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New Super Mario Bros
The following table shows images and captions on the left, and alt text and captions on the right: the right column is what a visually impaired reader will hear. This table was computed from the copy of New Super Mario Bros cached on 21 May 2013 at 00:53.
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 | NewSuperMarioBrothers.jpg
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Mario rampages through a level after using a Mega Mushroom power-up, which grows him to an enormous size for a short period of time. Mario and surrounding objects are seen with a 2.5D effect.
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 | 3.5/5 stars
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| 4.5/5 stars
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| 5/5 stars
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| 4/5 stars
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 | Book icon
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 | Wikipedia book
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| Wikipedia book
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 | Portal
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