Super Mario Bros. 2!

Here’s a playthrough of Super Mario Bros. 2, which ruled my world back in ’88. (Well, mostly 1989 since I got it for Christmas in ’88. But I guess that’s splitting hairs.)

Couple of things about me and this game:

1) I loved it, but I could never beat it. I sucked at beating video games, and rarely did. Only in the internet age did I realize how uncommon this was, since it seems like most people forced themselves to stick with their games until they’d at least beaten them once.

2) I only ever played as the Princess, as far as I can remember. I loved that gliding jump! (This might explain why I could never beat the game. The Princess certainly wasn’t right for every level.)

3) Right around the time that this game debuted, Fruit Wrinkles fruit snacks switched from their familiar “pill” shapes to actual fruit shapes. I didn’t like them at first, but then I realized that I had the perfect fruit snack replica of the bonus cherries from this game.