My first PG-13 movie was The Addams Family. I was 7. I remember not fully grasping special effects before seeing it, so at first I didn't get the scene where Wednesday and Pugsley cut off each other's arms in the play. I wasn't freaked out so much as amazed that two actors, especially children, would show so much…

No. We're straight.

My great-grandparents walked out during the farting scene. I guess racial slurs were hunky-dory but bodily functions were just beyond the pale.

Hell, that's the coolest thing 26-year-old me has seen.

This is as close to wrong as opinions get.

"Mah name's Berculosis! It's like tuh-berculosis, without the 'tuh'!"

Silly name aside, Watermelon in Easter Hay is one of the most beautiful songs of all time.

I've lost count of how many times a comment on this site had me laughing with tears streaming down my face and struggling for air and I wanted some way to "like" it as a show of appreciation, however anonymous it may be. I am 100% down with this change.

Oops, yep, it is 6-5. And the best thing about it is that you don't have to play that level, but if you do, it gives you access to the Toad House that gives you the Hammer Brother Suit, so it's well worth it to go ahead and do it.

1) Link's Awakening
2) Wind Waker
3) Oracle of Ages/Seasons
4) Majora's Mask
5) Link to the Past
6) Zelda II
7) Ocarina
7) Original

Lemmings and Oh No! More Lemmings. Never played a more airtight game than those two. You just know those games were tested to within an inch of their lives, and that the developers had a pixel-perfect sense of what those little critters were capable of.

@Lt. Broccoli, re: World 6-6 of SMB3: It's much easier to use a turtle shell than an ice block there. The ice block disappears too quickly to be practical. What's hard about using the turtle shell though is that there are a bunch of those block-throwing Buster Brothers who can accidentally kill the turtle with a…

For six-year-old me, Jeff Rovin's How to Win at Super Mario Bros. Games was the most riveting novel of 1990.

I too volunteer my services vis-a-vis classic-gaming writing. I can whip up a mean Lemmings essay.

Blowing onto the pin connector is the first resort. If that doesn't work, I usually press the game down, but don't let it come back up, and wiggle it to the right or left and hold it in one of those directions before releasing it into place. That usually works like a charm. If one and two don't work, then I go ahead…

The one Zelda game I haven't seen mentioned yet, and it's my favorite, is Link's Awakening. I just loved everything about that game. Still do. It's my favorite of the "straightforward" Zeldas. Just about every other Zelda game I like was a departure from the norm in some major way (Zelda II, Wind Waker, Majora's…

@Sypha Belnades:
By your metric, Castlevania should be in the Unfair Hard group. There wasn't a single character in the first three Castlevanias who didn't move as if their entire body was made of rust. And let's not forget all the semi-random shit in Simon's Quest on top of that. None of the NES Castlevanias count as…

If you know exactly where to go and what to do, Myst can be beaten in just under 20 minutes.

I seem to recall Game Informer theorizing several years ago that once the PS1/N64 generation was behind them, people wouldn't look as fondly upon it as other older generations. Looks like they were right. Can't remember the specific issue or article in which that was said though.

Kevin James is here pretty much specifically because Chris Farley isn't.