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10 Feb, 2008

Real world mario question blocks

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Planet Kiberpipa| Planet LiveCD| everyday life| time wasters

Some time ago I found the page poster child mario question blocks, which describes the process of creating real world mario objects. Months passed by and one day I decided that our hacklab Cyberpipe needs a block too. My brother Peter to the rescue, and we got our first block:

UroÅ¡ thinking I’m crazy for being amused with this cube

But then a few days ago I was wondering around old part of Ljubljana city center and I noticed that someone else had to have similar ideas quite some time ago:

There you go, proof that Slovenians know some Nintendo history.

Tags: building blocks, cyberpipe, Ljubljana, Mario Games, Nintendo, Planet Kiberpipa, Platform, Super Mario, Video Games

Dusan Smolnikar

I saw these two pacman characters in Tivoli yesterday - If I recall correctly it was on grad Tivoli

Dunja

Nintendo had nothing to do with Pac-man, to be exact, it just provided one out of many platforms one could use to play Pac-man. And I am quite sure, that these two are in fact Space Invaders - http://www.space-invaders.com/lju1.html ?

Dunja

Anyway, they do look like "Blinky" and "Inky" :))

Jure Cuhalev

Dunja: yep, they are space invaders. I spotted a few in London and I think Linz also.

Marko Mrdjenovič

The Tivoli invaders.

Mario

That is awesome. I must have one of those blocks.

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Jure: Alan, photos have attribution directly beneath them + flickr backlinks to them. How would you like me to attribute the photographer / change the curre
Alan Grinberg: Good photos - you ought to give the photographer credit.It is a really fun museum.
Igor: V Ljubljani imamo tudi nekaj takega, precej manjše, a prav tako zanimivo.http://www.h-e.si/

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Jure Cuhalev is an Open Source Hacker, with background in Social Sciences and Usability and User Experience (UX).

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