During our event in December, we had a few videos that were played as we started each game. We’ve displayed at least one of those before on the site, but here is a full list of the videos we put together, one for each game:

• Super Mario Bros.
• Super Mario Bros.: Lost Levels
• Super Mario Bros. 2
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Super Mario World
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Super Mario Galaxy
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii

So there you have it. Everything is in one spot for easy download. Enjoy!

Today, 18th of December in the year of our Lord 2009, marks a christening of epic proportions for hardmode.org! We launch our first marathon in only 7 hours!

Some may ask, “HM… How do you mentally prepare yourself for such a daunting task?”

That’s an interesting question, faceless viewer! Garret likes to work in an office near a computer and miscellaneous Apple accessories. Matt likes to boss Garret around and make him work harder than he gets paid for. While Joe, Justin, and Colin like like to load as many electronics into a small dorm room as possible and game. Game like there’s no tomorrow. Which very well may be the theme of this weekend. Can we survive the unsurvivable?!

These questions and more will be answered in only a few hours! Good luck and God speed, hardmode.org.

EDIT: That’s more religious undertones than I meant to use. Too bad, deal with it.

I got this in just today, but here is the prototype for our Hardmode.org T-shirt! They aren’t for sale just yet (might have to tweak where the logo sits), but they will be soon!

p.s. Sorry for the epic mipples (man nipples).

So the results are in. Actually, I’m looking at the numbers a tad bit early, but we have a fairly round number as of today, so it looks all pretty. Anyhow, what I’m talking about is hits to the site. Recorded via Google Analytics, Since October 11th through today, we’ve had a total of 403 visits to the site, with 129 uniques. I’m pretty excited about that, actually. It’s been less than a month and it looks like we’ve managed to grab a good following.

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I was in an origami kind of mood a few days ago and thought, “Why not find some Mario themed origami?” Well, the “why not” is there’s not much to be found of Mario origami. There is however plenty of papercraft Nintendo stuff.

Check out http://www.cubeecraft.com and search Nintendo to find models of the original NES, the NES controller, and other game systems and characters.

For something slightly harder, go to http://nerd-craft.blogspot.com. Here you will find various dioramas of Mario levels, such as 1-1 (beginning and end) and 7-3.

An Exacto knife would be useful (even though you can get by with a pair of scissors) as well as some card stock paper. It’s thicker than normal printer paper, which is very useful in the dioramas.