So I busted out the original NES the other day for old times sake and I figured I would finish the original Mario Brothers without warping like I never used to be able to do when I was a kid. Now I’m stuck on a level and I feel like smashing the controller just like I used to get grounded for waaaay back when. (Those controllers are tough!)
It’s the castle at the end of world 7. I know you have to go over, under or through the middle of the obstacles in a certain order to progress or else the level just keeps repeating itself. I found out the first order is bottom, middle, top which was easy enough but the second stage keeps killing me before I can get through all the possible combinations! Does anyone remember what the order was???
Oh, hell yeah. I’ve got an original NES, a Super NES and a Nintendo 64 that all work great whenever I pull them out (and my brother now has my GameCube which still works, if you’re curious). In my experience Nintendo makes a pretty durable product.
5000 years from now archeologist will dig out a NES and a copy of Zelda and if they manage to find somewhere to plug it in all they will need to do is blow on the cartridge to get it working.
No I do not, but I can download Super Contra on the Wii’s virtual console. It’s funny, because three of the five games I’ve downloaded I have for Nintendo’s older consoles, but I love the ease of having them all on one system and not having to mess with cartridges.
Not to disrupt the nostalgia or anything, but I used to repair Nintendo consoles back in the original NES days. Blowing on the cartridges was the number one cause of console failure; it got spit on the cartridge contacts, which got it on the slot contacts, and the whole mess would sit there and corrode. I don’t know how many cartridge slot assemblies I had to replace, and I had to clean some really disgusting cartridges.
Alcohol and a Q-Tip was a better approach, and for corroded cartridges, I used a pencil eraser.
