"Dammit Mario!" Brandon exclaimed as he dragged out the cuss with such annoyance, "When did this game become so difficult?!" For the past 2 and a half hours Brandon has been trying to beat world 8 in Super Mario Bros. He recently found this ancient relic while cleaning the attic out because his mom told him to. When he found the game he stopped everything he was doing and decided to try and beat the game again. He breezed through the first 7 worlds with minimal struggle but world 8 was a whole new world; literally!
Brandon was just an average 16 year old teen that just wanted to have a fun nostalgic Sunday night but it turned out to be anything but fun after long. The frustration darkened his yellow face to red as he brows furrowed with the intensity of his focused mind. His wide hands smothered the small Gamecube controller as his long fingers scavenged for the buttons only to softly tap them to make Mario jump or run for a quick second. He hunched his long, lanky body over and rested his elbows on his knees to prop his body into position. He sat on the edge of his bed to the point where it looked like he was about to fall any second but in actuality he was rather comfortable.
"Forget you Mario! I like Luigi better anyways!" His deep voice rumbled, "Matter of fact; I'm gonna use him right now." He pressed the "Start" button in the middle of the control and moved the analog stick down to the "Character Selection" option and pressed the "A" button. He moved the analog stick to the right once so the cursor was pointing to his main man, Luigi, before pressing "A" again to make Luigi do a little swirling dance before jumping into the action.
"Alright, alright, alright! I got this now," he said with a confident smile on his face and a more relaxed body position.
In the game, Luigi hopped onto a platform surrounded by lava. Under Brandon's control, he ran to right and jumped on a move float that moved front and back. Brandon had to make Luigi jump at the right time so he can continue forward and won't fall into his digital fiery death. Brandon moved a half second too late and that's exactly what happened. Brandon exclaimed in rage, "O-M-G!" while his mouth held on to the G, slowly letting it all roll out.
"I'm so ready to give up" He said to himself in a low, defeated tone. He tapped the "Start" button and scrolled down to the "Quit" option. The cursor hovered over the bottom of the "u" in "Quit" as Brandon contemplated if this is really what he wanted to do. He thought about him ever giving up and recalled that quitting was a thing he didn't do. He said, "Naaaahhhh" and pressed the "B" button, right next to the "A" button to go back to the game and try again.
"Alright, I only have 5 lives left. I need to make them count." while starting another game. "Work with me Luigi." he continued. He played with intense focus; more focus than he uses in school. This focus helped him achieve more than he has ever achieved with Mario. Even with all this focus, it was still not even to beat the level.
He let out a sigh of impatience as he went again, this time with more focus than the last game. He hopped, and ran, and jumped, and swirled, and everything in between. Through all his effort, he reached the final part of the level and paused the game to catch himself. He set the controller down next to him so he could whip his clammy hands on his sweat pants to dry them off before picking up the controller again.
He unpaused the game and proceeded the rest of the game with caution. There was only a few seconds left on the game clock so he had to pick up the pace. There was no time to dwindle and proceed with caution. He hastily made Luigi hop, and run, and jump, and swirl, and everything in between until he reached the flag.
"Finally conquered world 8! Now I can go to sleep" Brandon said as he ran to press the power button and turn off the system, totally unaware that the game did not save his progress... Oh well.
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