Some Genius Hacked The Beatles Into 'Super Mario Bros. 2'

A frighteningly talented hacker known as Nesdraug, with invaluable help from music programmer Shauing, grabbed Super Mario Bros. 2, the ignored middle child of the Mario franchise, and turned it into the NES adaptation of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine cartoon movie that we never knew we desperately needed. Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Peach have been turned into George, Paul, Ringo, and John, all of them in their stylish Sgt. Pepper-era garb (which already made them look like wacky video game characters in 1967). 

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The fact that Paul McCartney has no shoes is subtle symbolism for the fact that you’ll die a lot. 

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The levels have been completely redesigned to resemble the trippy locations from the movie, and the enemies and items have been Beatle-fied as well — for instance, the POW blocks that clear all enemies on screen now say LOVE, which means you can finally kill English Bobbies with kindness. John would be proud. 

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Hey, a bulldog.

The bosses have been replaced, too. Here’s the Vacuum Monster from the movie taking Birdo’s place, which works great because they’re probably the same species. 

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It really feels like you’re playing through one of their most vivid acid trips. 

But, as cool as the graphics are, the game wouldn’t work as well as it does if the music hadn’t been completely replaced with 8-bit renditions of Beatles tunes, from “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” to “Eleanor Rigby” to “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise),” which is used as the invincibility theme (even though the song isn’t in the movie, but we’re not complaining because it rules). 

Some Genius Hacked The Beatles Into 'Super Mario Bros. 2'
Source: Pinoy Daily News