I've known plenty of fine folks who've wasted many late nights reskinning ROMs of their favorite old NES games to resemble their favorite pop culture characters or make philosophical statements in self indulgent ways. This, however, is something I'm shocked to have not seen before, considering the ROMs are about a decade old now. Steven and David Pukin reskinned Super Mario Bros 1 and 3 with Billy Corgan and various Smashing Pumpkins related ephemera to create Super Smashing Pumpkin Bros 1 and 2. Then, Macbee reskinned Super Mario Bros 2 with the whole band to make Super Smashing Pumpkin Bros 3. From the attire, I'd guess the third game is set during the Adore era. Billy's always bald and dressed in all black, so it's all gotta be Infinte Sadness or later, right?
See below for a trailer of all three games and then a link to download the ROMs yourself like I just did.
Click here to find all three ROM files. You'll need an NES emulator, of course, and the internet is full of them, so I'll leave that up to you. My personal favorite, though, is Nestopia for Mac OS X.
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