Block Mesa Rom Hack (Photo: screenshot, Unreal64, YouTube)
The network is full of ambitious projects of passionate fans.
From complete mods that give players a gaming experience that doesn't fall short of huge AAA titles, to remakes of classic games in modern game engines.
One of those projects combines two game series that are considered revolutionary, each in its own way.
When you think of Super Mario, you don't necessarily think of the Half-Life series.
But this is exactly what a web user called fazana did, who combined the game Super Mario 64, which helped shape the platformer genre in 3D, together with Half-Life - the game that shaped and influenced the shooting games and action games.
What we are actually shown is actually a Rom Hack, which is a process in which the players hack the game in order to change and play with the files to their heart's content using development and editing tools.
fazana edited the stages and graphics of Super Mario 64 and simulated them directly into the nostalgic shooter - naming it
Block Mesa.
The game will start just like Half-Life started, only that instead of the character of the physicist Gordon Freeman, you will play the Italian plumber Super Mario.
From there you'll walk around the Block Mesa compound, with the various scientists swapping mushrooms, the security team (and Bernie) being swapped out for Koopa
Troops, and the Resonance Cascade crash happening after you insert a disc into the Xbox 360 console .
-Life, like the iconic Lum or the Gluon Gun, and you'll fight Headcrabs, zombies, and Marines, who in this case look like characters from Team Fortress 2 - another Valve game.
Most of the familiar stages have been recreated, some with a twist to match the spirit of Mario 64, and of course towards the end you will meet the mysterious G-Man.
In this game his character is a head floating in the air.
We're not sure we got that reference but we're flowing.
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