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If Mario Was Designed in 2010

Posted April 29th, 2010. Filed under ,

If Mario was first designed in 2010, he’d probably have to adopt some of our modern trends:

Thirty minutes later…

Maybe this warp pipe is safe:

Damnit.

225 Responses so far

  1. Scriptwelder says:

    This is SO true. On the one hand it’s funny but after a deeper thought it seems more and more bitter.

  2. rosedragon says:

    Sadly true. This make me bitterly smile :P .

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  6. derpderp says:

    Is the fire flower DLC?

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  9. akasha73 says:

    Those ideas are cool, but I can’t help myself to laugh at it while scrolling down on the images. You forgot to create something like a Super Mario MMORPG, hehe. Anyways, I’m so glad that it was out during the 80′s.

  10. lena says:

    i like super mario….. <3 <3 <3

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  13. Alex Dee says:

    Hah, although you’re exaggerating a little, that’s so very true. :D

  14. Beermit says:

    Can’t wait till they release the Bowser’s Castle DLC haha

    The message wasn’t lost on me though! I too long for the old days when games were simpler and didn’t require you to be “always connected”. Or assume you have NO intuition…

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  16. Joey says:

    Wii or NES? I don’t know what this 2010 super Mario Brothers is on. Probably it might be Wii! Or a brand-new NES.

  17. MarioLover211 says:

    World 1-1 and 1-2 in the Warp Zone. :)

  18. MarioLover211 says:

    @Beermit what does DLC mean? :~)

  19. MarioLover211 says:

    600 Nintendo Fun Points! I wish I played that and got lots and lots of Achievments.

  20. MarioLover211 says:

    step 33. :(

  21. MarioLover211 says:

    2010XD

  22. MarioLover211 says:

    I played this before on Newgrounds. :D

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  24. austin says:

    Is this really what games have come to? It’s sad really….
    You didn’t need instructions for Mario on the good ol NES, you just
    played. It was so simple, but so much fun for hours. And now
    everything is facebook, and it pisses me off!

  25. tozefs says:

    I just posted this on Facebook.

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  27. Abraham Yunes says:

    I can see a few flaws there. When mario reached the warp pipe, this one should have had a glow and Lakitu should have something like “Hmmm, this pipe looks different than the others, you ought to check down whats inside!”

    Needs more collectables too.

  28. MarioLover211 says:

    It’s 2011 and I don’t care anymore! And I’ve never posted a comment in a while… I would rather play the plain, old-school, 1985, NES, version on rom station. This is how you download rom station: type in: http://www.romstation.net.fr (fr is for france, but i’m in north america) then, scroll down, then click Install. After that, you’ll be all done, and you could play! :-)

  29. MarioLover211 says:

    And you posted it it in 2010, so Mario should have been designed last year… And leave a comment to me (MarioLover211) if you installed that thing i told you to install! (Even you, Zack Hiwiller!:-))

  30. MarioLover211 says:

    Any person could install what i told them to! Just click the link on my 1st comment i posted this year!:)

  31. MarioLover211 says:

    If you click on the link, and it doesn’t work, search for it on Google instead. You could also tell me (MarioLover211) what games you played and what console they were for! Just add a comment! :D

  32. MarioLover211 says:

    This looks updated

  33. MarioLover211 says:

    1. PEOPLE LIKE FEDGE AND BEERMIT ARE NEVER LEAVING COMMENTS ANYMORE! >:(
    2. Joey and MarioLover211 are NOT different, Joey is just a mistake, It’s my REAL name. :(
    3. If you want to download Console Classix for the Same Thing, click here.:D http://www.consoleclassix.com/download.html

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  35. MarioLover211 says:

    did anyone download that thing???

  36. MarioLover211 says:

    i’m bored, i’m going to muchgames

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  38. Isaac says:

    You’re comparing a cartridge game on a home console dedicated to playing games vs. a free cross-browser social networking app.

  39. shazow says:

    One thing missing:

    Attempting to restore network connection. The game will resume once the connection has been re-established. Please wait.

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  42. mredder4 says:

    It’s missing the advertisements block most of the screen.

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