Super Mario Brothers

If you are of a similar age to me then you can remember vividly the excitement of Nintendo coming out (not all the hundreds of Nintendos that have come out since then, but the original Nintendo). Like me, you probably begged your parents to get you a Nintendo for Christmas, your birthday, just because you were the most awesome kid ever to exist. My parents apparently didn't love me because they never got me one, but my friend Kristy got one and we spent many weekends (okay every weekend) playing Nintendo Super Mario Brothers. And IT. WAS. AWESOME! One of my best memories of childhood (since Kristy and I have been friends since 4th grade and by friends I mean the kind who spent every weekend at her house or mine, went to summer camp together in the summers, worked at the Y together during middle and high school, the together all the time kind).

So, imagine how excited I was when Wii came out with Super Mario Brothers. Of course I had to buy it and 2 additional controllers because if playing with 2 people was fun, playing with 4 people was bound to be legendary. One year later and we finally had friends over last night to play. Of course if Kristy and her hubby would come up and visit it would like old home week playing Nintendo.

Paul and I played a lot of Super Mario Brothers when I was on bedrest (mostly because I was so mind numbingly bored all the time), but when we got home from his deployment/my extended vacation to Florida our friend Andy had Mario up to 64 lives. 64 LIVES! What is that???? Who does that??? Rainman???

Last night I was Mario (duh), Paul was Luigi, Sarah and Andy were the mushrooms. Within 14 minutes I had Mario's lives down from 64 to 24. Yes, I had lost 40 lives in a mere matter of moments. Andy the mushroom, on the other hand, was like a Mario Brothers ninja. There were several games where his mushroom just picked up my Mario and carried him through the game.

There was some cursing (Andy), some crying (me), yelling at Andy (Sarah), walking off cliffs (Paul), and lots of laughter. I mostly held my breath and tried not to pee myself. We are definitely not up to Andy's savant like skills. I mean Sarah and Andy brought their own controllers...these people are serious! It's like someone who brings their own paddle to a ping pong game.

After Mario Brothers, we decided to play Mario Kart. It's really hard. I rocked 12th place most games except in 1 miracle from God game where I finished in 2nd place. I'm not ashamed to say that I did jump up and down screaming in excitement. In one game Andy finished in 11th place and there may have been a controller thrown onto the floor and some extensive cursing.

I'm pretty sure Andy will never play with us again.