Mario fans, make your own 1UP Mushroom Burger with tips from momo! at Instructables. This particular burger has a veggie mushroom patty, but you can get the same effect with meat. The spots on the bun are mozzarella cheese! Link -via Laughing Squid

We wish you an 8 bit Christmas. We wish you an 8 bit Christmas and a Happy NES Year.

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This is what happens when you put your birds in the same room as your computer or game system. Togepi the cockatiel knows the Mario Bros. theme by heart. Next thing you know, he’ll be beating Superman at the game! -via The Daily What Geek

Now that's 3D! For the upcoming Mario Kart 7 video game, Nintendo teamed up with West Coast Customs to create a real-life, drivable karts:

Two life-sized replicas of the Mario Kart cars driven by Nintendo icons Mario and Luigi, working vehicles that the company debuted at the Los Angeles Auto Show this past week.

That's right: Working. Built by West Coast Customs, the two karts – identical to those gamers will be able to digitally drive come the December 4 launch of Mario Kart 7 for the Nintendo 3DS – are electric vehicles that can actually be driven around. And some lucky gamers will get the chance to do just that, as Nintendo plans to give away both karts as part of a Gamestop PowerUp Rewards promotion during December.

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In the new Super Mario 3D Land game, Mario has special abilities when he wears the Tanooki Suit - but think about it. Where did he get such a suit? From a dead Tanooki, a Japanese raccoon dog, of course!

PETA, understandably, is upset over the unnecessary killing of an imaginary videogame character and has made its displeasure known by releasing this fun little Flash game: Mario Kills Tanooki - Thanks Jay!

Now here’s an impressive kid’s playset. Cia of DeerDot made this impressive four-story structure for her son to play with so he could play Mario brothers without actually turning on a gaming system. The detailed pictures at the link are definitely worth a look, so be sure you click away.

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If Donkey Kong wasn’t a giant gorilla, but rather a lowly office worker whose promotion was given to a moustachioed employee named Mario, then the situation would probably play out just as it does in this spoof movie trailer for “Mr. Kong”. It’s a good thing nobody took his stapler!

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Geek girls who have a hard time accessorizing  in a way that actually expresses their specific interests are sure to enjoy these sexy and cute Super Mario high heels from Etsy seller and Flickr user MagicBeanBuyer.

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Zac Gorman figured out what Mario is really all about. Link -via Laughing Squid

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I’ve always fancied myself a pretty good Tetris player, but even at my prime I don’t think I could make art with the blocks while playing the game. This takes some major skills.

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Open the cardboard box and enter the fabulous world of Super Mario Bros. Our hero is controlled with a plastic straw. Running into the magnetic sticker Goombas will cause a sensor on Mario to reset the game. If you’re up for the challenge of making your own video game hardware, the source code is available from Teagueduino.

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What do you get when you combine Mario Bros. with Portal? Here's your favorite plumber like you've never seen him before, courtesy of stabyourself: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via The Awesomer

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Look at these adorable cupcakes! DeviantART member tomo-chi made mushrooms and Goombas from the world of Mario, with green ice cream cones serving as pipes. Link -via Buzzfeed

Love your iPhone, but wish it had a homier feel? Never fear – now you can use your best needlework skills to cozy up your case. For just $18, you get an embroidery-friendly case, plus embroidery thread in the appropriate colors to make whichever design you choose. You can also just use their grid paper to make your own design, if you want to take your DIY-ness to the next level. I think the kitties are hilarious, but you could also go more geek-like with Mario or the Apple or Superman logos.

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Every city has graffiti, but awesomely geeky street art like these ones on BuzzFeed are few and far between. Enjoy more skilled Mario graffiti at the link.

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When I was a youngster, I was really bad at gaming. On occasion, I got so frustrated that I would just try to kill my character as fast as possible or in the most original way possible. That’s why I was so impressed with this new record for lowest score achieved through the entire Mario game. It takes bad playing to a whole new level.

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It takes a lot of time and effort to get nails like these. But how do they use a controller? Hit the link to see six others, including Pac-Man and Legend of Zelda-inspired talons.

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You may have played Paper Mario the game before, but have you ever actually watched Mario after he’s been animated with paper? Now’s your chance.

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Artist Mike Puncekar illustrates the enemies of Mario in a way that makes them downright nightmare-inducing. See a collection of them at Buzzfeed. This piranha plant looks like it would be right at home in a Little Shop of Horrors! Link

At first glance,  it looks a little mean, but the dog can’t be all that upset if his tail is wagging that much, can he?

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It’s not easy being Mario. He’s in trouble with PETA, he has to change his name, he has to give up the love of his life… I guess it’s all worth it to be a hit video game star, though… right?

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Ever seriously doubt the authenticity of the end of Donkey Kong, where Mario simply sidesteps the giant ape to free the lovely (if pixel-y) damsel in distress? Yeah, so did Dorkly. This one’s for all of the realists out there.

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Russian skaters Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov did a Super Mario routine at the World Figure Skating Championships that ended Saturday in Moscow. They came in second. Link -via The Daily What Geek

You’re just walking along with one of your friends, enjoying the lovely day and the grass between your non-existent toes – then a plumber comes out of nowhere and… the terror! The terror!

You can probably guess what happens next.

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What do you get when you turn Mario Bros. into a First Person Shooter (FPS)-style game? Well, you don’t have to wonder. Behold, First Person Mario, as modelled and animated by Brandon Laatsch and uploaded by Freddie Wong (YouTube star freddiew) – via Facerocker

Many of us find ourselves working multiple jobs, even balancing simultaneous careers – but nobody has a LinkedIn profile like Mario! From plumber to doctor to race car driver, and even competing in the Olympics! Against a hedgehog, granted, but still, it’s impressive stuff.

In this version of the Thanksgiving story, Mario fled a famine to try raising power-ups in the New World. He had a hard time until he and his people made friends with the natives, which, of course, eventually leads to a feast. Link -Thanks, Scott!

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via Digg, where commenter kevro points to other examples starring a young Tobey Maguire and Jack Black.

DeviantArt user *TsaoShin re-created the image Michelangelo’s "The Creation of Adam" from the Sistine Chapel with Mario. Playing the role of God is Shigeru Miyamoto, who created the lovable plumber and named him after a landlord who barged in on Nintendo’s company meeting demanding an overdue rent.

Link: *TsaoShin’s DeviantArt page | 10 Mario Fun Facts | Mario Infographics

See also: Mario-related posts over at NeatoGeek

Neatoramanaut Dennis wrote to us about the set of furniture that his girlfriend (who is studying mechanical engineering in Germany and is apparently very, very handy) made for their apartment:

[Everything was] created by my girlfriend Judith for her apartment. We both love video games, especially Super Mario. She’s currently studying Mechanical Engineering in Germany and has also built an incredible lightsaber for my birthday. She’s a hardcore Super Mario Land (Game Boy) gamer and we both are fans of the whole franchise.

I designed the shelf for our growing collection of videogames (almost 200 Wii games) and I thought the boxes would be perfect with the backround [of hills] and a cloud (all made of wood). Beside the shelf was a small table for the phone and the Internet and I thought it would be cool if we could have a warp pipe too. So she’s created the warp pipe based on a garbage can [that] big enough to hide all the cables.

We’ve bought the figures and the mushroom to make it perfect. I designed the Game Boy clock [to include] the Super Mario Land scene with objects as numbers, because it is her favorite game … It works very well with the wall color and it’s not too colorful …

Currently she’s working on a small Koopa shell (the same size as the mushroom) for the shelf. So I’m just the guy with the ideas and she’s my Super Judith! ;o)

More pic of the fantastic Mario furniture (and the super cool lightsaber) over yonder at the Neatorama Spotlight blog: Link – Thanks Dennis!

If you’ve ever been to Retro Sabotage (featured previously at Neatorama), then you know Mario Jumping will not be like any other Mario game you’ve ever played. The payoff is well worth the effort. Link -Thanks, Tof!

Mario Question Block Coin Candy - $3.95

You never know what you'll get from a question block in the video game Super Mario Bros., but there's no question here. You'll get awesome coin-shaped candies from Boston America's Mario Question Block Coin Candy.

The candy, licensed from Nintendo, comes in a collectible metal tin and is now available from the Neatorama Shop: Link

More Super Mario Bros. themed stuff from the Neatorama Shop:

Super Mario Bros. Mushroom Tin - $3.45	Mario Bros. Super Star Candy - $2.95	Super Mario Bros. Power Up Energy Drink - $2.95

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Depending on how you feel about Nintendo and tattoos, you may love or hate this huge collection of Nintendo Tattoos. Some of them have some really great artwork, others…not so much.

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Craftster member enemyairship created this 7 by 7 foot rug of Mario in raccoon form:

He’s made of 386 granny squares, each one representing 1 pixel (3.5″ each) that makes up Raccoon Mario. I learned to crochet in February by watching youtube videos and recently watched another video for granny squares and got started on this project right away. I had originally thought that it would take me over 1 month to complete if I made about 10 granny squares per day.

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You know someone’s a hardcore Mario fan when they actually design a whole mosaic of Mario art on their wall using push pins. This must have killed their thumbs. I love how the art looks like it’s in pixels. This wonderful display can be found at the Student Computing Center at the University of Fraser Valley…good to know they spend their time studying over there.

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Here’s the theme that started it all – Mario:

And here we have Tetris, of course.

Zelda:

Amazing. I still recommend you check out the 40 Greatest Uses of the Mario Theme, though. It’s got everything from the banjo, which I think sounds pretty good, to a dude with a remote control car that drives by a line of glass bottles and hits them to make the appropriate noise for each note.

Antoinette J. Citizen created this art installation straight out of Super Mario Bros, complete with working question mark boxes with sound effects: Link – via Chunnel

The Best Mario Cake Ever from last month faces some serious competition from this amazingly detailed creation by Beth from Let Them Eat Cake in Costa Mesa, California.

We were looking for ideas to make our wedding different and our own, a unique wedding cake was one of the things we came up with. My wife suggested the idea of having a video game cake after we saw one online. We wanted a game that we both enjoyed and decided on the game series we have spent the most time playing together.

Coincidentally, the latest Mario Kart game was released on the same weekend of our wedding. This cake was designed with elements from multiple Mario Kart games, as well as a few aspects from other Super Mario Bros. games.

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30 examples of how our favorite video game character Mario would look like wearing a mustache from famous persons like Magnum, Zorro, Frank Zappa and more.

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See also: Neatorama’s 10 Mario Fun Facts.

Maybe you remember the Super Mario inspired Jack-o’-lantern. As a follow-up, here you can learn how to create your own Super Mario Brothers 1-up LED powered pumpkin.

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