I am a Nintendo fan who has been there since the NES. I am also game developer and enjoy trying a new spin on traditional games. You can find my free games at JackGames.com.
Nothing developed budding cinematic artists back in 1992/1993 like Mario Paint for the SNES. I got my own copy when the game was released. My brother and I somehow also talked his dumb friend down the street into trading his copy of Mario Paint to us for HyperZone, which gave us two copies. Two copies held some importance for Mario Paint, as you could only save one image; so a second copy let you save a second image.
Mario Paint let you draw whatever you wanted using crude pens and stamps controlled by the SNES Mouse. One set of stamps was a whole set of sprites from Super Mario World, including Mario himself; so naturally every fanboy did some kind of animation featuring Mario. And since this was also the period of time when Mortal Kombat was big in arcades and coming to the home consoles, naturally Mario also had to die in a variety of over-the-top fatalities.
Apparently I had a lot of free time back in the early nineties as this theme spawned three films. Go to YouTube if you want to see more.
The first thing I did when I used Mario Paint's animation thing back in the day was create shorts with Mario fighting Sonic. It would always end with Sonic blowing Mario's head off or knocking someone off of a building where they'd explode on the concrete below. The red spray paint tool was my best friend back then....
....No wonder Jack thompson thinks we're all psycho killers.
I just ordered a copy of Mario Paint off of ebay to start making videos like this. I can't believe how epic this was. This must have taken you forever to make. My jaw is on the floor. Very nice work.
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The first thing I did when I used Mario Paint's animation thing back in the day was create shorts with Mario fighting Sonic. It would always end with Sonic blowing Mario's head off or knocking someone off of a building where they'd explode on the concrete below. The red spray paint tool was my best friend back then....
....No wonder Jack thompson thinks we're all psycho killers.
BEST MARIO PAINT EVAR!
Either frontpage or weekend destructainment.