Okay, I've known about Nintendo since its release in 1983. Believe me, while my friends were dating actual women, I was trying to save an 8-bit pixelated princess.
I am a huge Super Mario Bros fan. Always have been and always will be. It was a big part of my childhood--heck, my friends and I thought we were Mario and Luigi--so I put together this tribute song, You Give Me Sunshine.
We often hear about the evils of video games - how they make our kids anti social zombies. But a new study has found that kids who play video games are happier and more social. Wait...what?
What happens when you swap the sound effects and music from Mike Tyson's Punch Out and Mega Man 2 for the NES? Pure, sparkling, awesomeness.
Also, this may be the nerdiest thing I have ever made.
Except for this, the first video in the SoundSwap series featuring Mario and The Legend of Zelda...
Summer is rolling along and the heat is on! For the first few weeks of Summer Break with the kids we would send them outside for hours each day to play - but now it is too hot to so we have to let them in to cool down.
Um, I'm certainly no genius or anything, but I mean, I thought I was a relatively accomplished person... until this came out. It's a FUNCTIONAL Nintendo (the old NES) controller that's also a coffee table. For a mere $3500 it can be yours!
The Russian block-matching puzzle game Tetris took the world by storm in the late 1980s when it was released on Nintendo's NES and Gameboy platforms. And we think we've found one of the best players around.
Well, color us impressed. Usually when we want to play Mario Kart, we spend thirty minutes looking for the Wii steering wheel, then just give up and re-watch the second season of 'Game of Thrones.' So, good for these guys! They've got enough initiative to make up for the rest of us...
Animals rights advocacy group PETA has issued a scathing criticism of beloved video game character Mario in the wake of the new Nintendo 3DS game ‘Super Mario Land 3D’ for powering-up by wearing a “Tanooki suit.”
Named for Tanukis, the raccoon dogs that have long held an important place in Japanese culture, Mario’s “Tanooki suit” has drawn the ire of PETA for promoting the wearing of fur.
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According to the 13,000 gamers who voted on the Guinness World Records’ website, Mario is the greatest video game character of all time.
The plumber with amazing leaping abilities edged out another Nintendo favorite, Link, from “Legend of Zelda,” for the top spot. All told, Nintendo had 11 characters among the top 50.
The survey was done for the book “Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Editio