Posts tagged mario-marathon

4th Annual Mario Marathon triple-jumps into action today

by Griffin McElroy (Jun 24th 2011 10:00AM)

For the fourth year in a row, a group of insane people will board themselves up in a small, Mushroom Kingdom-decorated room to beat every level, collect every star and stomp every Goomba the Super Mario franchise has ever produced. Why would someone purposefully, harmfully oversaturate themselves ...

Mario Marathon squashing Goombas for charity once again

by Griffin McElroy (Jun 26th 2010 9:00AM)

For the third year in a row, a small group of brave, platforming-adept gamers have holed themselves up in a room, where they'll play a vast cornucopia of Mario titles until their viewers allow them to stop. That sounds more sadistic than it actually is -- the Mario Marathon is actually a charity ...

Madmen completing every Mario game for charity

by Griffin McElroy (Jul 12th 2009 12:00PM)

We love Mario. We mean, we're somewhat contractually obligated to, being huge nerds and all. Still, there's certain stages in the core Mario games that are simply excruciating to play -- we usually skip them during our nostalgic romps. That's why we can't help but admire the efforts of three men ...