Game Review: Super Mario Bros (All-Stars version)

Until today, I'd never beaten Super Mario Bros. I've beaten plenty of other games in the series, but every time I played the first game I'd always get stuck in the same place--World 8-1. There was a jump I couldn't make no matter how hard I tried, and eventually I just gave up and moved on. None of the other Mario games I played presented quite as much of a wall for me, and I'd only think occasionally about that jump and about how it was a spot on my gaming backlog, so this morning on a whim, I loaded it up and started playing.

Who put all those bits there?

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Fifty Weeks, Fifty Curries: Week Thirty-Eight: Doi Maach

A wild curry post appears!

This doesn't herald a change in schedule or anything, it's just that we're going out to dinner tomorrow and my WFRP game is on Monday, then I have anime chat on Tuesday, then book group chat on Wednesday, so I didn't want to crowd things too much, so you all are getting a curry post today. It'll also be the last Fifty Weeks, Fifty Curries post for a while--schoolpsychnerd and I are going to Oregon next weekend for two weeks, and we're obviously not going to be in a position to make curry while we're gone. Then, when we get back, we'll start the vegetarian curries, the last stretch of the road to the end.
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