Tuper Tario Tros. Puts A Little Tetris In Your Mushroom Kingdom [Hot Flashes]

A mash-up of Super Mario Bros. and Tetris should—or at least could—be the best video game of all time, given how strong each title is independently. But is that marriage of gameplay styles enjoyable in practice? It certainly doesn’t make for a good name, but Tuper Tario Tros.—seriously!—at least makes for an interesting concept. The Flash-based game recreates most of Super Mario Bros. World 1-1, letting the player fill in the blanks and reach new heights by dropping tetriminoes from a Lakitu to build new platforms and drop mushrooms. Tuper Tario Tros. is a fun experiment, but after years of being conditioned to press the space bar to jump, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to play. But play it anyway. Tuper Tario Tros. [Newgrounds via Waxy ]

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Get Back In The Kitchen And Make Me Some Mushroom! [Screengrab]

Spotted this Super Mario Bros. /Legend of Zelda apron on Etsy today while searching for scarves and hats. I guess there’s nothing that absolutely forbids a guy from wearing it while he cooks — as long as he doesn’t mind lace.

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Get Back In The Kitchen And Make Me Some Mushroom! [Screengrab]

Let’s Tap — to Super Mario Bros. [Gotta Dance]

Super Mario Bros. is meant for tap-dancing, and I don’t mean on a Goomba’s head. Here’s Brentalfloss’s college buddy, C.K. Edwards – he appears in Billy Elliot on Broadway – whose dancing makes the theme sound all the more vaudeville. “Did you notice around :49 his tapping actually shook change off my desk and onto my floor?” writes Brentalfloss. Yes. All I can say is, I feel sorry for your downstairs neighbors, dude. Tap-Dancing the Super Mario Bros. Theme [YouTube via GoNintendo ]

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Let’s Tap — to Super Mario Bros. [Gotta Dance]

Let’s Tap — to Super Mario Bros. [Gotta Dance]

Super Mario Bros. is meant for tap-dancing, and I don’t mean on a Goomba’s head. Here’s Brentalfloss’s college buddy, C.K. Edwards – he appears in Billy Elliot on Broadway – whose dancing makes the theme sound all the more vaudeville. “Did you notice around :49 his tapping actually shook change off my desk and onto my floor?” writes Brentalfloss. Yes. All I can say is, I feel sorry for your downstairs neighbors, dude. Tap-Dancing the Super Mario Bros. Theme [YouTube via GoNintendo ]

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Let’s Tap — to Super Mario Bros. [Gotta Dance]

Let’s Tap — to Super Mario Bros. [Gotta Dance]

Super Mario Bros. is meant for tap-dancing, and I don’t mean on a Goomba’s head. Here’s Brentalfloss’s college buddy, C.K. Edwards – he appears in Billy Elliot on Broadway – whose dancing makes the theme sound all the more vaudeville. “Did you notice around :49 his tapping actually shook change off my desk and onto my floor?” writes Brentalfloss. Yes. All I can say is, I feel sorry for your downstairs neighbors, dude. Tap-Dancing the Super Mario Bros. Theme [YouTube via GoNintendo ]

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Let’s Tap — to Super Mario Bros. [Gotta Dance]

Let’s Tap — to Super Mario Bros. [Gotta Dance]

Super Mario Bros. is meant for tap-dancing, and I don’t mean on a Goomba’s head. Here’s Brentalfloss’s college buddy, C.K. Edwards – he appears in Billy Elliot on Broadway – whose dancing makes the theme sound all the more vaudeville. “Did you notice around :49 his tapping actually shook change off my desk and onto my floor?” writes Brentalfloss. Yes. All I can say is, I feel sorry for your downstairs neighbors, dude. Tap-Dancing the Super Mario Bros. Theme [YouTube via GoNintendo ]

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The Meaning Of Super Mario Clouds [Art]

The work of technology artist Cory Arcangel , a bit well-known for his Super Mario Bros. art/hack seven years ago, is part of an exhibit running in London. The artist reflected on what his Mario-with-just-clouds means, at least, to him. Speaking of “Super Mario Clouds,” he tells The Guardian’s Keith Stuart: “I knew that the clouds would be simple enough for people to latch on to, and I knew that in order to make art that dealt with technology, you had to, in a way, have the art not directly be about specific technologies. I mean, we think everyone played Nintendo, but really, hardly anybody played Nintendo. Now looking back on it all – it’s about… what do these pixelated clouds represent? It represents the whole progression of humans, communication and technology. But I couldn’t write that down. And it became a meme slowly. I put it up and it took years for people to see it, but it worked…” Art doesn’t have to mean anything (right?). But if you’d like to share your own thoughts on the work, have at it. And check the original article for more about Arcangel’s peers, influences and other works. The game of art: a profile of digital artist Cory Arcangel [The Guardian UK's Game Blog]

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The Meaning Of Super Mario Clouds [Art]

The Meaning Of Super Mario Clouds [Art]

The work of technology artist Cory Arcangel , a bit well-known for his Super Mario Bros. art/hack seven years ago, is part of an exhibit running in London. The artist reflected on what his Mario-with-just-clouds means, at least, to him. Speaking of “Super Mario Clouds,” he tells The Guardian’s Keith Stuart: “I knew that the clouds would be simple enough for people to latch on to, and I knew that in order to make art that dealt with technology, you had to, in a way, have the art not directly be about specific technologies. I mean, we think everyone played Nintendo, but really, hardly anybody played Nintendo. Now looking back on it all – it’s about… what do these pixelated clouds represent? It represents the whole progression of humans, communication and technology. But I couldn’t write that down. And it became a meme slowly. I put it up and it took years for people to see it, but it worked…” Art doesn’t have to mean anything (right?). But if you’d like to share your own thoughts on the work, have at it. And check the original article for more about Arcangel’s peers, influences and other works. The game of art: a profile of digital artist Cory Arcangel [The Guardian UK's Game Blog]

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Mario Theme: One-Hand Me, Good Sir! [Mario]

Here’s a virtuoso piano performance of the Super Mario Bros. theme – using one hand. If I’d remembered anything from my piano lessons beyond playing Old MacDonald on the black keys, I could probably describe how difficult this is. A commenter asks “Was that one hand for left AND right hand, or was it just a really intense right hand part?” and the artist, RigorMortis999 replies, “the former becoming the latter.” Good thing Mario didn’t run down to his final 100 seconds at the end. Mario Theme with One Hand Only [YouTube User RigorMortis999, thanks Isiah O.!]

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Mario Theme: One-Hand Me, Good Sir! [Mario]

Mario Theme: One-Hand Me, Good Sir! [Mario]

Here’s a virtuoso piano performance of the Super Mario Bros. theme – using one hand. If I’d remembered anything from my piano lessons beyond playing Old MacDonald on the black keys, I could probably describe how difficult this is. A commenter asks “Was that one hand for left AND right hand, or was it just a really intense right hand part?” and the artist, RigorMortis999 replies, “the former becoming the latter.” Good thing Mario didn’t run down to his final 100 seconds at the end. Mario Theme with One Hand Only [YouTube User RigorMortis999, thanks Isiah O.!]

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