Re:20 years! (Score 1)

I just beat Super Mario Bros 3 two days ago, this makes me feel great to know it took me 20 years!

That's got to be one of the greatest games ever.

I first learned of its existence when I stopped in the arcade at the Tacoma Mall in '89 (either late '89 or very early '90) and there was an SMB3 machine. My jaw dropped, and I promptly spent half of my allowance on it. I would've spent my entire allowance, but I left to tell my friend the news. He refused to believe me and it took a lot of coaxing to convince him to go to the mall with me to show him. Then we both proceeded to spend all the money we had on it. :)

Once the game was released for the NES and I got a copy of it, it took me a couple of weeks to beat it. I'm not as much a hardcore gamer today as I was then, but I still enjoy playing SMB3.

Of course, after twenty years, I still haven't managed to make it into the minus worlds in SMB.