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 It’s a game where the guy from Kung-Fu has been replaced by He-Man.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.
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.
Donkey Kong 3 is kind of the black sheep of the Donkey Kong series. It has a guy named Stanley squirting bug spray up Donkey Kong’s nether regions in an attempt to protect his flowers.
But someone else apparently had heard of this game and decided to replace Donkey Kong and his insect minions with robots, and Stanley with a little lizardy guy.
And for a bit of a different look, I’ve compared both of these games side-by-side
It’s kind of cut off at the beginning, but this game was supposedly hacked by someone called “Grimlick”, which makes me think that these guys are supposed to be Transformers of some kind, but I’m not up enough on my lore to know if that’s accurate.
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.
“These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80’s created by Atari, Centuri and Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while I played the games. By recording each second of an entire game on one frame of film, I captured complex patterns not normally seen by the eye.”
In the huge number of games Mario appeared in, I never got the impression that he was anti-hippie. Good thing this game turned up and made me all the wiser.
I don’t really know why Mario has bottles full of microscopic hippies, or what’s in those mysterious capsules that’s making them die, but if I stopped to ask questions like that, I probably wouldn’t have kept playing this thing.
You’ll notice that I start falling apart toward the end of the second round. That’s because the bizarro symbols that the viruses have been metamorphosed into are harder to see than the single-colors that they used to be.
Ah well.
