9/3/2007 - Self-playing Super Mario World Level

I've said in a previous post how awesome Super Mario World was for the Super Nintendo... especially considering the fact that it was a pack-in game. I mean, I really would have paid $50 for it (standard fare for the time) and still would have been happy with it. One of the things that made it great was the play mechanics of the game. It took all of the best gameplay elements of the first three Super Mario games and added a myriad of new ones without making it overly complicated. One modder (or probably a group of them) wanted to showcase these elements by fabricating a level where Mario does absolutely nothing but stand while the level itself moves him around and eventually completes it. It's easier to show you than to describe it:



I know everything is contrived, but, WOW. It truly is an amazing thing to see. Everything is placed so perfectly that anything that's even a millimeter off would mean death for Mario (unfortunately, Yoshi didn't survive). Rube Goldberg machinists should definitely take note of this video as this is even better than most of those contraptions, no matter how complex they are.