{"id":194,"date":"2014-01-29T18:53:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T23:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-01-29T19:11:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T00:11:23","slug":"awesometalk-more-like-bad-racer-more-like-badtris-more-like-super-mario-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supertmh2.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"AWESOMETALK – More Like Bad Racer More Like Badtris More Like Super Mario Badly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s my final FINAL word for the January 28th, 2014 episode of AwesomeTalk!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Speaking of which, after a long and painful initiation, I’m now an official member of the AwesomeTalk crew, which means I’ll be there live all the damn time, having some drinks and shooting the shit with a crossbow.<\/p>\n

OH AND ALSO ALSO I was a special guest on Ice and the Face<\/a>, a podcast starring Rick and Sarah of AwesomeTalk. I’ve completely infiltrated all facets of their lives, it’s wonderful. Check out episode 4 from 1\/27\/14 \u00c2\u00a0right over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s my thing read it thanks<\/p>\n

More Like Bad Racer More Like Badtris More Like Super Mario Badly<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"nintendo-world-championship-1990-nes\"<\/a>A piece of my childhood is being auctioned off on ebay for over $30,000 as we speak. It’s a game cartridge that was used in the Nintendo World Championships from 1990<\/a>, where fat children in neon shirts fought to the death in timed trials of skill, chance… and that’s it really. Maybe hunger? Gamers went head-to-head in explosive deathmatches, testing their might in Super Mario Bros, Rad Racer and Tetris for cash and prizes.<\/p>\n

And I was there. One Saturday afternoon, my parents took me to the mall for two things – elastic church pants and a chance to use my gaming skills to live my dream of traveling the world… to play Nintendo in other countries. And there, in the back of Sears was the holy grail of nerd-dom – three folding tables, 8 folding chairs and 8 Nintendo systems. The rules were simple – score the most points in Super Mario in three minutes and you would move on to the World Championships in New York. Now, I know what you’re thinking and the answer is surprisingly, yes – I know what the inside of a vagina feels like.<\/p>\n

Without going to deep in to my master strategy, which was to accidentally die early and get more points, I won. And like the baseball player that died of Lou Gehrig’s Disease who considered himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth, I also consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth and will die when I’m 38.<\/p>\n

\"ohgodkillmefatnerd\"<\/a>So, now I was a contender, and for weeks, I honed my Mario, Rad Racer and Tetris skills. And in reality, I had no idea what I was actually training for, but it gave me an excuse to play games instead of do my homework or practice piano scales or talk about something that wasn’t the Nintendo World Championships. Finally, the day came – my father and I went to New York, and I, wearing my finest pair of parachute pants, Hammer Time<\/em>-ed my way over to the Javitz Center. I was ready. Only this time, instead of competing against a handful of mongoloids in the Sears lawnmower department, I’d be competing against hundreds of mongoloids in a convention center. I found my spot, received some words of encouragement from my father and prepared myself for what would be the most intense challenge of my life. I’m sure instead of firing a starter pistol, some broken shell of an man in a fruity jumpsuit fired a zapper in the air that shot confetti all over the contestants, but I didn’t notice.<\/p>\n

Six minutes and 21 seconds later, the contest was over and I lost. My dreams of being hoisted above the crowd as they chanted my name in slow motion disappeared. I just kinda stood there, staring at the 8-bit graphics on the screen telling me how bad I was at video games. I walked away, found my father in the crowd, played a few demos and left. So after all that, like seventeen paragraphs worth of build-up, that’s it. But, with 30 something thousand dollars and a little bit of luck, I can relive this experience over and over. I’ll be the winner because I’m the only one playing, and there is absolutely nothing pathetic about that at all.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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