[Courtney]

Super Mario Bros.



v.

Star Wars

[Byrntrigan]

Is this the Star Wars vector arcade game from like 1980? or the 19990's version?

I'd actually nominated the 1980 version myself...

[Courtney]

It's the 80s version. It came out in 83 I believe. I could be mistaken.

[Byrntrigan]

2 of you are morons...

[Courtney]

Whaaaaaatttttttttt?!?!? I actually stopped making the polls to reply to this.

I'm a moron for voting for the game that started my entire video game career? Are you freakin' kidding me? Super Mario Bros. has had more of impact on video games than probably 99% of all other games.

[Byrntrigan]

But Star Wars! Star WARS! The first movie game to use real voices, hell the first GAME to use voices.

It put you in the movie. Damnit Serg, where are you?

You damn whipper snappers. SMB was a descent game, but there are LOTS of seminal games that came before it. This whole thing is gonna sadly be ruled by home console games.

Sad, I spent tons of formative years in the Arcade...

Plus, SMB was a pack in game! No one bought it! PACK IN!

*throws off jacket and elbow drops it, then clutches at heart*

[Eric O'Mac]

I bought it on the Virtual Console recently. I play it all the time. If anything, YOU'RE the moron for even suggesting that SMB would be a bad pick here. I understand having your own personal taste and all, but don't criticize us for picking a game that led to us becoming fans of video games in the first place.

That, and I had never heard of this Star Wars game until today.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Sorry Byrne - Star Wars got a horrible matchup here. SMB all the way.

[Byrntrigan]

I'm not saying it's not a good game. But it shouldn't be the BEST game ever!

PACK IN! What next - Robby the Robot is best game peripheral evar?

Super Mario Bros. PACK IN! YOU! PACK IN!

[Mikey]

Here's a question: you ever get YOUR shit packed in?

[Courtney]

I didn't say it was the best. Hell, I think a LOT of games are better than SMB. But you've got to be crazy if you think Star Wars has a chance here, PACK-IN~!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!! or not.

[Lucky]

I have no idea what this Star Wars game even is.

[Byrntrigan]

Sept 12, 2008 9:21:47 GMT -5 Mikey said:

Here's a question: you ever get YOUR shit packed in?

Not MY week! Whooo! Tell 'em Arn!

[Tommy]

Star Wars will rightly be blown out here. Byrne, you're out your damn mind. We kinda knew that already though.

[Byrntrigan]

Sept 12, 2008 10:58:16 GMT -5 Tommy said:

Star Wars will rightly be blown out here. Byrne, you're out your damn mind. We kinda knew that already though.

I you Tommy. Exalt...

[Batman]

Sorry, Byrne. What we have here are the two greatest, most classic examples of two types of games that I don't really enjoy--platformers on the one hand, and vector/first-person flight-sim/shooter games on the other.

I don't dig falling, and I like to see my guy on the screen, not be my guy.

Neither game is my bag, so I'm abstaining, regardless of my love for the Star Wars movies.

[salmonjunkie]

Sept 12, 2008 9:11:03 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

But Star Wars! Star WARS! The first movie game to use real voices, hell the first GAME to use voices.

It put you in the movie. Damnit Serg, where are you?

You damn whipper snappers. SMB was a descent game, but there are LOTS of seminal games that came before it. This whole thing is gonna sadly be ruled by home console games.

Sad, I spent tons of formative years in the Arcade...

Plus, SMB was a pack in game! No one bought it! PACK IN!

*throws off jacket and elbow drops it, then clutches at heart*

I was playing Super Mario Bros. at Chuck E. Cheese for a year before me and my brother finally got an NES. So suck on that arcade-boy.

[punk/core]

Seriously? How the fuck can you even argue that Star Wars deserves a vote here?

I just got off the phone with Trig Palin, and even he thinks you're retarded.

[Mikey]

Sept 12, 2008 13:01:49 GMT -5 punk/core said:

I just got off the phone with Trig Palin, and even he thinks you're retarded.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

There are not enough exalts in the world for that one. Holy shit, that's awesome.

[Byrntrigan]

Sept 12, 2008 13:15:25 GMT -5 Mikey said:

Sept 12, 2008 13:01:49 GMT -5 punk/core said:

I just got off the phone with Trig Palin, and even he thinks you're retarded.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

There are not enough exalts in the world for that one. Holy shit, that's awesome.

Yeah,

that's a good 'un...

[DevSop]

Sept 12, 2008 13:01:49 GMT -5 punk/core said:

Seriously? How the fuck can you even argue that Star Wars deserves a vote here?

I just got off the phone with Trig Palin, and even he thinks you're retarded.

Making fun of my son will do nothing for you Punker. I will kill you.

[The Canadian Content]

I'm with Byrne.

[gooker]

I may have told this story on the OO boards before but here's the effect Super Mario Bros./Nintendo had on me and I'm sure 1,000,000's of other kids aged 6-8 when it came out -

There used to be a kid that lived in my neighborhood that annoyed the shit out of me and I avoided like the plague. One day he had called my house because he wanted me to come over and my mom made me talk to him to think of my own excuse. So, I'm talking to him and coming up with some kind of lame excuse not to go over there and while I'm in mid-excuse, he tells me he just got a Nintendo and Super Mario Bros. The excuse went straight the fuck outta the window and I was over there within about 5 min. as were about 5 other kids who had heard the news. We were over there for approx. the next month playing Mario every chance we could get. It's still one of my favorites of all-time. And before you think we were just using the kid, I actually started to like him after a while and became friends with him.

Mario brings people together! Beat that lame Star Wars game!

[murgen]

Sept 12, 2008 12:08:00 GMT -5 salmonjunkie said:

I was playing Super Mario Bros. at Chuck E. Cheese for a year before me and my brother finally got an NES. So suck on that arcade-boy.

I, too played SMB for the first time at Chuck E. Cheese. But, I loved the Star Wars game a whole hell of a lot, too. This is a tough call. I think I have to go with SMB.