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MM4: 5, MM5: 4, MM6: 4, MMX: 5 by Jerry Whorebach 10/18/2013, 8:12pm PDT
Here's what my to-do list looks like right now:
1. Play more Mega Man games
2. Learn how to use half-stars
3. Pizza party?

Anyway...

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

I loved Super Mario Bros. 2. But I get the sense that a lot of people did not. Well, I get that sense now that I have the Internet and its search engines. I know they took a different game and put Mario in it, but why isn't it considered a classic anyway? I love pulling shit up from the ground and throwing it at people. And couldn't you float in that one? I think you could float a little. Maybe that originated in SMB3.


Super Mario Bros. was a momentum-based action game of unprecedented speed and fluidity, where the only controls were the Joystick off a Pac-Man cab, the flipper off a pinball table, and the nitro pedal off Vin Diesel's car. It was about hauling ass on a one-way trip from left to right, vaulting pits, stomping enemies, smashing bricks, and cha-chinging long strings of bling. It was a fat guido chasing his dick on a breakneck rampage through the Magic Kingdom. It was PERFECT.

Super Mario Bros. 2 was about... I don't know what the fuck Super Mario Bros. 2 was about. Digging vegetables? Climbing ladders? Making weird, floaty jumps? Getting buried alive in sand with a creepy sentient mask in some kind of horrible nightmare scenario? There's a discussion going on right now over in Gamerasutra about "flow state", which from what I can tell based on Stew's references to a Wikipedia article I didn't read is that feeling you get when The Force is with you. I never once managed to enter the flow zone or whateverthefuck playing SMB2, and believe me, I tried. That game came along at a point in my childhood when I had infinite time and zero entertainment options, when I could do the underwater bomb defusal mission in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles blindfolded just because I liked driving the turtle wagon afterwards. I'm not saying SMB2 was a bad game; like Dr. Mario, it was probably fairly decent, especially by NES standards. But for someone who wanted nothing more out of a sequel to Super Mario Bros. than Faster, Harder, More Challenging Super Mario Bros., it was possibly the greatest disappointment imaginable :(

Fortunately the ending revealed (SPOILER WARNING) it was all just a bad dream your parents paid $70 for and then they made SMB3 which fixed everything and was one of the greatest games of all time. It's like if Miyamoto spilled your drink at a party and then bought you a Cadillac. I love that guy!



I also love the soundtrack to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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ITT I rate game franchises on request. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/16/2013, 11:44pm PDT NEW
    Zork. 1:5, 2:5, 3:4.5, BZ:3.5, 0:3, RTZ:0.5, ZN:1, UU:2, GI:1 NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/16/2013, 11:53pm PDT NEW
    All Mario associated games NT by Mysterio 10/17/2013, 1:34am PDT NEW
        DK:5, JR:2, 3:0, MB:2, SMB:5, SMB2:4.5 by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/17/2013, 12:29pm PDT NEW
            DK: little high, JR/3: who cares, MB/SMB: dead on, SMB2: way too high by Jerry Whorebach 10/17/2013, 1:29pm PDT NEW
                Re: DK: little high, JR/3: who cares, MB/SMB: dead on, SMB2: way too high by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/17/2013, 3:48pm PDT NEW
                Also by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/17/2013, 4:19pm PDT NEW
                    MM4: 5, MM5: 4, MM6: 4, MMX: 5 by Jerry Whorebach 10/18/2013, 8:12pm PDT NEW
                        Do-over! MM4: 4.5, MM5: 3.5, MM6: 4, MMX: 5 by Jerry Whorebach 10/18/2013, 8:18pm PDT NEW
                        Imagine if you were Japanese and got the actual SMB sequel. It's all you asked NT by Thanks AMERICA 10/19/2013, 4:13am PDT NEW
                        Re: MM4: 5, MM5: 4, MM6: 4, MMX: 5 by Vested Id 10/19/2013, 4:37am PDT NEW
                Mortal Kombat. 1:2.5, 2:3, 3:2, 4:0 NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/21/2013, 9:13pm PDT NEW
                    Is this going by the Fussbett test of time scale? NT by fabio 10/21/2013, 10:36pm PDT NEW
                        Yeah. I thought MK1 was amazing when it first appeared in the arcades. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/21/2013, 10:46pm PDT NEW
 
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