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// April 2nd, 2012 // No Comments » // Funny Stuff, Gaming
Always love Google and ThinkGeek’s April Fools jokes. Sadly, with it being on a Sunday this year, I saw less of it.
Check out Google’s 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System Google Maps implementation:
// July 27th, 2011 // No Comments » // Gaming, Video
On the heels of yesterday’s YouTube find (First Person Mario), check out this real-world version/take on Mario Kart:
// July 26th, 2011 // No Comments » // Gaming
Here’s a vision of what the original Super Mario Brothers from the mid-80′s might have looked like had it come into existence in current-day gaming. Obviously the 3D is a given, but notice the achievements and lower-lefthand corner updates to how Goombas and the like are being taken down.
// April 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // Gaming
Here’s a cool Flash game that will make all those old enough to have grown up with the NES quite nostalgic. Take the original Super Mario Brothers, and mix in playable characters — complete with their signature moves and weapons, including Link from the Legend of Zelda, Samus from Metroid, and a couple others. Very cool!
// January 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // Funny Stuff, Gaming
Combine Super Mario Bros. with Tetris and this is what you get. Interesting.
You can switch back and forth between the games at will via the spacebar. Kinda fun and funny.
// November 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Gaming, Personal Crap
So tonight, I was playing the orginal Legend of Zelda from the old NES days. The Nintendo Wii’s virtual console allows you to buy games from their old consoles including, but not limited to NES and SNES titles.
We’ve only endulged in two retro games thus far: the original Zelda and Super Mario Brothers 3. Between the pair, Amanda and I have spent countless hours, playing and replaying the pair of NES classics.
It was amazing to Amanda and I both just how much of the games we recalled — item locations, secrets, etc., and was a testament to how much of a lasting impression
// February 21st, 2008 // No Comments » // Funny Stuff, Gaming
Nice video of what Super Mario Brothers would have looked like on the Atari 2600. It definitely looses a lot of its classic video game visual appeal.
Great rendering on what it would have looked like, though I question the sound. Atari’s crappy graphics were never as crappy as its sound effects and God forbid – music. I honestly don’t think it’d do anywhere near the same on the “advanced” sound of SMB from the NES. Also, I don’t think Atari every could render text that small – both the text at the top for the score, coins, etc., but also the little score numbers that appeared when smashing blocks, etc.
// February 19th, 2008 // No Comments » // Funny Stuff, Gaming
Oh man, this list is so right on. I had forgotten about most of these (or maybe it was that I blocked them out), but the list is so right –
Slippy Toad from Star Fox was always annoying and incompetent, kinda like some of my co-workers. I love the write-up about Waluigi, but had no idea that his first appearance was in Mario Tennis as a doubles partner for Wario! That is pretty lame.
It’s nice to know I wasn’t alone in my hatred of so many of these lame characters. The dog from Duck Hunt is a great number 1, IMHO.
The 15 Most Annoying Video Game Characters (From Otherwise Great Games)
// January 23rd, 2008 // No Comments » // Gaming, Music
This is is pretty cool for all of you out there old enough to remember the NES’s heyday with Super Mario Brothers. This Italian drummer (not to be confused with the Italian plumber from the game itself) is playing along with the old 8-bit tracks from Super Mario Brothers 2 and it really adds a lot to the classic gaming themes from our youth.
// January 8th, 2008 // No Comments » // Gaming
This is even better than the first Mario talent show we found back in 2005. This is hilarious for all of us that grew up with the NES.
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