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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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.