It’s been two weeks since we brought you the troubling tale of Bowsette: the internet craze which saw thousands of artists splice Bowser with Princess Peach. The meme was inspired by the work of cartoonist ayyk92, who imagined what would happen if the Super Crown from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe was placed on Bowser’s head instead of Toadette’s. Chaos ensued, with the Bowsette hashtag used hundreds of thousands of times in the west, and becoming the number one trending topic on Japanese Twitter.
After a brief period of delay, it seems modders have finally caught up with the first wave of Bowsette art, as a spate of game mods have appeared which place the curvaceous turtle into real Mario games. Here we go again.
One of the first mods to appear was a playable Bowsette in Mario 64. Created by Kaze Emanuar (who is also responsible for the Waluigi’s Taco Stand ROM hack, by the way), Bowsette can throw fireballs and even has her own sound effects. In the video, Kaze grumpily explains he was “paid to do this sh*t”, which shows just how desperate people are for a playable Bowsette. As if we needed more evidence.
Source: Eurogamer Bowsette game mods are getting out of hand