Death Fails: Mario Shouldn’t Die This Way

June 19, 2008 in Video Games with 1 Comment

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Lately, I’ve been playing a lot of Super Mario Galaxy. I’ve got to say, it has rekindled my love for Mario all over again. I haven’t played a Mario game since Super Mario 64, and to be honest, I really didn’t care for it. Yeah that’s right. I said it.

But poor Mario. He gets himself killed over and over again, yet he always comes back for more. I’m sure all of us have played the classic 8-Bit Super Mario Bros on the old school NES, and were immediately killed by the first Goomba when we stepped into the game for the first time. However, what if Mario didn’t just make that strange electronic beep noise when he died, and instead…

Pulled any one of these?

Check out that YouTube video for several deaths that shouldn’t occur in Mario, including Mega-Man, Q-Bert, Dragon’s Lair, Smash Bros, Friday the 13th, and Paper Boy.

Via Joystiq

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One Response to “Death Fails: Mario Shouldn’t Die This Way”

  1. Phillybits June 20, 2008 at 2:40 pm #

    Mario and all it’s derivatives might be a gaming classic but I’m so wrapped up in F.E.A.R. right now…

    I bet there’s a Mario mod for F.E.A.R. That’d be funny.

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