Mario has a brand new game just around the corner. To celebrate the release of Super Mario 3D Land, Nintendo took over Time Square in New York City, brining a little bit of the mushroom kingdom to throngs of fans. Set up on the streets of New York was a life size Mario dream land, complete with pipes, bouncy coin jumps and a classic flag pole at the end.
The brand new 3DS game is the first original adventure for Mario on Nintendo’s newest handheld, and anticipation could not be higher. The glasses-less 3D technology has always been impressive, but the 3DS has been lacking a lynch pin game to make people need the device. Nintendo has high hopes Super Mario 3d Land is that game. Word on the street in Mushroom Land, New York is that Nintendo might have gotten their wish.
We are most excited about the triumphant return of the Tanooki Suit, Mario’s full body raccoon outfit. This awesome costume debuted in Super Mario Bros. 3 on the original NES and has been woefully underused since. Mario has donned several full body costumes, but there was always something extra amazing about seeing our favorite plummer get his furry on.
You can catch a video of the awesome Super Mario 3D Land event after the jump.
Welcome to this week’s On the Radar where we delve into all corners of the entertainment, tech and geek Internets for news, views and whatnot that may have escaped our regular coverage this week. Let is know if we missed something interesting. Otherwise, on to the links!
• If you caught last night’s Community, then you’re most definitely going to want to go back and read the Twittersodes leading up to the airing. Trust us.
Welcome to this week’s On the Radar where we delve into all corners of the entertainment, tech and geek Internets for news, views and whatnot that may have escaped our regular coverage this week. Let is know if we missed something interesting. Otherwise, on to the links!
Who doesn’t love lists? Starting this week, we’ll be bringing you a brand new regular feature in which many members of The Flickcast staff will contribute to The Flickcast Five, a list of five films, TV shows, characters, plots, or other pop culture related items that we love (or hate) the most.
This week, one of the bigger films in this year’s Summer Blockbuster season gets its national release, when Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time hits theaters. Many know that the film is based on the classic 1989 side-scrolling game. In keeping with the cross-genre of gaming and films we bring you our very first Flickcast Five: Video Game Movies. This time, it’s ones we love.
There have been plenty of flops in the genre, from films like Super Mario Brothers with Bob Hoskins, to Double Dragon with Scott Wolf and Alyssa Milano. While not all of them are watchable, most of them are enjoyable, and some are even accurate to the source material that we’ve spent hours, if not days and weeks, trying to complete.
Well…not really. It may not be Fan Film Friday yet, but this is a fan trailer that just needs to get seen. Those who have seen the Inglourious Plummers fan trailer are in store for something special, as the first trailer for Mario Kart: The Movie has popped up.
The obsession with the animated racing game began in 1992 with the release of Super Mario Kart on the Super NES system. Of the other sports Mario and his gang partook in, from golf to baseball, grand prix racing seemed to be the most popular. The game series ran through all of Nintendo’s systems including the Nintendo 64, Wii, and even the handheld systems.
The trailer shows the inner emotion of each of these races, and just what kind of a toll it took on our Italian-American hero. For fan films, the acting was pretty good, the story was quite well thought out, and there are even a few laugh-out-loud moments.
With Quentin Tarantino’s self-proclaimed “masterpiece” hitting theaters across the country today, we felt it was only necessary to bring you an appropriate fan film to celebrate it. Our pals over at GamerVision put this little film together, which is a shot-for-shot remake of the Inglourious Basterds trailer.
Only this time, it’s done with the cast of The Super Mario Brothers. It’s pretty funny, and clever.
Mario has a brand new game just around the corner. To celebrate the release of Super Mario 3D Land, Nintendo took over Time Square in New York City, brining a little bit of the mushroom kingdom to throngs of fans. Set up on the streets of New York was a life size Mario dream land, complete with pipes, bouncy coin jumps and a classic flag pole at the end.
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