Videogame Review, Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System (w/ NES Max Controller)

Videogame Review, Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System (w/ NES Max Controller)

Nintendo did not believe their original controller was the best NES controller for their NES video game console.  Nintendo did believe their NES Max controller was the best, or, the greatest.  Nintendo says on the package, “Experience maximum control at your fingertips with the NES Max from Nintendo.  This amazing accessory adds even more excitement to your NES.”  Let me ask you a question.  “… even more excitement…”  Okay!  More excitement than what?  From this statement, Nintendo was suggesting that the NES controller was “less” than the NES Max controller.  My review will be shocking to the NES fans who read this.  You will need to believe me on this.  The NES Max was Nintendo’s maximum control.  But, the NES controller was not.  Do I believe this?  Yes, and, no.  Super Mario Bros. is a great game.  On my personal experience, the NES Max controller is more experimental and less practical.  That’s fine.  Players do need to slow down a little bit more and pay attention.  Yes, we’re very practical with modern video game controllers.  Strangers might look at my picture of the NES Max and say, “No way!”  Yes way!  By looking at my controllers, you see 2 kinds of NES controllers- the left controller is the NES Max (“joystick”) and the right controller is the NES controller (“dog bone”).  I play Super Mario Bros. better with the original controller; that is, the NES controller.  A NES Max controller is very interesting, special, and unique.  I do get more “controls” with the NES Max.  The NES Max has turbo buttons that help me better in shooting fireballs.  Keep in mind that the NES Max, in effect, has a BIGGER direction pad.  It’s a bigger direction pad with thumbstick in the middle, or “joystick”.  Here’s the catch!  The “joystick” does not actually move your character.  No, no.  The “joystick” actually does nothing at all.  What the joystick, or, “thumbstick” does do is, let you push into the direction pad.  You don’t exactly push the direction pad yourself.  You move a useless joystick that uses the buttons for movement.  Neat, huh?  Ironically enough, this is the maximum control Nintendo was believing in.  Hey, Nintendo said their words!  I must agree with their words and give a judgement.  I do get bored with Super Mario Bros. now.  That’s because I’m already a gamer for the NES classic.  In fact, before I got a brand new NES Max, I purchased a used NES Max from Gamestop years ago.  A used NES Max controller from Gamestop was $2.99.  I also purchased a NES Power Pad for $2.99.  You’re probably thinking, “Wow!  That’s cheap!”  You’re right, and, also wrong.  NES controllers did not have big price tags like PS5 controllers today have.  However, NES games were very short if you already knew what you were doing.  Beating Super Mario Bros. can take a little over 1 hour.  So, why was Super Mario Bros. a challenging, difficult game?  Because you didn’t know the game before you got the game!  That’s why.  Videogame reviewers and critics forget about their knowledge.  Old video games aren’t that wonderful for these reviewers and critics anymore because they already know the old video games now!  It’s not rocket science.  At least the challenge increases with the NES Max controller with complicated fashion of data management.  Maybe with less features, there can be greater data management.  Super Mario Bros. with the NES Max goes from being a simple game to a complicated game.  And, if you’re not so obvious, the game is a blast.  Ha ha!

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