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Its amazing that nintendo was cool enough to release a commericial as a film and kids would flock to see it?

You shouldn't expect anything less from the communist propoganda campaign - it targets children when they are very young as they are the most mallable to ideas. (Okay, bad running joke.)

On a more serious note, people do watch video games as movies. There's the classic Speed Demos Archive for games as they were meant to be played, and then the Tool Assisted Speedruns for those wanting to drop their jaw in disbelief.

The 3rd clause could basically be used to ban all sales of video games to minors, allowing only purchasing of educational software.

IANAL, but that's an incorrect interpretation.

In these games-as-porn bills, it must meet all three requirements. Thus, a game that sprays gibs as if they were popcorn could still be sold to minors with whatever marginal plots they currently have.

Ultimatly, this bill does not affect any game available on the market, and violates the first amendment regardless.

After all "New Super Mario Bros" "...lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors...",

Super Mario Bros contains Political content, as I mentioned in one of my previous postings. Even if the current version doesn't have this, it is still

It's considered fan-made, but it is still part of the game. Third-party animations may be another story, but still reinforce the point:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/307402

A better example would be the game of Chess. It is violent without having any forms of gibs - and there's no literary, artistic, political or scientific value from the game itself (before it was treated as the target for basic AI systems.)