Badge Arcade Bunny

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He loves video games and now he's in one, the hardcore badge collector/fanatic Bunny (no not Bugs) from the Nintendo Badge Arcade on the 3DS has his own Super Mario Maker event stage and costume reward! He even has his own signature pose, I'm sure he's thrilled and will tell you all about it next time you swing by to try and snag up some free Super Mario themed badges.

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MK8 on PC

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There was news a little while back of someone developing a PC based Wii U emulator, so far progress seems to be going well for whoever is doing this. And it needs to stop, Nintendo looses sales if people ilegally download them on their PC, and with less sales comes less of everything.

What is Nintendo's official stance on video game piracy?
Video game piracy is illegal. Nintendo opposes those who benefit and trade off of the creative work of game developers, artists, animators, musicians, motion-capture artists and others. Piracy continues to be a significant threat to Nintendo's business, as well as to the businesses of more than 1,400 game-development companies that work to provide games for Nintendo systems. Most importantly, game developers and publishers, particularly the smaller ones, depend on the legitimate sales of their games in order to survive. Piracy discourages innovation and new game development, which ultimately impacts the consumer.~ Source

Source of findings 

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Super Mario Maker Bumbers and Hidden Doors

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We're not joking, just yesterday we reviewed the game Super Mario Maker and today Nintendo of the UK put out the following video showing new content coming with the next software update. It looks like our creativity with levels just got expanded. all new features will be available on December 22nd according to Nintendo of the UK. Here it is:

   Update: 

For USA, the update comes out December 21st so we get it here sooner, just letting the world know.
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Monster Hunting

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A new costume in course have been added to Super Mario Maker today, based on the Monster Hunter series. If you complete the course you get a Felyne Costume.

Complete the latest #SuperMarioMaker Event Course and get this amazing @MonsterHunter Felyne costume, nya! pic.twitter.com/DzjYU6ST6c

— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) December 16, 2015

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A Smashing finale!

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Well, not so much, because there was only one piece of Mario content added to the game, other than that Mario fans got nothing new. But it is what it is, please welcome the Geno Hat+ Geno Outfit Mii fighter costume. This is based off of a very popular Super Mario RPG character. This is a Mii gunner costume. It would've been nice if they also added Mario and Luigi overall costumes to go with the Mario and Luigi caps for Mii fighters. But this is it for us, oh well...
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Mario on PC.

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What is this picture (shown above) of? If you glance at it quickly you'd probably assume it's Super Mario Bros 3.

Mario's on Linkedin but don't freak out

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OK so the internet went nuts this morning, everyone's sharing Mario's newly discovered LinkedIn account. Indeed Mario is on LinkedIn, but also it looks like he's not. What we mean to say is that there is a Mario Bros LinkedIn account but it doesn't appear to be official, if you follow their profile's link back to their Twitter account you can see that due to the lack of the blue check mark next to their name that they are not verified, Nintendo themselves are verified so having a Mario bros account that isn't would be silly of them. Upon viewing their tweets I can confirm this LinkedIn account is fan made, sharing things the official Super Mario Facebook page would never share, including fake Mario bros mugshot drawings. Still, they really tried to make the account look real and it did get a lot of attention.

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Mario Maker Plagiarism

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People have been downloading popular Super Mario Maker courses and re-uploading them as their own courses. This is plagiarism and it's annoying some players to see that others are taking credit for what they've made. Evidence of this matter is shown below, found through a Super Mario Maker community on Facebook.

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Copy Cat

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NSMB (DS) on Wii U

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Nintendo of Europe let out a Virtual Console trailer for NSMB, the DS game, coming to Wii U. This is for Europe but it's now listed on Nintendo's USA website for Virtual console, you can buy it today for the low price of $9.99. Another thing, the Nintendo account system has not yet been applied to the USA, yet it now seems that we can purchase Nintendo games on their website to instantly download to our consoles, with our NNIDs. This was a feature of the new account service, perhaps we'll be getting the service here in the Americas soon.

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MarioMonday 12/14/15

Here We Go!! Happy MarioMonday, This Mario Monday we're thinking about Christmas!

If you want those Super Mario Bros Christmas badges from the Nintendo Badge Arcade, then today is your last chance. They'll most-likely make a comeback eventually, but probably not before next Christmas.

Fan made:

found on Pinterest 

This Perler Bead Tree was found on Pinterest and features a Super Mario star, here's our TREE.

Featured Super Mario Maker Courses:

This week we have one new Winter themed course for everyone, For all of our featured Super Mario Maker Courses please visit Mario-Time-World and scroll down towards the bottom of that site.

ID: 730C-0000-0111-4ED9

snowboard in the alpine village uses various Super Mario elements to represent snow, it was submitted as a Christmas course but it's clearly just winter themed. There's a lot of different elements you have to rely on to finish this course, including picking up a boot from a Goomba to cross spiky ground. I also really like the amount of detail that was put into making the village homes.
See you next MarioMonday, Merry Christmoose!!

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A New Galaxy, on Wii U!

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Super Mario Galaxy is coming to Wii U!? Hold your Lumas, this ESRB rating COULD be talking about bringing both games to Wii U, like Virtual Console. Or maybe it's just showing it for Wii and Wii U because you can play it also on Wii U and it's acknowledging that. But I admit it's odd that they're now showing as both Wii and Wii U, perhaps it is coming to Wii U! That would be incredible, but unnecessary unless they make the games HD or something like that. Ironically this news was discovered after our review of Super Mario Galaxy. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is already out for Virtual Console on Wii U. Who knows, this could be an HD remake or  simply  a downloadable Virtual console edition. As mind-blowing as this sounds don't get too excited, we still don't have a Sunshine 2 or Galaxy 3. For updates on this finding, stick with Mario-Time.

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New Hanafuda theme!

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For the 3DS downloads this week Nintendo has released a new Super Mario theme for the theme shop called Mario "Hanafuda". This costs 1.99 and features only Super Mario themed Hanafuda cards in the background. The top screen scrolls with you to view all the cards while the bottom screen's image stays still and shows Mario and Toad playing with the cards on a little card table. The music for this theme is the classic SMB Ground theme.

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Troll Warning

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Probably due to the recent partnership of Nintendo and Microsoft to make Minecraft on Wii U with Nintendo elements, People have been sharing a false link around social network sites claiming Mario Kart 8 is coming to PS4. No worries people, it's all false.

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Gold is coming out in Japan!

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I guess in the Nintendo Direct for Japan they announced that the Gold Mario amiibo will be out in Japan with Lucas on December 17th. Here's the official Tweet confirming it:

amiibo『マリオ（ゴールド）』、『リュカ』12月17日に発売決定。amiibo『リュカ』の発売に合わせてWii Uバーチャルコンソール『マザー3』を配信。#NintendoDirectJP pic.twitter.com/R5VpEemyVf

— 任天堂株式会社 (@Nintendo) November 12, 2015

"amiibo Mario (gold), "Lucas' 12/17 announced. together with the launch of amiibo "Lucas" delivered the mother 3 U Wii virtual console"

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Mario's bringing the fun back this Christmas!

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Mario, the REAL Mario went around to malls giving out FREE stuff and talking to people, this is AWESOME! Just In my opinion (perhaps you agree) but this was an awesome ad! It makes me want to walk through malls looking for Mario (MIRT [Mario-in-real-time] machines).

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Mercedes in Mario

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You may recal the FREE DLC for Mercedes Veichle Karts in Mario Kart 8, well now they've made a course with a costume in Super Mario Maker. No, this is not an elaborate joke, it's all true. *SIGH* The costume honestly doesn't really fit in the game (in my opinion).

“Super Mario Maker continues to grow and evolve with new courses and content,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “It’s great that a luxury car brand like Mercedes-Benz recognizes the ability to create fun courses and share them with others.”~Nintendo PR

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Playing Super Mario is good for you

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The University of California, Irvine's Craig Stark neurobiology and behavior professor, and Dane Clemenson, postdoctoral scholar-fellow, talk about their research that may hold clues about neurobiology and diseases. Notice they say it "May hold clues". Their research shows that playing 3D games like Super Mario 3D World will improve someones memory; versus playing a 2D game like Busby, for example. Looks like we'll be introducing Super Mario into our education system next. I'm totally game for that.

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New Badges! 12/8/15

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 Super Mario bros 2 Badges have been added today to the Nintendo Badge Arcade but even better than that, Super Mario Christmas themed Badges and Dr. Mario Badges and Punch-out Badges (Mario is in Punch-out) and Donkey Kong Badges (Mario's First game). Badge plays cost a dollar for a set of five plays, otherwise you can get them by winning ten fake badges in the practice catcher.

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Minecraft. Wii U. Mario?

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Mario in Minecraft, old news right? Wrong! Now it's confirmed that Minecraft is coming to the Wii U, what's more, Nintendo will be WORKING with Mojang to bring official Nintendo + Minecraft content for the game. Mario will be in Minecraft officially!! At least that's what it sounds like, nothing is confirmed about that. This announcement must've been made on the Nintendo UK press site because for North America I haven't found anything yet. But according to Nintendoeverything.com Minecraft Wii U Edition will be out December 17th. Mama-Mia that's not long from now, I'm excited to see what this partnership of Nintendo and Minecraft/Microsoft will bring to the Wii U. Really (IMO) this game should've been on Wii U from the start.

Update: The USA/NA Nintendo Press release website announced Minecraft on Wii U today later on, possible around 3:00 PM EST. It will be out in NA as well on December 17th.

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Talk with Mario

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Charles Martinet (the voice of Super Mario) has made a public post today saying that you can come to Nintendo World in New York [Address: 10 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020] every weekend for the next four weekends where you can talk live with Super Mario. This either means He'll be there in person or talking on the MIRT (Mario in real time) device which lets people communicate back and forth with a virtual Mario. This is BIG news, go say "Hello!" Next Friday.

Come talk with Mario, live! at the Nintendo World Store in Manhattan.... For the next 4 weekends! Woo hoo!!!! Starts Friday from 4-6pm est!!!!
Posted by Charles Martinet on Friday, December 4, 2015

Dumm-de-dumm-de-de-dum!

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What's the name the SMB theme song? AND GO! .......................
 What? You didn't know it had a name? Of course it has a name and any true Mario fan should know it so this is the prime time to learn it if you don't know it already. Yes the SMB game now has a vinyl record out in Japan which is official from Nintendo. This record has the original theme from SMB with lyrics and in a karaoke version. The Japanese theme has lyrics that are copyrighted by Nintendo. Before you go to the following video please guess the title for the Japanese theme for SMB.
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Glitch be-gone

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Apparently (according to many different sites) Super Mario Maker courses featuring the invisible block trick glitch are being deleted from Course World. The invisible block glitch allowed users to (you guessed it) make invisible platforms for Mario to walk on in levels. The following video will explain how it's done but I guess the previous update removed this glitch from the game, also the permanent invulnerability glitch and a glitch that lets you jump higher on a trampoline while holding an item.

Source(S): Source1,  Source2

Let the voting commence!

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That Fan Faves contest we reported on a while back, it's happening, starting with Wii U. I guess after the game awards (happened last night) Nintendo wanted to have their own personal Game Awards. Anyways, you'd better get voting because you could win $15 in eShop credit. I voted for Super Mario Maker as the best Wii U game of 2015, but it looks like Splatoon is winning *moan*.
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8 player Super Mario bros

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Ever play Super Mario bros for the NES? Ever played it where you have to simultaneously switch off to a new player between a total of eight people including yourself? NO?? Me neither. But the ETH Game Technology Center made it happen, watch the following video for the details:

JP Bundle exclusive collectibles.

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Can you believe Japan gets this!? Nowhere else! A giant Question block with Wii U and pillow and more! Wow, awesome! First reported by VGMM. Looks like all of these collectibles are exclusive to this Japanese bundle.

"A giant Mario pillow featuring 30th Anniversary fabric, a Super Mario Maker placemat, a Super Mario Maker fabric bag, and a Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary towel. Oh yeah, and it all comes in a giant cardboard coin block! The bundle doesn't come cheap, but considering everything you get, it's quite a deal."

VGMM Giveaway

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Brett Martin/Nightram, owner of the Video Game Memorabilia Museum, has listed a contest for winning a 30th anniversary Mario plush character. This Mario plush's fabric has a very memorable look, being made up of various Mario items and the 30th anniversary logo in collage form, To win this, The curator has a few rules, to hear them all simply watch his new video here.

Sign up now for Nintendo Account

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Sign up now for Nintendo Account... In Japan.

Yes, Nintendo Account has opened up for Japan gamers and an ad has also been put out underneath the article describing the new account service for the two upcoming services, the Miitomo app and My Nintendo. Great for Japan, not so great for here in the US to sit around and wait until we get it, at least this shows us that IT WILL BE COMING, all of it.

"If you do not have a game console, it can be registered from the smart phone or personal computer. In addition, and "Nintendo Network ID", such as account of SNS (social network service),
cumbersome input item without any Guests may immediately register.it is possible to work with account of the available services."~Roughly translated by Google 

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Best Game Ever

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GameFAQs is holding a BEST. GAME. EVER. Contest to decide for 2015 what is the BEST GAME EVER. Surprisingly it appears Super Mario hasn't won yet, so people on Reddit are telling the world to vote for Super Mario World. Good choice, this was my first Mario game and it's awesome. The Winner of this popularity contest gets loads of gaming stuff in a huge bundle, or gift certificates to make his/her own bundle. Super Mario World is in Today's round and deserves a win.

Paper Mario in Super Mario Maker

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The development team for Mario  and Luigi: Paper Jam has put together a course for Super Mario Maker. It'll be released this Thursday (tomorrow, 12-2-15). Upon defeating this new course you will receive a brand new Mario, Luigi and Paper Mario costume. Paper Mario has been a desired costume for a while so this should slightly please many fans, although the regular Mario and Luigi are also a part of the costume. (Source)

New Super Mario card collector products

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Super Mario card collectors are in for a treat, EnterPLAY has put out new card collecting products, mostly card holders and mats to place playing cards on top of. All of the card holders can hold standard size playing cards, there's card boxes an pouches. One of the mats looks like the starting screen to SMB for the NES.
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