SMB Halloween 12271997

It's a bit of a slow day, so I think I'll post something that's really old. The first time I had the idea for a Halloween themed Super Mario Bros. game was when I had just moved to Kissimmee, Florida in late 1991. Everything was still packed away in boxes with the exception of a trusty sketchpad. Halloween was just around the corner and I would draw all sorts of random levels with different power ups. My favorite was Jack O' Mario, who could spit pumpkin seeds at his enemies. Eventually I forgot about the whole thing for a while, at least until I helped a family member set up an IBM computer with Windows 95 on it ^{as well as the then new iNES emulator}. I would toy around with Paint and this was made... some 14+ years ago. Sheesh, that's about half my life. I was fortunate this old thing survived because back then it took nearly an entire floppy to save an image of this size in BMP format with true color. Pfft, I think PNG wasn't really ratified yet, but it sure would have made life easier.

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