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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