Due to the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance libraries being added to Nintendo Switch Online, I was in the mood to play some old Nintendo games. Plus, NSO can keep me busy with games this year. So I figured I might as well get around to fully beating Super Mario Bros.

Pros:
-The varying types of enemies is nice and can get you to strategize your approach at times.
-The levels themselves are cleverly designed with new layout choices to spice up the gameplay as it goes on.

Cons
-The movement of Mario can be a bit slippery at times. There were numerous points where I died from slipping into a pit.
-The lack of continues is confusing, but this was a game from 1985, so I guess it was something they didn't think of yet. I played this game through Switch Online, so I had to use save states a lot.

There isn't that much I can say about this game since it's so simple, but that won't stop me from saying that it was a quick and fun playthrough and deserves to be remembered as one of the most important video games of all time.

Did a Mario Marathon of all the games up to Super Mario 3D World (no Odessey yet) and I thought I might as well logged them in here.

Without getting into the historical impact of this game it is still a pretty fun platformer. Obviously the controls are nowhere near as tight as later titles but they were transcendent compared to the rest of videogames back in 1985. It's a perfect length of a game with an era and the warps make it very easy to blaze through in one sitting. Overall this thing is still pretty cool even if it was a just one step for the great stuff to come later.

There was a old flash game called Super Mario Crossover made by I believe Exploding Rabbit that threw all the other classic NES characters into the full Super Mario 1 game that I remember being really cool. Unfortunately flash is dead on modern browsers so I don't know if there is a way to play it now. If you can, seek it out!