Posted on February 8, 2013
My Top 100: #21 – Super Mario Galaxy
It’s fairly difficult to come up with an interesting “retro” story when a game is a bit newer, but I’ll give it a shot anyway. When the Nintendo Revolution was re-branded as the Wii at E3 in… Read More
Posted on January 21, 2013
My Top 100: #31 – Wrecking Crew
I consider this to be one of my favourite games of all time, yet somehow, I’m still learning things about it. Sure, I’m still learning little tidbits about the Super Mario Bros. games, but Wrecking Crew was a pretty… Read More
Posted on November 1, 2012
My Top 100: #56 – Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island
I mentioned this in the Stunt Race FX and Donkey Kong Country posts, but Nintendo was pretty stoked about the Super FX chip and Advanced Computer Modelling. Not surprisingly, the Super FX2 chip was in the works not long afterwards,… Read More
Posted on October 30, 2012
My Top 100: #58 – Mario Kart 64
When I started putting my list together, I knew that there should be a Mario Kart game on it. After all, the original was an unexpected surprise, and my whole family had a good laugh whenever we played it. Its… Read More
Posted on January 9, 2012
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy)
Mario-thon 2012 was a great success! Well… somewhat. My friends Robot Cousin, Zom-Ben and I got together over the weekend to sit down and play the original Super Mario Bros. games for NES. No ROM’s, no cheats, no warps; just a… Read More
Posted on January 6, 2012
Super Mario Land (Game Boy)
It was small, and sometimes hard to see Mario when he wasn’t “Super”, but it was still weird and different enough to be considered a classic. As I mentioned in the post before this one, I got this game… Read More
Posted on October 5, 2011
Super Mario Kart (Super NES)
When it first came out, I didn’t feel there was a link between kart racing and Mario characters. 1992 – Super NES (Nintendo) Looking back, I don’t think that mattered. I was sold from the get-go! Somehow, in… Read More
Posted on September 22, 2011
Super Mario All-Stars: The Lost Levels (Super NES)
I have a boatload of Mario games to play through, so I’ll focus on them for the next couple posts. Enhanced re-makes and re-releases of classic games seem to be pretty common these days. When Super Mario All-Stars… Read More
Posted on September 16, 2011
Super Mario World (Super NES)
Even though the focus of this post is… …the movie I made (posted below) used… I found it had a bit more storytelling material, such as a lengthened introduction. Super Mario World was a highly anticipated game for… Read More
Posted on September 2, 2011
28 Years Later…
Today is my 28th birthday, and I spent the day looking up old NES games… not for any particular reason, and not necessarily because it’s my birthday, but because I can. Wikipedia is a wonderful place to kill… Read More