Something Amazing

Challenge #1 in the Xperia PLAYers competition is to find and document 5 people (anybody; people I know; celebrities; you name it) who look like video game characters. 

#5) Oprah and Birdo (Super Mario Bros 2)

‘nuff said!

#4) Amy Pond (Doctor Who) and April (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Okay, so this one started as a comic book, but was one of the earliest video games I can remember. As you may remember, April is the redhead friend of the Ninja Turtles. I’ve included the movie depiction of her above; the 8-bit image might not make it so easy!

#3) Hurley (from LOST) and Snorlax:

Okay, this one was taken from Smosh, but it’s absolutely uncanny. As a fan of both series, I couldn’t resist putting this one in!

#2) Jack (from Let’s Golf 2) and Brad Pitt

#1) Mario and Matt

Article number one was a photo taken roughly a year or so ago with a work colleague of mine. Short, Italian and boasting a Mustache, I couldn’t help but cut out a circle from a piece of paper, color in an “M”, stick it on the nearest red hat and take a picture of it!

This picture was the first thing that sprung to mind during the contest; and as such I’ve taken the liberty of photoshopping the picture to match that of a confusing Mario Japanese box cover!

Trivia: The cover is of the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros 2; which was never initially released in the west because it was deemed too hard for American Audiences. In it’s stead , Nintendo redesigned an existing Japanese game, replacing the in-game characters with characters from the Mario series and leaving the rest of the game intact otherwise; which is why Super Mario Bros 2 bears little resemblance to any other of the early Mario titles. It was later released on SNES included in Super Mario All-Stars as ”Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels”.