Super Mario War - Today's Time Waster

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Super Mario War - Today's Time Waster

by Jason Clarke Oct 1st 2006

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!

Tags: Mario, Nintendo, Super Mario War, SuperMarioWar, time waster, TimeWaster

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.

Al said 11:12PM on 10-12-2006

It works for the Mac, too.

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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