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20 SNES games are coming to Nintendo Switch tomorrow

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Nintendo Switch Online users have been able to play NES games on Switch for several months, and now a number of SNES games will be available for you to relive. You won't have to wait long either: they're coming to your Switch on September 5th.

Super Mario World Wooden Dinosaur Land Map: Yoshisaurus Etch

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The combo that gave us the beautiful Legend of Zelda wooden Hyrule map is back with another map from a classic video game. Neutral Ground and graphic designer Alex Griendling present this 18.5″x 14″ maple ply map of Dinosaur Land, from the SNES hit Super Mario World.

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Like the Hyrule map, this one is more than just a replica of Super Mario World‘s overworld map. Alex added a small map of Star Road and an inventory of the game’s the power ups.

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Grab a cape feather and fly to Neutral Ground, where you can get the map for $150 (USD).

[via Gamefreaks]

Super Mario World BART Map Poster By Robert Bacon

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Getting to know the ins and outs of the San Francisco bay area rail system never looked so groovy thanks to this Super Mario World styled map.

A morning work commute can be a dreadful experience, as anyone who has had a 9-to-5 job in their lifetime can attest. But a little sugar can make the medicine go down as the Disney tune goes, and that’s exactly what graphic artist Robert Bacon has done with his Super Mario World interpretation of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.

This isn’t the first time that Bacon has Nintendo-fied a city’s transportation map, he’s done similar illustrations, either in the style of Super Mario, Zelda, and even Donkey Kong, for New York City and Chicago, both of which – along with his latest BART map – are available for sale through riptapparel.com.

As for Bacon’s BART map, it is totally brightly in-tuned with Mario’s popular first outing on the Super Nintendo, and also includes many similar landmarks from the game. Giant smiling trees, stars, castles, and even power ups from Super Mario World make their inclusion on this excellent map that should certainly make for a nice print to hang on one’s wall.

Source: SF Gate

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Super Mario World “The Athlete’s Rag” Theme Played on Eight Floppy Drives

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Anyone who has spent any amount of time playing Super Mario World knows the music by heart, so you’ll recognize this tune. Anand Jain a.k.a. “MrSolidSnake745” has created a neat version of “The Athlete’s Rag” theme song from the game using his popular band of eight floppy drives.

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Catchy tune no? Still don’t recognize it? You can check out the original version in the second video. You’ve probably heard Jain’s other tunes played via floppy drive and if you want even more, Jain is currently raising funds on Patreon to keep this series of videos going.

At least someone is still putting those old floppy drives to good use.

[via Laughing Squid]

Super Mario vs. Mortal Kombat: Finish Them

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Video games are a bit like comic books in the sense that at some point most gamers have sat around talking about who would win if a fight broke out between characters from this game and that game. One video game beat down I have never thought about is Super Mario World vs. Mortal Kombat.

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That is a mash-up that seems very biased towards the Mortal Kombat killers. After all, MK fighters get those awesome fatalities. There is nothing quite like seeing cute Mario characters dispatched violently by Scorpion and Shang Tsung.

Everything seems to be going along normally until morphing character Shang Tsung pops up and starts to dominate and decimate the Mushroom Kingdom. Check out the videos to see all the mashup action in full effect.

[via Kotaku]

Custom Super Mario World SNES: Yoshi Approved

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This beautiful custom SNES was created by ozcan and it really makes me wish that Nintendo had offered something like it way back in the day.

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It shows Mario atop Yoshi, ready for adventure, and the controller features a flying Koopa. The design looks pretty amazing over that red background. Interestingly enough, I’ve been told to go take a flying Koopa a few times. If Nintendo offered consoles like this, I would be buying them all even if it meant never having money for games themselves. I would just display them and look at them all day.

Awesome job. Some people are just amazingly talented.

[via it8bit]

Super Mario New York City Subway Map: Underworld 1-1

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A couple of years ago we saw a map of New York City done in the style of Super Mario World. Here’s a great complement to that map, a chart of the Big Apple’s subway depicted in the same style by Robert Bacon. What’s up with Staten Island?

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Here’s the official map of the subway for comparison:

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Watch the video to get a closer look at the map:

Robert also made a Super Mario Bros. 3 version of the map, which is a tad easier on the eyes.

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Enhance!

You can order both maps from Bacon’s shop on Ript Apparel for $25 (USD) each. He also has Mario-themed maps of Chicago on there.

[via Doobybrain]

Mario on Yoshi: Yoshi’s Theme is Now Playing in Your Head

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Who can forget Mario’s lovable and dependable green sidekick? Sorry Luigi, we’re still not talking about you. I’m talking about Yoshi, the omnivorous, egg-laying, ground stomping, tongue swinging dinosaur. Jacob Ashley immortalizes a familiar sight in many a gamer’s mind with this wood and acrylic piece.

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Ashley made the pixel art sculpture out of pine, acrylic and epoxy. He then hand painted it to make the two heroes look like they burst out of a TV in 1990.

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You can buy the sculpture at Yetee Gallery for $400 (USD), which is incidentally is also how much an original copy of Super Mario World costs today.

[via The Wooden Arcade via it8bit]