This is a trailer for the upcoming (April 7th, 2023) animated The Super Mario Bros. Movie being released by Nintendo and animation studio Illumination. It looks promising, and features an all-star voice cast including Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, and Fred Armisen. But

This is a video of Svetlana and Benni of Youtube channel KamuiCosplay building a replica of Majora’s Mask, complete with light and sound effects. They do a remarkable job. Speaking of Majora’s Mask — it took me until college to wrap my mind around the gameplay and finally attack and

This is a video of musician Scott Bradlee performing a delightful ragtime medley of Super Mario songs originally written by Nintendo composer Koji Kondo. I love ragtime music, it’s so upbeat. And I need that because I’m usually downbeat. And browbeat. And just beat in general. I could use a

This is a video of Adam Hillman revealing an 8-bit Mario sprite by arranging M&Ms in a Mario-shaped pattern, then adding water so the candy’s colored coating bleeds into the water. How about that. I was so inspired I decided to do the same thing except instead of Mario I

This is a video of software engineer Greg Cannon demonstrating the capabilities of StackedRabbit, a NES Tetris playing artificial intelligence system he developed that plays the game with no human reaction time limitations and at 60Hz, making movements as fast as the game allows. In this particular scenario, it also

Ever wondered what Super Mario 64 would look like with random values added to every vertices? Well boy are you going to be able to sleep well tonight, because this a video of exactly that! I guess sometimes dreams really do come true. Especially the one about me waking up

This is a video of Konami’s Contra Returns (an updated mobile version of the classic Contra) reimagined in real life by devinsupertramp with a fair amount of production value. I mean this isn’t just some kid running around in the backyard with a broken vacuum for a machine gun yelling

In news that makes me sick to my stomach I didn’t spend all my newspaper route and lawn mowing profits as a kid stockpiling Nintendo games and keeping them mint in their packaging, a 9.8 graded copy of Super Mario 64 just sold for a staggering $1.5 million at auction,