{"id":2947,"date":"2013-09-25T21:26:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2013-09-25T21:32:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T21:32:50","slug":"the-people-ill-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=2947","title":{"rendered":"It’s Mario, and you Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1992 – Nintendo (Super NES)<\/p><\/div>\n

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I don\u2019t consider myself to be the most creative person on the planet, but whenever I do happen to come up with something original \u2013 be it musical or anything artistic \u2013 I tend to dismiss it rather quickly.\u00a0 That\u2019s a bit harsh, perhaps, but I\u2019m somewhat able to keep an open mind about that sort of thing nowadays.<\/p>\n

When I was 9-10 years old, however, forget about it.\u00a0 I had a ton of crayons and an infinite amount of construction paper at my disposal, but I\u2019d never be content with anything I made.\u00a0 I knew kids in school that knew how to draw really well, and anything I ever made looked like crap in comparison.<\/p>\n

With Mario Paint<\/em>, I finally found some level in satisfaction with the things I created.\u00a0 It was so easy to breeze through the paint tools with the mouse, and since we didn\u2019t own a PC of our own (yet), this was a level of freedom I hadn\u2019t experienced before.\u00a0 It really was quite special, at the time.<\/p>\n

Aside from painting something from scratch, you could also create your own \u201cstamps\u201d (pixel art, basically), try your hand at music composition, or even animation.\u00a0 If you got fed up with any of that, you could always try your hand at the Gnat Attack mini-game.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t play it as much as I did other games, but it was always nice to pop in Mario Paint<\/em> whenever I was bored.\u00a0 It was definitely a fun deviation from the norm, which Nintendo seems to be all about these days.<\/p>\n

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