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Super Mario Wonder is Already Playable in 4K/60 on PC Emulators
Well, there was plenty of talk about how Nintendo was going to introduce copy protection to prevent PC emulation, and they’ve either done that or done about as good a job as any other copy protection on gaming these days. Not only is the game already playable on PC with…
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Nintendo Reveals Mario Edition Red Switch OLED
Nintendo has today revealed a new Mario Red edition OLED Switch console. Nintendo Switch Mario Red Edition As shared on the Nintendo of America Twitter, Nintendo has today revealed a new Nintendo Switch sporting a bright red Mario theme which includes the body, the dock and joy-cons with a silhouette…
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Charles Martinet Steps Back From Voicing Mario After Nearly 3 Decades
The long-time voice actor for Mario has stepped down from his role voicing the popular video game character. Charles Martinet No Longer Voicing Mario Nintendo announced today on their Nintendo of America Twitter page that Charles Martinet will be moving on from voicing Mario to instead taking the role of…
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MarioGPT Using AI To Create Super Mario Levels
With all the various and interesting things people have been getting GPT2 AI to achieve and now making Super Mario levels is one of those things. Thanks to Shyam Sudhakaran, Miguel González-Duque, Claire Glanois, Matthias Freiberger, Elias Najarro and Sebastian Risi who have created MarioGPT an Open-Ended Text2Level Generation through…
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I’m Finally Celebrating MAR10 Day, and I’m only a Month Late!
It’s better to be late than never show up, right? Well, that’s pretty much how my day is going today. Sure, it would have made sense to hit this little feature up on March 10th, better known as MAR10 or MARIO day for Nintendo fans. However, some stock issues and…
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Super Mario 64 Sells For $1.56M at Auction!
You may recall that late last week it was confirmed that a brand new record had been set in the world of retro gaming with a rare copy of ‘The Legend of Zelda’ achieving $870,000 at auction. – Well, if you thought that that price was insane, then you’re going…
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Super Mario Bros Fan Edit Restores 20-Minutes of Deleted Scenes
Released back in 1993, Super Mario Bros (the film) wasn’t exactly a classic. If anything, it was perhaps one of the first major movie outings to start the long and semi-consistent tradition of game-to-film adaptations usually being pretty awful. – Don’t get me wrong, it’s certainly watchable and definitely enjoyable…
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Super Mario Bros Speedrun Achieves the Seemingly Impossible!
Back in 2018, speedrunner ‘Kosmic‘ set a new world record for Super Mario Bros of 4:55.913 in what was largely described as ‘the perfect run’. Ever since this was achieved though, many have debated whether it was humanly possible to get that time even lower! Of course, it was always…
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Sealed ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Sells For $660,000
It is certainly not uncommon for rare video games to command a significant price among hardcore collectors. You would, however, be forgiven for not considering the original ‘Super Mario Bros.’ released for the NES as such a title. In fact, I daresay you could probably pick up an original cartridge…
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Donkey Kong Easter Egg Discovered in Super Mario 64
Given that it’s been around 25 years since Super Mario 64 was released, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that practically every easter egg contained within it would’ve probably been discovered by now. After all, it is still widely played and a particularly popular title in the world of competitive…
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Boxed Copy of Super Mario Bros 3 Sells for $156,000
It’s hardly a secret that classic (or rare) video games can command a pretty hefty price tag these days. If anything, it kind of makes me relatively annoyed that, at the time of owning many of these now super-expensive titles, I treated the packaging a bit like I do now…
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FIFA 21 Glitch Sees Players Jumping Like Mario
With the release of FIFA 21 earlier this month, it’s not exactly surprising to find that it’s currently topping the vast majority of video game sales charts. Despite its (entirely expected) popularity though, that doesn’t mean to say that the game isn’t without its problems. Rather than something relatively mundane…
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Super Mario 3D All-Stars Pre-Orders Hit By Huge Stock Shortage
With Super Mario 3D All-Stars set to release on September 18th, for many Nintendo Switch owners, this is undoubtedly one of the biggest gaming releases left for the platform this year and, in a nutshell, we expect this to be hugely popular. Mario 64, Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy…
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Source Code Many Classic Nintendo Games Leaked Online
Nintendo took a beating when they were hacked. Lots of ultra-secret and super detailed information was stolen. Albeit, they haven’t owned up to exactly what. To make matters worse, they were kicked when they were down because it happened twice. We know that detailed console plans were taken, enough that…
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Sealed Copy of Super Mario Bros Sells for $114,000
It’s hardly any secret that there are some people out there who take retro-gaming very seriously and have, in the past, spent a significant amount of money on games we’ve all probably owned (at some point) and have since thrown in the bin or traded it in for around $5…
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