New Mario Kart 7 screenshots – Tanooki power-up

From: http://nintendoeverything.com/

A good amount of these screenshots show the Tanooki , a new power-up for the Mario Kart series.
Here’s how Nintendo describes it:

“Fans of the Tanooki power-up will be glad to hear that the Super Leaf makes an appearance in this latest instalment giving you both offensive and defensive abilities. Use your Tanooki tail to both protect you from incoming shells and to whip opponents off the track.”

New Mario Kart 7 footage

3D-printed Mario Kart turtle shells race to rescue American economy

By Sharif Sakr
From http://www.engadget.com/

As soon as you see these little RC Koopa shells, you know that life can't be that bad. In fact, they've already had a hallelujah-inducing impact on the world of the 3D-printing genius who created them. Ten days ago, Michael Curry (aka Skimbal) was among America's 13.9 million unemployed, having been unceremoniously booted out of his ailing architect's firm. All he had was a $700 MakerBot printer to stop his hands from idling, but he made the most of it. MakerBot saw his stuff and were as bowled over as we are, so they just gave the guy a job. We're dusting off our Wii controllers and even those little plastic steering wheels in celebration.

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Kick-ass Super Mario a cappella video blows our tiny minds

By Ali Plumb
From http://www.asylum.co.uk/

Here at Asylum, we love Super Mario very, very much. We love it when people propose to each other with Mario, when Mario's remixed with realistic sound effects, when Remi Gaillard takes Mario Kart to the streets, and most of all, we love it when some genius called Jimmy makes a kick-ass a cappella version of the Mario theme tune.

Seriously: Love it, love it, love it. It's nerdy, it's geeky, it's impeccably performed, edited and thought out, and to make things even more awesome, it's all to raise money to help the tsunami relief fund in Japan.

All of which makes it a must-watch video. Because of the charity stuff, sure, but mainly because of the Mario, because all things Mario are compulsory viewing here at Asylum. That's just the way it is.

So check out the video below, then get your clicking fingers over to iTunes to buy the song and give some moneys to Japan. That's an order, mister!

Mario Kart In Real Life Is Less Cute, More Brutal

Posted by James Hawkins
From: http://www.joystickdivision.com/

 
Mario Kart is an oft-lampooned franchise nowadays. Expertly, I might add. But never has anyone broken down the game to its core and looked at how fun it would be if it only included the bare essentials: racing and power-ups. Well, not until Freddie W and his team did in the video you are about to see here.

With some excellent editing, special effects, and design, we get to see the real, gritty side of the typically friendly racer. It is a place where red shells will literally blow you away, and a creepy Asian dude lifts you from the abyss. Oh, and there aren't any hot princesses, which is a bummer. But there aren't any annoying toadstools there, either. So it isn't all bad.

I would love if my local Family Fun Center had a power-up kart course that I could enjoy. But alas, it doesn't. So I'll continue to do what I always do at Family Fun Centers: drink beer, beat up kids, and give dorks wedgies.

I do wish we got to see: A. bananas, B. blue spiked shell, and C. the lighting power-up. But for a video that clocks in at a minute-thirty, I suppose we can't bee too choosy.

... Meanwhile in Another Castle

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Don't tell Mario...

SWEET Gamer Graffiti from All Over [Pics & Article]

By Joe Eskenazi

I TOLD you he was real!

Anyone of a certain age riding an F-Line trolley or bus on Market toward Van Ness can be forgiven for wondering if they've hallucinated, projecting a vestige of their childhood onto a passing wall. Many riders probably conclude that's the case; blink and it's gone.

But those walking past Market and Brady know it's true: There's a professional-grade graffiti mural composed of Donkey Kong Jr., Q-Bert, and, a treat for the careful onlooker (again, of a certain age) Ghost Monsters from Pac Man.

The San Francisco 1980s nostalgia wall was tagged on the videogame-centric Web site Pixelated Geek in a feature highlighting worldwide videogame-related graffiti. We are self-admitted San Francisco chauvinists, but we couldn't help but chuckle at the following, spotted in Halifax, Canada:
Here are some more good ones:

The San Francisco treat...

Melbourne, Australia

Ann Arbor, Michigan

C'est Mario et Luigi en Montreal!

Sources:
Halifax photo | http://bbroskeworth.com/
Montreal photo | via http://kotaku.com/
Melbourne photo | via http://pixelatedgeek.com/
San Francisco photos | Salim
Michigan photo | www.mlive.com

Ten of the Coolest Super Mario 64 Hacks

Think that people only hack the NES and SNES to mess with old Mario games? Think again. Here are 10 hacks that mess around with the 64-bit glory of Super Mario on the Nintendo 64.

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