Mario may be the master of Mushroom Kingdom, but that hasn’t stopped programmer Jay Pavlina from dragging other classic NES icons into goomba territory in his new aptly-titled game Super Mario Bros. Crossover.
In this undefinabley-awesome act of retro bliss, players get the chance to rampage through all the levels of the original Super Mario Bros as any of these classic 8-bit protagonists:
Mega Man, Simon Belmont, Samus Aran, Link and that dude from Contra.
The game duplicates the original level designs pixel by pixel (even the warp zones), and adds a continue feature and the ability to switch characters between deaths/levels.
You can read more about the game and its creator at exploding-rabbit(dot)com.
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Amazing stuff man! You've realized my childhood dream! When I was little I used to imagine what it would be like for the Nintendo characters to play though each other's levels. But, don't stop here! Not only should they get to play through Mario, but through Zelda, Mega Man (2 or 3), Castlevania, Contra, and Metroid!
Amazing stuff man! You've realized my childhood dream! When I was little I used to imagine what it would be like for the Nintendo characters to play though each other's levels. But, don't stop here! Not only should they get to play through Mario, but through Zelda, Mega Man (2 or 3), Castlevania, Contra, and Metroid!