iRwego, a sort-of-cleverly named iPhone app, may not have a very long lifespan, since it’s not approved by Nintendo. But I hope it stays—it soundtracks your life as if it were a Mario game.
Remember the legendary gold cartridges created for the 1990 Nintendo World Championships, which included Super Mario Bros, Rad Race, and Tetris, the “Holy Grail of Gaming Collectibles”? Me neither. Someone does, and he paid $US16,000 for it.
Those crazy Japanese and their kuroko plays. I love them, but can anybody tell me why they have included Obama in this oversized Gameboy version of Super Mario Bros.? [Iamwendi—Thanks Genevieve!]
Watching videos of NES enthusiasts playing the Super Mario Bros. theme on weird stuff is always fun, and here’s one of musician Randy George on the theremin. What’s a theremin? It’s a Russian invention that’s also one of the earliest electronic musical instruments ever created. Players move their hands around the Theremin’s antennas, controlling the sound’s frequency and amplitude (pitch and volume). Randy’s working on recording a classical Theremin album–I wonder if it’ll include his version of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy as bonus material. [Laughing Squid]
newVideoPlayer("supermarioplush.flv", 494, 300,""); The Gadget: A plush star from Super Mario Brothers that plays the appropriate music when you touch it. Includes a goomba and a ? block.
The Super Mario invincibility doesn’t really make a huge appearance in Super Mario Galaxy as far as we’ve seen, but this desk version should more than fill in. For US$17.99 you get an unlimited amount of star power activated in tiny little segments every time you hit the button on its back. Will it get old fast? Definitely. Is it worth US$17.99? That depends on how much you like shouting “It’s a me!” to everyone who stops by at work. [Think Geek via Technabob via Geekalerts via Boing Boing]
This Super Mario Bros. subwoofer combines two good things to make an even better thing. If it was for sale and I didn’t care about my apartment looking like a virgintorium, I’d buy one. Unfortunately, it’s a homemade project and I’m not living above my parent’s garage. But if I was! What adventures I would have, believe you me! [Flickr via Geekologie]
