Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard 204
mikejuk writes "You may have have thought games like Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and so on were hard at the time you were playing them, but you probably didn't guess they were NP-hard. Now we have some results from computer scientists at Universite Libre de Bruxelles and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory that many classic games contain within them an NP-hard problem. It has been proven that the following game franchises are NP-hard (PDF): Mario, Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, Metroid and Pokemon. At least you now have an excuse for your low scores."
Kid Icarus (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Kid Icarus (Score:5, Funny)
Harder than Battletoads? I think not.
Fantastic (Score:4, Funny)
Now Billy Mitchell's ego can finally get a much needed boost.
Re:Kid Icarus (Score:5, Funny)
There's a pretty big difference between "hard" and "fundamentally broken".
Battletoads was hard because it was designed poorly.
Sounds like SOMEONE'S still bitter they couldn't even beat the Turbo Tunnel.
Re:Buzz (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Buzz (Score:5, Funny)
Where have you been for the last 5 weeks? Didn't you get the tweet? The term "NP-hard" has been superseded by "NP-cloud-based-social-media-hipster". Keep up!
An "NP-cloud-based-social-media-hipster" would be proof that P=NP, since you're saying this cloud-based-social-media-hipster is in NP(Non-Pretentious), when it has already been proven that all hipsters are in P.
Re:What? (Score:4, Funny)
I Honestly don't understand what NP refers to.
Nintendo Power.