I honestly have never played any online video games via the internet. Nor have I joined the Video Game revelution and glued myself to my TV for hours on end like many of my friends do. I was however addicted to an original vintage 1986 Nintendo for a few years that i got for Cristmas that year. The infamous Super Mario Bros. The best game ever invented for quite a many years. So i tried to find it online and see if any original versions were available. Although there were many offers to download, none of them were the original version. How can you play Super Mario Bros. if its not the original version? I mean there was just something about sitting next to your best friend or brother, grasping that old, white, TV remote looking controler, and just knowing that you were going to beat level 6-2 before your buddy did. Those feelings just aren't there with any online versions. I mean how can they be. We used to get up hours before we had to go to school to try and beat the level that we couldn't beat the night before, just so we could brag about who got the furthest that day at school.http://www.1980-games.com/us/old-games/java-games/mariobros.php
These newer versions are obviously much more technologically advanced and the animation is ofcourse way better. I would say that the older original version is goemetrically linear in perspective. Everything in the game was certainly based from geometric shapes, and you could only keep going right across your TV screen, with the ocasional super jump. The game was never violent in any sort of way. well you had to kill a few turtles and other misc. creatures, but overall it was a peaceful, fun, "goal" oriented game in nature. There are many more features in the newer games. The link above is a newer online version of the game. I just thought it was interesting to think how this game impacted my life in whatever ways; setting goals, following through, appretiating defeat and success, and mabey a little patience. All at the age of 9-12. The game is still around and has been given numerous amounts of steriods over its lifetime... All in all nothing will ever replace the memories of the original.
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13 years ago
Jim, although this is a bizarre choice for the assignment i can understand your need to vent, the original Nintendo was by far the best! I have never enjoyed any other form of Nintendo, and its a bummer because i am missing pieces on my old one and now its a freakin antique. My boyfriend plays PS2 and i just don't get it, Super Mario Brothers is the one and only.
ReplyDeleteJim, i would like to clarify my use of "bizarre" in my last comment. I realize now that you were posting for our most recent assignment. At the time i figured your blog was just random, yet interesting enough to comment on, sorry :)
ReplyDeleteThe Super Mario Brothers is a good game to post about because it is dieing out and like you, it holds a lot of good memories in many people. In comparison to the virtual slaughter that people play now, Mario holds innocents and is more respectful. Though the graphics aren't as clear it was much more satisfying to beat.
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