Over the course of one stream which lasted an increasingly hellish 3.5 hours, I played Super Mario Bros. to completion with original NES rules: You run out of lives, you restart the entire game.
This is the type of thing that changes a person. A game I previously enjoyed, once played in its original form, became a game that had me questioning whether I even liked games to begin with, beating my head against a wall with increasing rapidity until I either passed out or beat this godforsaken thing.
And yet somehow, I still think I enjoy Mario 1, to an extent. I am not likely to ever play it again, certainly not to completion, and I think the physics are immediately superseded by anything and everything that came after, but there's honestly still some gas in the tank here, and for as hellish as the experience was, it's still a rite of passage I think everyone should do at least once.
This is the type of thing that changes a person. A game I previously enjoyed, once played in its original form, became a game that had me questioning whether I even liked games to begin with, beating my head against a wall with increasing rapidity until I either passed out or beat this godforsaken thing.
And yet somehow, I still think I enjoy Mario 1, to an extent. I am not likely to ever play it again, certainly not to completion, and I think the physics are immediately superseded by anything and everything that came after, but there's honestly still some gas in the tank here, and for as hellish as the experience was, it's still a rite of passage I think everyone should do at least once.