Cinematech

I'm watching the G4 television station last Saturday and usually they have this sweet show on called "Cinematech," which all it does is that it previews (or reviews) videogames without any opinions from anybody. Just straight up scenes from videogames.

Well, what caught my eye on this particular show on Saturday was a video of somebody playing the old 8-bit classic, Super Mario Bros. on the NES. This particular video was a start-to-finish domination (with warps), as lil' Mario mopped up everybody and everything, including World 8 Bowser at the end -- in 5 minutes, 11 seconds.

It was just insane to watch this. There was no point in the whole game in which Mario stopped running. He leaped over pirahna plants in a single bound. The guy just never stopped! There were points in the game in which you thought Mario should have died, but he didn't.

This could all be faked, though, through the editing process. Mario could have died, replayed the level over again, but that part just edited out before viewing. But, hell, it was impressive enough!