Super Mario Bros. 3 dev. Nintendo EAD (1988)
A technical completion, if one considers previous playthroughs in which I reached the ending by using warp whistles to be cheating, and I do, dear reader. The full context of every world and level helps me to truly appreciate this landmark work, and when compared against my similarly thorough completion of Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) last year, I can now see how this third entry in the series is the more engaging game. The worlds are more varied and lively, the characters still new and fresh to the end, and the short completion of each level is outdone by the number of them in each world. It’s a wonderful game and just fun to play from start to finish.
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday dir. Adam Marcus (1993)
I chose this movie because I was once too scared to even attempt it–one of many such instances from my childhood. But it was on Netflix, and you know how one does. However, unlike some other previously avoided horror movies, such as Child’s Play, this was an embarrassing movie to have skipped so long ago. It’s the hackiest of eighties horror filmmaking brought forward into the nineties, and I was stunned throughout its runtime. Just, what is this? What’s happening to me? Jason’s a worm now?