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> Would love to know the whole story behind this.

He actually did an interview with Rolling Stone [0] where he told his "story".

[0] http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-flight-of-the-b...

I remembered that he was threatened with a legal action by Nintendo for using Super Mario pipe sprites, but it may be only a rumor.

That's not unlikely considering how aggressive Nintendo can be when it comes to protecting their IP.

He was found to not have infringed on their IP.

Rumor, AFAIK Nintendo didn't care.

He put it back up once a lot of clones started appearing though, didn't he? The reason being that since people would play the exact same kind of game either way he might as well be the one to get the revenue?

$50K Per day hahha

There was some podcast or something I remember listening to guy said he was worth $15K/hr or something haha man, I am a grub