109 comments

• 1. Michelle Hill  |  March 17th, 2008 at 7:38 am

  My fondest Nintendo memory is when our daughter, who is now 16, was around 4 years old and would play our first Nintendo system. When she wanted Mario to jump she would not just push the button would lean over and literally give the controller a little bump in the air. I have video of her and each time I still giggle as I watch her moving her body in her effort to move Mario.

• 2. Adriana  |  March 17th, 2008 at 8:23 am

  My favourite memories are when I was younger growing up with Mario and playing the original on the first nintendo system.

  Then soon after growing into a teenager. Going to my friends house and we’d have 4 way mario kart battles and race each other! It was some serious competition. After we got tired of that we’d go into battlemode and compete it was a weekly tradition to see who was the king or queen of mariokart!

  I was one of the boys and beat the boys a few times.. they didn’t like that too much. It was my shining moment!

  I LOVE MARIO!

• 3. Judith Rachmani  |  March 17th, 2008 at 8:23 am

  My fondest Nintendo memory is of our daughter happily playing with the Nintendo system during the holidays and keeping out of our hair while we bustled around, making food and setting the table for the entire extended family.

• 4. Carol  |  March 17th, 2008 at 8:45 am

  My fondest memory of Nintendo is of my son, now 23, who was 5 years old when he saved the princess on Mario Brothers. The entire family gathered around the tv in absolute awe, as we watched this little kid beat the game, which none of us could do. To this day, he’s got extremely good hand-eye coordination, and in fact, is a professional athlete. Thanks Nintendo!

• 5. monica  |  March 17th, 2008 at 8:54 am

  my best nintendo memory is recently teaching my husband to play super mario brothers, cause he never played it when he was young - so fun and silly

• 6. Shilo  |  March 17th, 2008 at 9:11 am

  My favorite memory is watching my husband showing my daughter the Zelda game for the first time. My daughter is now 8 years old and her favorite video game character is Link.

• 7. Gianna  |  March 17th, 2008 at 9:16 am

  I remember playing Super Mario 2 and 3 for years and never tiring of them as a teen. It was so much fun that I bought the same games for my kids and now they are enjoying them too.

• 8. Tina Rath  |  March 17th, 2008 at 9:29 am

  Super Mario was my children’s favorite game when they were growing up.

• 9. GregV  |  March 17th, 2008 at 9:32 am

  Playing The LEgend of Zelda for hours on end!

• 10. Chase  |  March 17th, 2008 at 10:22 am

  My favorite memeroy of anything nintendo has to be when I was only 5. I sat around watching my older brother play the Zelda games four hours, once he finnaly beat it, it was excentric.

• 11. cicely Mills-Smith  |  March 17th, 2008 at 11:06 am

  My fondest memory was very recent. Don’t get me wrong, I am 29 and still have the orginal Nintendo my parents bought me for Christmas in 1984! With that Nintendo my two son’s 6 and 9 actually play together! This is rare because my 6 yr old has Autisum, nothing holds his attention except Nintendo! He plays like a pro and have solved Super Mario 1 and 2 and is currently on Nintendo Dreamcast. Seeing my sons laugh together and share moments make me so happy. Seeing my 6 year old concentrate and use his fine motor skills,commuincation skills and concentration makes me a Nintendo for life believer, if you like I can send vids of them playing, you’d be amazed!

• 12. Susanne Troop  |  March 17th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

  Mario is my favorite character!

• 13. Lee  |  March 17th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

  My fondest Nintendo memory was buying SNES just after my 7th birthday. I went to the window with my mom to pick up the system, and the guy working said, “You know it doesn’t come with a game, right?” I must’ve looked pretty sad when I said I knew, and I’d have to get one later, because he slipped Mario Kart into my bag and said “Don’t ask any questions.” At the time, Mario Kart was the hottest game in the world. Playing it was one of the greatest experiences of my life.

• 14. Shannon Baas  |  March 17th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

  My favorite memory with Nintendo would have to be playing Super Nintendo with my youngest niece when she was younger(she’s now 13). The sad part is she was better than me even back then.

• 15. Andrew Gordon  |  March 17th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

  My favorite memory, how after awhile you’d have to blow on your cartridges to get them to work in the NES.

• 16. Lucky  |  March 17th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

  When I was a much younger, more innocent geek, I entered one of those supermarket coloring contests. All I had to was color in a pre-drawn picture of Mario and Princess Toadstool for the chance at a super secret grand prize! I got a call one day that I was the winner of… free accordion lessons. Man did they have my geekiness pegged. I went for a couple lessons and in honor of my dubious win, I learned how to play the Super Mario Bros. theme on the piano accordion. I quit my lessons after I realized the actual game was way more fun.

• 17. David Hollingsworth  |  March 17th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

  During my youth, I spent my time playing almost every version of Super Mario, either on my regular Nintendo, or on my friend’s Nintendo 64. It was a time where I actually had fun, and learned how to be myself… which was a video game geek, with a sweet tooth fondness for Mario & Luigi.

• 18. Judith Baland  |  March 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

  I played Dr. Mario while the kids were at school everyday until a spider bit me and I got a blood clot in my leg ..so the kids rigged up the controls so I could play from the sofa..an addict is an addict after all. lol

• 19. Jason Cornaro  |  March 17th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

  My favorite Nintendo memory has to be all within my SNES controller. I have been playing my SNES since I was 4, and I used to have an awful controller slamming problem. Every time I lost, or Luigi happened to fall off the edge (the older brother always got Mario), The controller would hit the floor with a bang. When Mario Kart made its way to my console, the left button on the D-pad got slammed out of commission. To this day I still play my SNES at least once a week, and still use that broken controller. It is a true showing of the memories that controller brings, as well as the durability of the big N’s products.

• 20. Brigitte  |  March 17th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

  When I was about 4, my big brother went to the nearest walmart store with my mom and I. We came home with a new Super Nintendo that came with a super mario all stars game! I was so excited that I was the sencond to test it out! When I was playing super mario, The first thing I fell in love with was YOSHI!!!! He was so cute and when mario jumped on yoshi’s back, it would make a funny hee-hoo noise! Yoshi soon began to fly when caped mario came. When star world was available, RED BLUE AND YELLOW YOSHI’S WERE USABLE! I especially love how blue yoshi can fly when a shell in his mouth XD when i think of Nintendo, the first thing that comes to mind is my best friend of a dinosaur ^_^

• 21. Chris' Boss  |  March 17th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

  Chris - this is your boss. Make me a collage or you’re fired.

• 22. Wanda M  |  March 17th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

  Nothing was more fun and hilarious then ,to watch “MY” older brother ( and me ) play Super Mario on the regular Nintendo that I had bought for my 10 year son at the time.Of course me and my brother didn’t know what we was doing and had to ask the son each time we made a move.The fondest (funniest) part is when we kicked our leg(s) out or leaned to side to get Mario to make a jump or move ahead.LOL like that was gonna help.

• 23. BUZZ  |  March 17th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

  My fondest memory was watching my four kids, all home for the holidays from college or their out of town jobs, sitting and lying on the basement floor playing NINTENDO together. It was so great to see them come home, kiss their mom, grab a soda and head downstairs. There they were: laughing, fighting for the controllers, spilling their drinks or kidding each other for being lame or having two left thumbs. Truly a MODERN Norman Rockwell moment.

• 24. Cricket  |  March 17th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

  I have 2 fond memories. The first is my brother getting so mad he lost the game that he yanked to controller out of the unit and it whipped him and gave him a black eye! HAHAHA! Second is my husband playing Super Mario Bros on the Wii with our 4 year old daughter. It was very precious to watch as he was showing her the moves and they would both kinda hop and kick with each move!

• 25. christina singer  |  March 17th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

  I can remember playing Duck Hunt and Super Mario way back in the day. But my best memory of Nintendo was a little later, when we first got the Metriod…now that’s a game!

• 26. Cheryl English  |  March 17th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

  Super Mario, you had my heart then and you have it now. My two sons and I would play for hours together. I think Nintendo games made it possible to bond with my sons, and leave memories forever. What a great giveaway. Thank You. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

• 27. Danielle S  |  March 17th, 2008 at 8:09 pm

  My fondest memories are of kicking my sisters butt in all of the Super Mario games!! Nintendo games may just be the only thing I’ve ever beat her in!!! LOL!
  If only we could go back to the classic Nintendo… or Super Nintendo!!!

• 28. bob keck  |  March 17th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

  OK. NOw I’m 47 and actually had one of the original Pong games. So nintendo takes me back but i think of nintendo as state of the art - even with super mario brothers. Good times!

• 29. michael woods  |  March 17th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

  Being a Generation X-er, I can remember challenging neighborhood friends to games like Donkey Kong and Mario Brothers on my old Nintendo 64. It seemed back then the action and graphics couldn’t get any better.

• 30. Sheri F  |  March 17th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

  I remember playing Super Mario against my dad when I was around 5. We’d sit right in front of the TV and I’d make fun of him every time he jerked the remote when he tried to jump. We always had a great time together! I never did beat the game though:(

• 31. Joe Cornell  |  March 17th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

  Sitting in my kids bedroom and playing for hours on the Nintendo, prior to the divorce

• 32. technabob  |  March 17th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

  Thanks for participating, and thanks for some great memories.

  Keep the posts coming guys!

• 33. Angela Kinder  |  March 17th, 2008 at 11:28 pm

  I remember when I first got a Nintendo. Me and my twin sister were so excited, we hardly turned it off the first couple of days. I remember we were playing Bugs Bunny. When one of us would get killed off or irritated, we would trade until we made it until the end. When it came to Super Mario Bros., we would continually argue about where to go, who was right, who was wrong, and when to jump. One of us would get upset when we would get killed, so we would just take the game out and play another. We would also move the controller to the side, forward, backward, or even UP when we played. It was almost like we were the game.

• 34. mitch molina  |  March 18th, 2008 at 2:12 am

  my best nintendo moment. ha its how i met my best friends i was bored walking around the street saw some kids hanging out side just walk inside to see a kid playing zelda. made atari look like crap so i said hi and just started playing it for hours. best day of my kid life.

• 35. Marilyn Wons  |  March 18th, 2008 at 6:16 am

  I got the Darkness game for my husband. He said he did not want it, but now he can’t play it enough - he is hooked!

• 36. Kathy Scott  |  March 18th, 2008 at 8:36 am

  A few years ago my kids begged Santa for Mario Party 5. Christmas morning they headed for the tree and looked for a package that was the correct size. The got it and came running to the kitchen wanting to open it immediately. I said ok and then I didn’t see them for an hour. All the other presents under the tree were forgotten.

• 37. linda  |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:05 am

  my fondest nintendo memory is of my husband and i
  learning super mario.it was fun and challenging.great memories.

• 38. Sharon Jones  |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:16 am

  2 words…Mario Brothers

• 39. sarah  |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:32 am

  When my brother and I were kids there was a rule that our friends couldn’t come into the house when mom wasn’t home. Well we wanted to play Nintendo with our friends so we put the tv up against the front window, faced it outside and ran the controllers out the door! Lol!

• 40. melissa becker  |  March 18th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  When I was a kid my Dad let me skip school the day that Super Mario Brothers 2 came out so that I could be the first kid to play it.

• 41. Monique Rizzo  |  March 18th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

  My fondest Nintendo Memory is playing Yoshi’s Island with my now husband, back when we were in High school. We would play for hours all weekend.

• 42. Kerri Bashore  |  March 18th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

  My fondest Nintendo memory is going up to my aunts house during Easter and holidays when I was around 4 years old and sitting on the couch and playing mario bros. with my sister on the NES. I could never get very far since I was little but it was still fun!

• 43. Desmond  |  March 18th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

  When Dr. Mario came out for the original NES, I couldn’t stop playing it to save my life. I saw those pills in my sleep, man!

• 44. Lori  |  March 18th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

  I remember when nintendo first came out. Actually I still have my games tho the machine hasnt worked for years. I used to spend hours playing mario and zelda and other games. I thought it was the coolest thing. I loved playing those games.

• 45. Theresea Quinto  |  March 18th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

  My mother, my father, my son and myself would sit around Nintendo 64 and play Mario party. It was great. We each have our favorite character. Now, it seems like it’s been so long ago. My father has passed away but one sweet cherished memory that we all have is pop being Mario.

• 46. Sara  |  March 18th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

  When I was young, I remember playing Nintendo with my whole family, especially my dad. We would always play Double Dribble on the original NES. Now that I don’t see him anymore, these memories mean so much.

• 47. adam mclane  |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

  Like a lot of children of the 80’s and 90s my childhood is filled with NES memories. I got my first Nintendo game system when it was first introduced and spent months learning to beat Super Mario Brothers.

  But my favorite memory with Nintendo came recently. My son (4 years old) and I played every level of Mario Galaxy. The joy that he had in interacting with the game was a great bonding moment for us.

• 48. Noreen  |  March 18th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

  As kids we always got to open one gift Christmas eve. We used those to open our first Nintendo system and Sumpper Mario 2. We played all night and kept sneaking into the kitchen to sneak some See’s candy from the fridge that my Mom got for christmas (she is allergic to chocolate so she did not mind if we ate it all, just not at 2 am!!) We each took turns and by morning we had beat the game!! The two youngest had fallen asleep an hour earlier so just myself and my sister were awake. My dad woke up soon after that was a little mad we were awake and sent us to bed. They had to wake us up a few hours later to open the rest of the gifts. We then found out we had also gotten Mario Bros and played that the rest of the day. I remember that I liked playing the princess the most because she floated so well.

• 49. Reed  |  March 19th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

  My fondest Nintendo memories involve the game “Secret of Mana” on SNES (Does that count?). I would play the game in elementary school up through college (I still have it hehehe). It always cracked me up, and still does to this day, that there is a town in the game with talking mushroom people. Whoever made it must have been smoking something, but it definitely adds to the game’s appeal. Let’s see, if I was going to have a collage, it would be extremely cool to have one of the three main characters from the “Secret of Mana” game, but that seems as though it would be nearly impossible to do.

• 50. Don Schraier  |  March 19th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

  My favorite Nintendo memory was playing it all the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. It was great fun and we didn’t lose any money doing it.

• 51. Lorraina Hernandez  |  March 19th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

  When i was smaller, around the age of 3 or 4, i loved too get into things and snoop arond. While i was looking in my grandparents garage, i looked up at all their boxes and saw a box witha picture of a super nintendo. I asked my grandpa is i could play with it and he hooked it up and we played it. I would never forget that day because i remeber my mom and uncles and aunts and we all took turns playing it and it was alot of fun.

• 52. Angela  |  March 19th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

  My first time playing knock out.. I beat all the boys in my neighborhood and they are still prol still in shock that a girl whipped their butts

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• 53. Jessie R.  |  March 20th, 2008 at 10:40 am

  My fondest memory would be playing Bubble Bobble (the best Nintendo game ever created next to Mario) for hours and hours with my twin sister and never being able to get past level like 95. But, we still played for countless hours!

• 54. ryan  |  March 20th, 2008 at 10:47 am

  I am a fanatic about mario. I have played every mario game known to man and I just can’t get enough of it. Super Smash Bros. Brawl is totally awesome. I remember one time I was playing Super Mario 64 and I was at the snow level and i had my cousin over at the time. So anyway I was versing the penguin and I flew off the edge and landed on the finish line and won. My cousin was like how the heck did u do that? I said I don’t know. Mario games are so much fun. I can’t get enough mario. Even the first mario is still cool to me. Hopfully there is more mario games to come. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games is real fun too. Mario was the best game invented!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  GO MARIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• 55. Jack  |  March 20th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

  My brother and I used to play 2-player super mario brothers when we were growing up. I would get frustrated when he was playing for too long, so I convinced him the pits in one the water levels were warp zones. He fell for it and died. Then it was my turn again, but not before he threw his controller at me and made my nose bleed. Also, I would beat him in the head with my Gameboy if he beat me in 2-player linked Tetris.

• 56. SCOTT DUNNINGTON  |  March 20th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

  Cool. I’m thinking Link (Skip to me)

• 57. rob  |  March 20th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

  Man I don’t even care if I win, I just want to share my experience. I’m 22 and was around 4 when I got my NES for Christmas. It was amazing to play super Mario it was the first video game I ever played. My grandpa passed away last year and didn’t know what video games were but he usually sat back and watched me play. I remember I convinced him to play one time and although he didn’t like me playing for so long he played just to make me happy. It felt great seeing him try to play and since then I remember I still push my parents to try these and show them why they made me had a great time. I’m still a huge fan of these old school games and reading all the posts here brought back great memories. Like taking the TV outside in summer and blowing the cartridges to make them work. Thanks to everyone and thanks grandpa.

• 58. Jenny G  |  March 21st, 2008 at 5:32 pm

  I was introduced to the Nintendo system rather late in life (not until college in the late 90s). Super Mario Brothers, however, I used to play on the Commodore 64 with my older brother.

  My favorite Nintendo memory spans a decade. When I first started playing the SMB games, I always had trouble getting by the flying turtles. My roommate (whose systems we were playing on) always played Mario and I got to play Luigi. One day when we were first playing, I ran right into a flying turtle and died. Without thinking about it, I burst out with “That d*mn duck!” (yes, I know they are actually turtles, but in my defense the graphics weren’t what they are now…) My roommate was so surprised that he started laughing so hard that he didn’t realize that he had walked into a spike pit until the game over sign showed up.

  Last year, my husband bought SMB3 for the gameboy since I kept insisting that it was the only game that I knew how to fly. Unfortunately, my game playing had not improved over the last decade and within my first hour of gameplay, the flying turtles and I were duking it out. My husband (who was playing the Wii while I was sitting there playing the gameboy) fell off the couch laughing when once again I shouted “That d*mn duck!”

  Alas, neither my former roommate nor my husband will let me forget those comments…

• 59. Caren  |  March 21st, 2008 at 6:03 pm

  Oh man Nintendo, even when we first got it, it was already going out of style but my sister and I LOVED it. My favorite memory was probably Donkey Kong, I was obsessed my sister and i used to create stories about each individual Kong and draw pictures and diagrams. i still have those papers to this day and Donkey Kong is still one of my favorites

• 60. Nthan Sullivan  |  March 21st, 2008 at 8:22 pm

  When I was in 3rd grade I played my first video game it was Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time. My jaw dropped while i played, I was blown away by this tiny world and all of the people in it. I wanted to be in Hyrule and play with the zora’s. I was new to my school and didn’t have many friends but when I would come home I would pop in Zelda and I was fine (later it helped me make friends). Then when i got older i learned how games were made and I wanted to make games like Zelda so other kids could get lost in them and enjoy their own world. I am now a college student majoring in graphic design and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time is still my all time favorite game.

• 61. Leslie  |  March 22nd, 2008 at 1:36 am

  My favorite memories would be playing Super Mario Brothers and Duck hunt with my mom and Dad and when they gave it to me they gave me the Nintendo for my birthday and Christmas they put it under the tree a few days before Christmas wrapped in a garbage bag.

• 62. the charles  |  March 22nd, 2008 at 3:46 pm

  It’s December 25, 1987 and I am 5 years old eagerly waiting to unwrap my presents. I haven’t slept all night because I know I’m going to unwrap the coolest present ever: a NES gaming system (or as this native, Texan boy says, “a Nin-‘tin-da!”). To my dismay, I had no presents left and I hadn’t unwrapped my NES yet. I was disheartened when my mom gave me an envelope. I thought to myself, “Great, it’s going to be money or something.” The note inside the envelope said, “Santa left another gift in the bed of the truck in the garage.” I slowly walked into the garage and immediately my attitude went from sad to running around my house like a madman when I saw the NES box! To this day, my mom always tells me this story and wishes she would’ve had a video camera to record it.

• 63. Michelle  |  March 22nd, 2008 at 10:16 pm

  When I got my first full time “real” job after I finished undergrad, I was super excited to be able to buy a really cool gift for my brother for Christmas. Unfortunately, he wanted a system that was not the N64. I bought him the system he wanted and surprised him.

  My parents bought me a N64. I was so happy to get that (and a cousin bought me Mario 64) and be able to play MARIO! I still love Mario. I bought a Game Cube and a Nintendo DS just to play the Mario games. He reminds me of great times with my favorite cousins (who had an original NES). I also remember playing SNES with my mother.

  She and I would play Tetris Attack all the time. I was staying up late at night building my skills. I would dream about flipping blocks and creating combos. She eventually refused to play the game with me anymore. I would beat her even if I was set at level 7 and she was on level 2 (difficulty levels). She would yell at me every time a brick would fall on her side. To this day, we never played that game again. Maybe I’ll be able to talk her into it…

• 64. Daily Tech Impressions  |  March 22nd, 2008 at 11:42 pm

  My fondest memory was playing with ROB the robot and the spinning gyroscopes back in 1985 with my MOM.

• 65. Suzie  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 3:36 pm

  My fondest memory is Wii Camping the night before the launch. My boyfriend really wanted to go and I thought he was nuts, but I knew how badly he wanted the system so we sent our daughter to grandma’s and went to Target around 9 PM. There were already quite a few people there sitting around playing DS games and watching TV on a little television set someone brought. For some reason, at 11 PM Target turns off all the lights in their parking lot and it got hella dark! In the middle of the night around 1 or 2, we formed a big group and walked 5 minutes to Denny’s down the street to use their bathroom.

  People were running around playing football in the parking lot and it was an all around good time… till some asshat came a few minutes before the store opened and got right in front of the launch sign and said that he was “first” because we wern’t in line. Luckly the Target peeps told him we were there all night even if we wern’t lined up right in front of the sign… He got real crazy angry- and I was kind of afraid he was going to try and kill us all or something. Overall, that was a super fun night and next time Nintendo launches another console, I’d love to do it again!

• 66. Angela Harris  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm

  I used to paly the original Mario with my nephew, I was about 22 and he was 7, it was crazy, He never let me own, but now, we play alot of games from nintendo together, I look back now and see even though he was a pain,I will always remember that and how much fun we really had even though we would fight over how long each of us got to play….he always won!!

• 67. shannon  |  March 24th, 2008 at 1:40 am

  nintendo time has always been a big thing for me and my two best friends. in fact, we’ve made it a point to dedicated a whole night to playing nintendo every week. when everything in the world seems to be going wrong, we call each other up and play our blues away. the fun and laughter playing mario party on my friends wii has gotten all 3 of us through some of the worst life has brought us.

  but ill never forget the day we were all sitting around playing super paper mario on the wii when my friend announced that nintendo was in fact saving his life. he recently got out of court ordered rehab after fighting a 4 year battle with drugs and he had made it a point to call us all together for a nintendo party everytime he got the urge to use. the fact that we could all just be together and laugh and do something fun, something that took him another(non-drug induced) world has truly saved him. so now, whenever he calls and wants to play, we drop everything to sit around and play nintendo.

• 68. Cindy Thurman  |  March 24th, 2008 at 9:52 am

  It was the Christmas our kids were 3 and 5. We surprised them with a Super Nintendo! I think it was more for hubby than them! They woke up to the sounds of “Mario” that Christmas morning. Our 3 year old son sat back and watched us play for 2 weeks before he tried. He’s 17 now and still playing it!!!

• 69. Ethan  |  March 24th, 2008 at 4:31 pm

  My favorite Nintendo memory consists of a terrible prank I pulled on my friend when he was playing Super Mario Bros 3. My friend Chris had finally made it all the way through Bowser’s castle and was facing off against the King Koopa himself. Now, if you remember, Bowser would try to jump up and smash Mario from above but if you could dodge him, Bowser would smash a layer of the brick floor away, effectively digging his own grave.

  Anyways, so Chris managed to evade Bowser and the big baddie fell through his own hole. The shimmering door appeared that would take Mario to the princess but I proceeded to tell Chris that if he jumped down that hole, he could battle Bowser again! Gullible, Chris jumps down the hole and dies. It took him another hour to get through the castle and finally beat the game. He beat me up pretty good but it was worth it.

• 70. Amanda Kinder  |  March 25th, 2008 at 8:00 pm

  My fondest Nintendo moment is when me and my twin sister were younger, and played on the original Nintendo, we would play Super Mario Bros. until 4am (even though we had to wake up for school.) We would make bets, also. One time we bet on a doll, that if the other made it farther, they would get the doll.

  It’s enjoyable to go down memory lane when you do have a sibling that you have shared so much with!!

• 71. Donna Coughlin  |  March 25th, 2008 at 8:39 pm

  my best nintendo memory is recently teaching my husband to play super mario brothers, cause he never played it when he was young

• 72. Jose Aguilar  |  March 26th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

  My most memorable Nintendo experience happened when I was 4 years old, back in 1994.

  At the time I was living in Mexico with my mom and siblings. It was my sisters birthday so my dad who was living in the United States came for a visit and brought with him a Super Nintendo with the game Super Mario All-Stars. I really wanted to play the Super Nintendo, but I had to wait until the next day to play it because all of my relatives were crowded around the Nintendo, each waiting for their turn to play. I still remember how they were super excited about it, it was as if the Nintendo was performing magic, and in its own way, it was.

• 73. Debbie Criss  |  March 26th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

  I have four sons they have always enjoyed Nintendo. I can still see the oldest whom is 30 now playing duck hunt, and Mario. My 2 youngest sons 14 and 15 love it too. If I win would love to have a Mario. thank you

• 74. Peter Fuzessery  |  March 26th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

  My fondest memory is playing the original Gold NES Zelda and getting passed level 7 with the Wizrobes constantly zapping me into oblivion. It was so exciting. Then found out if I use LINK as my character name I can play it all over again, with all new dungeons and harder…OMG HARDER WIZROBES!!!! I beat it …thats my fondest memory ZELDA! OH ZELDA!!!! Do you remember that?

• 75. Joe Smith  |  March 26th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

  My fondest Nintendo memory is the :
  “Super Smash Bros. Brawl : 12: 38

  Total play time : 12: 38″ message i got on my wii the first day the game came out…

• 76. Catie  |  March 26th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

  I have grown up with Nintendo and its endless adventures, but my favorite memory has it be when my older brother first beat Super Mario 64. He gathered my whole family into the living room to watch him defeat Bowser. I watched in awe, seeing Mario just jump around doing flips everywhere. When he finally beat Bowser, Mario flew away with his little winged hat; which was my favorite part.
  After that, I constantly wished that I could be like Mario when I grew up and live a life full of adventures. I’ve been playing anything that’s Nintendo ever since.

• 77. Ken Robinson  |  March 27th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

  My fondest Nintendo-related memories are the joy of completing SuperMario 1 & 2 and the sorrow of getting stopped by 3. Maybe someday I’ll tackle 3 again and complete my Bucket List.

• 78. dn6511  |  March 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

  Finally beating Super mario 1 after many weeks of trying!

• 79. Pamela Stewart  |  March 28th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

  My favorite memory is finding a ripped open and ragged looking Mario Cart game two days before Christmas in Kmart. My daughter was convinced there was no Santa Claus and she would not tell anyone what she wanted for Christmas. Luckily she sent in a letter to the radio station through her class at school. And I just happened to hear it as I was stopping for gas. She was 8 at the time and I think she believed in Santa until she was 11.

• 80. Nat  |  March 29th, 2008 at 1:32 am

  My fondest Nintendo recollection is actually my first. It was christmas in 1988, at four years old my uncle gave us an NES. A full blown gaming system, I’d used an Atari before, but it wasn’t ours, it wasn’t at home.

  Evan had given us the Nintendo Entertainment System with a blaster, two controllers and a copy of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. It took us a full twenty minutes to figure out how to deal with it, but from then on, we were hooked, pretty much everyone in the household played nearly constantly for the first couple weeks.

  It was my first and favourite Nintendo moment.

• 81. Kelly  |  March 29th, 2008 at 11:28 am

  My fondest Nintendo memories happened when I moved to a new apartment in a new state. The only person I knew in town was my boyfriend, and he lent me his N64 to keep myself company in the evenings in my first few weeks of living here.

  I filled my nights with Mario 64, Mario Kart, and a whole host of other Nintendo games. They definitely kept me from getting lonely and helped me transition into living in a new place, all alone!

• 82. Anthony Hedden  |  March 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am

  When I was a kid we used to play Mario all the time

• 83. Michelle Simons  |  March 29th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

  hahaha this brings to mind of me and my best friend Carol playing Super Mario when it all first came out. We would call each other at all times of the day to see how far one another got on the game. Now we are older but we had been hooked by the game and after awhile when I went for a drive in my car all i could see was the pathway on the game in my head. now that was way to much palying for a old gal like me.

• 84. trudee carreiro  |  March 29th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

  I remember sitting up late at night my boyfirend at the time now my husband trying to beat super mario. I think that it took us at least 3 to 4 months to figuare this game out

• 85. phillip stacy  |  March 29th, 2008 at 5:58 pm

  winning

• 86. Sarah Hirsch  |  March 30th, 2008 at 9:48 am

  It was a great occasion when we got the original Nintendo system back in the day! I have five brothers and sisters, so to curb arguments, our parents made the six of us work out a schedule for blocking off turns for playing Nintendo. We mapped out the entire day (including school hours) AND night (although we had to forfeit those turns due to bedtimes). The funniest part is that the rest of us would just sit and watch the player, so basically we were all sitting in front of the Nintendo practically our entire waking moments. Good times!

• 87. Matty  |  March 30th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

  AHaha,. 1 word.

  WOOOOOOOPIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

• 88. Steve Scott  |  March 30th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

  Playing Mario Kart as a family and laughing at the banana peels.

• 89. Miranda Allen  |  March 30th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

  when i beat Super Mario brothers

• 90. Dawn Bates  |  March 30th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

  I suppose my fondest Nintendo memory is when I called in sick to work for a week to play and finish the Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask game. It was so worth it!

  Thanks for the giveaway!

• 91. James Jenkins  |  March 30th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

  playing the legend of zelda

• 92. Laura Emerson  |  March 30th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

  My fondest memory is playing Super Mario Brothers with my granddaughter. I know she loves me dearly but considers me just grandma, a nice old lady who bakes cookies. I love the look on her face when not only could I play but gave her a serious run for her money. From that day on she looks at me with love, respect and one of those “who is this white haired lady anyway??”

• 93. Charlene  |  March 31st, 2008 at 2:50 am

  I can remember being 20, and in love, and “living in sin” with Jim. LOL I found out how to CHEAT on a Nintendo game and NEVER told him - How I won EVERYTIME shhhhhhhhh LOL

• 94. Jaylee  |  March 31st, 2008 at 5:18 am

  Dude, I remember playing the original Donkey Kong arcade game at the roller rink on Friday nights. I would be standing there wearing rented roller skates with red wheels and sliding around while giving it my all. I would save my money all week and trade it in for quarters (keeping just enough for candy and pop.) My parents thought I went there to socialize

• 95. Janet  |  March 31st, 2008 at 5:42 am

  I was late for work one night playing pacman with my son !Time got away!

• 96. A. Ashley  |  March 31st, 2008 at 6:59 am

  My fondest Nintendo memory is from 2004 ,when I cosplayed as a Hispanic Princess Peach,
  It was at a convention and I had many laughs and drinks with African American Princess Peach and her boyfriend African-American Mario.
  I met a really tall Link cosplayer and we dated for a while and played many video games together.
  Sometimes, during lovemaking, I made him keep the pointy ears on.
  It was brief but it was fun.
  I wonder if he ended up marrying a Zelda cosplayer?

• 97. Rosanne Morrison  |  March 31st, 2008 at 9:59 am

  My son wanting us to watch him play video games when he was little and thinking we’d be impressed. He went onto college to compete in a Guitar Hero championship and won. This came in handy when he applied for an internship and the employer asked which song was his favorite on Guitar Hero. He replied “Guitar Hero I or II” The employer replied “touche” and he got the internship and 2 college credits. Amazing. He’s now in advertising.

• 98. manchicken  |  March 31st, 2008 at 12:12 pm

  My favorite Nintendo memories are from when I was about 8 years old. My buddy Eric–who was a year younger than I was–had an 8-bit NES with that old track&field game “World Class Track Meet” (Bandai 1988) with the Power Pad, our favorite event was the long jump.

  Boy did we get yelled at with all the noise we created with that thing. Then, of course, there was Double-Dragon. Gosh, Eric and I would just sit there for hours playing the games.

  Now I get to share Wii with my son… once he’s old enough to play in about a year or two.

• 99. Silver Teede  |  March 31st, 2008 at 12:18 pm

  My fondest nintendo memories was when i was 14 years old and i got my first Mario game-its was just incredible.I have played it 24 hours and more- i had a sleep problems and when i wasnt able to play my sister played it.We had a deal-i play 2 hours and she played 2 hours.The game was Mario 2-it was rock hard,but so great to play-i couldnt wait to save the princess.But with 2 of us-we managed it.I remeber it clearly this game-even now-it was just so intense-Mario is the best:)

• 100. Rick Lucas  |  March 31st, 2008 at 2:27 pm

  What’s that, son? Did we have video games when I was a boy? Sure we did, but I was a little older than you when they came along. Back then everybody had a Nintendo system at home, same as today. Your Uncle Tim and I played all the time. In those days there wasn’t much for kids to do, especially growing up in a small town. But playing games like Super Mario Brothers and Dragon Warrior made us feel like we were going on great adventures. Just like when you and I played Twilight Princess together last year, remember? So Nintendo is pretty important to me. It’s one of the reasons Uncle Tim and I grew up to be good friends, just like you and me. As you get older, there’ll be lots of great adventures we can take together. Time to sleep now. Good night son, I love you.

• 101. Elizabeth M.  |  March 31st, 2008 at 2:34 pm

  I loved the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the past which was played from the perspective of being above the game. It was on SNES and is the only videogame I have ever played from start to finish and fully completed. I was obsessed with this game and felt really challenged. Shortly after that, videogames went 3d and that makes me nauseous so I had to stop playing them. But I have such fond memories of this game. It was a family event to watch the game play and I remember my husband would call me from work to see what new things I had accomplished that day in the game. It’s all rather silly but at the time it was the highlight of my days.

• 102. Dana  |  March 31st, 2008 at 4:02 pm

  When my brother and I were young, we didn’t get to spend too much time with our dad, but when he got the nintendo, he set about playing Mario Bros all the way through, and unlocking all the hidden stuff. Even though he wasn’t really spending time with us, is was nice to have him the the same place for hours and hours.
  Thats my fondest nintendo memory.
  Thank you so much.

• 103. Paula Harmon  |  March 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pm

  My youngest son is so obsessd with Mario & Luigi. They are favorites to all of my kids. I have had to make homemade costumes, not for Halloween, but just for everyday. Any time he has to make up a name, for a story, or to play a video game, computer game, name a pet…the name is ALWAYS Luigi. He could spell that before he could even spell his own name.

• 104. Charlotte Robbins  |  March 31st, 2008 at 6:29 pm

  when i was younger i got hooked on zelda and still love the one from the super nintendo days, i also was hooked to mario games, now i enjoy watchin my son get hooked on them !!

• 105. sarah woods  |  March 31st, 2008 at 9:14 pm

  The fondest memories are sitting in our den and playing the first Nintendo games of the early 80’s with family especially when times financially were very tight. Nintendo has given us time as a family unit; bonding to daughter time; and most af all fun with entertainment and developmental eye/hand coordination with a your seven year old who came into my life when I married her father. Many Thanks,

• 106. Kristen Hendricks  |  March 31st, 2008 at 9:30 pm

  My favorite Nintendo-related memory is playing anyone of the Super Mario Games on the original Nintendo or Super Nintendo. I would play them with other family members and we would always have such a good time playing them and couldn’t wait to beat them. We would always refer to my sister as the princess character and she couldn’t wait to rescue the princess. The Super Mario Games were so much fun that we have some of them downloaded on our computers now. I just will never forget playing those games when I was a kid with my dad, brother, and sister and eventually beating them. It made my day back then and I will remember those happier times forever.

• 107. Lilikka  |  March 31st, 2008 at 10:44 pm

  My fondest Nintendo memory is playing Super Mario Bros. with my mom as a kid. I could never get past that first Goomba, so I’d always run and get my mom to do it for me. She never complained and would always help me out.

  Now that my own daughter is playing Mario Party on our Wii, I hope that she has these kinds of great memories as she gets older.

• 108. Matthew  |  April 1st, 2008 at 3:24 am

  My most fondest memory of Nintendo was myself at five years old, playing Super Mario Brothers 3 at my grandparent’s house. I was so into that game, that hours would pass by, trying to get to the new worlds, or, at least get the three whistles so I could get to my favorite world: the “giant world”. It took me until a few months ago to finally beat it. Back then, I didn’t understand about all the powerups, and I didn’t really care. I didn’t even know what the monsters were supposed to be. I just enjoyed playing, and seeing what Mario and myself could do as a team. I got caught a few times sneaking out of bed in the middle of the night, leaving the nintendo on a few hours before so I could get further in my game. I tried playing other games as well, things like Zelda, and a few others that didn’t spark my imagination and interest like SMB3 and the original. There was always someplace I haven’t found. It seemed to never have an end, and that’s what intruiged me so much. Everytime I hear the theme music, it reminds me of those past times, not having a care in the world, and being with my grandparents. In a sense, I owe it to Nintendo for those fond memories.

• 109. technabob  |  April 4th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

  Thanks for all the great memories!

  The contest is now closed, and winners have been posted here.

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