POO: Mario Bros. for NES

a) it's damn wacky,
b) it's really big, and I've never played it all the way through,
and
c) it was originally some middle-eastern game called "Doki Doki Panik!", which most certainly adds to the charm of the game as a whole.

Additionally, I've just created myself a wonderful new wallpaper (which prompted me to post this thread), which you can view here.

i played super mario sunshine this week and it's ace.

And I agree about the bizarre atmosphere. Sliding around on ice, throwing eggs at bosses, pulling up turnips - all very strange and disturbing stuff.

funny that this thread should come up now; i have been spending this week of my summer holiday trying to videotape me clocking mario 1 in under 2 mins. what an artefact i will have!

sigh. bubble bobble anyone?

WHADDA you mean you mean shes in another castle! ARGH!

it's true, and you fucking know it.

jay-z was right man...

Super Bonus question: What level was the secret hidden entrance that avoided the bad ending on?

Intra - do you have any other stuff that is on the same basic level as moby?
No one is on Moby's level
He's stuck on level 3, world 7 of the original Super mario Bros.

or do i want to twiddle my feet daintily as i sail through the air?? (ie pick luigi. why would you!!?! there was only ever one answer to that question and it was princess)

and be warned: sitting on a chair, staring at a monitor (aged 20+) isn't the same as sitting on the floor, staring at the tv screen (aged 12-). cookies can only help, tho.

otherwise, yes, total fairy.

wtf?

(ps. bubble bobble rocks)

mario64 (n64)
smb 2 (nes)
smb world (snes)
smb (nes)
smb 3 (nes)
smb lost levels (snes)
super mario land (gamboy)
donkey kong (gameboy)
sml 2 (gameboy)
super mario sunshine (gamecube)

i know there's hundreds more i need to play. i will be buying a ds when my loan cheque comes through, how is mario & luigi? i really need to play super mario rpg as well, i'm considering getting an ntsc to pal converter just to play it on my snes. fuck playing it with a keyboard. i love mario. the super mario bros cartoon is being issued on dvd, along with the zelda cartoon. can't wait, though i'll feel bad watching them on my ps2. anyone remember the educational game mario is missing?

wiki page for SMB2's Famicom counterpart, just to clear stuff up.

smb2 is really one of the great oddities of video game history

like for a franchise with such consistent characters, world, physics, imagery etc it's so bizarre that that happened

this post captures a very strong and very specific feeling from my childhood:

I'm with everyone on #2: I could spend hours taking Peach through the ice levels, where that long floaty jump of hers would just skim smoothly across the platforms.
― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, August 31, 2002 7:18 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark

I *loved* Mario 2 when it came out but my dad refused to buy it for us kids. "Why should I pay for 'Mario Does Gardening'?"

^same^

or that frenetic chase upward through the sand lair when you have the key and the evil keyguard-heads are chasing you. even just the opening bit is pretty iconic: you start the game, choose a character, open a door and whoooooooooooa fall from the air a few screens before touching land.

I think Super Mario 3 was my fav due to how much more expansive it was than SMB 1, but was a return to the 'familiar' Mario environment after the weird Super Mario 2 (the backstory on how that game came to me was weird!)

The Tanooki suit alone would break any tiebreakers with SMB 1.

oops ^same^ to nabisco/ryan, xpost.

Man I think I am going to have to hook my SNES back up and put in Super Mario All-Stars sometime today, this thread is giving me memories.

*came to be

I remember back when we were kids it was a big deal re: bragging rights if you got the Mario titles first. SMB2 and SMB3 were always sold out and my parents bought SMB3 for my younger bro for his birthday, so we technically owned a copy first, but he got it later than our friends because we had to wait until his birthday.

So my circle of young 9-10 year old friends all argued all summer about who got SMB3 first which became moot when my brother and my best friend beat SMB3 on the same day around the same time of morning...and then the argument shifted to a vicious one on who truly beat the game first.

Ah, childhood.

I remember everyone sharing the first warp whistle like it was a big secret. I saw "The Wizard," too, come on! It wasn't *that* secret.

also my friend wanted my brother's achievement to receive an asterix because this cross-eyed melon-headed doofus kid was at the house and he wanted to play a little, so he beat level 8-1, whereas my brother finished it and beat the rest.

Debate ended in a stalemate because in previous plays, my bro had beaten 8-1 himself, and eventually we got tired of arguing about that game and just argued about another one.

lol at The Whistle part in The Wizard. "WARP ZONE ACCESSED!!!"

I've probably complained about that Wizard/whistle scene here before, but that was SUCH BULLSHIT! In the movie, for the final stage of the contest, everyone had to play SMB3, because it hadn't been released at the time and so everyone would be on a level playing field. But then, while they're playing it, Kevin Arnold's Winnie (don't remember their film names) just blurts out the secret about the whistle to him! How in the world would she know, pre-release, that you have to fly up and over the hidden ledge in the first mini-castle? And even if she did know, how would it be fair for her to tell him that mid-competition??

when the losing finalist went home to eat dinner with his parents that night, boy did HE have a story to tell

she was incepted into marilyn mansons head

SMB2 has the best tunes imho

smb2 is the most relaxing mario bros imo

The Wizard rules though for its cheesiness.

"You keep your 'power gloves' off of her, got it?"

or at the competition, the girl screaming "THEY NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT NO NEW GAME!"

The Wizard is fucking terrible. The few corny lol moments do not make up for it.

I always hated those video game competition type things because they always placed too high an emphasis on points over progress, I tell ya!

I'm sure I'd hate it as a movie nowadays, but I refuse to remember it any way but fondly because of how absurd a premise it was.

so absurd it made me giggle.

alright, let's share our SMB1 high scores! Mine is 1340808972354 points, what's yours?!

No screenshot, no credibility

anybody here ever get their scores posted in Nintendo Power?