Trivia / Kaizo Mario World

• Colbert Bump: The Something Awful Let's Play, especially ProtonJon's segments, helped popularize Kaizo Mario.
• Follow the Leader: The popularity of the original romhack and the reactions of those who played it kicked off an entire trend of "Kaizo Clones" in the game mod scene. Some hackers even made Kaizo hacks of Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and even non Mario games like The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Metroid, Super Monkey Ball, and Donkey Kong Country got on the bandwagon. These were often created just to annoy said LPers. Every single trap used in the original two games has been copied to no end. And it pretty much set up a difficulty arms race between quite a few people.