Our friends over at slappedham.com have sent us over this fantastic Mario article for your amusement! What a bunch of legends! Check out these awesome and awesomely rare Mario Merchandise pieces and then don’t forget to check out their site and youtube too!

It all started back in the day with that crazy monkey Donkey Kong! Back in the old arcades when Mario was still “Jump Man” this now famous Gorilla was busy owning it up throwing barrels and kidnapping Pauline!

Anyway, here at Mario Mayhem we like to cover most things Nintendo and especially when they are closely related to the Mushroom Kingdom like DK is! This has lead us to create this list of 6 interesting facts you probably didn’t know about the legendary Donkey Kong!

If you are lazy or just like sweet jungle beats there is also a video compilation of these DK facts at the bottom!

As per usual fact is stranger than fiction and these 5 interesting points about Super Mario brothers are no exception! If you think you know everything there is to know about Super Mario then I implore you to read this article and check out the video, I would be really surprised if you already knew all of these 5 points about the Mushroom kingdom!

Somehow I have always enjoyed watching people play video games! At times, it’s actually more enjoyable for me then being the one controlling the “mennies” (that means “characters” for those of you not familiar with my Dad’s video game slang)! What does this little anecdote have to do with this post? Not much really, other than with this awesome collection of 32 animated Mario gif’s you can almost get the illusion of someone playing super Mario for you. Check out the cheeky Wario gif after the jump 😉

I stumbled across this awesome picture on reddit the other day and just had to share it on Bowser’s Blog! This cool image depicts a kind of realistic version of the classic original Donkey Kong, complete with Mario and Hammer, a rather seductive Pauline and predominantly featuring a King Kong like Donkey Kong!

If you are like me you probably spent a fair bit of time on this classic game so you may be having mixed reactions to seeing this realistic portrayal…do not fear, I promise you the monkey has not come alive and he is not after you anymore! You do not have to dodge the barrels…please stop with the barrels…

…Maybe I played too much of the game…

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