“I found the super mario game at a ice cream place — called “the bob-in again frozen custard” in Petosky, Michigan — while on vaction. The best part about it was that you could play it as much as you wanted for free!!”
[Taken July 17, 2007 by Ted Ledbetter.]
Not worth it. You should need to use your hard earned quarters.
That’s pretty awsome!
Did they have any other games?
I remember playing the old SMB arcade game at a pizza parlor all the time back in the day.
Sigh…
I’ve played one of those. It was quite a shock at the time, because I didn’t even know they existed, but it was pretty amazing.
I didn’t even know they existed!!!
Only other NES games like um, Wild Gunman from Back to the Future II. XDD
I played the Super Mario arcade once in an ice cream parlor, too. The place was called The Purple Cow. That was like a decade ago, though.
Aw man, I remember being amazed that Super Mario Bros. was in the arcades back in the day. For some reason, I got thrills just watching people play it, although we already had the game at home.
I saw one in mexico that was just a gutted arcade machine with a TV and a SNES playing Super Mario All-Stars behind it. It wasn’t free.
A pizza & ice cream place around here had a Super Mario Bros. arcade machine. Ahhh, memories.
Wow, it’s free? I was just going to comment that it’s awesome that it’s still only a quarter to play. But free is even better!
My buddies and I just played SMB from virtual console last weekend, and we’d all forgotten how fun and challenging the game actually is. It’s still great after all these years. I guess it’s my generation’s Pac-Man.
I played SMB a couple times in the arcade. (The arcade I went to at the time had both “Vs. Super Mario Bros.” and “Vs. Excitebike” in a weird wedge-shaped arcade machine.) The NES version seemed like it was missing something at the time, though I really couldn’t tell you what I thought it was.
Being reminded of SMB’s arcade roots makes me wonder if it would even be possible to make a 3D platformer arcade game. Throw in a time limit and restrict the player’s path, maybe? Or just hang a lot of glowing arrows in the air?
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I’m glad everybod likes my SMB, but I don’t know this guy played it for free. It costs a quarter last time I checked.