Shout out time!
My husband, Buried On Mars’s newest video series called “Mars Vs Super Mario Bros” is up on his YouTube channel, and it’s awesome! (Okay, I know I sound biased…but it is good!),
Anyone who grew up playing Super Mario Bros and tried to complete it can identify with my hubs’ plight as before now he never has finished the game. In fact he has complained how much he sucks at Super Mario Bros.
Does he complete the game? Does he throw down his controller in frustration?
Grab yourself a coffee and ice cream, and follow his journey. Watch all four videos, starting here:
(By the way, that’s my voice you hear at the start of his videos).
Enjoy!
Caught Me Gaming 
Coffee and ice cream?!? Why didn’t I think of that?!?!
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And completely flexible. You don’t like coffee? There’s still ice cream. And vice versa! 🙂
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I have many questions, but I’ll start here: Where did you get that Super Mario fart music???
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The guy’s name is Gerry Phillips and he is on YouTube. He uses his hands to make fart noises and eventually got so good at it he moved on to hand farting songs. I think he’s even done Bon Jovi.
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I am doing with this neither coffee nor ice cream. Am I in trouble?
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LOL, you mean no chocolate raspberry truffle Keurig this morn?
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Not yet. I’m heading out to breakfast in 2 hours with my buddy Peter and then I shall draw first coffee.
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I’ll also ask about your editing software. What are you using? But you guys are probably running a powerful machine right?
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He is using Adobe Premiere (Adobe creative suite). And yes, he has an Asus gaming laptop. The Adobe suite is expensive, but before I got the software at a discount at my work, he was subscribing to it monthly ($25 a month).
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How was the learning curve on that?
I’m partway through the first installment now. I can honestly say I’ve never made it to 5-2 without warping so good on him already.
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Kevin’s background is television broadcasting, so he is familiar with editing software. But, I’ve also used Premiere a long time ago, and if I recall, it wasn’t bad. Wasn’t too steep. If you can Photoshop, you can Premiere.
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I think my fart question was answered at the end of part 1.
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That’s ok.
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I like that you can hear the narrator at the intro has a Canadian accent. We have our own way of saying “Mars”. It’s like Maars or something.
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Haha that narrator is meee!
He had me sit down with a mic in front of me. Then he said, “say this – previously on mars…” Two takes.
But I didn’t know he would use it in his videos otherwise I would have put less emPHAsis on the sylLAble lol
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TWO takes?! Impressive! I sense a secondary career coming.
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Thank you! I’ve been told that too. I’ve done many a voiceover, but nothing commercial. Most recently, I did voiceover work for a friend’s multimedia thesis presentation. I’d love to do that as a secondary career!
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That’s cool! I enjoy doing it when I do my own videos.
My internet connection has been choppy, so I haven’t been able to complete the video series. I hope he is able to complete the game, legit.
I dig this a lot by the way, it’s a great idea and I enjoy seeing someone play basically all the levels I couldn’t get past. Some of these levels I’ve never really seen before because we’d warp.
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Internet connection is solid this morning…grabbing coffee and resuming Mario/Mars watching.
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Keurig this morn? I’m rocking freshly ground French Vanil.
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Just Tim Horton’s this morning.
I’m at world 8-4 in the video now. Loving this. I hope he does this with Mario 2 and 3 as well.
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I’ll let him know. And I’ve told him he should do the other two as well.
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I like the quality of the split screen editing, I like his dialogue, and I really like the perspective of the Mario newcomer. So this is unique among videos already out there.
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I told him to stick with this because it is unique. Glad you like it!
Next game he’s doing is Startropics – due to upload on Friday. I am contributing VO for that series too.
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Right on looking forward to it. I’m posting a brand new video tomorrow!
I like when he says to the squid, “You’re a dick”.
OK unpausing.
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And I’m looking forward to your video!
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I relayed your message to Kevin, and he says, “Cool! Thanks!”
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GREAT ending. That was awesome. I’ll be along with the next one for sure.
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Our deck was restained AFTER he filmed this, but luckily I had just macheteed the garden. haha
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LOL! I was wondering who did the gardening. Anyway I really enjoyed this one, a lot. Great weekend-with-coffee-and relaxing vid.
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HE mows the grass, I garden. Them’s the rules lol. I’m actually out back in our gazebo (off camera) having some noms, taking a break from macheteing the garden. Weather hasn’t been great for it until today.
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Did you do any camera work for this?
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No, it’s all him – tripod, camera and lighting. It has to be all him because we are on opposite work shifts these days.
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Impressive because of the multiple setups. It’s Survivorman style…first he goes out side to set up the camera, then he films himself going outside!
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Hah, yes and my messy kitchen is just out of frame – whew! lol
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Love the RUSH Fly By Night shirt.
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Dude, we found that at Value Village!! Perfect condition, almost blasphemous that someone gave it away.
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All our V Village had was an Olivia Newton John shirt. Mike didn’t want it.
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I don’t know from gaming (which means I won’t be able to comment on much of your site 🙂 ) but I did enjoy watching your hubs’ videos on Mario. That’s some pretty great old school stuff, and his commentary is funny. I like the stream of consciousness approach. Well done!
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Kevin says thank you!
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