Mario Brothers: A Classic

The Nintendo Family Computer was the first ever video game console I played with. I have always remembered that when we were younger, my parents only let my brother and me play the Family Computer during weekends. I would always anticipate the weekend when I could play the first ever Mario Brothers.

Until now I remember that the A button is for jump and the B button is for firing weapons. Mario Brothers is a very easy game to play. You just have to move forward, kill the enemies along the way and jump to the flag to be able to enter to the castle.

There are three stages per world and you can even skip some levels if you know where to go. I have known a lot of the cheats for the Mario Brothers but I try not to use them too often. I estimate that I have probably played the game for more than 500 times in my whole life because I am still playing Mario Brothers in a NES emulator in the PC. That’s how much I love Mario Brothers! It is the best ever platform game there is.

However, I do not like the 3D versions of Mario. It’s probably because the simple game play was already lost when Mario had to do other more complicated things other than move forward, jump and fire the weapon. I guess the more complicated it got, the more Mario lost its appeal to the people who just like to play and not think too much. Or I could be just simple minded and don’t like to play complicated games!