Retro gamer? “Punk’s not dead!” your battle cry? Brazilian artist Billy Butcher will make your day. Heck, he will give you something to smile about the entire week! He calls his recent work “The Sid & Nancy Nintendo Lost Levels”, but the main thing ringing in my head after taking a look at his illustrations [...]
How to Get Married the Super Mario Way
Posted on October 20, 2011 Written by 1 Comment
Talk about a cool couple getting together to produce even cooler offspring. (We hope!) Even a blind person can see that that is a Super Mario wedding invitation! Now don’t get overexcited – although I would totally understand if you do get all worked up. After all, with all the boring and sickeningly sappy wedding [...]
Mario Brothers and Classic WWF Wrestlers Mashup
Posted on July 21, 2011 Written by Leave a Comment
Mario Brothers and Classic WWF Wrestlers. If you get even remotely excited at the prospect of seeing a mashup featuring these two, then you are probably from the same era I am. I still remember being thoroughly excited by the prospect of playing Super Mario with my cousins – a rare treat allowed by my [...]
Super Mario RPG World Map
Posted on April 14, 2011 Written by 1 Comment
Are you bored with your current wallpaper? Or maybe you’re looking for a piece of art that you want to print out and hang in your bedroom wall. If you’re a Super Mario fan, specifically a Super Mario RPG fan, I just might have something for you to consider. DeviantArtist ihateyouare has created a humongous [...]
Super Mario with realistic sound effects
Posted on March 10, 2011 Written by Leave a Comment
OK so here’s something to add to your daily dose of strange. I’ve seen Super Mario done live, seen it done in stop motion .. what else hasn’t been done? Well this is how Super Mario would sound like if it were dubbed with sound effects from a first person shooter: you can recognized bits [...]
8-Bit Terrariums Inspired by Videogames
Posted on February 22, 2011 Written by Leave a Comment
Last year November I wrote about Jude Buffum’s pixel art; Yoshi: Tastes Like Chicken. These pixel arts showed characters form Super Mario as consumable meats. Yoshi and Koopa amongst other where dissected with information on what and how to eat their parts. This year for Game Over IV an upcoming show at Giant Robot San [...]
When Video Games Addiction Turns Into Hallucinations
Posted on November 16, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
I bet all of you who played or play a lot of video games, still have the music and sounds stuck in your head. I used to play Mario Bros. so much as a kid that I dreamed about the game regularly. Not much fun when you are seven years old and the dreams includes [...]
Cool Super Mario tattoos but a nail cut wouldn't be misplaced either
Posted on August 5, 2009 Written by 2 Comments
I regularly post about weird tattoos over at frankylicio.us but this awesome and totally original set of tattoos of Mario and Luigi certainly will make the heart of every geek out there beat faster.I imagine these ink pieces must have been very hurtful but the result is awesome. If it weren’t for the state of [...]
Mario with different mustaches and playing with his son
Posted on June 13, 2009 Written by 2 Comments
How would Super Mario look if he had Asterix’, Hercule Poirot’s or George Michael’s mustache? Or even with the mustache of Burt Reynolds or Clark Gable?