Well, it’s not much of a hint since the video turns into a dead giveaway ten seconds after it starts. Hey, at least you know what game toppled Super Mario Brothers as the best selling video game of all time.

Here’s an excerpt from Yahoo! Games’ Ben Silverman’s story “Wii Sports is best-selling game ever”:

According to game-tracking website VGChartz, sales of Nintendo’s pop-culture phenom Wii Sports have surpassed those of legendary Super Mario Bros., making the breakout Wii title the best-selling video game of all time. And it only took two years and two months to do it.

The data is based on cumulative worldwide sales figures ending the week of December 27, 2008, which indicate that lifetime sales of Wii Sports have exceeded Mario’s staggering 40.24 million units.

Hey, at least Mario still tops the charts, particularly the list of the best-selling video game franchises at 201 million.

For more Wii-related goodies, check out Wii News Daily, another great b5media Technology Channel blog.

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Super Mario Brothers dethroned as best seller

Well, regardless of which video you choose, one thing’s for certain: They’re both better than the video I showed you in my previous posting, Gordon Freeman in Mario Land.

My only beef with the guys who did the modifications is the way they presented the world of Super Mario Brothers. Come on! The game Super Mario Brothers may be side-scrolling and set in a two-dimensional world, but having Gordon Freeman walk a narrow blocky terrain in 3D isn’t exactly a good translation of the Super Mario Brothers world’s physics.

Hmmm, probably has something to do with Half-Life’s Steam engine.

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Gordon Freeman in Mario Land #2

Waitaminute! This blog isn’t about comic books! Duh! It’s about retro and classic video games. So where are the crossovers in the video gaming realm? Believe it or not, the most well known crossover in this world still has something to do with comic books. Ever heard of the Marvel versus Capcom series?

Here’s a little backgrounder courtesy of Wikipedia:

Marvel vs Capcom is a series of fighting games created by Capcom in which characters created by Marvel Comics and Capcom’s own characters appear together. While it was the first versus series involving Capcom, the name Marvel exists to distinguish it from Capcom’s other versus series with SNK, Tatsunoko Production, and Namco’s crossover role-playing game with Capcom, Namco x Capcom.

The Marvel characters depicted in these games were often based on their incarnations in various early 1990s animated series (particularly X-Men), and were often voiced by the same voice actors.

Many of the characters and fighting mechanics used in these games were first developed and refined in two other fighting games Capcom had developed earlier, serving as precursors to the series: X-Men: Children of the Atom, which featured characters strictly from the X-Men universe, and Marvel Super Heroes, which gleaned characters from Marvel’s entire roster (X-Men included).

Although the tag-team fighting concept was not new, it was refined with this series (although fans would argue whether this was for better or for worse). New fighting game terminology, such as “Aerial Rave” (the act of performing a combo on an opponent while the opponent remains airborne) and “Variable Combination” (the act of having two or more characters on the same team to perform their hyper combos at the same time) were added to the fighting game vernacular with this series.

Well, this post is not really about Marvel vs Capcom, but about a fantasy crossover between two very popular video game worlds, that of Super Mario Brothers and Gordon Freeman’s Half-Life. Go check out the video below:

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Gordon Freeman in Mario Land

Not too shabby for a student. I’m sure Santa Claus got the surprise of his jolly life.

You’re probably sick of Super Mario Brothers-themed Christmas postings, but for those who missed the first two, here are the links:

Have a very Mario Christmas!
Have a very Mario Christmas, too!

Oh, and go check out Evan’s other video, “A newb’s first linerider!”

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Even students are into the Mario Christmas spirit

Cool, eh? Apparently, some guy and his co-workers wanted to surprise their manager with a great Christmas theme. I don’t know why they chose Super Mario Brothers. Maybe their manager’s a retro gaming fanatic.

If you want to take a gander at the other photographs, hie on over to Zekira’s Photobucket. Don’t like to view the slideshow, view the thumbnails.

Oh, in case you missed my Christmas greeting, Have a very Mario Christmas!

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Have a very Mario Christmas, too!

Of course, before writing this piece, I scoured the Internet for a good photo to go with the “Have a very Mario Christmas!” title. This is the first one I found:

Many thanks to Lord Woof and his Flickr photostream for the image.

Anyway, let me close this post with a sincere wish for you and other Re:Retro viewers to have a very merry Christmas. Enjoy the holidays!

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Have a very Mario Christmas!

Here are two of my favorite retro gaming t-shirts:

The maker of these retro video gaming t-shirts, 101tshirts.co.uk, also produce retro television, movie and music shirts. Not a fan of t-shirts? No problem. The company specializes in printing our favorite retro video gaming icons on different products like hoodies, kitchen aprons, satchels, sports bags, and drawstring bags.

Go check out their other designs and tell me what you think.

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Retro gaming t-shirts featuring Mario, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man

Look, ma, no hands! It’s strange seeing Pac-Man land blows on the diminutive Mario without flailing arms and legs. It must be his, er, its big mouth.

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Pac-Man pwns Mario

Oh, for those wondering what Mugen is, here’s a brief description:

Mugen is a freeware 2D fighting game engine designed by Elecbyte, written in C with the Allegro library. The engine was originally released in July 1999. Beta versions of it were made to work on DOS, Linux and Windows platforms, distributed through their website. The engine allows users to insert created characters, background stages, and other game objects through interpreted text files, graphics, and sound compilations to create a functioning fighting game similar to commercial games.

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Mario versus Sonic on Mugen

One such item is this Pac-Man themed giant Christmas Tree in Madrid, Spain:

Actually, the “tree” looks more like a pyramid or an obelisk. But who cares? Unfortunately, the Pac-Man Christmas Tree was put up in December last year. So we don’t really know if they’re going to put it up again. Hopefully, if they do, it will be with a different theme. Super Mario Brothers, perhaps?

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Pac-Man Christmas Tree lights up Madrid