Monday, February 11, 2008

Mario, Fun and Disturbing

Here's a video of someone's 134 superimposed playthroughs of a particularly difficult level of Mario World:


You can read (though I didn't) a 2,400-word essay on Super Mario World vs. the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics.

And here's a video I acquired from a 25-year-old Japanese girl's cell phone (click on the image to watch 3 seconds of animation):


After I expressed and explained to her my shock at the video's contents, I learned that she was only vaguely familiar with the events of 9/11, not at all familiar with the arabic words "Allāhu Akbar", and apparently had made no associations with the video other than that it was an amusing depiction of Mario blowing up an American building.

Some casual internet searching revealed that the video was at one point available at somethingawful.com, but otherwise I can't locate any other discussion about it.