MetaFilter posts tagged with games and mario

"It's a Secret to Everybody"

empath — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:26:00 -0800

"It's a secret to everybody" -- an unbelievably comprehensive blog post about the etymologies of the names of famous (and not-so-famous) video game characters.

Super Obama World

KokuRyu — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:27:54 -0800

Super Obama World

The most moving Super Mario-inspired song.

PM — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:54:16 -0800

Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is in Another Castle. John Darnielle (of the Mountain Goats) and Kaki King perform a song, sung from the point of view of Toad from the Super Mario Brothers video game franchise.

Genocide of the Marios

JHarris — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:44:18 -0800

Remember Super Mario Frustration? Kaizo Mario World is another of those super-hard Mario level hacks, this one of Super Mario World. Someone played through its first level 134 times, with save states, recording all his deaths, then digitally composited them into one trip through the level. The result was Many-Worlds Mario. (For those interested, here's a video of a tool-assisted perfect run of much of the game. Here's the rest. Here's some more.)

Useless/Amazing Nintendo Tool/Toys

BlackLeotardFront — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:49:12 -0800

Metroid Cubed...Squared! It was linked a couple years ago, but since then the site has undergone a major overhaul and added a bunch of cool stuff. [Flash Warning] In addition to the now classic voxel 2.5D conversion of Metroid (playable and interesting), there is now a robust Metroid world-editor, a Marble Madness-like prototype using the voxel engine, a StarFox level editor and model viewer (Spoiler: gfx not as good as you remember), and numerous others worth checking out: Hyrule Planetoids (comme Le Petit Prince) and a OpenGL Zelda room viewer, a Mario 64 Explorer, and numerous Super Mario Bros demos. It's all quite useless/amazing.

Mario64 in 16 easy steps

knave — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:59:26 -0800

Friday Youtube Fun: How to beat Mario 64 in under 22 minutes (and only 16 stars). [previously]

Good enough to cease 'n' disist

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:37:57 -0800

Mario Adventure - SMB3 hacked into an entirely new high-quality game

It's just a theory!

Lockeownzj00 — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:21:52 -0800

The evolution of handhelds, the evolution of the game controller, the many stages of Shenmue; hell, even the evolution of Mario.
It would seem everyone but the far-right is evolving these days.

xoc - SMW

Pretty_Generic — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:46:03 -0800

SMW - The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments. Roughly in game order, faithful to the originals, with some bizarre artistic license thrown around. A private hobby made public. Dedicated to Koji Kondo.

Super Mario Bolsheviks

StephenV — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:37:53 -0800

Was Mario some Communist propaganda? "If anything can be said about Mario, it is that he seems to wear quite a bit a red . It’s on his name, it’s the color of his suspenders, his super mushrooms, his flag, even his hat." He does kinda look like an 8-bit Stalin, but a more important question must be asked: "Is Mario a drug pusher?"

Super Mario Bros. 3 in 11 Minutes!

patgas — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:00:12 -0800

Mario in the News A Japanese person (cannot translate the name, sorry) has completed the classic NES game Super Mario Bros. 3 in just over 11 minutes. Fortunately he recorded it for posterity. (uses Windows streaming video.) Speed runs have been gaining in popularity lately. What game would you like to see abused in such as fashion?