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It’s hard to believe that this great piece of filmmaking was done by someone who wasn’t even born when Super Mario Bros. 3 was released for the NES. A 21-year-old YouTuber named smartkid82504 used some cardboard, paper, glue, and colored pencils to recreate the first five minutes of one of the best platformers ever released [Technabob via Gearbox]:
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The author only needed 36 hours to set up this one minute of video. With the same tools and amount of time, I might be able to come up with a movie of two stick figures shooting each other with L-shaped pistols.