‘I wasn’t sure it was even possible’: the race to finish 80,000 levels of Super Mario Maker

‘I wasn’t sure it was even possible’: the race to finish 80,000 levels of Super Mario Maker

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https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/mar/28/i-wasnt-sure-it-was-even-possible-the-race-to-finish-80000-levels-of-super-mario-maker

A small team of skilled players set themselves a near-impossible task: to complete every level of Super Mario Maker before Nintendo shut its servers. Did they manage it?

On 14 March, Team 0% was close to finishing its seven-year mission to complete every single uncleared level in the 2015 Nintendo game Super Mario Maker – all 80,000 of them. Two hellish maps stood in their way: Trimming the Herbs and The Last Dance. And time was ticking. Nintendo had announced it was shutting down the game’s servers on 8 April, and if the levels weren’t completed by then, they would remain forever unfinished. Team 0% would fail at the last stretch of their marathon.