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September 14th, 2007

Whoops! Detteiu Mario video series

This was going to be an entry about obscure video pinball game Necronomicon. I was going to upload a video I made of the game to convey what it was all about, complement the contents of the article, that kind of thing. Unfortunately, due to problems with both my video capture device and youtube, I couldn’t make it happen this week. Crud. Next week, for sure!

Instead, let’s take a look at the Detteiu Mario video series. An intrepid user on youtube who goes by the name of daigam has uploaded a series of videos demonstrating hacked Super Mario World levels. This is not particularly interesting on its own – there are a lot of people out there who have hacked their own levels into the classic platformer, especially on youtube. What’s intriguing about the hacked levels it that they run through on their own, start-to-finish, without any input from the player whatsoever, and often in the most absurdly roundabout manner possible.

You can watch the entire series right now on youtube, in eight installments: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight. A lot of comparisons have been made to Rube Goldberg machines and even Mr. Magoo, which… yeah, seems about right. The level designer’s real name is, as far as I can tell, unknown, but whoever he is, well. He’s probably lost quite a bit of time making these things!