Cheating on Your Girlfriend With Nintendo
Author: DavidJones // Category: Pop Culture, Youth Culture
I have a confession to make: I’ve never beaten Super Mario Brothers.
I could make it to 8-2 any day; 8-3 if I was lucky. Sadly, I could never find my way through the castle in 8-4 to rescue the Princess from Bowser ::sigh::
I’ve also never finished Super Mario Brothers 2 or Super Mario Brothers 3. Yes, I could get close. But never quite made it to the end.
I never quite finished a Mario game until Super Mario Galaxy was released for Wii. Mission Accomplished!
Apparently I’m not alone in my struggles. Recently, Nintendo announced a new Super Mario Brothers game would be released for Wii, but with a twist.
A new help system has been built into the game. If you get stuck during a level, simply pause the game, and the help system will navigate Mario (Luigi or Toad) through the end of the level. When you think you can handle things on your own, simple jump back in the game and take over.
Now this should sound awesome to me and Alan Skiles the other 3 year olds that haven’t beaten the original Super Mario games. But it’s kinda removing the challenge.
If I beat the game with help, have I really beaten the game? If I beat it without help, is anyone really going to believe me? If your girlfriend gets up to go to the bathroom, you pause the game and let it beat a difficult level, unpause right before your friend gets back, and then proceed to beat the game, aren’t you cheating yourself, cheating at the game, and cheating on your girlfriend?
Okay, that’s a bit figurative, but you get what I’m talking about. I’m not sure how I feel about this. Seems like even Mario has made truth relative.
Tags: Nintendo, Super Mario Brothers, Wii
June 18th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I thought Alan Skiles was banned from playing Mario after his outburst in college.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Would you be upset if I told you that I’ve beaten it since college?
Well I haven’t, and as a matter of fact, I’ve not picked it up since ’round about the time of what will only be mentioned as the infamous verbal slip. I thought this post was going to be at least a little bit deeper than this! I thought you’d pontificate on how we spend our time with all the frivolities of the world like video games and such while we are supposed to be spending time with the ones we love. I was fully prepared to elaborate on how this can be extended to marriages by way of more than just Nintendo, but I guess my comments have nothing to do with the topic at hand. Oh well…
June 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I guess you are going to have hold yourself accountable to the truth. It’s not Mario’s responsibility! -Avid Mario Fan
June 18th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
The title got me thinking. I was in love with Super Mario Bros. well before any girlfriend I’ve had. The way I see it (in those days), I cheated on Super Mario Bros with my girlfriend. Lame, I know.
June 18th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Where did you find a girl who will watch you play video games? Is she pretty?
June 18th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
I have beaten all three of those games. If you couldn’t beat Super Mario brothers 2 you are in a sad state. That game was super easy…as was intended. Nintendo didn’t think we, Americans, would be able to handle the real Super Mario Brothers 2 so they took a easy game and plugged in Mario Characters.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Eric, that’s hilarious!
Mark, sorry, but it was a hypothetical situation.
AJ, SMB 2 bored me because it was so different. I never really tried to get too far in it.