There's an old school Nintendo NES game quiz up on mental_floss, and since it includes Bubble Bobble I have to write about it by default. To complete the short quiz, all you have to do is match the ten phrases on the right side of the quiz page with the ten NES game covers on the left side of the page. More than half of the listed games are well known titles so it shouldn't take too long to fill out. I shamefully got 80%, I had the Bases Loaded and Anticipation answers switched. Let's see how well you can do, get your 8-bit wits ready and take the quiz here, and then share your scores with the rest of us in the comments. And no cheating! (Except on Punch-Out, hint hint.)

Every few years someone beats Contra without losing a single life and thinks they've done something no one's ever done before, and you can't blame them. Contra may not be the hardest game ever made, but when it was released on the NES in 1988 it brought more addictive agony than our finger blisters had ever experienced before. I went looking for the fastest Contra speed run and found this video (link below) by Tommy Montgomery. By cutting back on all the conservative routes in the game and skipping all unnecessary enemies he was able to rush through the rampage in just 11 minutes and 25 seconds, faster than all other twelve minute claims in recent years. Are any of you guys and gamer girls speed runners? If you've got any bragging rights, let's hear 'em!

Update: I changed the video to an even better Contra recording, the 10 minutes and 50 seconds world record speed run. You can watch the Tommy Montgomery video here. Thanks, Rob!

These kids must have the happiest parents in the world. When high school students collaborate to make Super Mario Brothers their senior prom theme, it's a nice way to let the school know that no one is getting laid later that night. I'm so proud of my readers - to walk into prom and see this retro room and blow your load before the night's even begun takes some serious guts. Dancing to display your digital dorkiness is a quite the valid cause. Or, if you're too shy, they even setup the massive NES controller seen above to play video games and pass the time:

"I just had my senior prom and the theme was Super Mario Brothers so I snapped some photos and I thought you might be interested. The prom was at Chelsea High School and . . . the photo of the large NES Controller with the hands on it needs some explanation. That controller was wired up to actually control the original Super Mario Bros. game which was projected onto a wall nearby. All the buttons worked and it was possible to play solo, but it was much easier to have someone manning the control pad and someone else on the A and B buttons."

The only part of his explanation I skipped over is how you got a free condom for every 1UP you snag, Alex probably got a ton of Princess pussy that night. Thanks for sharing the pictures, Alex! Whoever did the art must have failed Goomba 101 art class, but it still kicks ass. My favorite part is how the Principal obviously said there was no way they could use sand in the desert scene, so they just threw some light brown paper on the ground instead.

Don't worry, he's not blind, so all bets are off. Lots of Mario videos lately -- earlier this week some Asian dude beat the first few levels of the original Mario NES game with his back turned to the TV, and now everyone's doing it, thinking they're hot shit even though they're taking warp pipes galore. Let's see you grab the star on World 1-1, run through a few goombas, jump all the pits, make it a few inches up the flag, down the sewers, not run the ceiling the whole damn way, and manage to pinpoint the 1UPs in each of the first two levels. Then kill yourself four times on purpose, and still manage to beat the game on one life. Then I'll be impressed. Tonight I'm going to pull out the NES and give it a try to see how far I can get after an hour of practice, I'm thinking at least World 2 without warping.

GameTrailers has another classic top ten list for us to watch. They attempted to choose the best ten 8-bit games of all time, and somehow rank them in a list:

• 10. River City Ransom
• 9. Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
  
• 8. Shinobi
• 7. Dragon Warrior IV
• 6. Tecmo Super Bowl
• 5. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
• 4. Mega Man 2
• 3. Contra
• 2. The Legend of Zelda
• 1. Super Mario Bros. 3

Damn. You could easily switch any of the top six into the number one spot depending on what kind of gamer you are, so many memorable moments came from these games. It's a good thing I didn't make this list because I'm completely bias to Bubble Bobble. For the sole fact that Legend of Zelda started its series, and Super Mario Bros. 3 was able to work off of an existing series of characters and gameplay, I think I'd bump up the original Zelda to number one. How do you like their list's order? What would you guys and gamer girls add or take off of the list?

Ever since the first day of blogging on TheLastBoss, I've had a fantasy where a stripper would come out of a giant NES console, and it looks like an 8-bit blowjob still isn't out of the question thanks to this CMU frat house booth. You can see the retro-work of Sigma Phi Epsilon in the pictures below, the tour of the booth takes you up a Nintendo light gun dodging Duck Hunt shots, down a Mario Kart track, and then out the exit in the back next to a recreated Super Smash Bros. scene. It looks like they were drunk while assembling the gaming mecca though, because they put the NES cartridge in upside down. All they need to add is a Pong Beer Pong table and their work will be complete.

Long time TheLastBoss readers will remember the "stripper sized NES" from months ago. Looks like someone finally tracked down the stripper that fits inside, here she is trying to play old school games with buttons the size of her hands. It's cool seeing a giant NES and NES controller, but what I really want to see is a two story NES light gun. This controller isn't really functional, but if it was I'd try to use it like a DDR pad. We've seen someone beat Super Mario Bros. using their feet, but if it took a whole foot just to run and another just to jump, could you speed run the game and manage a triple A rating? I'd go straight for Paranoia World 8-2 and start stomping.

Every week there's a new Line Rider recording video worth posting, but I've been waiting for a level related to video games to show up. Someone finally semi-recreated the first level of Super Mario Bros. in Line Rider one line at a time, and set the doodle dude off to reach the flag. He needed a few extra hills for jumps, and skipped all the secrets, but he made it there pretty quickly. And if this is your first time seeing a Line Rider level in action and you're disappointed, then check out this huge level that combines Tony Hawk grinding with Katamari Damacy music. You can make and play your own levels here.

Urban Retro found this old school gamer bag, and you can check out the tutorial on how to make one of your own here. This accessory screams for strangers to come up and play with it. If you actually used the "NES Pad" you'd have to put up with false alarm theft threats all day long as mischievous gamers came up and pressed your buttons. If Jack Thompson Wears Prada, then what hell are we supposed to wear? Where's our Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo fashion lines? I don't go out of my way to let people know I'm a gamer, but if mall brands are going to overcharge me no matter where I shop, I might as well spend my money on something I'm proud of. Like official NES kicks and Xbox 360 wheels. Sony "we own your balls" boxer shorts would be nice too. And for a limited time it's buy one get one free if you shit yourself when you see the price tag.

Van Beater has 18 inch by 24 inch prints of this awesome art for sale on his site for $30 each. "Crappy Cat" is Van Beater's creature driving the Nintendo Tank - he's probably calling for backups once he found out it only shout bright blinking lights from its cannon. I want to see a whole video game army, complete with a Sega submarine, Atari armada, and Coleco catapults. Which console do you think would win in a fight to the death?