iRwego: use your iPhone’s accelerometer to turn yourself into Mario

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If you’ve ever wanted to transform yourself into a hydrocephalic Italian plumber sucked into a strange toilet dimension in order to battle a legion of evil, anthropomorphic mushrooms… well, amazingly, there’s an app for that.

Cleverly named after the phonetic transcription of one of the character’s hallmark stereotypical ejaculations, iRwego is more than just a sound board of noises plucked from the games of Super Mario Bros.… although it’s that too. What’s really cool about the app is that it uses the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer to automatically accompany your life with appropriate Mario sound effects.

Jump up in the air and the sproingy effect of Mario bouncing through Koopa Land will play out of the iPhone’s speakers. Accidentally step on a turtle and hear the sound of a Koopa shell, ricocheting off into the horizon (or step on an infant for the Goomba squish noise). Smash your head into a brick and enjoy the sweet, 8-bit notes of an SNES gold coin burbling up, even as your vision darkens, perhaps forever. Walk into a mafia-owned restaurant in the Bronx and the iRwego will magically translate your thoughts into the tongue of the natives, through the amazing vocal talents of Mr. Charles Martinet. The app does it all, and only for $0.99.

If you want iRwego, though, you’d better snatch it up now: this is not an official Nintendo app, which means it’s probably going to be yanked down just as soon as their lawyers go “Say what?”

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