Almost every day something new and geeky finds its way to an Etsy store and often it’s difficult to keep up with all new awesome items on Etsy – or we think they’re cool but just not cool enough. This time though, user SceeneShoes caught my attention with a serious of handmade bras aimed at old-skool gamers and 8bit nostalgics. SceeneShoes has more 8bit items in store for Mario and Pokémon fans. Read more »
I’m sure you’ve seen those awesome “untooned” images, where some talented digital artist created a photo-realistic version of a famous cartoon character, depicting what they would look like if they existed in real life. Here’s a collection of the very best of the best. Read more »
The most blissful minute-and-a-half you’ll experience all day is just ahead. It sets a new standard in awesome. Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be Mario in Super Mario Bros.? To run through his side-scrolling world from a first-person perspective, jumping over the pipes and bricks, and living inside Mario’s hyper-realistic, brightly-colored life? Brandon Laatsch, of the podcast Face Rocker, is the talented animator who created — from scratch — this amazing look inside the classic Nintendo game. He used rendering and animation software including 3dsMax, FumeFX, and After Effects to bring it to life. It reportedly took more than sixty hours across three weeks to Read more »
Simple is beautiful. Forget the ornate. Some things are so stark that they become wonderful to behold. Now I don’t know if you buy into that way of thinking, but the chances are that you will not be able to ignore what this dude has done with the classic Mario. Read more »
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if the video game characters Mario and Pac-Man wound up in the same game together… wonder no more! This clever little hand-drawn short film shows exactly who would come out on top if these two icons were to go head-to-head. Read more »
Let’s begin with the definition of a speedrun first. A speedrun is a play-through, or recording thereof, of a video game performed with the intent of completing it as quickly as possible, optionally under certain prerequisites, mainly for the purposes of entertainment and competition. Wikipedia Throughout my 25+ years of gaming I have tried a number of speedruns, but have succeeded in exactly zero of them. To accomplish a speedrun not only do you need patience and a thorough understanding of the game’s mechanics, but you also need a bit of memorization and actually be GOOD at video games. Now we are all good at games, but this kind of Read more »
While doing my regular trawl through geeky craft sites, I found these woolly tributes to Pac-Man and Mario. Pac-Man Ghosts Read more »
Here’s a great wall clock decorated with twelve different images of Mario, charting his evolution from the extremely pixelated early years to his current higher definition state — after all, he’s been around for quite some time so he’s certainly seen some changes in hardware capabilities. Read more »
So now we know what Mario looks like with different moustaches, it’s time to combine our love for the Italian-American plumber and USB with these Mario themed memory sticks. All with 4GB storage, we have Mario, Shroom, Goomba, Koopa, and the Mario question mark (which is actually a USB extender). There used to be a Luigi too, but perhaps he got sold. Read more »
The awesomest about this Lego Super Mario, by Keith Brogan, is not only that Mario is made out of Legos and huge (75cm high), but also the whole procedure to get there. A 3D wireframe of Mario? W00t! Read more »
