

Mario and Mario Kart 7 “Chara-Play” screen covers by Tenyo. Have you ever seen a more charming 3DS screen cover? Have you ever seen a screen cover that had any amount of charm at all?
Amazon listings have these coming out in Japan on January 10, at a price of ¥819 ($10.66). No import listings yet, unfortunately, so you won’t be able to look at Mario while you’re looking at Mario.
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Mario wishes you a happy new year, by Usako. We’re all going to have to work really hard to make sure 2012 doesn’t peak with this picture! Usako set the bar really high.
I’m looking forward to this year. I think it’s going to be a dope temporal situation for handheld games, for blogs about handheld games, and for all of us.
tags / jc / gaming / mario / new yearShots of Game Paused’s “Classic Mario” t-shirt. I’ve been meaning to post pictures of this shirt for a while, because I think it’s super clever! It’s both pleasant to look at, and a cool reference to the vintage Super Famicom box art. These in-progress shots are my convenient excuse.
The shirt is part of Game Paused’s relaunched stores. It sells for £24, or about $38 in money I understand, and the store ships worldwide.
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tags / mario / shirts / jc / gamepaused / game pausedSuper Mario Bros. TPU covers for 3DS, by Mori Games. So many accessories lately! These system cases add a tasteful little pixel Mario (and the word “Mario”) to the outside of the case. Each color has a different design, my favorite being the swimming Mario with air bubbles on the blue one.
As usual, I haven’t seen these available anywhere for import yet; in Japan, they cost ¥1,470 ($18.85) each.
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tags / mori games / mario / accessories / imports / jc / gamingSuper Mario Balance Block by Media Factory. It’s like Jenga, with ?-blocks, bricks, and … what do you call the empty blocks? It also has a little mushroom and a Mario-on-a-stick to push blocks out with.
This is even more 3D than Super Mario 3D Land! Garaaaan!
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Mario from the American Super Mario Bros. 2 boxart is a trace of the Mario from the Japanese Super Mario Bros. boxart.
Yep, mind blown.
If you watch Mario’s pupils between boxes, it looks like they’re dilating, something I hesitate to mention given that it invites tiresome Mario drug jokes.
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[Via Derek Yu]
tags / mario / boxart / jc / gamingSuper Mario Hard Pouch, Protect Cover, and Protect Filter for 3DS, by Hori. It’s curious that both Hori and Keys Factory released non-Super Mario 3D Land-themed Mario accessories concurrent with that game.
That ?-block skin is so neat — why does it have to come with a Mario Party group portrait on the front? I don’t want to decorate my 3DS with Waluigi.
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii Nokonoko Air Hockey Set. As far as I’m concerned, humanity’s done; this is the crowning achievement. For one thing, it’s a self-contained air hockey set in which the puck creates the air cushion, instead of the table.
More importantly, it’s a real Koopa shell that glides around when kicked. Real Koopa shell. That’s the world we live in right now.
You can buy this for $14.20 from Strapya.
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tags / mario / strapya / jc / gamingSuper Mario Bros.-themed 3DS “Body Covers” by Keys Factory. What’s interesting about these is that they don’t directly reference or tie into Super Mario 3D Land at all, instead featuring either Super Mario Bros. sprite art or 2D character designs of pre-SNES characters (plus Yoshi).
Also interesting: they’re fresh to death. I haven’t seen these available on any American sites yet, unfortunately. In Japan, types A and C were released yesterday, with B and D coming November 24, for ¥1280 ($16.40) each.
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tags / accessories / nintendo 3ds / keys factory / mario / super mario 3d / super mario 3d land / jc / gamingMario shoelaces and t-shirt, new on the North American Club Nintendo site. It’s pretty cool that we’re getting some new stuff that isn’t straight from the Japanese site. Those shoelaces are pretty wonderful, and you get both the white and yellow sets for your 300 coins.
The t-shirt is 500 coins, if you want that t-shirt.
Man, am I really thinking about spending my fake money on some Mario shoelaces? I’m pretty sure I’d be humiliatingly worried about ruining my limited-edition mail-order shoelaces by getting them dirty, so maybe not.
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Mario mini-towels, produced by Ensky. So you can buy one of these (for $23.90), or you can get the Club Nintendo towels… Seems like there are, or have been, more Mario towel options than there should be.
I really like the one depicting Mario jumping through coins.
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tags / mario / imports / towels / towel / gaming / jcAKB48’s “Heavy Rotation” in Japan’s Just Dance Wii. Is it just me, or does Just Dance with J-pop look crazy fun? Even played in a tiny room, while wearing a mask?
Okay, so now that you’ve seen that video of Just Dance Wii, the Japanese version of the game, watch this, which I can’t embed: the Super Mario Bros. theme. Keep watching through the menus and stuff, and you’ll be rewarded with an FMV of a person dancing in a big Mario costume. “Lucky Maaaario!”
I don’t know if it’s possible to ignore something so momentously weird as an Ubisoft-produced FMV Mario dancing game. I don’t know if it’s responsible to ignore that.
Import: Just Dance Wii
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