There have been some minor hacks throughout the years and a couple of attempts at major redesigns, like the surprisingly fun Legend of the Blob Bros. SMB2 isn't entirely without love, however. 2 taking its usual position of neglected stepchild. These were usually culled from the original Super Mario Brothers and Super Mario Bros. Pretty soon ROM-sharing sites, like Zophar's Domain, were filled to the brim with fan-made Mario games. Once it was proven that the original ROMs could be used to create all-new gameplay experiences, the floodgates opened. 3, featuring not only revamped sprite work, but new levels and power-ups as well.
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Peach and Daisy: The Ultimate Quest was a full fledged redesign of Super Mario Bros. It's impossible to keep track of all of these early hacks, as most have been lost amidst the sands of time, but 1999 brought probably the most significant Mario hack to come down the pike. Fire flowers are condoms and most enemies are redrawn as some sort of phallus. Super Sperm Brothers replaced nearly every character in the entire game. The bad news? It's pretty much one giant penis joke. It took until around 1998 before somebody used a Mario ROM to create something that resembled a brand new game.
These hacks all had one thing in common, they were simple sprite replacements, usually just a character or two. Most of the notable hacks of this early era were simple one-offs created for shock value, like Super Bud Brothers, which replaced some of the game's bushes and character sprites with weed leaves, and the disgusting Super KKK Brothers in which, well, you can probably guess its horrific gimmick. Naked Italian plumbers soon gave way to stoned Italian plumbers. It was simple stuff at first, like getting rid of Mario's mustache or even his clothes.
What better title to screw around with than the original Super Mario Bros.? It didn't have too many sprites and, oh yeah, there's that whole "pretty much defined video games for an entire generation" thing. In addition to allowing people to finally brag about beating Ghosts N' Goblins, NES game ROMs had/have the added bonus of being fairly easy to manipulate. Of course, long before there were dedicated toolsets, there was the humble game ROM. The end result? A fan community like no other, filled with passionate people from all over the globe, all working toward one common goal – creating an absolute boatload of deviously designed Mario levels. Nintendo's Mario Maker – launching early next year – may be the company's first official foray into do-it-yourself level editing but, as many people know, would-be game designers have been using unofficial channels to do just that for close to two decades using Nintendo's most popular brand.
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