New Super Mario Brothers: the most impossible game ever.

I play Super Mario Brothers a lot. It's my favorite pastime.

However, I am a complete failure at the thing.

My friend Cecilia (or CC for short) is a master at Mario. She knows all the cheats and glitches and secrets the game has.

Our game session is mostly me dying and achieving my "ultimate goal" of zero lives, or me sitting very dormant in a bubble the whole time. Meanwhile, CC sprints to the end in a flash, never losing a power-up and certainly never losing a life.

That's me, blue toad, falling to my doom.

Fortunately, there's always bubbling, which I do constantly. Being in a bubble is a life saver.

I often wonder what happened to me that made me such a turkey at this game.

Of course, CC never hesitates to comfort me.

Sigh... The game's results are always the same; no lives in my case, and so many in CC's. Time to resort to the glitches.

Our favorite is the glitch in the world 4 final castle, which we use to get the maximum number of lives (99). 

This we do a lot. You see, I lose all 99 lives almost as soon as I get them. We go back to world 4 quite often.

When Mario achieves 99 lives, he loses his hat. CC never fails to lose her hat.

I'm just the opposite.

It must be very clear why this game is so impossible for me. Hopefully my game play will improve. At least being prone to failing gives something funny to post about!

- Amelia