See, I have never ever made it to the end of the stage for Mario Brothers. Or any platform, I think. I would be delighted to get to the end with no points. Which is both sad and why I prefer modern games.
since house rules were your turn was over when your Mario bit it
Ours too. Which I think was part of the problem--we didn't have a system ourselves. My brother learned to play on his friends' machines, and by the time we were hanging out in a crowd with the same machine, he'd already learned to play. When everyone else gets through three levels on a turn, and you die before you get past the second screen, that means you play approximately four seconds out of every hour. My platform reflexes are lousy anyway, but I really never got a turn long enough to learn how to play the damn game.
This is part of why, while I like computer games, I never got into video games until I moved in with Chuckro. A) He introduced me to games that were a lot harder to lose in five seconds and B) he actually let me hold the controller longer than the aforementioned five seconds.
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Date: 2012-07-09 11:17 pm (UTC)since house rules were your turn was over when your Mario bit it
Ours too. Which I think was part of the problem--we didn't have a system ourselves. My brother learned to play on his friends' machines, and by the time we were hanging out in a crowd with the same machine, he'd already learned to play. When everyone else gets through three levels on a turn, and you die before you get past the second screen, that means you play approximately four seconds out of every hour. My platform reflexes are lousy anyway, but I really never got a turn long enough to learn how to play the damn game.
This is part of why, while I like computer games, I never got into video games until I moved in with Chuckro. A) He introduced me to games that were a lot harder to lose in five seconds and B) he actually let me hold the controller longer than the aforementioned five seconds.