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Super Mario War - Today's Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Oct 1st 2006 at 7:15PM
Super Mario War is a multi-player PC fan game based on (and using) the artwork from Nintendo's famous Mario games. The makers consider the use of copyrighted artwork to fall under the "fair use" consideration, although personally I doubt that would hold much validity in court. Regardless, I hope Nintendo leaves these guys alone, because they've created a fun and compelling game that both Windows and Linux users (and Xbox users, surprisingly) can enjoy. The game features a multitude of modes, as well as a game level designer, and over 400 user-submitted levels, providing almost limitless replay value.
If you're at all familiar with the Mario line of side-scrolling games, and really... who isn't, you'll understand how to play this game. It's all about stomping on each other, the way Mario squished his enemies in all of those classic games. Happy stomping!
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
The Tick said 12:04AM on 10-02-2006
Diggin' it. All it needs is online play. Mario heaven.
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Al said 11:12PM on 10-12-2006
It works for the Mac, too.
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james said 9:34PM on 10-19-2006
checked today, MYSQL errors.
so i Google cached it, and there are mirrors available for the downloads.
GoTo Google. search for
http://smw.72dpiarmy.com/
click on: Cached
scroll down abit, and you can see the download links.
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