Super Mario Oddities
25 years of wackiness inspired by the legendary Nintendo game, from lost levels to breakfast food to pop art.Posted by Benj Edwards | Sunday, September 12, 2010
The Real Lost Levels
Few western gamers know that Hudson developed and released an authorized, alternate version of Super Mario Bros. for Japanese home computers in 1986. “Super Mario Bros. Special” contained all-new levels, additional enemies adapted from Donkey Kong, and even the ability to use a hammer.
There was a big catch: Due to the limitations of the NEC PC-8801 and the Sharp X1, the game doesn’t scroll smoothly like the NES version. Instead, you steer Mario to the edge of one screen and onto another one, which makes for tricky gameplay. If you’re interested in trying it out, you can find all the necessary files to emulate it on your PC at Hardcore Gaming 101 (scroll down the page).
September 13th, 2010 at 8:37 am
as a fellow love of old school video games you should check out the pac man video this swiss artist made! http://monkeybusiness1.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/a… also tetris, pong, space invaders
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September 14th, 2010 at 2:56 am
How about Communist Mario?
September 20th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
That's a fantastic collection of weird Mario stuff. I agree, that control-Mario-by-hand video is amazing!