This is a visualization bar-charting the best selling video game consoles worldwide from 1978 – 2022. The Atari 2600 was the heavyweight early on, but then Nintendo came along and tore the gold medal right off its neck with the NES and Game Boy. Eventually, the Playstation 2 would take

This is a video of Quint the tuxedo cat unknowingly becoming a boss battle in Metroid: Other M after he decided to sit in front of the television. I can’t even tell you how many times one of my cats has decided to stand on the entertainment center in front

This is a video created by Youtuber Udge (like Ike Udge?!) reimagining the Donkey Kong gang in the opening title sequence for King Of The Hill. It was surprisingly well made — far better than anything I could have created, but I get frustrated at the drop of a hat

Proving that pretty much anybody would make a just as good if not better version of Mario than Chris Pratt, this is a video of impressionist Brock Baker (fingers crossed friends call him BB) imagining a bunch of other actors delivering the “It’s a me, Mario!” line. Selections include Nicholas

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