Does anyone here have a Wii and play Dr. Mario? I’m looking for foes to crush 
Ohhhh shit, they made one for Wii eh??
I loved the NES version! (fuck tetris)
Unfortunately, I don’t have a Wii to play online though 
Yeah, you can buy it online for like ten bucks or something and then play other people. We play our family back home sometimes. The interface is way worse than xBox live, though. You can’t talk, and friending people is much more difficult.
I love me some Tetris, don’t get me wrong. In fact, I thought I would be instantly good at Dr. Mario because I was pretty ridiculous at Tetris. I was wrong. I’m purdy good now, though. My wife was pissed when the game finally clicked and I started kicking her ass 
I don’t know if either of you would remember the game, “Columns,” for Sega, that was probably my favorite of the puzzle games.
We had the Sega Master’s System and the Genesis, but I’ve never seen that game. I youtubed it. It looks hard.
It is not very hard when you get used to it. The coolest thing about it is that when you start to get in trouble, a seemingly minor play can turn into a chain reaction (and you try to make chain reactions intentionally, as well) which can often save you when you are not expecting it. Also, for every seventy jewels you knock out, you get a column that will knock out every jewel of whatever jewel you put it on, which also counts towards the seventy needed for another one of those!
You did have a Sega, you said, did you ever play Klax? I used to like that one also, though not as well as Columns.
I did not. Looks interesting, though. I’m trying to think of any puzzlers we owned.
Klax is an interesting one, particularly in the most difficult levels because you have to do something (Like form 2 X’s of five) which causes you to have to avoid getting a Klax that will fuck up your setup while at the same time still having to get some Klax to avoid having the blocks pile up to your demise. Klax is definitely more difficult than Columns, but I still preferred Columns because I liked trying to set up chain reactions for monster points.
I would’ve thought one person on here had Dr. Mario for the Wii.
Anthem,
I’m not sure whether to empathize with you and hope someone here has it,
or to get angry with you for tempting me to get it JUST cuz the awareness of Dr. Mario has brought on symptoms of a fever that, somehow, I know only he can treat.
Seriously though, I don’t see myself going a few days without modern warfare 2 anytime soon… but if I did I would totally buy it. I don’t remember the exact mechanics of the NES version, but I will nonetheless assert that it was an amazing, amazing game. I checked youtube for a look at the Wi version, and it looks like it has some new ways of playing that take the game to a whole new level (of complexity). Or did I simply see something I didn’t understand and just jump to a biased conclusion?
P-Mod,
I so rocked the Columns on my Game Gear. That was a pretty killer game. I totally remember those chain-reaction fireworks shows. The music and design had a pretty mind-altering combination of cool otherworldiness and brain-cranking stimulation, no?
Much like Tetris that game had excellent thinking music. I’m going to take it a little further and even say that it was one of the only games in which one could completely lose oneself, and that’s odd for me because I generally prefer games with there is an actual way to win. I don’t believe that Columns had an ending point, I think Level 99 just never stopped.
Man, I totally, totally agree. After making my post I thought back to my experiences of playing, and I remember, though I couldn’t really conceptualize it as a kid, suddenly “coming to” every once in awhile playing that guy… and not even in the sense while playing I’d suddenly start thinking of myself (and “be myself”, as thinking how I was as a social self), but that every once in awhile I would just experience an arising thought that felt more like a ghostly echo that had crossed over, reminding me of a faraway and forgotten world–the home I come from and will one day refer to; in these moments there was a faint recognition that there was some distinction between the (my) sentience and the (columned) world I suddenly saw (as one of many possibilities). But, nevertheless, in these moments the blurry details of past memories were–when compared to the Columned Universe–seen as mere fantasies, daydreams (an occasional result of the flux of columns) that simply carried with them the incomprehensible idea of “truth”.
Incredibly well said, couldn’t agree more.
You’re quite welcome. Here was many a conversation I had in college:
Me: (walking in and slamming door, yelling up stairs) CODY! HALO!
Cody: No. I have homework due tomorrow.
(brief pause)
Me: CODY! HALO!
(brief pause)
Cody: Okay, one game.
Anthem,
I think we’ve all had that conversation. I loved being the one that didn’t really need to study or sleep to pass the tests. On top of that, I worked a part time job and a full-time job, so I’d be getting into the dorms at midnight just getting started when everyone else was trying to wind it down.
“I see eight guys and two big screen TV’s, let’s do this shit!”
“Dude, we’re about to go to bed.”
“Your beds and teddy bears will be waiting for you to cry into when I am all done whipping your pathetic asses, make room on the couch for me!”
“Seriously, man, I have a big exam tomorrow.”
“You might die tonight, dude, you should think about that.” (Pause for a minute to put a dip of Skoal in my mouth, because I already know I have them) "What difference will that exam make if you were to die in your sleep tonight? I’ll tell you, not one damn bit of difference, but you have a chance, right now, while you’re alive, ALIVE MAN, to make a feeble effort to beat my trash talking ass which just might accidentally come to fruition if you get to the rocket launcher before me. Can you really pass that up?
“But, I’ll probably live, and if I do, I need to be ready for this exam.”
“But, what if you die tonight?”
FAMOUS LAST WORDS:
“Okay, one game.”
NOTE: I don’t use chaw anymore.