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I swore I wasn’t going to get one…

Cameron — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:40:48 +0000

…But now I’m going to have to. A stupid official Nintendo video from there Youtube page has just sold a 3DS, probably a whole lot of them. Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton in a game collaborated by Level 5 and Capcom The developers of the two games. Together. In the same game.

A Youtube comment sums this up batter than I ever could:

“ I JUST CAME WITH THE FORCE OF A THOUSAND SUNS! Borikuaedu3991 “

That is all.

Strange Super Mario Bros. 3

Will — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:25:54 +0000

For every good hack, there are dozens of bad ones. Like this hack of Super Mario Bros. 3 where the levels are changed around to produce blind drops, vomit-inducing colors, and lots of frustration.

I don’t do so well at it.

Castlevania: Orchestra of Despair

Will — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:00:59 +0000

Okay, altering the graphics of Mario games? Yeah, they’re occasionally pretty hilarious, but maybe you want more. Okay, how about a Castlevania game that has had the graphics redone and the levels changed around?

What would you think of that?

Galaga Trek

Will — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:14:59 +0000

Let’s step away from Mario games for a moment and go to the old-school shoot ‘em ups, specifically, what Galaga might look like if the ship in the game were replaced with the Enterprise from Star Trek for some reason.

It might be a better show if I didn’t suck so bad at this game, but I never claimed to be good at Galaga… or Star Trek.

Mario Wish All

Will — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:00:01 +0000

I don’t really know what to say about this game, Mario turns into a half-car hybrid, pipes get converted into houses, and fireballs turn into tiny stick figures. Plus lots of other small touches. I can’t even begin to fathom this thing.

I love it.

Super Abe Bros

Will — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:00:24 +0000

Most of the ROM hacks I come across are just plain old Super Mario Bros. with some kind of skin on top of Mario and pals. But occasionally I’ll run across a game that’s something else… like Super Mario Bros. 3 with a different skin on it. Like Mario and Luigi dressed up like Abraham Lincoln.

Yeah, all that stuff.

Pac-Quest

Will — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:42:54 +0000

Continuing our journey down the sometimes twisted world of ROM hackery, this week I bring you a game where Pac-Man must save Ms. Pac-Man from… some kind of wizardy vampire guy. I might not be up on my Pac-Man lore to know who he is, heck, I didn’t even really remember that Pac-Man having much lore.

Kung-Fu He-Man

Will — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:00:13 +0000

Continuing our journey down the sometimes twisted ROM hacks we have this… gem. It’s a game where the guy from Kung-Fu has been replaced by He-Man.

And, while I’m sure the other things in this game are supposed to be other characters from that universe and everything, I don’t recognize any of them.

And I still haven’t figured out why he doesn’t use that sweet sword when he’s beating these ninjas to death.

TIE Fighter

Will — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:00:30 +0000

This might hurt my geek score a little bit, but I wasn’t hugely into Star Wars. I like the series and everything, but I don’t get into discussions about who shot first, or that parsecs measure distance and not time, or stuff like that.

But someone out there liked the series enough to cram the characters from it into Super Mario Bros. And they replaced Mario with… a TIE fighter?

Uh, OK?

In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea for me to create a video where a character who’s almost monochrome black on a black background, but it makes the bizarro details stand out just a bit more, so it all balances out.

Mario Dragon

Will — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:00:59 +0000

Okay, so we’ve seen games where the Mario universe has been altered to look like other games, but what about where other universes are swapped around to look like Mario’s universe?

Well, we have those, too

Of course, I’m not really surprised Mario is such a brawler, I mean, he did make an appearance in all of the Smash Bros. games, after all.