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| 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 ;D |
| turf:
--- Quote from: doafan on August 10, 2016, 05:50:20 pm --- --- Quote from: turf on August 10, 2016, 04:03:57 pm ---23 years old. --- End quote --- 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 ;D --- End quote --- I'm 35. YouTube was just starting off back in those days. It might not have even been a thing yet. |
| Warmsignal:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on August 10, 2016, 11:31:18 am ---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. --- End quote --- 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. |
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