Design

Urban Super Mario Goes On Super Violent Graffiti Crime Spree

This is not the Super Mario Bros. game you want the kids playing.

Great Goombas, what has gotten into our little plumber friend? One minute he's defacing train cars with spray paint, the next he's splattering Mushroom Kingdom with the fresh blood of policemen. Under the black balaclava he's wearing, is that really Wario?

Needless to say, this is not Nintendo's newest effort to appeal to the Vice demographic. Although I'm not sure of the authorship of this hacked Mario Bros. video, which was posted to Facebook by Germany's I Love Graffiti, it's likely that the Berlin street-art crew 1UP had something to do with it. (Just a guess from all the prominent "1UPs" appearing throughout the level.) The shadowy group has established a prominent foothold in its city's public-transit system, according to Urban Art Core: