Everyone who ever enjoyed Super Mario Brothers 3 needs to check this out...

This guy beats Super Mario Brothers 3 in 11 minutes, start to finish, and gets 99 lives in the process. His performance is virtuostic to say the least...

Check it out. It'll change your outlook on your childhood.

Will

I thought that by "start to finish" you meant he didn't use the whistle. Still, amazing all around.

Since I never made it anywhere close to the final level, I have some questions: Since when did fireballs hurt the bosses of the level? Since when did jumping on multiple cannon balls equal extra lives? And I never knew that one could use both whistles at once...

Ditto to Digsy on all three questions. Maybe the Japanese version is different in those respects.

But still, it is pretty amazing. I mean, as far as video games go.

Since always. If you jump on an enemy, you get 100 points. If you jump on another one without touching the ground, that score doubles. Hitting a third enemy for landing doubles your score again (to 400 points). This continues until you reach 8,000 points. After that, you get an extra life for every enemy you kill. I used to do the same thing, but I wasn't nearly as elegant as this guy.

That was rather amazing to watch. It's neat how he seems to have every move on every board memorized.

(Edited by Tom Foolery at 10:10 pm on Dec. 8, 2003)

i am still young and seeing this saddens me

TF got to 1 question first.
The fireballs have always been able to take out bosses, and multiple warp whistles can be used.

Okay, I just must have never attempted this. It seems like in some Mario games, the fireballs won't do jack against the bigger baddies...oh well, I never claimed to be an expert.

Isn't it just cool to think that when we are all 40 somethings, we will be sitting around the office talking about warp whistles and the Contra code. Hehe. Colleges will probably offer The History of Video Games. It's wierd to think that some games are nearly 30 years old.

we bought some people those Atari games that play 10 classic games when you plug them toyour TV... on the back it says something like "Just like your parents old games!!!"

God I felt old

I think it is cool, 'cause my mom gets kind of misty when she thinks of her high school heyday and the advent of pong. Her high school boyfriend was in a Kiss cover band, she told me.

That is simply one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.

That was pretty impressive. His ability to bounce from one thing to the next was the most impressive part.

There were many times where I was sure he had hit a ba-bomb, but no, he was not so easily caught. Crazy...

that was fucking insane

Especially to you since you have little or no skill with the Mario.

(Edited by Sexy Sadie at 10:18 am on Dec. 9, 2003)

this is true, but i can still destroy you at tetris.

Ummm...I doubt that...and, we're talking about Mario here, not Tetris.

im not denying my lack of mario knowledge. i only had a game boy as a child. i can still kick your ass at tetris, though.

mmmm hmmmm....

I'd kick both your asses.

especially at skate or die.

Not to burst everyone's bubble, but I found semi-proof a few days ago that this isn't as amazing as we all thought...

"Anyway, this video isn't everything it seems to be, in fact you could say that Morimoto actually "cheated." Since he used an emulator (famtasia) to record his movie, he used the save and load feature [he didn't do the entire thing without fucking up] and he also 'cheated' by lowering the framerate so that he could time and connect those difficult jumps, then on the replay he put the framerate back so no one could notice. Other obvious editing would be thru the "OOOOOO" part of level 8, where a hand *randomly* comes out and grabs you to enter the level, with load and save feature he could edit and skip this entirely."

I wondered about this when I saw it, but I just thought that since it'd been so long since I'd played Mario 3, I must've just forgotten how that part worked.

I also noticed that, but I thought maybe he went by so quickly that he dodged the hand, even though that's not possible to my knowledge.

It seems like it was possible if you were really really fast. Slowing down the frame would make one really really fast.

The problem I have with this game is the warp whistles. As I recall, if you blew the second whistle from the pipelines leading to worlds 2,3, and 4, you would then be taken to the pipelines that lead to worlds 5,6, and 7, not the pipeline to world 8. I could be wrong on that, however.

no, you completely right. i call fraud on this entire scheme.
and i could school each of you in dr. mario. that is all.

Oh yeah. little side note. i miss the message board when im busy at work and such. yeah. its pretty pathetic.

The American Taxpayer put a computer at my desk so I can read the board at work now. I can yell at my little brats to shut up and write while typing inane posts like this one.

Good, because you have some catching up to do...

i'm actually almost positive that using the warp whistles like that takes you to world 8. i'll test my memory on this soon.

Sad to hear all of this, however:

-If you were fast enough, you could skip those bridge levels in world 8.

-The whistles work exactly as they appear to on the video. That part wasn't fudged.

-I'm still impressed, even if less so. It is still pretty damned amazing to behold.

Will

warp whistles WILL take you to 8, I'd almost bet my life on it...

AND I used to get the 99+ lives by bouncing on the bad guys in world 1-2 to the amazement of all my friends... however I don't think I could beat the game in 11 minutes AND have 99 lives....

Maybe I should work on that over break.

OH, and it always pissed me off at then end when the princess said "Thank you Mario, but your Princess is in another castle... Just kidding".... stupid bitch.

(Edited by weenysmack at 8:23 pm on Dec. 9, 2003)

Hmmm... even at a young age I always appreciated the postmodern irony of that one.

The end of Mario 64 is the worst though. If I remember, that's the one where at the end of saving the world, and the princess too, all Mario gets is a kiss on the nose, and that's HUGE for the poor guy.

In my day, saving the world got you at least a one night stand.

Will

If you got all of the stars, couldn't you go on top of the castle and talk briefly to Yoshi?

Yeah, but that still didn't involve any lovin'. At least, not on camera.