March 31, 2015 1:02 PM EDT
I t’s game over for the in-browser version of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 that took the Internet by storm this week.
Nintendo issued a takedown notice Tuesday to the server hosting the 1996 game’s browser version, created by Royston Ross, who recreated just the first level (Bomb-Omb Battlefield) , TorrentFreak first reported Tuesday.
“The copyrighted work at issue is Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 video game (U.S. Copyright Reg. No. PA0000788138), including but not limited to the audiovisual work, computer program, music, and fictional character depictions,” the company told the server Cloudflare, which posted its correspondence with Nintendo.
While the in-browser game is no longer available, you can still get a glimpse of the remake in a video Ross posted online:
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