{"id":647,"date":"2010-05-01T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2010-05-01T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T13:36:25","slug":"super-mario-bros-crossover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/647\/super-mario-bros-crossover","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario Bros. Crossover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/534416\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/smbc_title_small.png' alt='Super Mario Bros. Crossover Title Screen' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/534416\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Super Mario Bros. Crossover<\/em><\/a> is, in my opinion, the only Flash game worth playing.  The Internet-keen amongst you may have run across this already on other blogs, but I thought it was worth repeating here.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>SMBC<\/em>, author Jay Pavlina masterfully recreates <em>Super Mario Bros.<\/em> in Flash with a surprising bonus: five additional playable characters pulled straight from iconic NES games.  There&#8217;s Link from <em>The Legend of Zelda<\/em>, Samus from <em>Metroid<\/em>, Mega Man from his self-titled game, Simon Belmont from <em>Castlevania<\/em>, and Bill R. from <em>Contra<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Each character retains certain abilities from his respective game, and the <em>SMB<\/em> power-ups provide each with character-appropriate upgrades.  It&#8217;s an exhilarating feeling to destroy every brick you can find with Bill R&#8217;s spread shot, or to blow up goombas by laying bombs with Samus.  If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to gun down Bowser, here&#8217;s your chance.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to spoil all the surprises.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/534416\" target=\"_blank\">Play the game<\/a> and find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Mario Bros. Crossover is, in my opinion, the only Flash game worth playing. The Internet-keen amongst you may have run across this already on other blogs, but I thought it was worth repeating here. In SMBC, author Jay Pavlina masterfully recreates Super Mario Bros. in Flash with a surprising bonus: five additional playable characters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,22,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-video-game-projects","category-nes-famicom","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}