How could I possibly start with any other game? Super Mario Brothers started it all for me. Being a child of the 80's, my first gaming system was the NES. And what came with the NES? Super Mario Bros. of course. That and Duck Hunt (but I'll leave that till later). Not only did Mario become a pop culture icon, but he is one of, if not, the most recognizable characters in the world. Who would have thought that a game were a plumber finds some magic vegetation, stomps on turtles and saves a princess from an even larger turtle would be such a big hit. Seriously though, to this day, I can't get over a good platformer. I can't even imagine the hours I spent on this gem. In fact I even recall when I was a younger gamer, before I got the NES myself, playing this with my more fortunate cousins. And yes, I was stuck with Luigi all the time. And yes, I would still be on level one when my cousins would be on level 3 getting infinite extra lives on the steps as so many of us recall. But I digress. Thankfully I got to experience my own copy and was able to conquer that learning curve. Nintendo sure hit the jackpot on this one. It even spawned a DS remake recently called New Super Mario Bros. (lots of fun, especially the multiplayer games using the DS download function). Thank you Shigeru Miyamoto for bringing the world of Mario into our lives.
*For those of you who don't know Mr. Miyamoto, he is the game designing genius who brought us Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong and other Nintendo classic series.
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