mario

I am a huge Super Mario Bros fan. Always have been and always will be. It was a big part of my childhood--heck, my friends and I thought we were Mario and Luigi--so I put together this tribute song, You Give Me Sunshine.

Thanks to research conducted at the German University of Tuebingen, we now have an AI-controlled Mario who can stomp Goombas on his own.

Animals rights advocacy group PETA has issued a scathing criticism of beloved video game character Mario in the wake of the new Nintendo 3DS game ‘Super Mario Land 3D’ for powering-up by wearing a “Tanooki suit.” Named for Tanukis, the raccoon dogs that have long held an important place in Japanese culture, Mario’s “Tanooki suit” has drawn the ire of PETA for promoting the wearing of fur. Read Mor

According to the 13,000 gamers who voted on the Guinness World Records’ website, Mario is the greatest video game character of all time. The plumber with amazing leaping abilities edged out another Nintendo favorite, Link, from “Legend of Zelda,” for the top spot.  All told, Nintendo had 11 characters among the top 50. The survey was done for the book “Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Editio