Super Hard Mario Bros. Game
Syobon Action is basically a remake of Nintendo's cult classic, but with a little 'creative license' added for kicks. Every platform you stand on could be a death trap in disguise, and collectibles are often booby-trapped if not made extra difficult to acquire. There is also a nod to The Big Adventure of Owata's Life towards the end.
Music is from Cheetahmen II (Super Ghouls and Ghosts for level 4). Videos from stage 2, 3 and 4 are in the extended. Unforgiving! [source: Lord Jezo]
From the comments: The video title says, roughly, 'A Mario-like game I wrote myself and then made my superior (co-worker) try to play.' Text shown with the blue screen is 'omake', which basically means outtakes or bonus footages.
Name: Syobon Action
Category: Platform
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
Download: Choose the first link on this page
Comments
Warning: Watching the videos will spoil your true enjoyment than if you played it with all the surprises intact. :(
Posted by: Choja | December 28, 2007 7:34 AM
...until you trick another friend to play it while you watch.
Posted by: ChrisSketch | December 28, 2007 7:58 AM
Reminds me of "I Wanna Be The Guy".
Posted by: LFF | December 28, 2007 9:35 AM
Forgive me for the overly pretentious pun, but if there'll ever be any beverage called "Genius in a bottle", its recipe absolutely HAS to based in some way on the source code of this insanely awesome little game.
To make a little more sense of Google's weak attempt at translating the instructions, here's my hopefully only half as weak attempt at translating the instructions:
-Operation
Left and Right - Movement
Pressing on Z key - Jump
Holding Space - Double [speed]
O [Letter O, not number 0] Key - Self-destruction
ESC - Quit
F1 - Title
If you press 1 to 4 while on the title screen, you can optionally play on that stage.
0 [number 0 this time] key - Wonder Zero Dungeon (You might possibly be killed without cause.)
Posted by: Random Passersby | December 28, 2007 1:27 PM
Oh man, it always crashes when I open the exe file. Or is that also just a cruel joke the game is playing on me?
Posted by: Blueberry_pie | December 28, 2007 2:35 PM
This game is absolutely brilliant, I'd like to meet that guy and tell him I love him.
Posted by: Pixel Mort | December 28, 2007 3:44 PM
Blueberry_pie:
If it crashes with a message similar to this one "The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem." this is most likely caused by some missing system files needed for C++ dependencies. You can get around this either by writing your own .manifest file basically trying to override those dependencies or much easier by simply installing the Visual C++ 2005 Runtime Package which for the x86 version should come as an installer named "vcredist_x86.exe" with a size of roughly 2,6MB. Can be found over at microsoft.com. I'd post a link but I'm afraid my comment could be deleted as spam in that case, heh.
Posted by: Random Passersby | December 28, 2007 3:47 PM
Oh man, I don't care about the normal levels' gimmicks anymore because Wonder Zero Dungeon is the king of all BS deaths.
If you hit a pink song block in the second level of Wonder Zero Dungeon (if you get there AHAHAHA), you can't finish the game.
Posted by: Choja | December 28, 2007 11:52 PM
Thanks Random Passerby, but that didn't help. I'm actually not getting any error messages. When I start the game I just get an empty black window that closes after a few seconds. It does always print a Log.txt, but it's mostly in Japanese so that doesn't really help me much. (At least, I think it should be Japanese. It's displayed as a bunch of strange characters even though my computer supports Asian fonts)
Posted by: Blueberry_pie | December 29, 2007 9:48 AM
I get the exact same as you Blueberry pie.
:(
this game looks frustrating but fun
Posted by: jeppo | December 29, 2007 5:49 PM
where do i get this game
Posted by: shawn | February 2, 2008 6:29 AM
this game is awesome. it's... suicidal to play it, but it's awesome. played through it three times, once with 354
once with 124
and once with 23.
wikipedia said something about en extra eight levels?
is that so?
Posted by: AcoustiKevers | April 6, 2008 5:02 PM