It may be played on an emu, but I too can attest to at least most of that being the original SMB behavior. In fact, for the first few minutes of the video I was wondering what was so special about it other than his precision. The main bug he utilizes is the mis-calculation of collision with ground, which even I've used way back in the day. It's how he jumps from nothing when he's next to a wall, pipe, or brick, how he glides through bricks in the underground areas, and how the turtle gets stuck below the floor. There were a couple tricks I hadn't seen before though, so I'm going to have to go rewatch it, maybe try it out on my NES.

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Thanks, my kids loved it. Was that a real turkey? Maybe it was an emu or something.

Most of the work has already been done for him, though, by the New England Skeptical Society in the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe-podcast; or anyone with a brain larger than that of an Emu…

Anyhoo - good visual runthrough… (Though the music made me reach for the painkillers immediately, but I may just be getting old…)

Hey,

love the EMU post. I am sure you could easily double the votes by replacing your video with this one that MarineGunrock added music for (see comments)

Cheers,
MaatC

Haha, great minds and all that.

In reply to this comment by Spiff:
I think the emu video gave us the same idea, hehehe!

Agreed, no good style.

Basically it's Roman Twist (foot movement) with unclean tuts (arm movement).
Impression: Hectic, druggy, How-an-Emu-Impresses-the-Ladies.

I think the emu video gave us the same idea, hehehe!

The good thing about the lack of sound is that it makes it easier to imagine the "Whoopwhoopwhoop" noise the emu looks like it would be making.

Holy shit. EMU!!!! That was worth sitting through the stupid mic trick.

Kinda stupid up until the point with the giant snowball. I personally liked the snowball\boulder\bowling ball bits. The emu was rather amusingly random as well

Tags changed from "japanese, pranks, hidden camera" to "japanese, pranks, hidden camera, emu" by gold star member James Roe.

EMU! so random.

Corny but funny nonetheless, especially the emu in the men's bathroom.

Ostrich? That was an Emu!

Great Vid - reminds me of this t-shirt

this had me cracking up. emu are totally scary.