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First level of Super Mario Land built pixel-by-pixel in Minecraft

First level of Super Mario Land built pixel-by-pixel in Minecraft

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Minecrafta2z YouTube channel proprietors spend hundreds of hours painstakingly building stop motion animations of actual Game Boy games using Minecraft. Super Mario Land is their best one yet.

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At this point, they might as well build their own IRL Game Boy from scratch. After constructing a scale 788 x 287 block model of the original Game Boy in Minecraft's creative mode, with a 1:1 block-to-pixel ratio for the 160 x 144 screen, the Minecrafta2z YouTube channel proprietors proceeded to spend hundreds of hours painstakingly building stop motion animations of actual Game Boy games. Zelda and Tetris were great, but Super Mario Land's side scrolling was their toughest challenge yet, and they even did the game music using Minecraft's notoriously difficult note blocks. And they say this is the ADD generation.