Beau Darwood’s Blog

I was always a huge fan of Nintendo videogames. But one title grabbed me – the “Super Smash Brothers” series.  A fighting game that has a unique, four fighter system that consists only the most popular Nintendo characters that most of everyone knows and loves, such as Mario. 

At my seventh birthday, I got a game for the “N64” called “Super Smash Brothers.” I instantly fell in love with the game (metaphorically).

Two years later, on my ninth birthday, I get a sequel to the “N64” version on the “Gamecube” called “Super Smash Brothers Melee.”

Once I heard that a newer, brighter, better version is coming for the popular Wii, I wanted to scream into the sky in pure pleasure. It has been seven years since a new “Super Smash Brothers” game released. I promised myself, “I’m getting this the second this releases,” as I noted to myself “The Sacred Date”: March 9, 2008. 

Then it came that “The Sacred Date” which held a “Super Smash Brothers” tournament to celebrate this joyous occasion at a convenient DVD/videogame shop called “Game Crazy” (I always wondered why) that starts at 9:00PM which, of course, I attended. Optimistically thinking to myself “I can WIN this, but I need to make sure that I will,” So, I train. I train for about two to three hours. Then realizing that the tournament starts at night, I take a short nap to become refreshed for the matches yet to come.

9:00PM is the statement that my glowing watch seemingly yelled at me. I was anxious. The tournament has begun. . .

Outside, in front of “Game Crazy,” I am playing my Nintendo DS with my friends, waiting for me and my unknown rival to clash to the metaphoric death we call “Defeat.”

At 9:27 precisely, my name was called to fight. I ran inside the shop to see my rival, a 19-year-old, Asian, red-sweater-wearing player with glasses nicknamed “PURE KH8OS” 

As I slowly approached the television, I felt my heart pumping, beating; the sounds that once seemed deafening are now an oral blur.

And to the Character select screen. I see “PURE KH8OS” prefers to use the famous underdog, Luigi. I ask how long he has been playing the series of “Super Smash Brothers” as I pick my “always winning hope” character, Bowser. He replies Quote: “I started as soon as the first game came out for the ‘Nintendo 64’”

And finally, the match has started. The awaited time has finally come for me to attend my first videogame-related tournament in my life. It has begun.

I do not remember what exactly happened on that fight, but I do remember that I never played so aggressively in my LIFE!! I was crushing him into a ball and tossing him aside. I was ahead by one life when the time beams to 1:00 left.

I was about to win. I was going to taste victory. I just knocked my opponent off another life. I was so happy, I didn’t care if the world the world suddenly snapped . . . too happy.

In my winning spirit, I decided to taunt in the game. BIG MISTAKE!! Taunts leave the character, Bowser, completely vulnerable to a powerful attack called a “smash attack.”

And that’s what happened. I lost it right then and there. I lost a life when I taunted which crushed me inside. I couldn’t fight so aggressively anymore. My thirst for victory has been faded into nothingness. I lost one . . . two . . . my final life.

I have lost the match . . . it’s all over.

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Well, I still got “Super Smash Brothers Brawl” anyways.

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