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Once again, it's time for me to tell a personal story around the topic of this post, if you don't care then make like Jack Webb and get just the facts by skipping to the last paragraph. A Long Almost Irrelevant Story In 1989 it's safe to say that my brain was soaked in Super Mario Bros. fandom. It was a gradual progression that started the previous year (1988) when a friend and I had begun playing through Super Mario Bros. 2 together. It was only by a stroke of fortune that I ever got to play it at all. It was October and the game had instantly sold out everywhere. Nintendo had sent out the first issue of Nintendo Power with Super Mario Bros. 2 on the cover to build anticipation and I guess it worked. The national news was carrying footage of mobs converging on Toys R Us in vain to fight over a handful of copies of the game. The local news also ran stories about the new phenomenon. TV Guide ran a two page article about it. If I hadn't been in th...