Posts Tagged ‘mario’
By: Jon Christensen on December 21st, 2009 pm31 1:02 pm
Russian animation studio tvigle, came up with a concept of having two famous videogame stars, Pac-Man & Mario, pitted against each other in an epic battle to the death. But I think it was more about Mario going through his ordinary routine, but suddenly Pac-Man has to be a dick once again, and ruin somebody’s fun.
The direction of the action was crafted beautifully, while the animation was drawn to perfection, and the sound is guaranteed to make you at least chuckle. It’s definitely worth a few minutes of your time.
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By: Jon Christensen on August 10th, 2009 pm31 4:56 pm
The guys over at duelinganalogs made this picture of what looks like Mario having an affair with the Companion Cube. I’m not sure if I’m more disturbed of the inability of Mario being able to keep his zipper up, or the fact Mario has sexual relationships with boxes.
Also, the apparent man-boobs is a sight I never wanted to see with Nintendo’s plumber. Yuck!
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By: Jon Christensen on July 31st, 2009 am31 2:54 am
These are rough times. Unemployment is at its highest, people are still losing their jobs and companies are going out of business left and right. The economic meltdown isn’t just happening in America or the world for that matter; it’s affecting the Mushroom Kingdom as well.
We received an exclusive picture of Mario in distress and he’s contemplating ending it all, after reports of Nintendo’s profits dipping.
In all seriousness, I love how the artist, Jude Buffum, captured the platform Mario runs on as nothing more than buildings. Check out the full image after the break. Also, notice how he has no coins either, that’s pretty clever. (more…)
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By: Jon Christensen on July 30th, 2009 pm31 2:37 pm
If you didn’t know, Mario is a psychopath who is a mass murderer of turtles. The same can be said with his hatred towards living mushrooms, but that’s a whole other story. The testudines community in the Mushroom Kingdom, known as the Koopa Troopa, are so fed up with the turtle massacre, they called upon one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which is depicted in this drawing by theautumnsociety.
This fight is about to be epic.
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By: Jon Christensen on July 19th, 2009 pm31 10:47 pm
Okay, I have a fire hydrant pretty close to where I live. Could somebody please paint it like Mario? Thanks in advance.
Seriously, why isn’t there more fire hydrant art? It’s certainly pretty damn cool. Although, next time someone should paint the fire “Mario” suit on the hydrant. Ha get it? Ya, I know — lame.
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By: Derek Matias on June 2nd, 2009 am30 8:22 am
This morning Nintendo Everything posted some images of E3 banners with a black sheet over them. This is nothing out of the ordinary as publishers want to try to contain as much information as possibly to make the reveal that much more exciting. However you can almost see through these banners to see what appears to be a title on one banner and a Goomba and the Fire Flower that turns Mario into Fire Mario.
We wont know for sure if this is actually a Mario game until the show starts today but we will post anything we find out. Be sure to check back for updates on this and all other games coming out of this year’s E3.
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By: Jon Christensen on April 21st, 2009 pm30 1:41 pm
If you don’t know by know, JJ Abrams is amazing. From Lost to Cloverfield to his future projects like Star Trek, for the most part everything he touches turns into gold. The writer/director wrote a fantastic editorial called, “The Mystery of Magic,” for Wired. The article deals with how the mystery in storytelling is incredibly important and how the age of spoilers can ruin the art. Not only does Abrams’ opinion deal with movie making, but parallels it with the journey of life itself. One of the cool examples he uses, is his own adventure of trying to beat Super Mario Bros. 2, with his best friend — and how they ‘cheated’ to get there. Here is a quick snippet of the article:
“We were obsessed freaks. For us, getting to the end screen of that game was more important than anything in the history of time. And this particular game was lacking a certain feature I like to call The Ability To Fucking Save (or TATFS). This meant that playing Super Mario Bros. 2 was an all-or-nothing activity. Yeah, you could pause it, but then when you left your house the thing might catch fire and kill people. No, you had to play that damn thing in one hideous sitting.”
Again, its a great read, and its always good to see a successful (and awesome) Hollywood celebrity talk about video games in good light.
Oh, and I pray the day will come when we will see Mr. Abrams dip his hand into the video game industry.
Read the full editorial here.
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By: Jon Christensen on April 8th, 2009 am30 5:24 am
Gege-Crochet created this awesome Super Mario Bros. crocheted blanket. The level of detail is pretty incredible and looks almost exactly like the NES classic title. Crochet wrote on her blog, about the technique she used to design the blanket:
“There is no pattern that I followed. I searched the internet for screen shots of SMB and then used them for the map I had in my head. There is no ‘master graph’ for any of the panels, much less for the entire project. The most involved panel was the battle scene and is the only one I drew out. I have absolutely no intention of creating a graph of my entire work; however, there may be a time when I decide to make a graph of a panel or two…..dunno when/if that will happen, though.”
Yes. She has more talent than you!
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By: Jon Christensen on March 24th, 2009 pm31 7:09 pm
What happens when Mario is placed in a unforgivable predicament? He acts like every other old pissed-off Italian guy. You have to wonder if Mario is starting to think Princess Peach just isn’t worth the hassle.
Every time he rescues her, she better be giving up something — and you know exactly what I mean!
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By: Jon Christensen on March 24th, 2009 pm31 1:24 pm
After watching this old 80s service announcement, it would appear that Mario had our backs when we were kids. In the clip, Mario, who is played by Cpt. Lou Albano, pleaded with us not to do drugs. Although, I find it hypocritical because isn’t Mario the one who eats mushrooms to get ‘bigger,’ because he’s trying to save the princess of a land called Mushroom Kingdom, from an evil dragon?
“I learned it from you MARIO!”
[Thanks Ken]
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By: Jon Christensen on February 16th, 2009 am28 1:34 am
I’ve sometimes wondered, what happens when to the Mushroom Kingdom when Mario runs out of lives? Apparently he turns into a torn-apart flesh eating zombie, devouring everything that he comes across (stay away Princess Peach!). Well, at least the guys over at singlesecond thinks so, because they designed a shirt that has a large undead mario, eating away at a 1up mushroom on the front. Very cool looking, but yet disturbing at the same time — mostly because Mario is a childhood idol of mine. And seeing your Idol as a zombie feels well…kinda wrong!
The shirt is selling for only $16 and is available from a medium-XXL.
On a side note — how cool would a zombie inspired Mario game be!? It would be better than Mario Sunshine, am I right?
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By: Jon Christensen on February 2nd, 2009 am28 2:04 am
I think Super Mario Sunshine could easily be one of the worst Mario games to date. I felt the game mechanics was just like Mario 64, but it just added the gimmicky F.L.U.D.D. water gun thingy. It wasn’t a bad game by any means, it just didn’t have the innovation that the other Mario games always seem to include when a new one was released.
But apparently someone decided to make a F.L.U.D.D. because it was spotted somewhere in the world. Like a real life one…and yes I want one. Even though it sucked in the game, it looks mighty damn fun in real life.
I wonder if the guy riding it thinks he can clean the polluted earth!?
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By: Derek Matias on February 1st, 2009 am28 12:03 am
File this one under ‘Best Dad Ever’. AustralianGamer.com‘s author Aj and his wife are expecting a new baby boy. Both being gamers, they came to the decision to paint a Mario themed mural on the walls. The project took about two weeks and cost around $100 between paint, brushes, and tape. Be sure to check out Aj’s post to learn his process and to see some photos of the mural being painted.
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By: Jon Christensen on December 29th, 2008 pm31 10:11 pm
I’m not really sure what to think about this video. It simply makes no damn sense. Maybe that’s why I freaking love it. It looks like someone hacked Microsoft’s Minesweeper and somehow made a music video of our favorite video game plumber, Mario.
My friends, is someone being super bored. Thank you who ever did it…
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By: Jon Christensen on November 4th, 2008 am30 1:59 am
At the end of Comedy Central’s the “Daily Show,’ host Jon Stewart was chatting with Steven Colbert via split-screen. At the end of their discussion, Stewart wanted to convince the young people of America to stop playing Super Mario and vote,”Every four years we hear about your vote rocking powers and every four years you stay home and play Super Mario. Not this time!” Stewart said.
Steven Colbert who plays a conservative talk show hosts using satire replied with, “The only plumber you should be thinking about this election is the one trying to save princess Israel,” Referring to Joe ‘The Plumber.’
Little do they know, if Gears of War 2 came out today — I wouldn’t be saving the world from Locust and letting the rest of the country do the voting. But I guess since we all have to wait until Friday to purchase the game, I’ll just vote…
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