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willyp's Super Smash Brothers (N64)
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| [January 31, 2007 01:42:29 PM]
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I finished my second Super Smash Brothers session, this time playing by myself. The single player game is kind of a joke although it is the only way to unlock the secret characters. I found that playing in the vs. mode against the highest level computers was much more fun and challenging. even this mode wasn't too great though. I usually easily won. It was only when I teamed up computers against me that they were able to succeed. This was extremely challenging, I was able to win sometimes but not too often. Anyway, event this got pretty old pretty fast. Super Smash Brothers is not a great single player game, then agian I doubt pong is too great by yourself. Video games are interesting in that they are usually single player oriented whereas most other types of game are either boring or impossible without others. For example, try playing chess, poker, or tag by yourself. I think this group aspect is a very important part of games because it encourages social interaction which is extremely valuable. Multiplayer games like Super Smash Brothers are also fun because you can pick up the game, play it for 15 minutes and be done, which is difficult to do with a single player game.
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| [January 31, 2007 12:15:30 PM]
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I have been playing super smash brothers since it first came out back when I was in middle school. I had never really liked fighting games before but, one day a friend invited me to come play one where you could be mario or starfox and I was hooked. I took a break for a little while until I found out in high school that another friend of mine really liked to play. We always had intense games, we played with other people but one of the two of us always won. I think I liked playing so much because the game was fairly simple so it allows for the player to create his own style of fighting. I think that constitutes a game of emergence. Anyway, the simplicity makes it easy for players to get competitive with each other, so there was always some trash talking between the two of us. Competition is a big reason why I like to play video games and super smash brothers is a great arena for that. I am used to playing on my game at home so coming and playing on a new cartridge was a little frustrating. After you play the game for a while you uncover some secret characters and my favorite option, a menu called item switch that allows you to turn off any items you don't like and change the frequency of items falling. Not having this took some getting used to, but, in the end the game was still almost as fun with my floormates as with my friends at home
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