For the record, I have never beaten Super Mario Bros. This seminal masterpiece of video gaming, which came out only a year before my birth, is something which I have yet to conquer. This fact is not a really big deal since it doesn'tkeep me awake at night, haunt me inmy dreams, or anything of that nature. However, I do feel that as a gamer and a Nintendo fan, this is something I must do before I die. Today I came serveral steps closer to beating the game. On an old NES I bought at a flea market I started playing Super Mario Bros.today. Usually I die in World 5, but today I reached as far as World 7-2. I've never gone this far before. Maybe I can beats this sooner than I thought.