Do you remember the Super Mario Bros. Super Show?  Of course you do.  Anyone who had an NES and a pulse watched that show religiously back in the day.  They ignored the fact that the plot lines were contrived fairy tale/movie/whatever parodies of the week simply because it was Mario in cartoon form ( Read more... )

I haven't really been paying attention to coverage on New Super Mario Bros. Wii.  This isn't because I'm uninterested in the game, quite the opposite really.  Nintendo had me the moment they said "four-player Mario co-op," so really there was nothing more previews could offer me.  At best they would simply reaffirm that I had to get this game, and ( Read more... )

While I frequently mention how I like video games at this blog, I don't talk often talk about video game music specifically.  The short version is: I like it a lot.  When I first tried using P2P clients, the initial thing I searched for was music from Metroid.  When I first discovered OverClocked ReMix, I went crazy downloading songs.  Heck, many ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again, when gamers turn their gaze towards California in hopes of seeing something spectacular.  I am talking about E3 ( Read more... )

Some time ago, a group and programing-oriented Mario fans created a Lau script for NES emulator FCEUX.  Said script gave you mouse control in the original Super Mario Bros.  That might not seem impressive at first, but the script also allowed you to do crazy things with the mouse.  Things like picking up a turtles shell and carrying it with you ( Read more... )

Earlier in the month, I talked at length about the original Super Mario Land for Game Boy.  The funny thing is what I wrote then was not what I originally planned to write.  My original version gushed a bit more about the game, and the only reason I didn't end up posting it is I say a post somewhere else that unfairly trashed the game ( Read more... )

In the early days on the Internet, all it took to impress people was a video of you playing the Super Mario Bros. on a real instrument.  Today's Internet goers are still as easily entertained now as they were then, but the difference is now that they've seen it before it no longer impresses them.  Now in order to impress people with a version of ( Read more... )