Post by TheLuckyOne on Jan 11, 2005 16:47:09 GMT -5
Ah, MJ- our newest star in the great "can I separate the art from the individual?" game...
Though it doesn't vex me nearly as much as Zelda, I also was unable to beat Super Mario 2 as a kid. I got to Wart once only to be beaten like a red-headed stepchild, and then I think I stopped playing for years. Nowadays, on the very rare occasions I can get my Nintendo to turn on and stay on for more than 10 minutes, I can't remember where all the warps are. Curses!
Okay, here's a sub-category within this thread- did you ever know someone who was so good at a game, it made you sick? I'll give you an example: back in college, I knew two such individuals. One would beat Super Mario 1 for time; his record was something like 7 or 8 minutes, 20 seconds, and he would just hold that B button down for dear life. Mistime a jump? Reset. Hit the wrong block for the mushroom? Reset. Take the wrong warp in the final castle? Reset.
The other one could reach and beat Mike Tyson in Punch Out, literally without getting hit once. I swear to you here and now, friends, I saw it with my own eyes, and it was disgusting. I could never even beat Soda Popinski, but this kid smacked Tyson around like a bad bad donkey. Just sick.
Anybody have any good stories about that sort of thing? I mean, I'm pretty good at the old X-Men arcade game (Nightcrawler rules!), but I'm certainly not beating it on one quarter.
-D
Though it doesn't vex me nearly as much as Zelda, I also was unable to beat Super Mario 2 as a kid. I got to Wart once only to be beaten like a red-headed stepchild, and then I think I stopped playing for years. Nowadays, on the very rare occasions I can get my Nintendo to turn on and stay on for more than 10 minutes, I can't remember where all the warps are. Curses!
Okay, here's a sub-category within this thread- did you ever know someone who was so good at a game, it made you sick? I'll give you an example: back in college, I knew two such individuals. One would beat Super Mario 1 for time; his record was something like 7 or 8 minutes, 20 seconds, and he would just hold that B button down for dear life. Mistime a jump? Reset. Hit the wrong block for the mushroom? Reset. Take the wrong warp in the final castle? Reset.
The other one could reach and beat Mike Tyson in Punch Out, literally without getting hit once. I swear to you here and now, friends, I saw it with my own eyes, and it was disgusting. I could never even beat Soda Popinski, but this kid smacked Tyson around like a bad bad donkey. Just sick.
Anybody have any good stories about that sort of thing? I mean, I'm pretty good at the old X-Men arcade game (Nightcrawler rules!), but I'm certainly not beating it on one quarter.
-D
