NES PC

Malicious sent us to a little tutorial about transforming that old Nintendo into a PC. This guide will even make your controllers work, although it seems to me that a nintendo that has survived this long might be a cherished heirloom tho. Does anyone else think that Super Mario 3 might have been the best game ever? Course very few people make good sidescroller/jumpers in the era of the 3D console.

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Metroid

[Tattva]

I think it's obvious that the original Metroid was the best game ever. That thing creeped me out and got my heart racing with only 8 bits.

I always knew this needed to be done...

[stephenisu]

Did you know that in japan it had modem option? Limited runs of "online" shopping and stock trading was done.

super mario 3 rules... I think

[AssFace]

When I was growing up I never had any game consoles. My dad and grandfather each had 286/386/486/etc over time and each started with Apple][gs - so I had access to games on those - but was never allowed a console (mainly due to money, no ethics on behalf of my parents or anything).

My friends had the consoles though and I would play them when I went over to their houses.
As a result, I liked games that I could pick up quickly and not die immediately without lots of experience (Zelda was bad for that, Excitebike was GOOD!!).
I never really got good at any of the games since I wouldn't get much time to play (none of my friends wanted to watch me play, but they were fine with me watching them :) ).

Then the summer of '99 after I graduated college, I had a month to kill before I started my job - so I spent it at my dad's girlfriend's house sleeping and then playing her son's Super Nintendo. He had some special game pack that had all of the Super Mario games on there.
I played so much that I had some sort of injury to my right hand - specifically thumb blisters.
I finally got to beat each of the series but I kept going back to one to play it over and over - loved it - I *think* it was SM3 - not sure though. Whichever one first introduced Yoshi the dinosaur - I loved it (although the one just before that was pretty cool too).
I've played variants since then and never liked them that much.

Now I have a PS2 and suck at pretty much all of the games to the point where I get too frustrated to play for more than 10 minutes - except at the Tiger Woods golf game - I rule at that.

What were the traits of SM3? I'm not sure if that is the one that I really loved - I think so, but I don't recall the names of all of them and which did which in the series.

Re:Get the whistle!

[Bonker]

Back in the day, a grocery store near my house-- I say near my house. It was 3 miles away. 10 minutes on a fast bike-- got an NES Choice Ten standup machine. It had a few titles in it, but the one I noticed as being most prominent was a strange game labeled 'SMB3' in blue without any logos or identifying marks.

Curious, I put a quarter in and got my 300 seconds of playtime. I selected 'SMB3' and was rewarded with the home play version (not the later choice ten version where you could select the level) of 'Super Mario Bros. 3'.

"This has to be a hack of some kind," I said, "Like that stupid Skater Brothers rip of Super Mario".

Mind you, this was more than four months before 'Wizard' had hit theaters and about six before you could actually buy SMB3 in stores. They weren't even advertisting SMB3 in Nintendo Power. Of course, back then, video games didn't quite have the 3 years of hype before release they tend to now. The only thing that I can figure is that the owner of the arcade machine managed to get a beta copy of the game or had a friend in Nintendo USA who 'fixed' his Choice-10 roms for him with the new game.

To my surprise, however, SMB3 was not a hack or a copy of an existing game. It was its own game, and a surprisingly good one at that. I came the next day with my allowance-- $10 in quarters. 12000 seconds... a little more than 3 hours of game play. As a matter of fact, I spent the next three saturdays like that. I must have blown $80 just on that one stupid Choice Ten machine.

By the time 'Wizard' was released in theaters, SMB3 was old hat to me. 'Wizard' was merely confirmation that I had somehow gained access to the real deal.

After 'Wizard', summer was approaching, so I could start to mow lawns for money. On the day of release, I called Wal-mart (35 minutes away on bike) every 15 minutes. When the truck finally came in and they had release copies, I got the electronics manager to promise to hold a copy for me. I biked up, only to find that he had sold all the copies he had (35, I think) to a dealer. Of course SMB2 had been fetching insane prices at Christmas a few years previously, so it was seen as a good invenstment to buy all the copies of an popular videogame you could and resell them.

I finally managed to get a copy the next week, which I promptly brought home and played after carefully re-reading the manual for about an hour at a local Wendy's. My brother, the bastard, ratted me out for spending my lawn-mowing money on a video game (A big no-no in my house, especially since my grades were starting to slip). My mom took the game away and hid it. Luckily for me, she didn't destroy it.

SMB3 was and still is a hell of a game. I still play it from time to time.