Four-Story Pixellated Mario Mural 211
MasterPlaid writes "A group of anonymous cowards (eningeers) has apparently constructed a four-story mural of scenes from the NES Super Mario games. The best part is, they did the whole thing out of Post-It Notes, recreating the wondeful pixellated goodness we expect from Super Mario. The idea for this mural seems to have originated in the Strong Bad email of the same name."
but can i play it online? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:but can i play it online? (Score:1, Funny)
I wanted to play mario cart against Gannon but he was a fraid to play. He was busy fighting Link (lol).
Anyway, King's Quest would be a good game to play online and on a building. Here is what it might be like.
Put on hat
-I don't see it.
Look
You are in the cavern of a mighty dragon. If you sneak past him you will get more points than if you kill him.
Pour water on dragon
-The dragon got wet. SYNTAX ER
Re:but can i play it online? (Score:2, Interesting)
Beautiful (Score:1)
The site's been slashdotted already (Score:1)
Re:Beautiful (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Beautiful (Score:2)
Indeed it is. However, it looks more like a scene from the NES version of Mario, not the SNES one...
The Princess? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Princess? (Score:2)
What in Hell she's doing!? Crap on this!
Re:The Princess? (Score:2)
Re:The Princess? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Princess? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The Wrong Princess! (Score:2)
Of course I know what they're talking about. However, I thought I'd make a reference to another geek favorite. Unfortunately, nobody has responded yet with the correct line.
Copyright infringement (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Copyright infringement (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Copyright infringement (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Copyright infringement (Score:2)
excelent (Score:4, Informative)
as a long time mario addict i salute you
also heres a nyud link incase it gets slashdoted
http://www.yikes.com.nyud.net:8090/~pengo/8bit/ [nyud.net]
Re:excelent (Score:1)
It really did bring a smile to my face
and now ill be up till 3am playing through the mario games on my gameboy *cough* and maybe tomorow have to phone in um sick
but honestly , no sarcasm intended
Re:excelent (Score:2)
Re:excelent (Score:2)
Much to the chagrin of the Econ students below... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Much to the chagrin of the Econ students below. (Score:3, Informative)
There are no barrels in this pic. There are no
falling barrels in the game from which this
pic is taken. You're thinking of Donky Kong,
which was the first game Mario appeared in.
This scene is from the origional Super Mario
Bros. I'm a very long time fan/addict of SMB.
I don't remember any SMB game with falling
barrels anywhere in it.
The falling object in this scene is a
Sharpea. Sharpea is a little fella that
hits the ground and walks back and
forth until you kill him, he kills you,
or he fall
Re:Much to the chagrin of the Econ students below. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Much to the chagrin of the Econ students below. (Score:2, Informative)
Holy shit! (Score:5, Funny)
Spelling... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spelling... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spelling... (Score:2)
Re:Spelling... (Score:2)
Re:Spelling... (Score:2)
I wonder... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I wonder... (Score:1)
It wasn't until I actually realised I would need to paint about 25000 (2.5m*4m) individual pixels that I gave up on the idea.
It wouldv taken me longer than Michealangelo painting the cisteen chapel.
(This was back in my Amiga days, color printing, especially at the scale I needed was expensive)
Anyways, back to the subject, at building distances, higher resolution is unimportant.
Looks more like SMB from NES (not SNES) (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Looks more like SMB from NES (not SNES) (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Looks more like SMB from NES (not SNES) (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Looks more like SMB from NES (not SNES) (Score:1)
SUMPER Mario Bros.? Well, they ARE plumbers... (Score:5, Interesting)
Rumors, nuthin'. It's well documented fact that Nintendo thought that the Japanese SMB2 wouldn't go over well in the US market -- the graphics were basically identical to the first game, which was by then several years old, and the sequel was more difficult, which would have been discouraging to the US market's large percentage of child gamers.
So Nintendo purchased the rights to another Japanese release, a disk-based game with a vaguely Arabian theme called Doki Doki Panic, and modified it to create the US version of SMB2. It was more than a mere graphics hack, too -- the music and some of the gameplay basics were altered as well, for example the original game did not allow the player to run faster than normal by holding down B.
Re:SUMPER Mario Bros.? Well, they ARE plumbers... (Score:2)
(compared to what smb2 would have been IF it had just been more smb1 levels)
Re:SUMPER Mario Bros.? Well, they ARE plumbers... (Score:4, Insightful)
I wouldn't consider SMB2 to be crappy. The whole pick-up-and-throw mechanic was quite original. It's the only non-party Super Mario Brothers game where you can play as Mario, Luigi, Toad, or the Princess. Throwing bombs, riding projectiles across pits before picking them up and throwing them at bosses, the dark universe... The game was pretty darned good. If people didn't have expectations for what being a Super Mario Brothers game meant, the game would probably have been extremely well liked. Especially considering the time frame that the game was released in.
Nintendo recognized an underselling gem, and gave it a major boost. Good for them. The Doki Doki Panic guys deserved it.
Re:SUMPER Mario Bros.? Well, they ARE plumbers... (Score:2)
Doki Doki Panic was developed by Fuji TV and licensed to Nintendo. Check any webpage about the game, it says so on all of them.
Re:Looks more like SMB from NES (not SNES) (Score:1)
Matt
Big, cool art projects with no impact on anything (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Big, cool art projects with no impact on anythi (Score:1, Troll)
Re:Big, cool art projects with no impact on anythi (Score:4, Funny)
You apparently have never been to an art musem.
Re:Big, cool art projects with no impact on anythi (Score:2)
Re:Big, cool art projects with no impact on anythi (Score:1)
NOT pointless. (Score:2, Funny)
What a good idea! Now everyone will make Post-It murals, and they'll only buy genuine Post-It notes.
If there isn't some 3M money in this somewhere, I'll be extrememly surprised.
Re:Big, cool art projects with no impact on anythi (Score:2)
Expand your horizons, man.
There's more art out there besides Seurat [usc.edu].
Re:Big, cool art projects with no impact on anythi (Score:2)
Re:Big, cool art projects with no impact on anythi (Score:3, Funny)
. . . moist cavity. They could've used another phrase, but no.
Re:Big, cool art projects with no impact on anythi (Score:4, Interesting)
. . . well, you're right. That's pretty giant and pointless. I'm gonna have to think a while to top it.
Spoilsports (Score:5, Interesting)
thats ridiculous.. why tear it down? ah well, the world needs people that destroy things too.. i guess..
Re:Spoilsports (Score:1)
A professional atmosphere is important when you're in a phony major./E
Re:Spoilsports (Score:3, Funny)
Now, given that they're all in the same building my usual 'board up the doors and set the place on fire' approach probably isn't the best remedy. Honestly, I have a bunch of ideas I could post, but most of them would open you (and possibly me) up to a great deal of liability. So here's one just to get you thinking in the right direction:
Pennies. Along with your 20 closest friends, learn how to penny a door shut
Re:Spoilsports (Score:2)
Next time use hydrofluroic acid to etch the glass...
Re:Spoilsports (Score:2)
Sweet! (Score:1)
Inspiration (Score:2, Insightful)
/. effect (Score:2, Funny)
Post-Its (Score:5, Funny)
As the images are dying... (Score:5, Informative)
its a mirrordot.org mirror.... funky eh!
Clicky (Score:1)
The inspiration: (Score:5, Informative)
Re:The inspiration: (Score:2, Funny)
Thanks. I was thrown off by the fact when the submitter wrote "the Strong Bad email of the same name," I didn't realize that he meant "same" in the sense of "completely different."
were they... (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:were they... (Score:3, Funny)
Strong Bad? (Score:5, Interesting)
Um, I've seen all the SBemails, and I don't get this reference. There is no SBemail called "mural" or "Post-it". Post-its are used occasionally [homestarrunner.com] , and a mural was mentioned once [homestarrunner.com] though. There also was a "hack" at MIT involving a SBemail. [mit.edu]
Anyone care to explain that reference?
Re:Strong Bad? (Score:1)
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140551&
Let the Burninating Commence!
trogdor the Dragon (Score:2)
Re:Strong Bad? (Score:4, Informative)
"A group of anonymous cowards (eningeers) has apparently constructed a four story mural of scenes from the SNES Super Mario games. The best part is, they did the whole thing out of Post-It Notes, recreating the wondeful pixellated goodness we expect from Super Mario. The idea for this mural seems to have originated in the Strong Bad email of the same name."
How about this instead:
"A group of anonymous cowards (engineers) has apparently constructed a four story mural of scenes from the NES Super Mario games. The best part is, they did the whole thing out of Post-It Notes, recreating the wonderful pixellated goodness we expect from Super Mario. The idea for this mural seems to have originated from the Strong Bad email-based MIT hack [mit.edu]
What do the Slashdot "editors" do, again?
Re:Strong Bad? (Score:2)
Select which stories are posted and which aren't. There're not really editors so much as minimal quality control (remove boring articles and occasionally dupes)
Geeks rejoice! (Score:1, Informative)
Black Post-its® really do exist!
Postin pictures... (Score:1, Offtopic)
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageSer
Post Its --- unreliable (Score:1)
Bitshift right! (Score:4, Insightful)
I smell burning astroturf (Score:3, Interesting)
At UBC (University of British Columbia) (Score:2)
Re:At UBC (University of British Columbia) (Score:2)
Go Irish
baby steps (Score:2)
Metroid too (Score:2)
Re:Metroid too (Score:2)
If you enable the Mystery Science Theater 3000 feature, you can enter and read funny comments about the Samus murals. Refresh the pages to read new comments. Hilarious!
Black Postits? (Score:2)
For stunts like this perhaps? Free advertising...
Re:Black Postits? (Score:4, Funny)
In a related topic (mario) (Score:2, Interesting)
When your super cheap, and spent all your money on a ski pass you can also make mario with sludge/snow.
Mario World 3
http://www.mtu.edu/carnival/2005/statuepix/result
This picture was taken at winter canival in houghton.
Re:In a related topic (mario) (Score:2)
it'd have been a real bitch if the temperature jumped up above freezing (or even near it), like it has been this year in many/most parts of the country.
Slashdotted (Score:2)
Product Requirements/Scheduling (Score:2)
Since management never seems to care about the realities involved in planning/scheduling, maybe they'll appreciate pretty pictures.
Hey, I can play too! (Score:2)
We've had some great chalkings on my campus... (Score:5, Interesting)
Check these out:
Mario [uta.edu] and Bubble Bobble [uta.edu]
Expensive? (Score:3, Insightful)
I just bought 2100 Post-It Notes(r) from Costco, I think it was about $11.
They used "~3800" for this artwork... Even if it were 5x the cost isn't that only $100.
Define "expensive"? Maybe it was a joke, but divide the expenses among the "12 people" involved and I hardly find it "expensive".
Now, if they get caught and charged with some sort of criminal littering offense, that's expensive! (And wasn't there some sort of law passed against "destroying art?" - hmm, maybe this needs to stay up...)
Re:Expensive? (Score:2)
Hey, they're college students. $8.33 can buy upwards of 80-100 meals of ramen! That means a lot!
OT, great project from my alma mater. Go slugs!
Samus... (Score:2)
Send us money 3M - this was expensie!! (Score:2)
Since Gooooogle ads only pays based on clicks, not on page views, I would highly suggest to them that they place their Google ad on the TOP of their web page as well as the bottom - maybe even place a couple in the middle!!
Yes - they are not bean counters
Of course, neither am I - but I do run a successful web business. I let other people do the bean counting fo
Re:A WINNER IS YOU. (Score:2)
Re:Strong BAd (Score:2)
Re:Strong BAd (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Strong BAd (Score:5, Insightful)
no obvious means of generating revenue
Link to their online store [homestarrunner.com]
They make a ton of money off of t-shirt sales. In fact, they make enough to pay for bandwidth and support themselves so they don't have to get a real job.
I've been to the site and it just looks like a bunch of crap in Flash.
It's comedy goodness. Just because it's Flash doesn't mean it's crap. I bet you're the type that judges anime as "child stuff" because it's animated. Since you didn't notice the store page, I really wonder how much time you spent at the site. The most popular part of the site are the Strongbad emails. There's a link directly to them at the bottom of the page labled "SB Emails". There are over 100 of them and are produced once a week. If you really want to get an idea of what they're like, I recommend just starting at the first one (at the bottom) and working your way up.
They're also fond of making flash games that are similar to and somewhat make fun of old 8-bit games from the 80s and early 90s. They're surprisingly fun and always have humor to them.
It's basically just some guys (and one girl) who are quite creative and funny (to a lot of people, though as for humor there's never any accounting for taste) and having a good time.
Re:Strong BAd (Score:2)
ah-duuuhhhhhh...
Use the InterWeb much?
Re:I read BoingBoing for this sort of thing. (Score:1, Offtopic)
(note: Oh, wow, my first negative moderation in something like four years on slashdot.
Granted, it's also the first time I've made a "this is a pointless story" comment, so I guess it's fair. But I've never been quite clear