Wii!!

[beth_leonard]

We bought a wii. We're still looking for a wii fit. I bought it out of my frivolous expense budget because I thought it would help me get in shape.

Now Jon's downloaded Super Mario Brothers and Zelda. Oh the nostalgia. 2 hrs later I'm not feeling any more fit, but satisfied in some deep nostaligic way.

--Beth

Comments

[madmanatw.livejournal.com]

Heh. I never won Super Mario Bros (never had a nintendo myself, actually) so I recently downloaded an emulator and have been giving it a shot. I still haven't won it, but at least now I can get to the end of 8-4. :P

[beth_leonard]

I had forgotten that you can use the non-jump button to run super fast. I kept getting the flag poles at only 100 points, and I *knew* I used to always land at the top of the flagpole. Eventually I rediscovered turbo running.

My brother and I only owned a few games (Zelda, Mario, Metroid, Kid Icarus, and a few others) but those few that we had, we played quite a bit. We also had friends that we traded with frequently. Jon and I were surfing the available games, and it became clear that he had owned quite a few more than I had, but on the ones my brother and I had as a kid I still remember quite a few details.
--Beth

[kirin]

Ah, nostalgia. There's a remake of the first Metroid games available for current Nintendo handheld systems that's pretty great which I played through recently. In fact, the only one of those franchises that has *not* seen a retro remake or re-release recently is Kid Icarus, and rumor has it there's something for it in the works for Wii as well.

[steuard.livejournal.com]

When I'm feeling nostalgic for Super Mario Bros, I just plug in my 8-bit Nintendo and play :-)

[chalgaryn.livejournal.com]

Oops...that was me forgetting that I was on Steuard's side of the computer. He doesn't have video game nostalgia :-)

[steuard.livejournal.com]

Well, not Nintendo-flavored video game nostalgia, anyway. (The only video game console my family had growing up was a box that played a bunch of Pong variants, all of them built in. It was a garage sale relic even then.) I've got fond memories of a bunch of computer games and a few arcade games, though.

[beth_leonard]

Hehe, I would have been totally unsurprised to think Stu was nostalgic for Nintendo. I know very few women who gamed, and in HS I knew none. I would have liked to have known you in High School/Jr. High, but I'm happy to know you now.

--Beth