Super Awesome Nintendo Character Bros.
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?You know what the original Super Mario Bros. game needs? Less Mario brothers. I assume that’s why Newgrounds user Exploding Rabbit worked over a year to make a Super Mario Bros. game — the original, exact SMB game — playable with Mega Man, Simon Belmont from Castlevania, Samus from Metroid, Link from the NES Legend of Zelda, and the guy from Contra. This means that you can play Super Mario Bros. with the Spread Gun. The fucking Spread Gun. I tweeted this joy this morning, so followers of the TR Twitter have been playing it since 9am EST; you other people can let it start absolutely destroying your day’s productivity by heading here. Thanks to all million of you who sent in the link.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.