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Before Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, the upcoming makers of id software had a bizarre idea, to create a Super Mario Bros. 3 for PCs and then see if Nintendo, the Japanese gaming giants, would collaborate with them to launch it officially. However, Nintendo refused the idea, while downgrading the project. So far, the founder of Id, John Romero, uploaded a video of the game on Vimeo, to reveal what it appears like.

This demo was made possible with the help of John Carmac, the programming genius responsible for creating the engines that operated Id's first-person shooter games. He figured out a way to create a side-scrolling platformer by using the 1980s PC. Today, that demo seemed to be a commendable technological feat that achieved that was considered to be impossible. In the coming years, that became Carmack's mark, reported Wired.

Initially when Nintendo refused to give life to the idea, all the people behind demo, quit their jobs and new company, Id, was born. The game was reworked and launched with its original title, Commander Keen, and released on December 14^th in 1990. A game that was Mario styled and playable on PC was a great deal back then. The game looked sharper when it was installed and an EGA graphics card was inserted, said Wired.

John Carmack and John Romero built a PC demo version in 1988 that featured Nintendo's most famous mascot, Super Mario. Reminiscing the old days, before the duo came up with the famous first person shooter games, Romero shared a video clip on social media reminding us all of a cool historical piece, reported Kotaku.