Comments on: Super Mario Bros, the way I remember it

By: Ron Dahlgren

Ron Dahlgren — Mon, 06 May 2013 05:48:57 +0000

The ‘clear as a crisp Spring morning!’ remark almost made me spray water all over my keyboard. Hilarious!

By: Erin Hoffman

Erin Hoffman — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:34:39 +0000

Insightful. I don’t think I understood WHY the retrogame aesthetic was so appealing before this — only that it was. I think now that it’s almost some kind of psychological revisionism, recreating the symbolic art we saw in our minds but not with our eyes, because we certainly never saw those pixels with such clarity.

By: Roxanna Kazemi

Roxanna Kazemi — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:33:29 +0000

Yes! Sometimes I miss that 13″ TV and its tint control knob. My nostalgia is also a less perfect image: it has that fuzzy halo and color bleed, but a more corrected color than your neon-tinted memory. Then again I didn’t always realize color in its literal sense. I distinctly remember that I would naturally color correct black and white TV into color, not fully realizing that episodes of Lassie and I Love Lucy were in fact wonderfully monochromatic. To reproduce my memory of that little TV with the tint control knob turned all the way up you’d have to reproduce the halo and bleed with a super-saturated version of today’s all too perfect images. I see your hue and saturation change as much more true than the first image you posted, and I do remember it well, but well before Mario took his first castle I’d have corrected the image in my head.