Mooching is a wonderful and truly underrated lifestyle choice. The years of college, and the forced circumstances of living with a roommate are prime time to hone these skills. Now, even as a semi-grownup, I find that I can use these talents to vast benefits. Observe: I enjoy having frequent access to the new Nintendo Wii video game system because my lovely boy happens to have one, and yet I didn’t pay a dime (though, as systems go, it’s relatively affordable). I was even there when he bought the wee Wii last year… we approached the moment with the sincerity and seriousness as one might affect when adopting a child. But it’s all his, and thank heavens we didn’t split the cost on it, or you can imagine the custody battles that would ensue if things should end badly between he and I.
Any STA reader who has had the pleasure of playing “Super Mario Galaxy” on the Wii probably has an inkling of whom I am about to introduce, but let’s unmask our honored guest with some finesse, shall we?I’m not a scholar on this, but I am a gamer at heart – I earned my Ph.D. in “pot breaking” and “grass cutting” in search for those pretty tri-colored Zelda rupees back in the SNES days. From my own humble experience with not only the Wii but with many other Nintendo products over the course of my childhood, it is apparent to me that Nintendo, above Sony and Microsoft and Sega and the few other whatnots among console systems, truly has a lovely little monopoly on game titles which appeal to a specifically family-friendly market. With plushy classics like Zelda, Kirby, and Mario, the Nintendo system has always been revisited, time and time again, iteration to iteration (DS, GameCube, 64, etc) by gamers with a fondness in their hearts for these challenging yet notedly non-graphically-violent games. In its newest incarnation, the Wii is known for its many multi-player titles, forcing quarreling siblings across the Earth to put down their swords and pick up their nifty motion-activated plowshares.Among those titles is, as alluded to earlier, “Super Mario Galaxy”, which takes multi-player mode to an entirely new level. As Player 1 controls our dear old friend, bright eyed blue- collar Mario, Player 2, referred to as the “co-star”, controls not a main character, but a little gold star which flits around the screen with the flick of a wrist.Sound unimportant? Un-fun? Un-equal, even? Think again. This luminescent polygon can aid Mario by almost effortlessly collecting the all-important and ever-present “star bits” which bounce around the game. The gold star can then use these star bits to shoot bad guys and stop them from hurting our dear Italian plumber. If Mario finds that he can’t jump high enough to reach a certain platform or coin? Focus the gold star on him, hit a button and he’s given a boost in his jump. Mario finds himself overwhelmed by too many enemies swarming around? Focus the gold star on them, hold a button, and they’re frozen until you move the cursor from their character. And the cincher? It’s truly remarkable how difficult it is to play the game without the co-star.As temporary STA Guest Blogger, I take my first power-trip and hereby award the Super Mario Galaxy Co-Star, for endless bravery and unwavering commitment to his/her fellow man, with the title of “Assistant of the Week”.May you shine brightly for all of time.
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