Mario Keeps Reaching for the Stars
I have no idea who made this odd and shockingly sentimental Super Mario video, but it’s actually quite touching. It moves through Mario’s whole history with grace and rather heart-warming music, and if I weren’t such a horrible person determined to hate everything regardless of its quality it would have brought a tear to my eye. I just managed to avoid such an unseemly show of human emotion by reminding myself that to Goombas and Koopas, this is just an elaborate snuff film.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.