I Finally Beat Super Mario Bros.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

I remember the first time I saw that game beaten. I was five years old, sitting on the floor with my younger brother, watching my dad play through. When he won, all three of us cheered. I eventually managed to beat it on my own, but it took me a few more years.

That sounds exactly like my childhood, except I was the younger brother. 1985. That and pac-man are the only games my dad played and he was obsessed with them. My dad is the person who showed me all the warp pipes and the almost infinte lifes trick. I still have not to this day beat the game without cheating. He could beat it with out losing a life and without losing the fire suit.

Am I the only one here that was speedrunning the original SMB at age 5?

[superlarz]

I remember the first time I saw that game beaten. I was five years old, sitting on the floor with my younger brother, watching my dad play through. When he won, all three of us cheered. I eventually managed to beat it on my own, but it took me a few more years.

That sounds exactly like my childhood, except I was the younger brother. 1985. That and pac-man are the only games my dad played and he was obsessed with them. My dad is the person who showed me all the warp pipes and the almost infinte lifes trick. I still have not to this day beat the game without cheating. He could beat it with out losing a life and without losing the fire suit.

Am I the only one here that was speedrunning the original SMB at age 5?

I think i was 5 when i started playing. Prob 7 when I could quickly run through the game

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

That sounds exactly like my childhood, except I was the younger brother. 1985. That and pac-man are the only games my dad played and he was obsessed with them. My dad is the person who showed me all the warp pipes and the almost infinte lifes trick. I still have not to this day beat the game without cheating. He could beat it with out losing a life and without losing the fire suit.

Am I the only one here that was speedrunning the original SMB at age 5?

I think i was 5 when i started playing. Prob 7 when I could quickly run through the game

I've been playing NES & SMB since the very day I turned three years old so it comes to me as naturally as breathing or walking. I've put at least a few hundred if not 1000+ hours into the game up until recently, but I always go back to it as it was the first game I ever played.

[lisalover1]

I'm going to try to play through a bunch of NES classics. It's the console generation that I missed, and I feel like I should get a feel for it. I already beat Contra and the original Megaman, and the next on the list is Metroid.

[noiseredux]

Like I said, I had the game when it came out. I could never beat it though. Easily beat SMB2, 3, Mario Land, Mario World...

[Nintendude94]

I remember going all the way through SB1 on SMB Deluxe. After that the lost levels was unlocked and I went through that. I can't believe I did that when I was 7-8.

I've beaten SMB1 so many times I can't even count.

[hashiriya1]

The last time I played all the way through it was in the 80's!

[Ziggy]

I rarely play all the way through. I do remember though, at the height of my SMB1 fever, playing through it using the warp zones and then starting over and playing all the way through it.

This thread made me feel like playing it again... first time in years. I was a little rusty at it, but made it through using warp zones on my NES. Now I'm playing the All-Stars version. Playing it again made me remember... I must have died about a zillion times on all the levels in world 7 and 8. As a result of that, I know the levels like the back of my hand and have my technique for getting through them perfected.

I was playing The Lost Levels a little, too. Damn, that game is so frustrating! I'm some where in world 5 right now.

[grittykitty]

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=53

this one of the first topics i posted here! (sadly no one replied to it then)

a japanese friend of mine constantly does speedruns on actual hardware, just because he's bored (even though there's plenty of stuff to do!). but if you play it all the way through without warping, i agree it's a really hard game. the hammer bros. and hammer bowser are the worst

[executioner]

Wow, I didn't know so many people haven't/took a while to beat SMB.

Maybe it's something like me and Sonic, I never beat Sonic 1 and rarely beat the second.

Me neither, didn't have any sega console until a few years ago. Should do it one of these days hopefully and also super mario world and mario 64.... more for the backlog... got a headache now.