Mer.Saloon
Chain Chomp
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- He/Him
We all have that one magic moment of beating our first game and it lives on in our hearts and minds.
Mine was Super Mario Land on the Gameboy Color. Yeah, I never could beat Mario Land on my original brick, despite my best efforts. It took until the gameboy color for me to finally put the game in its place. Granted, I didn't own the game until maybe a year before the color was coming out. Of course, that brick was a hand-me-down. I still remember that beautiful thing, and all the times I spent playing Tetris on it.
Yeah though, Super Mario Land was a game I just COULD NOT beat for the longest time. I already had problems with dexterity in my fingers growing up, so a lot of the finer movements of Mario and art of analog button pressing just never really hit me. But I was a persistent kid who didn't know where to buy Gameboy games.
One day I was in church and I was on a roll with level progression. Yes, I was playing during the mass, and even outdoors, when mass broke out. I was absolutely doing amazing compared to most of my failed runs. I was getting through every level with a multitude of lives and avoiding all the bottomless pits (it was the pits that always got me) until I was at last at Tatanga's Castle. I had gotten to Tatanga before, and failed quite a bit in beating him, but this time I had somehow managed to not lose my Super Mushroom until the absolute last bit. It was an amazing rush when I finally took him down.
I can still remember that warm summer's day on the steps to the church and the elation when I got to that ending. It wasn't a fake Daisy, it was the real thing. And her and Mario went off into the sunset on a rocket ship. God, I loved that game so much.
Mine was Super Mario Land on the Gameboy Color. Yeah, I never could beat Mario Land on my original brick, despite my best efforts. It took until the gameboy color for me to finally put the game in its place. Granted, I didn't own the game until maybe a year before the color was coming out. Of course, that brick was a hand-me-down. I still remember that beautiful thing, and all the times I spent playing Tetris on it.
Yeah though, Super Mario Land was a game I just COULD NOT beat for the longest time. I already had problems with dexterity in my fingers growing up, so a lot of the finer movements of Mario and art of analog button pressing just never really hit me. But I was a persistent kid who didn't know where to buy Gameboy games.
One day I was in church and I was on a roll with level progression. Yes, I was playing during the mass, and even outdoors, when mass broke out. I was absolutely doing amazing compared to most of my failed runs. I was getting through every level with a multitude of lives and avoiding all the bottomless pits (it was the pits that always got me) until I was at last at Tatanga's Castle. I had gotten to Tatanga before, and failed quite a bit in beating him, but this time I had somehow managed to not lose my Super Mushroom until the absolute last bit. It was an amazing rush when I finally took him down.
I can still remember that warm summer's day on the steps to the church and the elation when I got to that ending. It wasn't a fake Daisy, it was the real thing. And her and Mario went off into the sunset on a rocket ship. God, I loved that game so much.