Nintendo Anyone?

6:00 PM on a snowy Sunday night in February - time for a serious game of SuperMario. OK, I admit, I am dating myself. Most of my younger friends and relatives probably don't even know what Nintendo is. Playstations and XBox are more in their age range. But for those of us that grew up when Atari (remember pong!) was the rage, Nintendo was a huge step! And I still have my trusted Nintendo as a winter time companion.

I decided tonight was night to take Mario, so I sat down and zipped right through the first 3 Worlds. I was on a roll. Then I got to the 4th world....oh no! I always get hung up on that damn phase 4.3 - and tonight was no different. Anyone familiar with this? Here is the phase:

There is one place near the beginning that you have to make Mario run super fast and jump at the same time....I am just not coordinated enough. I lost three men doing this. I quit. Mario went back in the tv cabinet and might just stay there until a snowy night next February!

Oh - and does anyone remember PacMan? I used to spend all my quarters (and my parents too) in a silly PacMan game. I was addicted.

OK, off to watch it snow some more.