Shifting Through Parallel Universes

Shift is awesome little flash game. If you loved Portal, than you owe it to yourself to check this out and if you ever played Super Mario World on the SNES, then you may want to keep reading.

Apparently, a Japanese genius used some tools to rearrange the levels of Super Mario World to make it the most evil and difficult game to ever exist. There is a series of videos on YouTube called "Asshole Mario," which is shorter than the actual Japanese translation of: "Making my Friend Play Through My Own Mario Hack"

I've tried to provide a link to all the videos in order. For the sake of time, you only need to view about 1-2 minutes of one of the videos to get the idea. It really is best to watch these in full with another person in the room. I have yet to watch them all, but I went through the trouble of linking them all so I can easily watch them some day in the future. Even with friends, we were only able to watch the first 3 before it was just too much to handle.

Asshole Mario
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Stage 6
Stage 7
Stage 8
Stage 9
Stage 10
Stage 11
Stage 12
Stage End

Asshole Mario Returns
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Stage 6
Stage 7
Stage 8
Stage 9
Stage 10
Stage End

It was especially entertaining to watch this with a group of friends while consuming alcohol. The girls at the party weren't interested in the video, but they did find it amusing that, every 30 seconds or so, all the guys would make loud exclamations of pain, disbelief and laughter.

So here is where it gets good. Some guy recorded 134 playthroughs and merged them together as one.

Watch:


There is detailed explanation of what is going on available here, which also includes a really awesome philosophical description of physics.

And after reading the description of quantum physics, you can browse through the fail blog to get an idea of the massive amount of failures existing in potential universes.

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