Recall that when I saw Super Mario Clouds piece on the Whitney Muesum field trip, it became my favorite piece as it reminds me about my childhood and all the happy time i have had. The work was claimed as created by “hacking” a cartridge of Super Mario Brothers, the original version of the blockbuster Nintendo video game. I believed it, because even though there was only cloud randomly came up in the frame, it still make me think about the entire game. I was amazed by how the work present the game in such an abstract way. 

However, the documentary we watched this week doubts the process of this work. Lemieux’s reverse engineer of the super mario clouds proves that the code of this work is actually different from the original game. Lemieux used the ROM hacking process described by Arcangel, trying to get a same result; however, the coin could not be erased. This result was quite interesting to me. I have no idea why artist Arcangel would claim that he erased everything but cloud when the process is actually different. However, there is possibility of Arcangel telling the truth. It might because that Lemieux did not figure out the way to erase the coin, or Arcangel’s work was actually an accident, but a good accident.