>> ^residue:

man I can't decide if I remember this or not.. some of it looks REALLY familiar


The Super Mario Bros. Super Show?

I didn't even know there was a spinoff.!

>> ^residue:
>> ^dannym3141:
So they made mario brothers occasionally make plinking sounds that sometimes synch up with some of the notes of parts of a song?
Is it more impressive to aim for the sun and fall far short, or aim for the moon and hit it spectacularly? In other words - do a simpler song, better.

Good luck finding a song that's worth listening to that only has the exact same pitches as the sound effects from mario world...
The fact that the song is complex is what makes it impressive. Do you honestly think this would be more impressive if it were "4-way auto Mario: the happy birthday song?"


If it sounded like the happy birthday song, followed all the notes, sounded good, added flourishes (this is the bit where you hit the moon 'spectacularly'), yes. Far, far, far more impressive than doing 4 notes of "Don't Stop Me Now" every 20 seconds or so.

To you, what makes this impressive is the complexity of the song? Very well, i could overdub this with "Through the Fire and the Flames" and it'd probably coincide with some of the notes too, is that impressive to you? It's a very complex song that's for sure, and i'd hit "some" of the notes. Surely the accuracy of hitting objects in a game that sounded very similar to a song is what makes these types of videos impressive, no?

And therein lies my criticism.

>> ^dannym3141:
So they made mario brothers occasionally make plinking sounds that sometimes synch up with some of the notes of parts of a song?
Is it more impressive to aim for the sun and fall far short, or aim for the moon and hit it spectacularly? In other words - do a simpler song, better.


Good luck finding a song that's worth listening to that only has the exact same pitches as the sound effects from mario world...

The fact that the song is complex is what makes it impressive. Do you honestly think this would be more impressive if it were "4-way auto Mario: the happy birthday song?"

>> ^rasch187:
One thing: the diamonds and crowns look a bit cartoony.


Yes, I made them with giant crayons and sidewalk chalk.

I'm actually quite happy with how the crown came out. I mostly worked on these while zoomed in like 1200% and I wasn't sure it was going to be clear at normal size. I had to make a few tweaks but really I was just quite lucky to get the result I did.

All of them, but the crown in particular, remind me of power-ups out of Super Mario World or something, and that makes me smile ever so slightly.

>> ^JiggaJonson:
Sometimes playing an old videogame is like going back to a playground you used to run around at. I do the same thing with super mario brothers, fire up the emulator and run through SMB1 and usually SMB3 occasionally Super Mario World.
This is the first time i'll be running through a game this big again though. And I will never, ever, play world of warcraft again.

I suggest taking ecstasy and playing the Legend of Zelda: A link to the past.

or taking some acid and playing Super Mario World

Better graphics don't equal a better game, sometimes you just have to change your reference point

Sometimes playing an old videogame is like going back to a playground you used to run around at. I do the same thing with super mario brothers, fire up the emulator and run through SMB1 and usually SMB3 occasionally Super Mario World.
This is the first time i'll be running through a game this big again though. And I will never, ever, play world of warcraft again.

Sometimes playing an old videogame is like going back to a playground you used to run around at. I do the same thing with super mario brothers, fire up the emulator and run through SMB1 and usually SMB3 occasionally Super Mario World.
This is the first time i'll be running through a game this big again though. And I will never, ever, play world of warcraft again.

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
Why not play something more modern of the same ilk like Sacred 2? I mean it's all click click on monsters and pick up lewts.

I'd have to say the animated background looked most like a mashup from Super Mario World, the first mario title on the 16-bit SNES (and still one of the best)

Awesome.

I can't believe you watched the whole thing.


>> ^rychan:
Wow. Was that the Megaman theme at 6:08? Hmm.. then Mario at 8:45 and Final Fantasy at 9:36. But I didn't recognize the rest of it.

>> ^cybrbeast:
Couldn't you just add another checkbox to the submissions screen where you can choose to enable annotations (they should be disabled by default).


This. As it is right now, you can turn on the annotations from the embed here on the Sift even though they're defaulted off now, but there are definitely videos that are designed to be used with annotations, like this one that I sifted a while back. Without the annotations on, the video isn't worthwhile at all.

Even as someone who got ALL the stars on SNES Mario World, this video is jaw-dropping to watch.

I probably said "WTF was that!?!" 50 times...

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Rube-Goldberg-Gaming-Super-Mario-World-plays-itself

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by rasch187.

Woops! This was actually me!

>> ^fullerenedream:
Man, mugen is pretty freaking awesome. My all time favourite is M. Bison vs. SMB 1-1

Man, mugen is pretty freaking awesome. My all time favourite is M. Bison vs. SMB 1-1