Super Mario Bros. Message Board

Super Wine Glass: listen to this neat rendition of the Super Mario Bros. theme song, played on a ton of wine glasses and a frying pan. (Via Dan Newbie)Read more...

The newest Pete Holmes comedy video poses a question we've all thought about: what if Mario were more realistic? The answer is gruesome and tragic. R.I.P.Read more...

The best examples of box art tend to be those with a timeless design. Those you can look at ten, twenty, even thirty years later and say, yup, that still looks amazing. Super Mario Bros. is one such game.Read more...

Here is a full-screen version of Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 on several computer monitors. Just look at it all scrolled out before you. Do it!Read more...

What would happen if you mashed up Mario and Seinfeld? Well, something like this, probably.Read more...

It's always amazing to see people take a game, turn it inside out and bend it to their whims. Mario is no different, particularly when it's beaten with the lowest score possible.Read more...

These days it can feel like half the internet is made up of video game reviews. That wasn't always the case—after the video-game crash of the 1980s, there were so few video game publications that one of the most important games of all time was barely reviewed at all.Read more...

"There's always a man, always a flagpole, always a Princess..."Read more...

First 4 Figures and Nintendo are launching a new series of Mario statues, and what better version of of the iconic Italian than the one that's already halfway there? Gotta love the old Tanooki suit. Read more...

Apparently this went down at this year's GamesCom in Germany. 974 people played a custom Super Mario Bros. time trial level, then all the runs were collected and played over the top of each other in a single video.Read more...

It’s okay if you didn’t even know that there was a rock opera based on Nintendo’s most popular character. The Mario Opera has only ever played once and that was eight long years ago. It’s coming back next week but you’ll need to be in New York City to see it. Read more...

Now, there's nothing wrong with the original Super Mario Bros. It's a classic. Still, I can't help but gush over this "modern" take on the game by Deloix; it manages to bring Mario to 2013 without completely shedding its retro roots.Read more...

Princess Rescue—that homebrew Atari 2600 homage to Super Mario Brothers—is now available through AtariAge as a $30 cartridge. An emulator ROM is on its way too.Read more...

It is my personal opinion that Black Thought is one of the best rappers to ever step to the mic. You may disagree. But, last night, the Roots’ lead vocalist dropped a set of lyrics dedicated to Super Mario Bros. over a re-arranged version of Koji Kondo’s immortal theme song. That definitely makes him an all-time MVP MC, right? The performance is part of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’s Video Game Week and the verse is made all the better for being pretty on point with its references to Mario’s history. What’s up with calling Luigi a coward, though? Didn’t anybody tell Thought that this is the Year of Luigi? Reggie Fils-Aime might have something to say about that next time he comes back to the show.

You might have already known that Nintendo changed a few things when bringing NES platformer Super Mario Bros. 3 to North America—mostly to make it easier—but it's still fascinating to see the changes presented side-by-side. This video, created by YouTuber Master0fHyrule, does a nice job displaying the differences between the Western and Japanese versions of the classic platformer. Check it.

Ah Mario; the Superman of video games. He’s the modest, iconic, do-gooder everyone loves. He's wholesome — a video game character you can bring home to mom for the holidays. Like Superman, Mario has had his highs and his lows (I’m looking at you Hotel Mario and Bob Hoskins) but his design still remains unsullied and iconic — a character that even your mom and possibly grandparents know. But he is not beyond criticism. It’s time to weigh in — Using our image annotation system, show us what you love or hate about some of Mario’s many character designs. It could be high praise ("Such grace, such beauty — The moustache that launched a thousand games") or black-hearted cynicism (‘What kind of weirdo plumber wears white gloves to work and eats fly agaric for fun?’). Just click one one of the many incarnations of the plumber above and annotate away. 'There's always a princess, there's always a plumber, there's always a kingdom.' (Top row: Super Mario Bros. (sprite), Mario 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG, Super Mario 64. Bottom Row: Super Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, New Super Mario Bros. U. Images via the Super Mario Wiki) To contact the author of this post, write to chrisperson@kotaku.com or find him on Twitter @papapishu

Super Mario Bros., the 1993 film, paved the way video game movies for all time to come. Namely, that everyone would expect them to be terrible. It opened 20 years ago on Tuesday, and John Leguizamo, who starred as Luigi, had the grace and good humor to record this message for a Super Mario Bros. film fansite. "I'm glad people appreciate the movie," he says. "It was the first, nobody had ever done it before." By that he means a cinematic video game adaptation and if he's not right, my memory can't produce the example where he is wrong. "We made a lot of great things and we made a lot of mistakes." Nearly every actor on the project hated it, few more than Bob Hoskins, who starred as Mario, calling it his worst job, biggest disappointment, and the one thing in his past he'd change. Leguizamo, in his biography, expressed dissatisfaction with his role and with the films direction. It's nice that, 20 years later, he can put the bad feelings behind him and record this kind message—which gives credit to everyone in the cast—for a fansite devoted to the film. That said, I wouldn't ask him to sign an autograph using the name Luigi. John Leguizamo's 20th Anniversary Message [Super Mario Bros.: The Movie Archive]

Behold, the Sourcemod Entertainment System, a custom-made plugin for Counter-Strike: GO that allows players to play "Super Mareo Bruhs" inside cs_office. With real controllers, cartridges, and a working power switch, the SMES is just like the real thing. With more flashbangs.

#superbunnyland If Nintendo made games for mobile phones, an endless running Super Mario platformer would be a no-brainer. Since Nintendo does not make games for mobile phones, HeiGames is making Super Bunny Land, which is close enough. More »

#supermario We've seen Mario as a GTA character, which is badass on its own. But have we seen him fully outfitted as a punk rock anarchist? More »

#watchthis It took Gavin and Geoff of Achievement Hunter about four hours to build Super Mario Bros.' 1-1 level almost block-for-block in Minecraft. More »

#crime As a general rule, you probably shouldn't grope people without their permission. But if you're going to grope people without their permission, you really shouldn't do it while wearing a Super Mario costume. More »

#watchthis Look at this video. Look at it. Look at how much time must have gone into painstakingly creating every one of Mario's movements. More »

#nintendo Redditor Mikeshiny made this one. More »

#mario You can start buying downloadable content for New Super Mario Bros. 2 this Thursday. More »

#mariobros If you've heard anything at all about the latest Super Mario Bros. game, you know that it has a lot of coins. So many coins. The diligent player can collect a million of the shiny little guys. More »

#watchthis Mobius strips work on a pretty simple concept, but it can be hard to wrap your brain around what's going on. More »

#mario Mobius strips are pretty neat on their own. You can cut them down the center, and it'll just make it longer. You can perform multiple cuts, and it'll just create three Mobius strips, linked together. Fascinating stuff. More »

#art Just look at that mouth. Those teeth. That shell. Adorable. More »