Fast Running Blog

I once beat Super Mario Brothers in 5 minutes, 45 seconds. This was back in high school, so I doubt I could break 6 minutes now, but you never know.

I also once ran under 6 seconds in the 100 meter dash in Power Pad Olympics. No one could beat me. Stacy is no slouch either.

And I used to have a Power Glove. It was so rad.

Were you cheating in your 100 m dash where you had someone else pound the row behind you with their fists?

Absolutely not. I can dust those cheaters with my feet, thank you very much.

No one in my neighborhood could beat me in "Decathlon" (early 1980's) for the old Atari 2600 !!  I even beat the game inventor's times and distances listed in the manual...Whoooooo!!!! (gotta say it like Ric Flair to get the full effect)

Oh how I miss the good old video games, I can't even play the new one they have.

the best part of the old games was that when things got intense you just had to stand up to play better

also, blowing into the games to make them work is a fond memory

My 5 year old has a V-Smile game system and whenever something does not go right, I will blow the dust out.  Not sure if it is necessary or not, but I had to do it so much as a kid it is just ingrained in my memory now.

I still have an original NES. And blowing into the game still makes them work.

C'mon guys, this is the bragging board! Brag some more!

Tapping on the game also gets it work. I can do it like no other. In addition, I have a magic way of inserting the game just right, so that it barely is able to be pushed down, and that always works.

In college we had some masterful Super Tecmo Bowl seasons.  Many a hole got punched into the wall because of those!

No one, and I mean no one, can beat me at Mario Kart 64.  And I even play as the girl Peach just to rub it in!

We should throw down sometime. I used to be pretty good back in the day. Yoshi was by far the best.

Mario Cart champion on the Super Nintendo!  None of the fancy 64 bit junk.  Semi-old school Super Nintendo is where the action is.  You can still play the old school NES games on it (like mario world 1,2,3 etc)

Heck yeah its all about mario kart on Super Nintendo. Battle mode on that one was awesome...just you versus your friend. me and my older brother would battle while we listened to his weezer tape. we were so cool

the only game worth playing on the 64 in my opinion was the original 007 goldeneye. nothing compared to its multiplayer action

Tecmo Super Bowl is one of the best games ever made!  That's why I still have my original NES. 

And I'm arguably the best Tetris Player I've ever seen.  (on that system)

Hey we have one of those old Nintendo NES systems now, too, and our kids love playing Super Mario Bros and Super Mario 3.  Not saying nothin' about us . . . :D

Finally, a great topic I can reply to.

Tecmo Bowl awesome game.  Bo Jackson was just brutal and the 49er's were pretty tough.  I also enjoyed Punch Out with little Mac, wasn't that his name?

I still have my NES and we play some Super Mario now and then.

My 6 year old son is a pro on pretty much every game we own.  We've gone from the original NES, to the first playstation, gamecube, and now the wii.  We just got Mario Kart for the Wii the other day, pretty fun game.

I think the biggest accomplishment would be if someone had ever beaten Contra using only 3 lives, no code allowed.  I love the game but can't say I have ever tried it without the code.

The two greatest NES games of all times, hands down were Mike Tyson's Punch out and Zelda.  My accomplishment for Zelda comes back when my friend Mike M. and I saved our money to get a subscription to Nintendo Power Magazine so we could get the free Zelda map.  We then turned his bedroom into our command center with the map tacked to the wall which we used to mark out where we have been and where we needed to go.  It still took us a while to beat, but by God we beat it :)

you can find the map here:
http://www.danwinckler.com/blog/archives/legend_of_zelda_overworld.gif

Jon, I don't think that is even possible!

I loved how other players just bounced off "Raider 34"!

That reminds me, I've beaten both Mike Tyson and "Mr. Dream" in the two versions of Punchout (after Tyson got thrown in jail, they took him out of the game and replaced him with a white guy named Mr. Dream, who did exactly the same things, but was white. Go figure.). I'm quite proud of that accomplishment. Also, I can go all the way through RC Pro Am.

In Tecmo Bowl, I think the 49ers are the best, because they have the "hot read" on the shotgun play. Even if the opponent "picks your play", you can always dump off to the tight end for a completion. It's never intercepted for some reason. My other favorite glitch is blocking field goals and extra points with Lawrence Taylor (at least I think it's him). You can guy shoot through the line and tackle the place kicker every time.

Has anyone ever done the thing in Super Mario Bros. level 3-1 where you can get the infinite lives? That's pretty sweet.

I've seen it done but never done it myself- didn't have the patience and didn't need the guys.  But it is cool how the number turns into funky symbols and stuff like that.

I love Zelda, though the SNES Link to the Past is my favorite rather than the original.

Love Tecmo Bowl, too- I remember trying to watch the other guy's controller to see what play he was calling.  I have never enjoyed these new football programs at all (like Madden)- too confusing for me, and I have never had the time to learn them.  I think that is the way it is for many modern games and part of the reason so many of us enjoyed the "old school" games so much- they were so easy to learn but enjoyable to play.

Well, I must say that I enjoyed the Madden games quite a bit. At least the first N64 one. There was something great about being able to make your own players, and then something very amusing about turning my college cross country team into a Madden football team (a lot of 130 lb guys flying around). Ditto for NBA Live.

Long live Glass Joe, Don Flamenco, Bald, Bull, and King Hippo !!!!

Metroid in under a day. Also, I will take anyone on in Super Nintendo Mario Carts...

Here's a link to the Mike Tyson Punch Out flash game.  I tried it for only a few seconds and it seemed to work.  But I did not know all the keyboard commands.

http://flashgamesite.com/play1085game.html

I really need to get outside and cut the grass now....too easy to sit here and play the old games !

Oh, and how can I forget the magic 3-pointer spot in Double Dribble? If you do it right, you'll hit the 3 every single time! One time my friends and I stayed up all night trying to score 1000 points in a single game. We hypothesized that the game would explode if we achieved this impossibility. We finally did it, but the score just rolled over. Bummer.

All I can say is UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-B-A-SELECT-START...

Yes, but do you still remember the combinations for the arcade game Dragon's Lair?

I think I'll tell my wife that if she buys another horse I'm scouring eBay for an original I can restore and keep in the house to use for upper body workouts...

I asked my sister about our highest tetris level last night and she said it was somewhere around 115 rounds. I don't remember how tetris did its levels, but we were on there for about 6-7 hours straight (breaking only for food) and it just kept getting faster and faster. it was finally too fast for us. we tried it again the next day but only got to like 68 before we realized it was consuming our lives...

Kind of like this blog! :)

Is that a bad thing?

Sadly I remember this code even though I've forgotten what it is for. HOwever, don't you have to do B-A twice.

We sure are a bunch of losers.

Nope, just 1 B-A.  It is the code to get 30 guys on Contra instead of 3.  And it works as a code on most other Konami games, too.

Jon, I'm glad we're on the same wave length.

Check this link out for more crazy Nintendo stuff then you could ever think of.  I personally link the cuff links.  CNN or one of those news shows just had a special on the other night about the history of video games too. :-X  Very cool if you had a chance to catch it.

http://geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=nintendo&IncludeBlogs=&IncludeBlogs=1&x=0&y=0

it would seem to me that video game success and fast twitch fibers would go hand in hand. How come all the elites also seem to be Nintendo Champs? Wouldn't you expect the opposite? How do you think Mike Fastwitch Tyson would do if he played his own game, or coach Madden for that matter? Just curious.