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Super Mario Bros. is eternal — an icon woven into the fabric of pop culture, or perhaps etched into its sidewalk anyway. Though at times it almost becomes a cliche, particularly due to the YouTube nation, there are still some clever, and maniacally hard-working, people out there applying Super Mario in really fucking amazing ways.

Andreas Heikaus made this video for his bachelor thesis at the University of Applied Science and Art Hannover. He used some incredible… things… I don’t understand to cast a nearly flawless run through the game on a city sidewalk covered in graffiti scrawls. Without the bounds of a television screen, the levels stretch on down the curb, and basically it’s super fucking cool.

In Andreas’ words:

I stitched the entire level together that I got a huge panorama… after this I made the animation with the original sprites from the game for the whole thing in the areas you normally won’t see…

He’s German. Anyway, fuck all that nerdy shit anyway — he completed the game in six minutes, sick!