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Hi there. Some time around the summer of 2011, me and my friend were spending a hangover afternoon at his place. Now I'm sure most people are aware of the fact that a hangover is a state of mind during which a person produces both the dumbest and the most mindblowingly brilliant ideas. Ok so we didn't get any brilliant ideas but started playing Super Mario Bros. instead. We ended up playing through Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World and Super Mario Lost Levels. No Mario 2 though, as we refuse to accept the second installment of SMB on the N(intendo)E(ntertainment)S(ystem) as a real Mario.

 

No. Onions and Birdo the gay egg shooter? Just NO.

Check out the history of it by The Gaming Historian here.

Right, so we finished a bunch of good SMB games and realized that it wasn't such a bad way to spend weekends. Now, some six months later we've done it with actual planning instead of randomly picking up a game and finishing it. The list of games has expanded like Donkey Kong's banana hoard and I'll list the ones I remember as well as include a difficulty rating for finishing them. Some games have extra objectives like time attack levels and mirror modes which I'm not going to rate as our goal was to finish the games (although we did attempt the occasional 100% completion).

Feel free to skip the list as there's not really much of a point to it other than to remind myself of what we've completed and to visualize the length of the list. More on the co-op aspect of our gaming weekends after this.

1. Super Mario Bros. (NES) 7/10
2. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) 6/10
3. Super Mario World (SNES) 6/10
4. Super Mario Lost Levels (NES) 8/10
5. Mega Man (NES) 8/10 - I'll be honest, I don't remember the difficulty of the Mega Man series very well.
6. Mega Man 2 (NES) 7/10
7. Mega Man 3 (NES) 7/10
8. Mega Man 4 (NES) 8/10
9. Donkey Kong Country (SNES) 7/10
10. Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES) 8/10
11. Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) 7/10
12. Donkey Kong Returns (Wii) 8/10 - 100% complete (200% possible?).
13. Ufouria: The Saga (NES) 7/8 - Check it out, it's brilliant.
14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) 9/10
15. Dungeon Siege 3 (X360)