome Custom Mario Costume Packs Its Own Soundtrack
Perhaps a little late for Halloween, but you can use this modded Mario costume for inspiration and get to work on yours for next year. Certain motions while wearing the suit trigger fireball, jumping and 1Up sounds, among others. The get-up was built by an Adafruit Wave Shield user, connecting the gadget to an Arduino…
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Farmers Aren’t the Only Ones in Overalls at the State Fair
Ordinarily I’d give this the “About to Get a Letter” treatment, but you know, maybe this thing is licensed. And good luck getting a letter to a carny, anyway. Reader GHETTO CHiLD spotted “Mario Land” at the N.C. State Fair (largest midway of any state fair in the U.S., you can look that up.) It’s…
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N’Gai Croal Breaks the News to Miyamoto that Mario is Dead
N’Gai Croal, the former games writer for Newsweek (and friend of this site) floored Mario’s creator with news that one of the famed video-game character’s live-action, uh, actors had died recently. During a roundtable discussion earlier Thursday, Croal asked Miyamoto, straight up: “Where were you when you heard that Captain Lou Albano passed away, and…
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Live-Action Mario Dead At 76
Wrestling manager Captain Lou, Cyndi Lauper’s fake dad, and Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Lou Albano passed away today at the age of 76. Wrestling fans know him as the WWE Hall of Famer who managed more than 50 wrestlers in his day, with more than two dozen championships won by athletes…
By Mike Fahey