Nintendon’t is a project of mine that first came into fruition in 2008 as a little back burner topic that I plugged away at off and on for about two years. The idea was to find 20 or 25 or 50 (etc) of the worst games released and just give them hell, something that has no doubt been done before, but instead of focusing on the obvious candidates of E.T. and those wacky Legend of Zelda games for the CDi I wanted to pick X number of games that people either aren’t very familiar with or are titles that were received well that are actually quite awful. There is no real set release date for the book, it’s just something I’ve kept at for a long time (and something I’ve written and rewritten the preface for many times along with several of the list’s inclusions). Below is #25, Super Mario Bros 2 USA.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who hate Super Mario Bros 2 and those who are too caught up in believing everything Nintendo makes is a winner that they grudgingly accept that it was a “good game”. Thankfully with the advent of games like Mario Party 49 and Mario & Sonic & Other Former Franchise Rivals at the Olympics there aren’t too many people in the latter group.
I hated this game; this game cultivated an ENTIRE EMOTION in my persona. It was the first game I ever actually can remember not liking so much that it formed my initial concept of extreme dislike so it seems only appropriate to begin my list with this title.
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Nintendon't: The Book
books, crap, japan, nes, Nintendon't: The Book, super mario bros
As I get fed up with this computer I have been graced with I realize that it’s aging; I’ve had it since mid-2006 and included on its hard drive are backups of folders from as early as 2004. I’m running a system with seven years’ worth of stuff crammed into it and here I am complaining about how it doesn’t seem to be working as well as it used to. Go figure, right? I’ve had MSN Messenger for as long as I’ve had a computer because it’s my preferred method of being annoyed by people at all hours of the day. With the use of MSN Messenger you can send files to people and likewise let people send files to you, and in the past I’ve told stories about how people have accidentally sent me pornography instead of what they intended. I’ve had this computer since 2006 and not once have I cleaned out my “Received Files” folder, so there’s about four years’ worth of random snippets and trinkets sitting in there… stewing.
When someone sends you a picture via Messenger it’s usually relevant to your conversation, for example “here’s a picture of my new car”. In four years I’ve been a part of many websites and communities and talked to hundreds of people, most of whom have sent me things via MSN Messenger. As years go by I lose contact with these people but the artifacts of our conversations remain on my computer either for eternity or until I delete them, and I’ve deleted nothing. Everything in that folder had some kind of context to it but as long as 4 years later I have since completely forgotten whatever in the hell it was in the first place. I decided that digging through my Received Files folder and finding my favorite bizarre pictures would be a fun way to waste an evening writing and wouldn’t you know – it was. Below are seven pictures that were sent to me from various people with whom I’ve talked to, their context is just as much of a mystery to you as it is to me.
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End Of The Internet
dragon porn, japan, nostalgia, realmscon, sonic the hedgehog
