DailyDirt: Not Playing To Win Can Be Fun

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Playing video games can become an obsession. Just like some people like to re-read books they’ve already read over and over again, some gamers play their favorite games even after they’ve finished all the levels in a game. And now, there are more and more games that don’t really have an ending, so you could just keep playing the game forever until you got bored — or figured out your own goals to accomplish in the game. Here are just a few examples of gamers getting creative with how they play.

• Somebody thought it’d be fun to try to get the *lowest* possible score on Super Mario Bros while still finishing the game. You really have to be amazingly good to get a score of just 500 points. The video of this game shows some incredible button-pressing skills. [url]
• There’s a Tumblr dedicated to playing video games according to unconventional rules. Examples: Permadeath Minecraft where you have to delete your entire world if you die, democratic group playing of Pokemon where each move is chosen by majority decisions from a streaming chat session of thousands of players, etc… [url]
• In 2007, Super Mario World was hacked to become “Kaizo Mario World” which contained insanely difficult obstacles that would require hours just to complete a single level. Players have stepped up to the challenge, recording their efforts, and one impressive (or deeply philosophical?) video superimposes 134 attempts to complete the first level (only 2 attempts succeed). [url]

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Filed Under: gamers, group playing, kaizo mario world, minecraft, permadeath, super mario brothers, super mario world, video games
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