Students of Portland State University create an important first step toward a Super Mario Brothers theme park, where you get to be Mario and play the game in a real-life representation of the Super Mario world. It’s a great idea, I promise. Only problem is when you lose, you die. High-stakes theme park.
Also of note: Today’s college students are probably to young to have really played Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo in earnest. It is probably only today’s 27-35 year-olds who know exactly where and when to jump to get the free life on level 1-1.
Tedquarters 
Ted, don’t forget the flying fox tail.
Seriously, college kids. Stop jacking my nostalgia.
holy crap…remember when your thumbs used to like if they’d been bent by some really no nonsense detective during an interrogation?
there is apparently a page for this:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nintendonitis
Not sure I agree with that Ted. You forget how many times that game has been re-released. Plus, it’s easy to find online.
Too young to have played it on the NES?
probably
Too young to know when/where to jump on 1-1?
not a chance.
Fair enough. It’s always weird to me that people kept playing it after the technology got much better, but then I suppose it was a really fun game.
I never played in on a NES, but I DL’d a NES emulator, and I reckon I’ve wasted a good 100 hours of my life on SMB 3.
Cut to sinister Chinese education czar laughing evilly in a dark room.
Sorry dude. Maybe I was late being born in 1990, but I have Super Mario Brothers 1 & 3 for my regular nintendo that still works. Sure I was 3 or 4 when I started playing them, well after initial release, but I can honestly say I’ve played and beat Super Mario Brothers on NES (and Super NES [and Game Boy Advance]).