The TMNT arcade game was good, the NES game was another matter altogether. I still want my $1.99 rental fee back. They can keep the tax.

As for Super Mario 3, it was a great game, especially for the NES. It refined the 8-bit gameplay I knew and loved from earlier action/adventure games and added a much larger and varied quest for Mario. It also took the series into a new direction, as evidenced by Super Mario World and other 16-bit games. I think I own it now, but never did when I was growing up; I always had to borrow it and never wanted to give it up until my friend's parents got involved. Even Bases Loaded was expendable when I had a chance to get SMB3.