 I always loved playing Super Mario Brothers. On my NES when I was little, it was so fun to get through all eight worlds, and save the princess over and over again, and find all those cool glitches everyone was talking about. It was spectacular. Recently my family did a little spring cleaning around the house. I went up to clean out the etiquette. Through my luck, I found an old dusty box containing my old NES, and a few cartridges for it, including my Super Mario Brothers game. I was so excited and jumping around, as this could have been a chance to relieve my young childhood years. I ran downstairs and looked up the NES to the television and poked the cartridge in, but sadly it wouldn't turn on. I had a good friend who was a skilled hacker. I handed the old cartridge to him, and requested he make the game work, soon enough he came over and gave the cartridge back, it looked brand new. I popped the cartridge in a second time and it booted on. I was very happy, though the game was a bit like the at some points. I spent the whole day playing through the game, and once I got to the end and saved the princess, I saw her text box and remembered there was a second quest. I never actually played much of the second quest as a kid, but I was eager to try it to remember what changed. When I returned to the main menu and booted up the game, there were significant changes everywhere from what I recall playing it as a kid. The sky was completely black, and the clouds were dark grey, as if a thunder storm were to begin. There were stopped goombas pretty much everywhere, and piranha plants weren't coming out of certain pipes they usually come out of. I started walking through World 1-1, which was changed in the way I described, and then soon I noticed the timer wasn't counting down, and it was frozen at 666 in game seconds, even though the most time you get in an average level is 400 in game seconds. I continued walking through the ominous level, while a low-tone Super Mario Brothers theme played in the background, it sounded almost sadistic. Once I got to the end, I arrived at a very large castle, as if you completed World 1-3. I entered the castle and nothing was there, no enemies, no obstacles, I was just walking through an empty castle, not to mention a soft static sound was in the background instead of the usual castle theme. Once I reached the end, Bowser didn't show up, and there was no axe button to drop out the bridge with. I normally walked into the area with Toad in it, but I could control Mario freely as the former talked. But instead of saying, thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle. He said this. Sorry Mario, but you're too late. Apparently there was more space to the right of the screen, with a small blood trail following. I walked along the bloody trail, as the trail of blood started getting thicker and thicker, and the static sound got louder and louder. Soon I got to the end, and there was Peach, lying down, like she was dead. I couldn't control Mario anymore, and I just sat there watching for several minutes, until a text box appeared next to Peach saying, Why didn't you save me? The screen instantly cut to black, and a loud screech came out that is the speakers. I ran towards the old NDS and powered it off. I was exhausted, and everyone in the house was already asleep. It was very late at night, so I laid the game down and got some rest. I woke up at about 7.30 in the morning, to the Super Mario Bros. theme a few rooms away, which was weird since no one was home that morning, and the NDS wasn't on, but I did remember leaving the cartridge in the NDS. I walked downstairs into the living room, and to my complete and utter surprise, the game was playing, and Mario was walking through a normal World 1 1 all by itself. There was no one home and a controller wasn't plugged in. I just sat on the couch and watched the game play itself, like I was watching a TV show or a movie. Eventually, Mario reached the end of World 1 2, but instead of walking through the normal exit pipe or jumping up into the warp zone, he punched the second and third bricks from the edge of the top of the normal exit pipe, and jumped into the top of the pipe, glitching through it and going down the World 4 1 warp pipe, but he appeared in a level titled, World Minus 1. I ran over to the study and looked it up on the computer, and found there was a place known as the Minus World, in which is reached using the glitch Mario performed, and it is a repetitive water level, never ending. Mario all alone, swam through the level over and over again, and each time Mario entered the beginning of the level, he looked older. Soon enough, he entered the level again and died. Again, the screen cut to black and displayed a screeching sound, and a text box saying, he can't protect anyone, not even yourself.