Super Mario Brothers Ending - Found After 17 Years
Posted on | October 21, 2008 |
When I was 6 years old, my father introduced me to the world of computer games. He probably thought it would be nice if I had other stuff to do than go around the neighborhood with my slingshot hunting for stray cats and picking up odd shaped rocks along the way. He bought a Nintendo Family Computer (to make me stay at home) and it came with several games to boot. Those cartridges really nice since they are made of hard plastic and you can eventually throw them at your dog when you get so frustrated after level 5 of Elevator Action. No, I didn’t do that to my dog. Just a thought.
Hand carved in the seventh level of hell.
Soon, I was able to finish all the games my dad bought… but one. One game stood like a rock. It mocked me as if there was nothing that my 6-year old mind and body can do to finish the game. I felt like as if the entire Japanese nation was laughing at me. It was Shigeru Miyamoto’s Super Mario Bros. It wasn’t just about finishing the game. It was about “what the fck happened next?”. ‘Coz after you’ve gone several levels of rescuing a mushroom instead of the princess, you’ll eventually go nuts. Ever since, I’ve been curious about the ending.
Cockblock.
It was a very cunning strategy. It was enough to drive my 6 year old mind to the point of lunacy. For days, sleep was not in my vocabulary. I also deprived myself from food, hence, my current frame. (Yes, I blame Nintendo. I should sue them.) And I also stopped playing with my friends. All of a sudden, the world is all about pipes, mushrooms and spinning columns of flaming doom. After weeks of trying to find the princess, I realized that I should stop playing the game and go back to my life before the Family Com… Because really, what should be a 6 year old be doing at that age? Stay cooped up in his room while playing the video game of the century? Or outside, trying to explore the world and its wonders? (By exploring the world, I mean getting back on the streets with my sling shot looking for stray animals to hit and picking up odd pieces of rocks along the way. Also, I solve math problems during my spare time.) It came to a point where I forgot about the Super Mario Bros. We had a PC back then and I was already doing wonders using MS DOS and QBASIC.
Almost 17 years later… I find this on YouTube. The ending I longed for. The ending I never got to see. How Super Mario Bros. ended. I mean, I’ve always known that Mario will eventually reach the castle where the princess is taken hostage. But how? Under what circumstance? What do they say to each other? Seth MacFarlane’s genius video tells me how. And I fuckin’ loved it. Nostalgia alert.
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Just like how I thought it would end back then. I can sleep now with a smile on my face.
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October 21st, 2008 @ 10:25 am
You just ruined my childhood.
October 22nd, 2008 @ 8:35 am
heheheh ang cute naman nito! ang daya namn ni princess ayaw magpakiss yan tuloy kinain sya ni kupa(l)… nice one witz
October 22nd, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
LOL bitch lost her head
October 22nd, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
Serves that ho right! Whuttanungrateful!
October 23rd, 2008 @ 6:33 am
ok ah. you spent hours playing just to see a morbid ending