Super Mario Bros.

In Real Life

To-Do In Washington, DC: See Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter And GI Joe Invade In The Mushroom Kingdom In A CGI Art Exhibit

4:30AM January 28, 2012 | Evan Narcisse

What happens someone who grew up on the N64 makes art? You get Cammy, Sub-Zero and GI Joe rolling up on Mario’s stomping grounds in tanks. That’s part of what you’ll see in the premise of Jonathan Monaghan’s The Sacrifice of the Mushroom Kings, which is currently showing at the Curator’s Office gallery in Washington DC. More »


In Real Life

Mario Trades His Pistol For Fireballs In Updated ‘Real Life Super Mario Bros’

6:30AM January 11, 2012 | Kirk Hamilton

Filmmaker Andrew McMurry has posted this updated version of his last “Real Life Super Mario Bros. In the last version, Mario, played by McMurry’s brother, find himself up against a group of famous Mario enemies, eventually getting a “power-up” handgun and blowing away a bunch of poor defenceless Goombas. More »


Retro

A Day In The Life Of A Shy Guy

8:30PM December 23, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Clock on, office politics, clock off. Just another day in the life of one of the Mushroom Kingdom’s most adorable denizens. By, who else, Zac Gorman. More »


In Real Life

What Kinect For NES Might Have Looked Like

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12:30PM December 17, 2011 | Logan Booker

Technically, we use muscles all the time to control games (and express our anger at them, if you’re the gamepad-throwing type), but when’s the last time you strapped sensors to your pythons and fist-clenched Mario into stomping goombas? Probably never, unless you’re one of the soldering wizards at Advancer Technologies. More »


In Real Life

How That Mario Bathroom Got That Way

6:40AM October 20, 2011 | Evan Narcisse

Want to know how reader Liatte — a lawyer and aspiring Lego made her room of necessity themed around Nintendo’s iconic plumber? She’s been kind enough to answer a few questions about her Mario tribute bathroom and how she got it that way. More »


In Real Life

Dig The Warp Pipes In This Super Mario Bathroom

5:40AM October 20, 2011 | Evan Narcisse

Reader Liatte sent in pics of her Mario-adorned throne room and while I want to make all kinds of scatological jokes — King Poopa, Going to World 1-2; go ahead, make up your own — but I’m really just jealous. More »


In Real Life

Confronting The Eternal Question: Why Don’t Video Game Heroes Pee?

4:30PM September 15, 2011 | Owen Good

Note that I said “confronting”. I can’t say “answering” because that presumes there is a good reason for the absence of urinal faculties in Ryu, Mega Man and Princess Peach. And when we get to the end of this video by Gameboyardee, we are left with even more questions. More »


In Real Life

Tetris Art, Or, When Life Gives You An L-Piece, Use It To Create Luigi

8:00AM September 12, 2011 | Owen Good

There’s a guy out there who uses Tetris to create pixel art, and he just completed one of Luigi, nine months after a Mario effort that took 98 minutes start to finish. More »


In Real Life

Mario & Luigi Totally Killed It At The National Jitterbug Championships

9:40AM August 10, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

In the unlikely scenario that you missed this year’s National Jitterbug Championships, the good people at Camp Hollywood have you covered. Specifically, they have you covered on the Super Mario Bros/ Super Mario Bros Super Show! showcase that dazzled the jitterbugging crowds during the 2011 showcase. More »


In Real Life

Mario Is On An Unreal Engine Killing Spree

8:30PM August 1, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

This is the decidedly 8-bit World 1-1 from Super Mario Bros. rendered using the Unreal Engine, most commonly seen in games like Gears of War. More »