Life Lesson 217: Cheating will only get you so far

In the past, a bunch of us used to get together on Mondays to play games. Then it moved to Sundays when the Comic Stop North opened. Then when Scales and Jim moved away it kind of petered out. Well do to popular demand Gaming Night has made it triumphant return!!! With a new location and day. New location: My condo (as opposed to my apartment) New day: Saturdays.

Last Saturday was the first Gaming Night 3.0 and it was a blast. Jim 2.0 and George came over and we played George's Super Mario Strikers

The basic concept of the game is an 5 on 5 arcade soccer game with the standard Mario touches (Power Ups, Over-the-top Special Moves). One of the cool thinks about this game is that the single player portion that unlocks more teams and stadiums can be played in co-op mode. Because of this we were able to unlock new content while having a blast.

It was quite humorous watching the three of us play. The computer tends to play like a "real" player and would stay in their zone. We on the other hand were like a bunch of seven year olds all chasing after the ball. This leads to a lot of fast breaks for the computer. Good thing he could not make an easy goal to save its life.

We all got into a bad habit while playing through the first tournaments. On Easy mode the computer does not use the Special Items very much. This is important because every time you lay a "big hit" on a player when they do not have the ball they get another Special Item. If I'm not mistaken our record for number of "Bit Hits" in a game was around 120!!! Well in the Professional Mode which is the default mode for the Super Tournaments, the computer uses the Items and with the way we play he uses a LOT of them. It was hard to believe we had a chance to ever do a "Big Hit" the way we kept getting the Smackdown laid down upon us.

I am off to LA this weekend, so the next Game Night 3.0 should be the 18th with the game of the day being Axis and Allies. Looks like it maybe a Long night.