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Super Mario Bros. (1985)

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The lack of audio is due to weird technical issues. I'll try to have it fixed by the next series of uploads.

Now begins a long, long section of these videos, which you’ll probably want to skip, wherein I go through coin heaven in 4-1 over and over again so as to stock up on extra lives. (I said I wasn’t going to cheat, not that I wasn’t going to use any common sense. This playthrough still involves no save states, no continues, and no glitching tactics [although whether glitching counts as cheating is usually a case-by-case thing anyway]).

This game was specifically designed to be ultra-difficult since it was originally intended as a sort of special advanced mode for the original Super Mario Bros. game. (But you’ve all heard the story before, so very many times. I highly doubt the part of that standard story wherein the reason for the game not originally being released for the U.S. market was that it was too hard for us poor ignorant Americans, aw shucks; when have you EVER heard of a game—an NES game, no less—not coming out because it was too hard?! I mean, for crying out loud, they made “Battletoads” and “Bayou Billy” *more* difficult for us! But otherwise, you know the story. And if not you can Google it easily.) The game supposed to *feel* impossible, perhaps, but it’s not. People speed run this thing. There are ways. Usually the key is to ask whether you’re going too fast or too slow. When you make a mistake in this game it’s usually because of one or the other

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