'The Creation of Mario'

What do you get when you combine Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" with the man who created Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto? Well, if you're artist Eric Proctor, you get the following:



I'm not sure which of the following elements is my favorite, to tell you the truth: The inclusion of the gender-bending Birdo or the perfectly-placed leaf sprite stolen from Super Mario Bros. 3.

To see more of Proctor's work, check out his deviantart page.

(Via gonintendo.com)

Those were the days

I came across the following photo (shot by Taylor Bamrick) while perusing Flickr the other day, and it took me back to the so-called "good old days" when my friends and I would sit around and play the latest NES games for hours on end.



Sadly, I sold my NES many years ago. Sure, I can play plenty of the system's games on my Wii thanks to the Virtual Console, but it's not really the same experience, is it? (Especially since you can't play any of its Zapper-enabled games on Nintendo's latest console. Grrrr.)

Seth Green, eh?

On the one hand, I think the following commercial, which the folks at Nintendo of America are using to promote the soon-to-be-released Dragon Quest IX, is funny. Hilarious even.

On the other hand, I'm not so sure it's actually going to push American gamers to buy the Level-5-developed RPG.



What do you think?

See also: 'Let's play: Which box art is better? (Dragon Quest IX edition)'

LTTGIMV: The Go! Team's Milk Crisis

LTTGIMV = Late To The Game-Inspired Music Video, by the way. (Yeah, I'm not sure why that acronym hasn't caught on either.)

True story: I was completely oblivious to The Go! Team before this past weekend, when I perused a commenter's YouTube channel.

I can barely understand a word of the song ("Milk Crisis") that accompanies the following video, but who really cares when said backdrop features dancing apples, bears, flowers and trees?



See also: 'Sock It 2 Me'

Teppei Okada tries his hand at Donkey Kong

Those of you who saw this post from a few days ago will remember that Okada is the professional violinist and music teacher who has made a name for himself by playing pitch-perfect renditions of various video game theme songs.

In the following video, for instance, he not only plays Donkey Kong's main theme and backing track, but plays the game's sound effects, too.



His take on Tennis (below) is even better, in a way.



See also: 'It's one thing to play a pitch-perfect rendition of the Super Mario Bros. theme song on the violin ...'