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,

This is a clip from a player competing in a round of Mario Golf: Super Rush when their ball spins around the hole a full eight times before not going in, teasingly scorching the green as it spins. Now I’ve broken controllers before, but this would be the most broken

This is a composite video of Canadian speedrunner FlibidyDibidy’s attempt to race his way through Super Mario Bros. as quickly as possible over the course of a year. The video represents 193 hours of gameplay and 5,162 total attempts (keeping track of how many Marios have made it to the

These are several videos (one for each game) of Youtuber CodyCantEatThis (come on, just try it anyways) recreating the original Legend Of Zelda, Super Mario Bros., and Sonic The Hedgehog games in 3D environments. I would play that Zelda one so hard. “How hard?” SO HARD. Like *Googles hardest metals*

This is a video of Ukrainian duet the B&B Project performing the music and sound effects from Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 on bandura and accordion, with the guy on accordion performing the music, and the girl on bandura performing the sound effects. They do a great job. As great

This is a video discussing and demonstrating a method for rendering a much more photorealistic version of Grand Theft Auto V using an artificial intelligence powered convolution network that produces images frame-by-frame at speeds fast enough to be run at interactive (read: playable) rates. Some more info that’s so far

Because what good are driving simulators if you can’t actually get motion sickness, this is a video of Youtuber Mean Gene Hacks playing physics-based driving simulator BeamNG.drive with the lateral movement of his vehicle being translated via custom code and sent to his body via Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS, “the

This is a video of video game cover band Lame Genie covering the Mortal Kombat theme song, but with Gilbert Gottfriend on vocals (courtesy of a paid Cameo video), mispronouncing several of the characters’ names. You know, if the internet were a Youtube video it might very well be this