Miyamoto recognized with prestigious BAFTA Fellowship
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced that it’ll be awarding Shigeru Miyamoto with the storied BAFTA Fellowship award, which is “the highest accolade the Academy can bestow on an individual for their creative work.” Miyamoto will receive the award in a ceremony next month. It’s a pretty high honor for his work in film and television, which includes this Mega64 video and this old kids’ television series.
Oh wait, no — it’s actually part of the British Academy’s Video Games Awards, and it is honoring him as the creator of Donkey Kong, Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. That makes much more sense. Nobody should be giving anyone awards for the Super Mario Bros. movie.
Miyamoto recognized with prestigious BAFTA Fellowship originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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This pirahna plant keepsake box is ironic
Honestly, we’re not sure how anyone could come up with the idea of a pirahna plant keepsake box. A keepsake box, ideally, is designed to keep your precious items in a safe place so you’ll always know where they are. Pirahna plants, on the other hand, are about as far away from safe as you can get. They’re man-eating plants, some varieties of which can breathe fire. Still, despite all that, this keepsake box — designed by Etsy user lostmitten — still manages to be kind of cute. As of this writing, there is a single one available for purchase at $60.
We suppose you could pick it up and store your old high school love notes in there. Just watch your fingers when you open it up.
This pirahna plant keepsake box is ironic originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A step towards peace: Master Mario Chief tattoo
The Console Wars[TM] have been raging since before some of us were even born. For a majority of gamers, this is all they know, but thankfully one man is stepping up to try and bring an end to this eternal conflict. In combining Halo‘s Master Chief and Nintendo’s iconic mascot, Mario, he’s created one super tattoo and blueprint for the future prosperity of all gaming peoples. This Master Mario Chief is able to squash Goombas at alarming speed and save not only the Mushroom Kingdom from despair, but all of humanity in the year 2553 — he’s a figure every console owner can love.
Frankly, we applaud this man’s courage and dedication to acknowledge that there are good things on all consoles via this permanent tattoo. Instead of blindly trashing the opposition as inferior, he celebrates each console’s merits. Except for anything on Sony platforms, though, because Sony totally sucks.
[Via Hawty McBloggy]
A step towards peace: Master Mario Chief tattoo originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Stop-motion Super Mario Bros. 3 is almost as fun as the real thing
It’s awfully hard to find a way to cram more charm into the Super Mario Bros. experience — believe us, we’ve tried. Well, we’re happy to report that GameVideos user smartkid82504 may have done just that, re-imagining the classic platforming action of Super Mario Bros. 3 through some scraps of paper, crayons, a stop-motion camera, and a bit of good, old-fashioned moxie.
Head past the break to check it out.
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Stop-motion Super Mario Bros. 3 is almost as fun as the real thing originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mario plus Tetris equals one fun game
And here we thought Tetris DS was the best blend of the Russian puzzler and Nintendo’s classic platforming game Super Mario Bros., but Tuper Tario Tros. is a quite imaginative combination of the two. In fact, we haven’t seen Tetris go so well with something since we were introduced to the conflict resolution capabilities of Tresling.
Already the culprit behind a sharp downturn in Joystiq productivity today, we now offer it to you. Just, uh, don’t play it as much as we did. We can get away with it since, y’know, it’s kinda our job.
[Via digg]
Mario plus Tetris equals one fun game originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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College Humor writes a complaint to Mario Bros. Plumbing
We’ve all seen Super Mario Bros. parodies before — some that even make Mario a pretty sick and deranged dude. Been there, done that. But, what makes this College Humor video so special — aside from its unusually grody depiction of the brothers Mario — is its surprise ending. We won’t spoil it for you, so you’ll have to click on over if you want to check it out.
College Humor writes a complaint to Mario Bros. Plumbing originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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See Mario transformed into bacteria
We’re always happy to see gaming encroaching on the rest of the world, a sign that it’s becoming more culturally accepted and mainstream, but this example is so nerdy, it might actually be a step in the other direction. What you see on the right there is the classic NES Mario sprite, recreated in specifically-engineered bacteria by the nanobiology laboratories at the University of Osaka, Japan.
We love the idea of gaming’s leading man being transformed this way, we can’t help but think how great it would have been if Team Osaka could have achieved the same effect with fungus. … You know, because the Mushroom Kin — oh, never mind.
[Thanks, Modern Epicurian]
See Mario transformed into bacteria originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Iwata Asks: 25 years with Miyamoto’s dev posse
In the most recent edition of Iwata Asks, Nintendo prez Satoru Iwata gathers up Takashi Tezuka and Toshihiko Nakago for a thorough discussion of their time with the company, the many projects they’ve worked on and their 25-year-long partnership with Shigeru Miyamoto. Let’s break it down: Takashi Tezuka and Toshihiko Nakago both started at Nintendo around 1984, helping to shape everything from Balloon Fight to Super Mario Bros. These guys were part of the team that developed Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda – at the same time.
During the 10-page chat, a plethora of interesting tidbits are revealed about some of the game industry’s most influential Nintendo titles. Did you know that Zelda was initially designed as a dungeon game without an overworld? Or, how about the revelation that World 1-1 was created last, after the rest of the levels in Super Mario Bros., and designed implicitly to teach the game to non-gamers? The chat even gets into the lurid sleeping arrangements of Miyamota-san and Nakago-san while on business trips for ExciteBike (spoiler: it’s not that lurid).
Iwata Asks: 25 years with Miyamoto’s dev posse originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Robotic man plays Mario theme with one hand
We’re willing to abide a lot around Joystiq HQ, but from the start we’ve had one basic, simple rule. We don’t cotton to robots. We know that society has come to depend on them for odd jobs like fruit juicing and child care, but that doesn’t mean we have to accept them.
It should be a great testament then to the skill of YouTube user RigorMortis999 that we’re willing to break our own prime directive to bring you his one-handed version of the Super Mario Bros. theme, which you’ll find right after the break. Sure, he’s quite obviously a robot, but we think it’s safe to assume he’s a friendly one.
[Via Kotaku]
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Robotic man plays Mario theme with one hand originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Robotic man plays Mario theme with one hand
We’re willing to abide a lot around Joystiq HQ, but from the start we’ve had one basic, simple rule. We don’t cotton to robots. We know that society has come to depend on them for odd jobs like fruit juicing and child care, but that doesn’t mean we have to accept them.
It should be a great testament then to the skill of YouTube user RigorMortis999 that we’re willing to break our own prime directive to bring you his one-handed version of the Super Mario Bros. theme, which you’ll find right after the break. Sure, he’s quite obviously a robot, but we think it’s safe to assume he’s a friendly one.
[Via Kotaku]
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Robotic man plays Mario theme with one hand originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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