A trip to Mario World, without the GameBoy

by Conrad Quilty-Harper { Jun 26th 2006 at 12:55PM }

Some kid, or more likely, a 30 year old man, has had his room elaborately decorated in the style of Mario World. The conversion comes complete with ceiling pipes and blocks that stick out of the wall although, as far as I can tell, they held back from placing random bottomless pits around the room.

[Via BoingBoing]

Tags: BoingBoing, Bullet Bill, BulletBill, Conversion, Decoration, design, Gameboy, hack, Mario, Marioland, mod, Room, Room conversion, room mod, RoomConversion, RoomMod

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Derbeste @ Jun 26th 2006 1:03PM

ok....you KNOW this guy is single.

I couldn't even fathom trying to have sex in that room........maybe he has "other" uses for those pipes he installed.

CYRiX @ Jun 26th 2006 1:11PM

HAHAHAHA THATS HILARIOUS

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Nadinengland @ Jun 26th 2006 1:11PM

"ok....you KNOW this guy is single"

Ahahahahahahaa! Ditto, but still id love it, i mean come on. That must be awesome to wake up and see mario on your wall. You have to agree!

bv @ Jun 26th 2006 1:14PM

Wow, why don't you do some investigating before calling this person a single loser male.

http://community.webshots.com/album/551687566VKclNq

See the pic that says "me"? Shes actually kinda cute.

Tiago @ Jun 26th 2006 1:14PM

LOL! When you're a fanatic, you're a fanatic! (maybe I'll paint my room with metal gear stuff :x)

Anyway, it's a little better than painting it pokémon style!

Derbeste @ Jun 26th 2006 1:19PM

"Wow, why don't you do some investigating before calling this person a single loser male."

Because I have a job with a firewall. (btw...since I can't see the pic you just linked, how do you know it's not a relative?) :P

Besides....the comments I can make are much more fun this way. hehe

And finally....I still stand by my opinion that sex in that room would be just......creepy.

randomshagz @ Jun 26th 2006 1:20PM

I think that is love for the SMB. It reminds me of that episode of Scrubs where JD and Turk painted Prime and MegaTron on the walls of the nursery.

Conrad Quilty-Harper @ Jun 26th 2006 1:36PM

bv, I didn't see the extra albums with a picture of the owner of the account. Anyway, where does it say it's her room?

Optimus @ Jun 26th 2006 1:50PM

>>Besides....the comments I can make are much more fun this way. hehe

Loser, stop projecting.

The room is saweet.

bv @ Jun 26th 2006 1:50PM

Conrad, the link you posted brings you to her album. After looking at a few of her head shots, she might be a little too good looking to be doing something as nerdy as this. You never know though. Kotaku posted the same story and claimed the owner was a chick as well:

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/omg-the-super-mario-world-room-183242.php#more

So, I'm not sure what to think here. :-/

DG @ Jun 26th 2006 2:04PM

I think of a bunch of video game nerds just fell in love.

bv @ Jun 26th 2006 2:04PM

Conrad, me again. I found she posted in the comments for this story on digg:

http://www.digg.com/design/Amazing_photos_of_a_bedroom_decorated_to_look_like_Super_Mario_World

Heres what she said:

"
by avoidcliches 11 hours ago

why hello everyone. i'm the one that painted this in my old campus house. this was my first attempt at a mural and it was in our front room, not bedroom! we had parties at our house, so i didn't do anything massively 3d b/c it would probably get ruined... i really had no idea how to go about it, it was done with regular interior paint, and spray painted papier-mache boxes/ posterboard...that i hot glued to the walls.. everything was done freehand, i penciled it on the walls first from pixelated screenshots i found online...and used large bowls and masking tape for curves/lines. it turned out to be the longest, most tedious project ever.. about 2 months of the room being cluttered with tons of tape wads, drop cloths, gladware containers of mixed paints, and crusty paint brushes. i got sick of working on it all the time, but once i started, there was no turning back.. not to mention the walls were so botched up from cracks, holes, warping, and old paint. as for it not being the "original mario", i liked the colors and scenes a lot better from super mario world. it was just an idea i had, and figured i'd be painting over it ( weren't allowed to paint-rented house), but the new tenants kept it. ...and i do have very. strange. dreams."

User info for avoidcliches:

"
Member Name:
avoidcliches
Real Name:
katherine
Location:
columbus, oh
AIM/Yahoo/MSN/ICQ/gTalk:
[none entered]
My Website:
[none entered]
Member Since:
June 25, 2006 "

Lucky is the guy who gets her.