bomba's House Of Flancakes

Posted on Mar 3rd 2012 at 04:42:09 AM by (bombatomba)
Posted under Super Mario Brothers

Since my wife will be working the entire weekend, I've declared a Weekend of Gaming for all in my household.  While my son observes this every weekend (and many days of the week), in between taking care of the items on my honey-do list and scraping my daughter off the ceiling I plan on sneaking in a few hours at the least, assuming that the power stays on in this windstorm.  I guess we will see, huh?

I don't know exactly how long it has been since I played Super Mario Brothers, but I'm getting some serious 1986/87 flashback twinges.  Even playing the Virtual Console version (which I don't remember buying) and playing on the Wii-mote is making me nostalgic.  There is one odd thing though: is the game supposed to be that fast?  I'm thinking it might be a combination of the television (a 40" LCD) and the Wii (which I swear must be using some sort of smoothing), but it seems just too fast.  I'm not a big fan of smoothing and graphical enhancements on my old games (generally), so I might hook up my NES to an old CRT I have laying around and see if my theories pan out tomorrow.

I just may end up throwing in the towel on Stellar-Fire.  I've hit a snag and can't seem to progress.  Worse, I'm having serious problems getting past the second stage, even though I had already progressed to the fourth.  Either the game is just too inconsistent or I really suck at it.

On a additional note, while looking through the janked-up Netflix menu on Wii (without much hope, I might add), I couldn't help but see Stephen King's Bag of Bones down near the end.  Could it be possible that they made a movie (actually a two-part series) of one of my favorite King novels without me knowing?  I guess so (obviously).  I've decided to click on the damn movie and see what happens, though I won't be expecting much.  I mean, I really loved It and Rose Red, but...  I don't know.  Why do we even want to watch movies made from our favorite novels?  If some crazy bastard managed to secure the rights to Mark Z. Danielewsi's House of Leaves or Dan Simmons' A Winter Haunting or even [insert favorite novel here] would you go see it?

I'm going to stop being a cynical jerk now and just watch the movie.

UPDATE: The movie sucked.  Oh, well.


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Played a little NSMB Wii with my daughter for a bit tonight. Fun game, and she keeps asking me why I know what to do since I haven't played it before. Kids these days...
 
@Duke.Togo: It's like riding a bike.

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