Tag Archives: Super Mario Brothers

Retro Video Games Mouse Pads and Ref Magnets

by Noemi Twigg
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Retro Video Games Mouse Pads and Ref Magnets

Last week, while I was combing the bazaars of Kuala Lumpur for little trinkets to take home as gifts, I came across tons of stuff that I suppose will delight many of our ForeverGeek readers. From Domo-kun plushies and shirts to Angry Birds key chains to Superman/Batman belts to geek-themed mouse pads – they were all over the place. I remember the last group of items particularly because I remember thinking to myself “Who uses mouse pads these days?” I’ve been wrong before, and I am probably wrong now. If DesignNoy’s Etsy Shop is any indication, people still do use mouse pads. What’s more, people pay for the mouse pads, Read more »

What if Super Mario Bros. Was an FPS?

by Robin Parrish
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What if Super Mario Bros. Was an FPS?

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 »

Ridiculous Super Mario Brothers Level, Mario Keeps Getting Better [Video]

by James Johnson
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Ridiculous Super Mario Brothers Level, Mario Keeps Getting Better [Video]

It’s one thing to create a super hard level for Super Mario Brothers (not the hardest I’ve seen, but still pretty hard), it’s another thing all together to create a level full of glitches and then to figure out how to defeat that level from one point to the next, but that’s exactly what we have in this fan created level for the popular Nintendo game. I should mention, this level was probably defeated with TAS (Tool-Assisted Speedrun) technology, however even if the game is essentially playing itself, the creator still had to design the hacked level and then show the computer how to run through to the end which Read more »