PK Contest! – Super Mario Memories
In celebration of the infinite radness that is Super Mario Galaxy 2, I’m running another contest! If you want to win a WiiWare or Virtual Console game of your choice, all you need to do is post a comment below telling me what your favorite Super Mario Memory is. Is it the first time you played Super Mario Bros? Getting to the roof of Peach’s castle in Super Mario 64?
I will randomly select a winner on Saturday, May 29. I’ll take the number from each comment and pull one randomly out of a hat. Literally!
Good luck!
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Beating Super Mario Bros. 3 for the very first time. It was the first video game that I ever beat without my dad’s help. Good times.
Super Mario Galaxy, in the Melty Molten Galaxy. Mario goes into the volcano, lava starts to rise, and just as he jets outta there, BAM! The whole thing erupts. Paired with that stage’s music, it was easily one of the most epic things I’ve seen in a long time.
My favorite memory is in Super Mario RPG where you see Link when you stay at the Rose town inn also when you see samus in the Mushroom Kingdom and the Blue Falcon Fire Stingray and the Arwing in the Barrel Volcano inn
Easy. Christmas day 1989 when my mom and dad surprised me with an NES, and my dad and I spent the entire day and a half playing Super Mario Bros. He even showed me where the secret 1-up was in world 1-1, after he heard the secret from a guy at work.
My best memory? Easily the first time I unpacked Super Mario Bros. 3. My sister and I were allowed to open one present the night before Christmas, and that just happened to be the one we picked. Turned out to be Super Mario Bros. 3. You can’t imagine how difficult it was to sleep that night. Not only did we have Christmas the next day, but also one of the best titles on the NES at the time.
When I opened up Mario Galaxy, and found out the game wasn’t inside….
Funny stuff Nintendo. Reeeeaaaalllll funny….
And once again, If I win, I give my winnings to Yonathin.
The daycare center I went to for hours every day for years had a SNES and Super Mario Bros. The first time I played it, I was in the ghost house with the big bouncing green bubbles. I 100%’d it at that daycare.
I meant Super Mario World. Sorry.
Probably beating Super Mario World: Super Advance 2. I had been playing it for almost 2 years when I was a little kid and could never beat it, or come close. Then for some reason it was just like, I dunno, I got it or something and suddenly I was great at it. I finally beat it on the way to my Step Aunt’s wedding, and forever shall the picture of Bowser’s face when he is being hit and trips to wedding shall be connected.
when I finally rescued the princess….
I got to stick with Super Mario Bros. for the NES. It was the first console/video game my brother and I had owned. Of course, we spent countless hours with it.
My best Mario memory is playing the last part of New Super Mario Bros. Wii with my brother. We died so many times just to get to that switch to free Peach. In the end, I ditched my brother and release the princess myself. Score one for the Weegee!
I had played Mario games before getting my own system, but Super Mario 64 has the best memory. When my sis and I first played it and did the fight with the Bob-omb King, we were absolutely scared out of our minds (the music didn’t help). I remember my heart racing the whole time, and having trouble with the controls (it was our first system, give us a break). The whole battle took longer than it should have, and I remember having to pause throughout it to drink water because my mouth was drying out from being agape the entire time. The same happened during the first encounter with Bowser. Ah memories.
I would play Super Mario World with my aunt when I was a kid. She had her own file, and I had mine, and then we had one we would play together.
I would always try and find out how she got to the secret area with all the power ups, but I never could.
A few years later, I found my grandma’s old SNES and stuff, among them SMW. I erased my old file and started over. When I finally unlocked the secret area on my own, it was like a coming-of-age thing. I was super happy and extra proud of myself.
Easy. That feeling for beating the final level in the Star World of Super Mario World. Most difficult thing in that game, by far, and the feeling of pride from completing it was unrivaled.
Spending WAAAAY too long attempting to get all the star coins in NSMBW, and having my brother yell at me. He doesn’t even want to play 2-player anymore!!
Hmm… I actually don’t have that many Mario memories. One fond one I have, though, is fairly recent: epically failing to play a ROM of Super Mario World on my computer. That game is HARD! I bet it would be somewhat easier on an actual console, though.
Nothing, I repeat NOTHING beats the thrill I had when I figured out the two World 1 warp whistles in Super Mario Bros. 3 BY MYSELF. Good times.
Accomplishing Super Mario Bros. 3, the first Mario game I beat without the help of anyone. Tricking Bowser into killing himself and recieving the kiss from Peach. Ahh the good times…
Hmmm, this is pretty tough. After having spent a week riding my bike to the nearby game store to play around with the new 3D Mario, one of three launch titles for the Ultra 64, I camped out for three hours in order to be one of the first in the world to purchase this groundbreaking system. Connecting the plugs and turning the power on felt like a religious experience. Mario could jump in three dimensions! Holy balls!
Although really, I have many fond memories of Mario Galaxy, but I couldn’t pick one. Failing at SMW it is.