Hello, Mario

I see on Slashdot that it has been 25 years since Super Mario Bros. was released. For me it's been a great year to celebrate this anniversary. 

My eldest son turned 4 a couple of weeks back, and has really come into his own as a gamer in the past few months. Not all that long ago, in anticipation of the release of Super Mario Galaxy 2 I decided to replay Super Mario Galaxy with him in the room and to a certain degree I've created a little monster.

I got 117 stars before May and Galaxy 2 rolled around (and actually just got 2 more this past weekend - only Purple Coins on Luigi in Toy Time Galaxy to go!) and entirely and completely at his behest - with absolutely no desire of my own, for real honest why do you keep looking at me like that - acquired all 120 in Super Mario Galaxy 2 (as well as a dozen or so green ones so far).

Over the summer we also tackled Super Mario Bros Wii, though haven't yet acquired enough Star Coins in any one world to unlock a door in the bonus world. 

And finally, as an entirely-too-decadent 4th birthday gift (not from me, which kind of gets under my hackles but that is perhaps a complaint for another day) he received a DS as well as New Super Mario Brothers wherein we have only just a few days ago toppled Bowser Jr and the (entirely unsurprising) surprise co-villain to end the game.

My son is definitely a Mario fan. We played a very little bit of Twilight Princess but he hasn't asked for it since that first session, preferring instead to revisit one of the 4 Mario titles we have. Like father like son, I suppose. If I could only play Mario games the rest of my days (and for the next few years at least that may be my reality) I would be a happy person indeed.

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