This should be quite tiring to play, if you need to keep jumping to pound those gold coins out from the secret box in Super Mario, but still it’ll be very fun. The same dude that brought you Kinect Lightsaber has returned with a hack enabling you to enjoy the nostalgic Super Mario game by controlling it with only your body.

OpenKinect was used to get the motion-sensing peripheral — originally intended exclusively for use with an Xbox 360 — to communicate with his PC, while a simple NES emulator took care of bringing the 25-year old plumber to life. Let the video below explain everything.

SOURCE via Engadget (Spanish)