• Heroes of Yesteryear: Mario

    Heroes of Yesteryear: Mario

    Navneet Prakash, Feb 05, 2008 1628 hrs IST

    Instalment 1 of a nostalgic gamer's fond memories!

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Most of us grew up playing games on the 8-bit consoles - games that are today considered vintage digital art. I hope gamers will agree when I call these games digital art: these are games that made weekends special, these are games that were used as bait to make us score better in school, these are games that fulfilled our childhood fantasies - which included slaying dragons, riding sports cars, and rescuing scantily-dressed princesses (or was I the only one?).

I still play these games on various emulators on my PC; nothing beats stress like a two-player co-op session of Double Dragon. In this feature, I'll talk about popular characters from the pre-gen era, characters who slew dragons, drove fast cars, and rescued scantily-dressed princesses.

This time round, we take a little peek into the world of Mario. There are a few references from Wikipedia, because unlike some of my sharper readers, I don't remember all of Mario's stats, including the number of his appearances in various games... read on!



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Mike
,Moobeley, on Dec 05, 2008 10:30 PM
U SED SOLID SNAKE TWICE
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Ankit Kumar
,Delhi, on Feb 28, 2008 03:03 PM
Nice game to play
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prakash
,new delhi, on Feb 06, 2008 10:53 AM
you should have given some link where from people could download the game, even the trial version which could be played on windows vista. it was truly a funtastic game.
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Suhas
,Bangalore, on Feb 13, 2008 08:01 AM
How can you forget jumping on the flag pole for capturing the flag...It was awesome
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dasds
,sdsd, on Feb 11, 2008 06:51 PM
dasd
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,;'ml;, on Feb 10, 2008 05:22 PM
.l/<K'
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mayur
,mumbai, on Feb 09, 2008 04:15 PM
ok
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Sudarshan Manay
,bangalore, on Feb 07, 2008 12:18 PM
He has a hard fist. When he jumps and breaks bricks, he's using his fist, not his head. One thing I still remember is the intention to skip going up the creeper from level 4 to level 8. I would get stuck somewhere in a level that looked like it had no ending. I never actually managed to solve it. The best enemy I think are the ones with a black helmet-like cap and the tortoises throwing sticks!
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Jeremy
,PBG, FL, on Feb 06, 2008 09:53 PM
Correction! Mario doesn't have a hard head. He has a hard fist. When he jumps and breaks bricks, he's using his fist, not his head.
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Chandra
,Chennai, on Feb 06, 2008 01:19 PM
Yes... One thing I still remember is the intention to skip going up the creeper from level 4 to level 8. I would get stuck somewhere in a level that looked like it had no ending. I never actually managed to solve it. The best enemy I think are the ones with a black helmet-like cap and the tortoises throwing sticks!
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