MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Silicon Valley is once again at the bleeding edge of technological progress this week, as Google introduced Project Genie, an AI tool promising to revolutionize the art of making profoundly disappointing knockoffs of popular Nintendo games.

Early testers described Genie as “the perfect solution for anyone who thinks Super Mario 64 needs more cube-shaped plumbers and fewer functioning physics.” After uploading a single blurry screenshot of a Goomba, user Alice Krieger was delighted to receive a playable demo where Mario is inexplicably a large orange sphere named ‘Markio,’ and Bowser has been replaced by a JPEG of a hot dog.

“It’s just amazing,” grinned Google product manager Trent Donellan, furiously mashing buttons on his controller as ‘Markio’ fell through the floor for the 17th consecutive time. “We’ve finally democratized the experience of releasing an unfinished product. Now everyone can disappoint their friends and family, not just major studios.”

Nintendo responded with cautious optimism, issuing a statement that read, “We are excited to see the next generation of intellectual property threats emerge in such a charmingly incompetent form.”

Meanwhile, early adopter Jason Pritchett praised the tool’s creative flexibility: “I asked Genie for Metroid Prime, but it gave me a maze full of untextured toasters. Honestly, it’s scarier than anything I’ve played before.”

Google says Project Genie is still in beta, with engineers working around the clock to train the AI on advanced concepts like ‘having a jump button’ and ‘enemies that don’t moonwalk off cliffs.’