wonderlandblog.com - 3/7/2009
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Ain't this cute? I love it when someone makes an effort to go out and do something as quietly fantastic as this .
I wonder if it's the same person who made the pixellated water, again from one of those pipes ? (Thanks Mike!)
Off-Model Mario Madness
pressthebuttons.com 4/13/2009 — Whenever Nintendo's iconic Mario appears on box art or promotional material, he looks consistently correct, but that has not always been the case. For the first ten years or so of Mario's existence, artists with little knowledge of the world's most famous plumber found new, horrifying ...
Top 10 Real Life Lessons We’ve Learned From Video Games
old-wizard.com 1/29/2009 —
Spending 50% of our day playing video games must be for a reason. Beyond the pure enjoyment we get from playing the greatest games of all time, there are the endless amount of lessons we learned from the games. Who could have thought that ...
Mario: The Board Game [Mario]
kotaku.com 2/17/2009 — Ever wondered what Mario would have looked like had Nintendo stuck to their background in making games out of paper and cardboard instead of going all electronic? Wonder. No. More. This is "Mushroom Kingdom", by Ashley Buerkett. And no, it's not ...
Top 5 Super Mario Brothers Games
old-wizard.com 11/30/2008 — As with most old school gamers, the Super Mario Brothers games have been a staple part of our diet here at Old-Wizard.com since the days of our short pants. We grew up with Super Mario 1 on the NES, and twenty five some odd years later we’re ...
It's-a Mario World: Super Educational
nintendowiifanboy.com 11/15/2008 —
Greetings, Mario fanatics young and old! Finally, after innumerable requests and a handful of death threats, we are responding to high demand for a gallery wholly dedicated to educational Mario games. Awesome, let's learn ! So, what is it Mario ...
Super Mario All-Stars Finally Gets Patched
kombo.com 4/14/2009 — Well, it took far too long and didn't even come from Nintendo, but it would seem that Super Mario All-Stars finally got the patch it had coming. Everybody remembers the awesomeness that was playing all of the original immortal Mario classics from the ...
It's-a Mario World: Infuriating Items
nintendowiifanboy.com 12/13/2008 —
Let's make one point very clear from the onset: The Mario Kart series has thoroughly rocked our boxers since 1992. Despite some shortcomings we still have pretty high praise for Wii's latest iteration, and most fanboys agree that there currently ...
It's-a Mario World: Coin Heaven
nintendowiifanboy.com 12/6/2008 —
One of the first things we do Friday morning is pull out our huge Mario-themed dartboard from under the bed, blindfold ourselves, take a small sip of OJ, spin 2.5 times, then wildly toss sharp darts at what we hope is not anything expensive. When ...
The World Is Ready For An $11,000 Diamond Mario Pendant [Mario]
kotaku.com 2/13/2009 — Who said economic times are tough? Not the makers of this Mario pendant, who somehow feel that a global recession is just the right time to be launching a diamond-encrusted Mario pendant worth around $11,000. It stands 4.5" tall, and is coloured to ...
It's-a Mario World: Curious Costumes
nintendowiifanboy.com 11/6/2008 —
Costumes are an integral part of any proper Halloween celebration, and we didn't have it in our little video gaming hearts to exclude Dear Mario from today's internationally recognized festivities. This is because we are obsessively enamored with ...
Codemasters won't make lame Wii titles —
play.tm 3/4/2009
Focus on quality, says exec Speaking to MCV today, Codemasters big cheese Alex Bertie has assured people that Codemasters are hell-bent on avoiding "cheap, crappy" ports on the Wii console.
"You can't ignore Wii, but it's bewildering watching ...
Mario Galaxy wins BAFTA Game of the Year award —
D+PAD 3/11/2009
Super Mario Galaxy has been awarded Best Game of 2008 at this year’s video game BAFTAs, beating Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Fable 2, Fallout 3, Grand Theft Auto IV and Rock Band to the coveted award.
The video game ceremony, which took ...