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Fame over: After you’ve defeated Bowser, rescued the princess and liberated the Mushroom Kingdom, what’s left for a video game hero? How can you return home to Brooklyn and resume your life as a plumber after developing an addiction to Magic Mushrooms and Invincibility Stars? For Mario, that dilemma is his daily life. Add to that a dissatisfied and nagging Peach, and an angry, estranged Luigi, and you have the live action short film Mario: Game Over at emuse.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/20596/?pc=33452.

Jet pants: Where’s my rocket car? Paleo-Future is an amazing blog that revisits the visions of the future from the not-so-distant past. While some of the predictions are now coming true (leisure space flight, talking computers) where are the space colonies, jetpacks, food pills and robot butlers? And how hard would it have been to predict eBay, cell phones and video games? Duty now for the future at paleo-future.blogspot.com.

by Michael Citrome

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