How old were you when you first beat Super Mario Bros.?

[marvelvscapcom2]

Does everyone remember the day they beat the original Mario bros?  How old were you? Any stories?   

[pacpix]

Played the game a lot when I was really young, but don't think I actually finished it until I was probably 15 or so.  I had completed many Super Mario games before that, just never put in the time to see the original through completion until that point.  I remember the level with the endless hammer bros. in world 8 being particularly annoying.

[stealthrush]

Does everyone remember the day they beat the original Mario bros?  How old were you? Any stories?   

Played Super Mario Bro. growing up as a child along side Duck Hunt since Nintendo Entertainment System was my very first video game home-console my parents bought me. Still have my original copy CIB today. Never completed it, but completed other Mario games in the future.

[kashell]

One of my favorite things about that game was hopping on a Koopa shell on a step in order to rack up enough points to get nearly infinite lives. After that, I was able to beat the game since those hammer brothers were so brutal. I think I was 8 or 9 when I finally finished the game.

[azure]

I don't remember the exact age, so I'll just go with "A wee lad".

[bikingjahuty]

I got my first NES from a garage sale in 1998 or so, so I never had a chance to beat it when I was younger. I had played it at friend's houses, but never actually beat it. I will fully admit that I've never actually beat it. I've probably got about 75% through it using warp tunnels, but never actually finished it. Sounds like a game I might have to add to the 52-game challenge.

[doafan]

Guess that I was around the 7 - 8 years old when I beat this title and about the memories well what can I say when have to pay to play, one dude at my old neighbor had the console and he charged all the kids that wanted to play for a couple of coins, finished the title after spending like 5 bucks 

[aliensstudios]

I was probably 8 or 9 and I beat Super Mario Bros. Deluxe on my Game Boy Advance. By this point I had beaten Super Mario World on my Advance so going back to this one was a bit easier. I beat the NES version a bit later, though I have no idea how old I was.

[turf]

23 years old.

No joke.  I had never finished it until I was grown and had started collecting.  I finished Mario 2, 3, World, Yoshi's Island, and Mario 64 all before I finished the first one.  It was that far along before someone told me that I had to used the pipe after the lava in 8-4. 

[doafan]

23 years old.

Just wondering how old are you, but seriously guess that at that time there was no Youtube so who told you about the pipe you cheater 

[undertakerprime]

I don't remember the first time I beat it, but I do vividly remember the first time I saw it.
I was living in Germany at the time and my parents brought me along to visit another American family whose kid's father worked with my dad. The kid had a NES and showed me SMB. Naturally, it was unlike anything I had ever seen; I still had my Atari 2600 and that was my only basis for comparison. He knew where all the secrets were in stages 1-1 and 1-2, and to this day I still play those levels exactly like he did. If I remember correctly, he also had Ice Climber, Balloon Fight, Clu Clu Land, and Gyromite. Not surprisingly, ROB was up on a shelf collecting dust. We tried getting it to work with Gyromite once, but it was so fiddly to set up we gave up.

Anyway, within a year I had more NES games than he did 

[turf]

23 years old.

Just wondering how old are you, but seriously guess that at that time there was no Youtube so who told you about the pipe you cheater 

I'm 35.  YouTube was just starting off back in those days.  It might not have even been a thing yet.

[Warmsignal]

I got my first NES from a garage sale in 1998 or so, so I never had a chance to beat it when I was younger. I had played it at friend's houses, but never actually beat it. I will fully admit that I've never actually beat it. I've probably got about 75% through it using warp tunnels, but never actually finished it. Sounds like a game I might have to add to the 52-game challenge.

Same, I never actually finished it. Mostly because, after being shown where the warps are it feels like a waste of time to not take them, but like cheating if I do use them, since I can't unsee them. With SMB2, I didn't look up where the warps were until the retry after I had already completed the areas that they skip.

[tpugmire]

I don't recall how old I was, but I know it was after SMB2 released, but before SMB3. I'm going to guess I was about 10.