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super lego mario brothers

LEGO Super Mario Animation

Mario meets LEGO in these fun stop-motion clips hand animated by Nintendo fan Michael Hickox.

Michael painstakingly shot thousands of individual frames to recreate the first two levels of the classic Super Mario Brothers game. The levels are surprisingly accurate reproductions of the game. You’ll want to crank up your sound to get the full impact…

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February 8th, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun video games

it’s people. tetris is made out of people!

Human Tetris

Everyone’s favorite Soviet block video game has been brought to life using a roomful of people, taking on the roll of the various colored geometric shapes from the game.

The stop-motion video by Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond of NotSoNoisy creative agency is the latest in his series of video game inspired clips, which first gained…

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December 31st, 2007 comments (22) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun retro video games

classic video games animated with candles

The folks over at Boing Boing dug up this fun little stop-motion video features a handful of arcade classics, brought to life through the magic of candle-mation (that is, animation done completely with tealight candles).

Pac-man, Pong, Space Invaders and Tetris all make an appearance, along with a nice little musical Mario tribute. Now wasn’t…

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January 28th, 2007 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: retro video games