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Nintendo announces new games in The Legend of Zelda, Yoshi’s Island series’s…

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2013 Continues to Heat Up for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U

In a new Nintendo Direct video announcement today, Nintendo revealed another
massive list of news for its Nintendo 3DS and Wii U systems. Topping the list
for many gamers is an entirely new Nintendo 3DS game in The Legend of Zelda
series set in the world of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The game is
scheduled to launch this holiday season. Fans will also be excited to hear that
a new game in the Yoshi’s Island series is also being developed for Nintendo
3DS.

This AI “solves” Super Mario Bros. and other classic NES games…

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Program even takes advantage of bugs and glitches.
 

In the 28 years since Super Mario Bros. was released, and it’s obviously been
comprehensively beaten, thoroughly, many thousands of times in that time by
players around the world. But have you ever made the game beat itself?

That’s what computer scientist Tom Murphy has done. At SigBovik 2013, he
presented a program that "solves" how to play Super Mario Bros., or any other
NES game, like it’s just another kind of mathematical problem. And for those who
know that SigBovik is an annual computer science conference dedicated to spoof
research, hosted on April 1 every year, Murphy stresses that this is "100
percent real."

He outlines his method in a paper, "The First Level of Super Mario Bros. is Easy
with Lexicographic Orderings and Time Travel… after that it gets a little
tricky," but he also presented the results in the video you can see with this
story.
 

A long time ago, on a website far far away…

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A long time ago on a website far far away there was…. Mario, 2001 to be precise. This was on my original site which was called “Super Mario Portal”; a once thriving community of fan artists, writers, game makers and comic creators which due to my own personal circumstances at the time I had to … Read more