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When put this way… Mario is just.. well, an awful guy.  After decades of goomba stomping, we have never stopped to consider just exactly what we were doing to Bowser’s stormtroopers – those waves of Koopa that swarmed the mushroom kingdom.  Top marks to the guy who created this gem of a series which points out how comical Mario would be in our world.

Did you know that Nintendo has been in operation for over a hundred years, they once produced vacuum cleaners, and their weaker than competition graphics are part of a core business strategy?

All that and lots of F-bombs in this video!

Here’s two goodies in one. Enjoy Super Mario Bros as the wealthy must surely do (with live instruments instead of dreadful 8-bit sound), and check out the skillful entry into “glitch world” -1.

Amazingly after 30 years Super Mario Bros is still surprising us with new gameplay secrets. The latest treat is an unlimited 1UP trick caused by a glitch in the way beanstalks are generated.

Over the years, poor Mario has suffered more on-screen deaths than John Hurt. Now the Internet has gotten together to create even more mayhem in Mario’s life all over YouTube.

Read on to see how Mario tries to handle an errant Bullet Bill cannon, with hilarious results.

Speed demons rejoice! 200cc mode is coming with downloadable content on April 23.

As if the 50cc, 100cc, 150cc and mirrored 150cc speed levels weren’t slapstick enough, the new 200cc class promises to push your kart speeds to the extreme (extreme, at least, for go-karting).

It wasn’t long ago that Nintendo shut down the Mario Kart channel on the Wii. For all the hype out there for seeing Nintendo on mobile devices, anyone who has been living with the company’s handling of Internet and connected devices may have some second thoughts.

Can Nintendo deliver on its mobile promise better than it has on Wi-Fi Connect?

After seeing it done like this I wouldn’t want to play any other way.

The road to video game development is fascinating; we will never tire of hearing stories of hurdles faced by developers and the incredible solutions developers came up with to create the titles that shaped our youth. Nintendo in particular has an incredibly rich early history. Mario’s development is incredible, as is the supporting titles that made the company into a powerhouse in the early 1980’s.

IGN had a great article about some early decisions made about the first Mario Games…. some fascinating stuff from Mario’s early history.  Check it out!