Super Mario Cloud
						

Cory Arcangel hacked and modified a piece of hardware’the cartridge on which the game “Super Mario” is stored, or rather, was stored to produce “Super Mario Cloud” This is because, by disconnecting some contacts on the circuit board and putting in a chip for which Arcangel wrote his own program, superhero Super Mario disappears, together with all the obstacles over which he has to jump. Only a few comical, white clouds remain in a blue sky. Arcangel took away all the narrative elements of the game and everything that made it dynamic.