Are you a Super Mario Bros. smartass?

What Would Wario Do

The biggest asshole level of all the Mario Bros: Level 3-1 in Lost Levels. If you enter the pipe halfway through the level, when you pop back into the overworld you're forced to warp back to World 1! Fuuuuuck dude. AND, if you take the gentlemen's path, staying above ground, and hit the mega spring toward the end and accidentally fly over the flagpole, you're forced into the same warp pipe back to World 1! Fuuuuuuck dude.

Guaranteed, thousands and thousands of people reached that point of Lost Levels and quit at that very moment.

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Shigeru Miyamoto: Genius, or total asshole?

EDIT: The ENTIRETY of Lost Levels is a goddamn FRAUD. FOR PETE'S SAKE, C'MON

Mario Kart (or any other racing game, really): If you're slaughtering the opponent, wait around at the edge of the finish line, wait until they're tearing around the final corner, and then tap accelerate for the win. Or, if you're an incredible smartass and you're far enough in front, drive backward, run into them, shoot them with shelves, and THEN win.

SHELLS

shelves lol

The ENTIRETY of Lost Levels is a goddamn FRAUD.

Not only is this OTM but bollocks to every "special hard edition" remix of every game ever.

Seriously, I'm working on Post-World 4 levels tonight for the first time tonight, and the whole thing is like your older brother beating the shit out of you and saying "stop hitting yourself! stop hitting yourself!"

wait on the bottom and get the last digit of the time to be a 6

Time it right so that you hit the top of the flagpole on a 6. You earned those fireworks!

Or just hit wherever, near the 6 if possible. Fireworks are cool if it happens, whatever

http://img145.imageshack.us/i/hearts18stoned.jpg

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8638/hearts18stoned.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3d2HAGElE

but really, does anybody actually play this game for high scores?

let's see if we can talk about some common smartass moves you can pull in videogames.

imma a smartass when i die @ demon's souls i sceam well fuk u pigraping whoresons i hope u get demon aids and then i think abt throwing my controller @ the tv and abt how ive wasted my lyfe

i dont really fuk w/flagpole theatrics im just glad to get to the end, u no

i used to do the coppasquat flag bounce at the bottom

but really, does anybody actually play this game for high scores?
― naus, Saturday, October 3, 2009 5:16 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8638/hearts18stoned.jpg

title of this thread sounds like an old school video game ad

ARE YOU A METROID MANIAC?!

I always feel kinda bad for the people who show up on the first page of results for "totally stoned dude" on Google Image Search.

The semi-old school ad campaign I remember is

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2181/1922711804_e0a8e62cf8.jpg?v=0

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Good, now I can finally get some goddamn SLEEP around here

I'd like to point out that for a long time, the slang phrase "Peace 5000," meaning "Goodbye," referred to this. (It actually refers to the Audi 5000)

And the whole Fatalities thing is the biggest example of this, isn't it?

I mean, I thought for a long time that it did.

hahaha

http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/most-gamers-today-cant-beat-the-first-level-of-super-mario

:(

lol, you guys didn't believe me

i never liked the word "gamers" denoting someone who is really into video games as a distinguishing part of their identity, which always struck me as weird because everyone plays games of some type, but if "gamers" as a term is now encompassing a wider population who can't beat 1-1, I'm kind of happy about that.

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr02/2013/7/3/13/enhanced-buzz-16398-1372871367-2.jpg

wait...there are clouds ABOVE the clouds?!

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We watched the replay videos of how the gamers performed and saw that many did not understand simple concepts like bottomless pits. Around 70 percent died to the first Goomba. Another 50 percent died twice. Many thought the coins were enemies and tried to avoid them. Also, most of them did not use the run button. There were many other depressing things we noted but I can not remember them at the moment.

I have never played the first or any other level of Mario.

Totally unlocked my Goomba achievement

Rectify that.

I remember (in an Iwata Asks?) that many players couldn't figure out to keep holding the run button while jumping with the NES controller. That's why they made the Gamecube controller with one huge button in the middle, with pads around it.

my mom played videogames only once. it was right after we got super mario bros. and the NES. she stood on the left of the screen, not moving, as she stared at the controller in a panic and asked what each of the buttons did (i shutter to think of this process now that controllers have more than two buttons). somehow, minutes elapsed and she still hadn't moved. the counter dropped below 100 and the "HURRY UP or die" music came on. i told her that she needed to hurry up or she would die and she got flustered and angry. finally she pressed the d-pad and slowly walked to the right. she yelled "what do i do?!!?" a few second before she walked straight into the goomba. she then put down the controller and left the room without saying a word, and never played again.

i shutter because i am a camera btw

your mom otm

This is crazy to me because I basically stopped playing games in college during the rise of PlayStation 2 and GameCube (so many buttons!)

I picked it back up as a grownup with a Wii. I bought Goldeneye for Wii and it had that "move with one hand,shoot with the other" control that seemed fucking impossible. I sold the game on half.com after playing it like twice. I mainly stick to Mario and Zelda and that game where you connect the goop balls whose name I forget already

See also Rock Band/Guitar Hero: strumming with one hard and chords with the other, what the shit was that about.

"that game where you connect the goop balls"
dr. mario?

world of goo, i bet

That's the one

I was playing through the All-Stars version of Lost Levels last night and discovered the world 4 warp zone in 1-2. I'm 99% sure I missed that one as a kid despite playing that game incessantly for years.