Old Games in the Real World

by paulo | Jun 24, 2008

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Probably one of the greatest things about design is when someone comes up with a good idea do revive old, cool games. What about a Mario Kart race going on in highway somewhere, or maybe Donkey Kong throwing stuff at Mario and Luigi from a real skyscraper?

It was a really awesome idea, the person who came up with these is a real genius. Does anyone knows who did it? If you do, drop a comment! Enjoy and cheers!

Update: Thanks to our reader Oli Kenobi, we got to know the mastermind behind these pieces: Lee Vidal, aka RETROnoob. And we couldn't go that far to find such a creative artist... he's got a DeviantArt account, of course. I've updated all pictures to bigger versions. Enjoy!

Update 2: Check out our new post - Awesome LEGOd Video Games!

About the author

Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, a 24 years old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I work as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! You may also follow me on Twitter.

Markus Nielsen 06/24/2008

Lol! :D Thats great!!

Daan 06/24/2008

LMAO! This is great! I love the skyscraper Donkey Kong vs. Mario and the Advanced War series :P

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Oli Kenobi 06/24/2008

That's a good idea!

I did a little research, it seems the guy who made it called RETROnoob:
http://retronoob.deviantart.com/

Anonymous 06/24/2008

You can add the credit : http://www.fubiz.net/blog/index.php?2008/06/24/1820-retro-gaming-on-real...

Anonymous 06/24/2008

Just one addition to this article. F*cking learn some grammar and for God's sake, learn how to use spell check! Skyscrapper? FFS. You are writing a blog that you expect other people to read? You lose all respect points when you can't even properly formulate a sentence

Anthony 06/24/2008

Excellently done! this is the kind of art i love to see, great job to the artist

Zim 06/25/2008

Interesting and funny images!

shaknovsk 06/25/2008

Ha, Interesting! Loved the pictures, great job. I love these games... they reflect a good time of my life. I'd played SNES since 1996 and percepted so much things than scenes or characters: the music. And I found a website with remixes (or re-makes) of these songs: ocremix.org - perfects. Just search your favourit game and listen good music. You can find a lot of different versions and styles (one group made a energic version of Ken's - Street Fighter II - music, with vocals! Other did a 4 piano version to Ryu's music, and a brazillian group called 8-bit Instrumental did a fabulous versions of Top Gear bgm).

(ps: sorry for the broken english!)

visit tassiapellegrini.com and photografiaclub

Steve 06/25/2008

I think these are very well done. A fun stumble ;).

Derek 06/27/2008

My favorite is the Donkey Kong one as well.

I loved the SNES Top Gear 1st track song! I am going to have to listen to it right now.

Note: I have been recollecting snes-genesis games the past years of my life. At first it was a nice way to keep myself entertained when things were rough through college. I then realized that it brought back a lot of positive childhood memories, great for inspiration! Whenever I revert to the imagination of a child, I get endless ideas. ^ ^

Anonymous 06/30/2008

Small suggestion - you need to resize the images to something usable - some are over 2Mb in size, yet only need to be ~80k max, with a large version available as a link if really necessary !

For example - Mario Bros 3 - almost 3Mb in size, but saved at the "right" size for the webpage comes in at just 55k