Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24804827-20140617222104

Hello. My name is Max and I love the original Super Mario Bros. It's a game I can't put down until I finish, again. I remember the day I got it. It was Christmas of 1988. I got an NES plus some games for it. It came with Megaman, The Legend of Zelda, Jaws, Pac-Man, Pinball, Super Mario Bros. 2, (Not the Lost Levels), Metroid,  and of course, Super Mario Bros. While I enjoed the other games I got (Aside from Jaws), Super Mario Bros. was the game I would keep on coming back to. Even as the years passed and I got a Genesis, SNES, and later on, a N64, I would still keep coming back to Super Mario Bros. (I would also do this with Super Mario World, but that's beside the point).

As the years went on however, my cartridge was wearing down with age. Glitches were becoming rather frequent, they had been getting worse too. What started off as sprite flickering became Goombas spawning in the wrong areas which led to sprites dissapearing like the flagpole. Due to said glitches, I was soon fed up with the glitchs and stopped playing it. Besides, I had just bought Super Mario Bros., Sonic 1, Super Mario 64, F-Zero, and Pinball on the Wii Virtual Consle.

Today, I was playing Mario Kart: Double Dash on my Wii when I felt an urge to re-live my childhood and play Super Mario Bros. Even though I had it on my Wii, I was compelled to play it on my NES. Somehow, I had forgotten about the glitches. They came flooding back when I started playing again. I was upset that my short-term memory loss had gotten the better of me again for the 18th time that month. I still had a good time anyway.

When I got to Level 3-3, I decided that I was going to preform the 'Jump over the Flagpole' trick. I sucessfully preformed it and I was pleased to find that after a while, I found some actual level design. I then noticed that I had only 94 seconds on the clock left. The level was rather difficult and felt like it belonged in World 7 or maybe 8. When I only had 6 seconds on the clock left, I beat the level. After that, the game played as if nothing ever happed until Level 8-4.

As soon as I beat bowser, I was shocked to that, instead of Peach, there was only Toad! He said his normal phrase and proceeded to Level 9-1. Soon, the fact that this was all happening to me sunk in and compelled me to write descriptions of the each of the levels. What I wrote is down below.

'Level 9-1 was very similar in graphics to Level 1-1. It started out with 4 pipes. Each one leading to a dead end with a one-up. Once I got out of the fourth pipe, I noticed a ParaTroopa hopping on the pipes, he then went off the fourth pipe and landed on a platform I couldn't see. I then paused the game to go take a break. I then came back an hour later, and after some basic platforming, I beat the level.'

'Level 9-2 was an underground level. This level consisted of painfully tough platforming that made me happy about the 4 1-UPs in the previous level. Near the end of the level, there was a spot where I could preform the infinite lives glitch. Soonafter, I beat the level.'

'Level 9-3 was a very short water level with many  Cheep-cheeps all over the place, even in areas where I couldn't avoid them (So much for my No-Death Playthrough). After only a minute, I found a flag underwater and beat the level.'

'Level 9-4 is a level I hate. Right at the begining I noticed somthing odd about this level. I had 1200 seconds on the clock. In blocks, I saw the number 4. I then had to fight a bunch of Hammer Bros. in a small corridor. After that was over I saw, in blocks, the number 3. I  then realized this meant that the level was split up into 4 sections. In section '3', tons of Goombas, Koopas, Piranha Plants, and ParaTroopas swarmed the area. It was rather difficult, but managed to kill them all. In section '2', I had to preform platforming that rivaled in difficulty of The Lost Levels. Did I mention there are no checkpoints in this level? After many deaths, I got to section '1'. There was only flat ground, three item blocks which in order contained a Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Star Man, and the boss room.'

'The World 9 Boss is a huge pain. In addition to being faster than the World 8 Boss while still having all of it's attacks, it can also ram into Mario and 1 Hit Kill him. There is also no axe, so he can only be defeated using fireballs. After many deaths, I finally beat him and watched the ending cutscene. I then shut off the game.'

That was back in December 2006. In June 2008, my house caught fire and I lost my entire NES game collection including this game. I had been planing to take an month-long vacation to the Bahamas, so I was able to save most of my stuff including my Wii. I found the notes previously typed down word for word in a notebook I had saved. It had reminded me of this distant memory. 