Watch: Venezuelan Kid Recreates Super Mario Video Game With Cardboard Box

If you spent the evenings of your childhood sitting in front of a game console and guiding a stooge named Mario across various obstacles to rescue a princess from an evil dragon, then you no doubt have had a great childhood. Super Mario was one of Nintendo’s best selling video games back in the 90s and enthralled an entire generation of gamers. The game is still available on some consoles. In the last decade, Nintendo came up with a new series called Paper Mario. So, if Paper Mario is a thing, the next geometric progression is Cardboard Mario. Well, we kid you not when we tell you that this exists. Paper Mario is a console game, this cardboard game we are talking about has no electrical mechanism involved and is not played on a console, computer, TV, or tablet. This is instead a game made out of pure cardboard paper and is made by a Venezuelan kid.

In the video going viral, you can see a child playing the video game Mario in a slot made of cardboard. He even crosses a stage with ease using both hands. He has made the game in an old cardboard box. Instead of buttons, he has installed bottle caps, which helps him scroll easily. One can imagine how much brain and hard work would have gone into making it.

The video shows the boy using the bottle caps to make Mario avoid obstacles and navigate through. Of course, the perks like the mushrooms that make Mario larger and grant him shooting abilities as in the original game are missing, but this unique invention will surely make you want to lay your hands on it and relive your childhood.

So far, 2.7 crore individuals have watched the video, and almost 2 lakh people have liked it as well. Commenters have noted that he is incredibly imaginative and that the world needs more people with his kind of inventiveness.