The Mario the better

Two Super Mario Brothers videos for you. First, a fight scene Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill with Mario sound effects. Next, a race between two master Mario players to finish playing the entire game. Amazingly, it takes both players only about 6 minutes, and the assembled audience loves every moment of it. For more Mario fun see Liz Berg's posting of a cappella Mario music and Mario music performed by an orchestra.

Comments

[Kenzo (lastever.org / kenzodb.com)]

Funny, I was going to post the Mario race last week, but got distracted by the marathon.

Look: Faster-than-possible game of Super Mario Bros.

Also: Super Mario hack

[Guest]

Check out this mario bros. theme performed before an awed audience on a "sitar" (actually a Chapman stick). Here's one blog post with links:

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/mario/mario-theme-song-on-a-sitar-142652.php

OR check out the Mario Opera:

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/mario-opera/video-the-mario-opera-157378.php

[\_escarpment]

Mario medley for the piano:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neAiLZcy8Qk&search=mario%20piano

[Dave]

That speed run commented about above ("Faster-than-possible-game"...) has a hidden gem. In Level 5-1, Mario shoots fireballs in time with the music. It is really something to see.

[sc123]

I find it amazing how obsessed people remain with Mario Bros. If you ask me, it's a well founded obsession. I Mario Bros.

[Guest]

I think I remember learning this once, but can someone tell me how to format posts on this blog for URLs, etc. It would be nice to have a real obvious link to a formatting guide while you're creating posts...hint, hint. (Or maybe it's there but just too obvious for me.)

[krup]

or the mario bros. mashup: Superlangalang (MIA - Galang vs Super Mario Theme Tune):

http://www.josh-console.co.uk/v3/tunes.html

(scroll down to the bottom)

[Krys O.]

Use html to make your URL links active:

Paste the URL between the quotation marks and between these two carats ><

[Krys O.]

Ack, my html example didn't show up above. Instead of ( replace with

(a href="")(/a)

[Krys O.]

Oy, the little carat symbol still won't show. It's the shift characters on comma and period. Please drive through.

[Guest]

Thanks Krys O.!
Testing
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[Dmitriy]

Mario Matrix
http://uploads.ungrounded.net/157000/157388_supermarioreloaded_ks.swf

[Kenzo (lastever.org / kenzodb.com)]

Mario's everywhere!

See this screenshot (from the maps screenshot page of the Sven Co-op Half-Life modification).