


And before you ask, no, I didn’t use the Switch’s save states to cheat. The heck with that! I beat Super Mario Bros. You can grab those hidden items early in the game and skip all the way to the final world. I need to clarify that I’m talking about beating Super Mario Bros. And I did this on the Switch, thanks to the platform’s recent addition of NES game via the (otherwise mediocre) Nintendo Switch Online service. Well, at least until last night, when I finally made my way through the NES classic’s eight worlds and defeated Bowser (er, King Koopa, whatever we were calling him back then).

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