After beating Super Mario Bros. 3 for probably the 30th time or so in my life (6th time since I turned 25) I decided that maybe I should say a few things about myself and this game. I mean, it's remained among my five favorites games since it game out in 1990, and it's probably the game I'm the best at. Not, as in, better than everyone, just the game I am better at than any other. I've never seen the Game Over screen (I haven't even checked on youtube, for fear of jinxing this streak), and until reading the Strategy Guide from cover to cover a year or so after I first beat the game, I never knew that the reason gates went down after beating a castle was to make it easier on you if you ever do lose all of your lives.
All of that said, I still feel the need to get to 99 lives in World 1-2, and even then, I will still get every coin I can and every 1up I can, just because I HAVE TO. My second favorite part of Super Mario Advance 4 (the Game Boy Advance version) is the fact that you can get at least 999 lives (I ended up at around 132, or so when I beat it). Now, never mind the fact that I probably lose less than 20 lives in a playthrough, I still feel the need to do this. Like a security blanket or something. It's probably related to this compulsion I have to listen to ABBA's Dancing Queen once a week, or so.
So, last night, I played, for what I believe to be, the first time I've ever played drunk. Now I wasn't completely pished or anything like that, but I was definitely at stage 2 of my 3 stages of drunkeness (thinking about it, there's probably a 4th [unconscious] and 5th [dead] stage, but I should probably try to avoid that, no?). Anywho, I was still amazing at this game. I lost 1 life in the first four worlds, but I peaked in World 8 (probably due to sobering up) where I managed to keep my Raccoon Tail all the way until Koopa's final fireball, and the only reason he hit me was because I was too busy watching him fall to his death.
So the princess is saved, yet again. Hopefully she can keep herself out of trouble...then again, I would mind another go-round with Koopa. Bring it on, bitch!
