It's the Off-Topic Internet Sightseeing Tour!

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Not sure if this can be seen outside the US, but here's a brilliant parody based on the TV adaptation of The Last of Us, except now it's Mario Kart. (And the actor playing Mario is actually from the Last of Us TV show.)

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Ballsy doing a Mario sketch again after the Elon Musk Wario courtroom sketch.

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I can't view it there, but it's also being uploaded to Twitter.

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Just wanted to share the trailer for the movie Tetris, if only because we get to see Henk Rogers, Alexey Pajitnov, Minoru Arakawa, and Hiroshi Yamauchi being portrayed by actors.

It does look entertaining, though.

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Again, this is probably not available in all regions, but here's a behind-the-scenes video of that Mario Kart sketch.



It's impressive how much effort they actually put into this. It was clearly done by fans.

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I'm sure we all know what day it is by now.

Here are couple of the more amusing things I've seen so far.

Sega released a free Sonic the Hedgehog game on Steam, except it's a point-and-click visual novel titled The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog.

I'll just let this IGN headline speak for itself: Surprise Nintendo Direct Reveals Mario Movie Voices Coming to 'All Of Your Favorite Mario Games'

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Smash Bros. trivia video creator PJiggles talks about hard-to-discover subtle details in the game.



Watch until the end (or skip to around 13:40) for behind-the-scene stuff.

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The theme from Super Mario Bros has been chosen for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the US Library of Congress. It's the first time music from a video game has been chosen for inclusion.

Video Game Soundtrack Joins Recording Registry for First Time

Few musicians have had their work become so internationally recognized for decades yet remain so relatively unknown as Koji Kondo, the man who composed the music for the Super Mario Bros. video games in the 1980s. Still today, Kondo is credited for original Nintendo music in the new “Super Mario Bros. Movie” out this month.

Kondo, born and raised in Japan, was a college senior in Osaka, interested in the piano and sound design, when he saw a recruiting flyer from Nintendo on a university bulletin board. He answered the ad, and the rest is video game history. His main, or “Ground Theme,” for the 1985 game is a jaunty, Latin-influenced melody that’s instantly recognizable around the world today.

“The amount of data that we could use for music and sound effects was extremely small, so I really had to be very innovative and make full use of the musical and programming ingenuity that we had at the time,” he said through an interpreter in a recent interview. “I used all sorts of genres that matched what was happening on screen. We had jingles to encourage players to try again after getting a ‘game over,’ fanfares to congratulate them for reaching goals, and pieces that sped up when the time remaining grew short.”

Now 61 and still working for Nintendo, he’s seen his “Mario” music used in films and played by orchestras. He’s designed the world of sound for dozens of other video games. He did, however, have an inkling that they were onto something at the beginning. “I also had a feeling that this game might be something that could turn into a series and continue for a long time,” he said.

“Having this music preserved alongside so many other classic songs is such a great honor,” he said. “It's actually a little bit difficult to believe.”

Super Mario Bros. theme — Koji Kondo, composer (1985)

Perhaps the most recognizable video game theme in history, Koji Kondo's main motif for the 1985 Nintendo classic, Super Mario Bros., helped establish the game's legendary status and proved that the five-channel Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sound chip was capable of vast musical complexity and creativity. Inspired in part by the music of Japanese jazz fusion band, T-Square, the game's main theme, or “Ground Theme,” is a jaunty, Latin-influenced melody that provides the perfect accompaniment to Mario and Luigi's side scrolling hijinks. Kondo's score laid the groundwork for an entire generation of chiptune musicians and has been performed by orchestras around the globe, befitting its status as one of the most beloved musical compositions of the last 40 years.

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Saturday Night Live strikes again. This time, Funky Kong talks about being cut from the Mario movie.

The humor gets a little crude.

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Here's a heartwarming video of Doug Bowser signing a Bowser amiibo for a disabled fan. Looks like this was during the Tears of the Kingdom launch event at the Nintendo Store.

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Nintendo Force magazine is having a Kickstarter for their first book project called The Impact of Iwata.

Thought I'd bring it up because not only does it sound like a good book, but Fry contributed some artwork to it.