Mario Bros Japanese Edition: Commentary via Steve

by Jillian @ http://blueshelled.com . May 28, 2009 . 3:11PM

You really can’t have a blog named “Blueshelled.com” and never talk about Mario Bros. You just can’t. It tells you a lot about me as a person as well as my age and my hobbies as a child and adolescent. I remember the first time I saw a Nintendo and my first experience with the game. I went over to my friend Maria’s house and she had a Nintendo. I’d grown up on a farm and the concept of a Nintendo was new to me. We’d had an Atari, so I knew about Pong and Pacman, but what was a Mario Bros (which I pronounced then as “Maw-ree-o Bras”)?

My first question, when watching Mario play was “Yes, but how do you fall?” Oh, I was to learn how to fall pretty quickly in the coming weeks, as I slowly became nothing less than an addict. Later, when I got my own Nintendo, I moved on to Final Fantasy I, which is still my favorite game ever (Fighter, Thief, Red Mage, Black Mage for the win, people), but Super Mario Bros is where Nintendo and I became friends.

At one point, during that first summer of meeting new people and spending time with my new friend Maria, she accused me of only playing with her for her Nintendo. I’d like to think that wasn’t true, but when I say I was addicted, I’m not kidding and addicts do crazy things. I enjoyed time with Maria, but, when we moved a year or so later, there was a lot of childhood drama and our friendship faded quite a bit. We still talk to this day, thanks to Facebook, but I have her to thank for introducing me to the gaming system that single-handed stunted my social life.

Every now and then, I find something that reminds me of my Super Mario Bros addiction and will make me laugh until tears run out of my eyes. This video is one of those things. It is Steve, who really enjoys his Super Mario Bros and is quite animated about.

Warning: There is some foul language in this video, as there generally is when you aren’t very good at a video game.