Summer Game Marathon

[Rob64]

Has anyone ever done this when you were a kid? Are you in one now? Any funny stories?

Right now, my brother, 2 of my close Nintendo friends and I are doing a marathon of a whole series... home console only, not portable and main series only.

For his 25th Anniversary, we are doing a Mario marathon all summer. We play 1, 2, 2j, 3, World, 64, Sunshine, Galaxy, New Super Wii, and Galaxy 2. 1 - World and NSMBW, we will beat without using warp zones. 64, Sunshine, and the Galaxy games will be minimal runs.

Right now we finished 3, and boy were curse words and controllers launched. It's been fun though, we've been trying to use glitches and exploiting secrets in the game. For example in 3, we got the extended 1up tune, the treasure ship, and used maps to get all the items in 1 go.

We already planned next year to the a kinda 25th Anniversary for Zelda, same idea. And the year after that, we do the classic mega man games plus X1 and X2.

We are having a blast.

[cubelmariomadness]

I've always wanted to do that with my friend. He has all these games under his bed, like the super nintendo, cool games for it, a N64, cool games for it, and a power joy. He never plays them though, and he refuses to let me borrow them. Oh well. The summer game marathon sounds like a complete blast, I would love to give it a go with my brothers sometime.

[133MHz]

I used to have game marathons with a couple of friends way back when the cathode ray tube ruled the lands and the analog telephone modem was your gateway to the Information SuperHighway™. We played all day and stayed up all night trying to accomplish certain goals in video games, like the time we managed to get the Pong game on Mortal Kombat II for the SNES by playing 256 consecutive fights, or do a complete run of every game on Super Mario All-Stars. Even when emulators came along we gathered to play the games and beat them without using cheats or save states. Good times.

We then evolved to LAN parties: Doom, Unreal Tournament, Counter Strike, Worms Armageddon and countless other classics of "modern" computing. Lugging around your desktop computer with its heavy CRT monitor provided a slight counterbalance to the high junk food intake that was common on those long gaming sessions.

Time went on, responsibilities came along and we barely see each other regularly, let alone play some video game, even though we can now do things like stay up all night without our parents nagging us. Such is life.

I'm planning to get something going on November this year - the 20th anniversary of Super Mario World. The first video game I ever owned, it really means a lot to me. I'm looking forward to it.

[MS-DOS4]

Never done this before, because not a single of my many friends is interested in retrogaming OR nintendo. 

[Rob64]

It could be anything. I've partaking in a game marathon of Fable for crying out loud, and the GTA series on the Xbox. Gaming Marathons are multi generational. Have you had one at all MSDOS?

[MS-DOS4]

Not a one.

[Strider_Hiryu]

Never done this before, because not a single of my many friends is interested in retrogaming OR nintendo. 

Me too, my friends are into the new stuff.

Sometimes i play famicom/nes with my girlfriend but she sucks, it´s common that she die in the first two stages on super mario 3