Can Random Inputs Beat 11 Mario Games? One Lasted 30 Seconds

Can random inputs beat a Mario game? A bot that presses completely random buttons plays 11 retro Mario games for 90 seconds each: Super Mario Bros., SMB2, SMB3, Super Mario Land 1 + 2, Dr. Mario, Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Mario Clash, Super Mario 64 and SMB Deluxe. Three Game Overs, one giant Banzai Bill (twice) and zero levels cleared. No retries, no edits: every input is a seeded random roll. Chapters 0:00 Game Over in 30 seconds 1:14 Super Mario Bros. (1985) 2:25 Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988) 3:17 Super Mario Land (1989) 4:13 Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990) 5:09 Dr. Mario (1990) 6:01 Super Mario World (1991) 6:57 Super Mario Land 2 (1992) 7:37 Yoshi's Island (1995) 8:31 Mario Clash (1995) 9:11 Super Mario 64 (1996) 10:10 Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (1999) 10:55 The Verdict Games in this video • Super Mario Bros. (NES, 1985) - survived, stuck at the pipes • Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES, 1988) - survived • Super Mario Land (Game Boy, 1989) - GAME OVER in ~30 s • Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES, 1990) - 1 life lost (pit) • Dr. Mario (NES, 1990) - GAME OVER, 0 viruses cured • Super Mario World (SNES, 1991) - 2 lives lost (Banzai Bill) • Super Mario Land 2 (Game Boy, 1992) - survived • Yoshi's Island (SNES, 1995) - survived • Mario Clash (Virtual Boy, 1995) - GAME OVER in ~42 s • Super Mario 64 (N64, 1996) - survived, 0 stars • Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (Game Boy Color, 1999) - 2 lives lost All footage is captured from the original games running in an emulator. The controller is driven by a seeded random bot (new random button combination every 3-24 frames, 50% chance per button, never Start/Select; Super Mario 64: random analog stick direction + strength); a script only boots each game to the first playable moment. 'Test runs' = 10 random seeds x 90 seconds per game, deaths counted from the game's memory (approximate). Years are North American release years. Mario and all games are (c) Nintendo. Subscribe to mochi64 for more Nintendo history and retro experiments. #mario #randominputs #retrogaming