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Be Honest, Did You Know About This Mushroom-Saving Super Mario Bros. Trick?
Because I DEFINITELY did. 1000%. The global gaming community is collectively squinting at screens and rocking back in their chairs after the spotlighting of what is, apparently, one of the most obscure tricks in the history of classic gaming. Demonstrated on X by user @tyousameYSK, the trick in question pertains to the original NES release of Super Mario Bros. and its quintessential power-up: The Super Mushroom. tyousameYSK's clip depicts Fun Guy Mario finding a fungi Super Mushroom in the legen
"The Blood Drained From My Face" - 97 Copies Of Never-Before-Seen Super Mario Bros. Variant Found In Wisconsin Retro Store
"Something was strange about these cartridges". Super Mario Bros. might be one of the most famous and best-selling video games of all time, but, as recent auctions have shown, copies of it can fetch insane prices if the stars align. You can imagine, then, why the discovery of 97 copies of a previously unseen variant of the game would cause such a commotion – and that's exactly what happened to Nintendo Wire's Jason Ganos. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Feature: "I Was Making Fixes Right Up Until The Deadline" - The Story Of Hudson Soft's Bizarre Super Mario Bros. "Spin-Off"
"It was too much for the specs we had available, and I think it was hard to play". One of my favourite things as a lover of retro games is coming across lesser-known versions of popular games, particularly obscure ports and reimaginings that may have never been released in the West. So, as you can imagine, when I came across Super Mario Bros. Special a few years ago (essentially a remix of the original Super Mario Bros. for Japanese computers), I found myself growing absolutely fascinated by thi
A "holy grail" copy of Super Mario Bros. has sold for $3m
A rare copy of Super Mario Bros. has been sold at auction for a record-breaking $3m USD.
Move Over, Alex Kidd! Here's Super Mario Bros. On The Sega Master System
Mamma Mia! Here's something you don't see every day: the Nintendo classic Super Mario Bros. running on the Sega Master System. For pretty obvious reasons (which we probably don't need to go into), Mario's original sidescrolling adventure was never officially ported to the Sega console back in the day. Read the full article on timeextension.com
"It's A Glitch That Makes Anything Possible" - Super Mario Bros. Gives Up Its Biggest Secret After 40 Years
"It's more so about the achievement of making it possible and solving it". Super Mario Bros., as we know, is now over 40 years old – so you'd expect every secret contained within the game's code to have been uncovered by this point. However, as reported by Polygon, a new glitch was recently found in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels which caused quite a kerfuffle. Twitter user @LuigiSidekick discovered that The Lost Levels crashes during a castle level – something which might not sound all that