Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Year: 1985
Genre: Platformer

I don’t know man, it’s Super Mario Bros for the NES. I have nothing unique to say about this one but this has replaced Backloggd for me so it’s going here. It’s an important game and I still like playing it, with the exception of the maze in world 7. There.

I guess what I will say is that sometimes it’s fun to go back to a game you’ve played a billion times and really dig into it more if you haven’t already. That Minus World glitch you’ve heard about before? Go in there and actually try it out for yourself. It’s fun to see all the weird stuff in a game that’s been discovered by people who have been playing it over the last 40 years. Maybe check out a rom hack or two. Check out the differences between versions in other countries if they exist. This was part of my recent revisit to lots of old games since I have an emulator setup for the first time in a while, even though I also own this in the original hardware AND it’s accessible to me through the Nintendo Switch. RetroAchievements was what got me to revisit the game and poke at it in weird ways that I usually don’t. It’s hard to make time for this sort of thing when you can take a look at your games backlog and see that there’s a billion things in there, but I think it’s also worth revisiting something you like that you haven’t played in a long time and poking at it in ways that you usually don’t.

Super Mario Bros. is available on the Nintendo library in the Nintendo Switch Online service