Super Mario 3 Holiday Wreath: The 8-Bit Days of Christmas

Celebrate the holidays in classic video game style. This Nintendo Light-Up Wreath has a Super Mario Bros 3 theme that combines one of the coolest video games ever with our favorite holiday. The pixel art wreath has power-ups and five green LEDs that blink intermittently in the center of the donut blocks. I

It looks awesome and very festive. Sadly, it doesn’t play any music, but what are you gonna do? Some 8-bit holiday songs would have sweet. At least it looks amazing. It lets those on the outside of your house know that there’s a Mario fan inside. Santa will see this from a mile away as he flies by in his sleigh, and he’ll make a special stop at your place with extra gifts because he’s a big Mario fan too.

This is perfect for the kind of person that leaves a powered-up NES on for Santa instead of milk and cookies. And you know what cartridge is inserted. If Santa gets distracted from all of his other stops, that’s on him. You gotta complete those levels. Hey, if he can’t deliver, maybe you get to keep all of the gifts. Sweet!

Guy Spends Six Years Crocheting Super Mario Bros. 3 Map

Six years. Think about it. In six years’ time you can accomplish quite a bit. If you had that much time, what would you do? Well, this guy crocheted himself an awesome Super Mario Bros. 3 map. That’s using your time wisely.

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Kjetil Nordin is a Norwegian computer programmer. He is also a skydiving champion and a crochet master. It took him about 800 hours to make this masterpiece, using his free time to get it done.

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He made sure that he used the right yarn colors so he could match the Super Mario All-Stars version of the game. It looks completely authentic to me.

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[via Kotaku]