2009
The 2009 Nick’s Marathon started on the night of Friday, November 13, 2009 and went until late in the evening of Sunday, November 15 – after we *finally* beat New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which had just gone on sale earlier that weekend!
This is what we looked like towards the end:
The games we played were:
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Wii)
- Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Wii)
- The Simpsons Game (Wii)
- Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Wii)
- Rock Band/Rock Band: Beatles (XBox 360)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES)
- Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
Here is some video of our last several attempts to beat NSMBWii (skip to 1:33:24 to see us finally beating the game!)
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2008
The first Nick’s Marathon took place from the night of Friday, October 24, 2008 until late on Sunday, October 26. And man were we tired at the end!
The games we played were:
- Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES)
- The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure (GCN/GBA)
- Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong’s Quest (SNES)
- Streets of Rage (Genesis)
- Mario Party 6 (GCN)
- Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
- River City Ransom (NES)
- FIFA 2003 (GCN)
- Super Punch-Out!! (SNES)
- The Simpsons: Hit & Run (GCN)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES)
- Super Bomberman (SNES)
Here is some video of us from Sunday morning, struggling to get through a level of DKC2.