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With a Mario Marriage Proposal This Super, How Could He Say No?
“Will you be my player two?” More beautiful words between two gamers have never been spoken. Offbeat Bride tribesmaid Kaharaminttu raised the phrase to new levels of sweetness with this creative coin box proposal to her husband-to-be. When Kaharaminttu’s “mancreature” told her that he felt it was silly that society always expected the man to…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Mario’s Ghosts Just Can’t Handle the Real Thing
In the colorful world of Nintendo’s Mario franchise even the tortured spirits of the undead are cute and cuddly. Let’s see how they react to a real restless torture spirit. Well that didn’t go well. This is why you never hire someone supremely overqualified for the position. They’ll do the job so well it never…
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The 120 Stars of Super Mario 64
deviantART artist kitsovereign created an awesome montage of the 120 stars of Super Mario 64. Meaning each star mission, represented visually here. After making its rounds on the Internet, this Reddit user decided to partition and categorize them by mission. For ultimate nerdiness. And factiness. Check them out down below. Don’t forget to expand both…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Bowser is a Horrible Father
When I was a kid my dad would pick me up to spend the weekend at the house of whichever girlfriend he was living with at the time. It wasn’t pleasant, but at least he didn’t make me guard the airship from Mario. Super Mario Bros. 3 is a legendary game, but it didn’t do…
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Winning Mario Party 9 by Doing Absolutely Nothing
How hard is it to win Mario Party 9 against computer opponents? If you set the AI difficulty to easy, you don’t even need to touch the controller. This video might be a month and a half old, but I’ve been watching it and laughing all morning, so I’d say that’s worth something. YouTube user…
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Nintendo’s Bringing New Wii U Pikmin and Mario to E3 [Update]
With Nintendo expected to make a big push with its next generation hardware at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June, legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto tells Spanish publication El Mundo that his plumber pal and plant lackeys will be there in full force. Fans anxiously awaiting a new entry Miyamoto’s quirky strategy series Pikmin look…
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Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Battle: The Hunger Games Versus Mario Teaches Typing?
This one was just too easy. I mean, who hasn’t imagined the characters from Suzanne Collins’ young adult novels interacting with the disembodied Mario head of Mario Teaches Typing 2? Fan fiction author Pantsamander wrote this story back in 2010, so let’s dismiss the idea that this is a shameless ploy to cash-in on two…
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The Dorkly Weekly: Toad is a Lying, Cheating Bastard
Toad was supposed to be Mario’s friend, right? Then why doesn’t he just give Mario what he needs instead of making him play his twisted games? Seriously, Mario is on a quest to rescue the princess, Toad has boxes filled with power-ups, and Mario only gets to pick one? I mean, I guess that works…
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Hunger Games Stud Can’t Shake Off the Super Mario Theme
At the end of a nearly 13 minute interview, Peter Travers, the eminent film critic from Rolling Stone asks Josh Hutcherson, who plays Peeta in current box office smash The Hunger Games to sing the song currently on his mind. OK, Hutcherson says, just one problem: The song has no lyrics. For some reason, the…
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Is Super Mario Bros. History’s Greatest Masterpiece of Surrealism?
The surrealism of Super Mario Bros. would seem to be self-evident but, as PBS’ Idea Channel on YouTube says, perhaps it has been around for so long that its non sequiturs are taken for normal. Its wide acceptance (and a catalog of work spanning more than two decades) may make the Super Mario Bros. franchise…
By Owen Good
