I never thought I'd live to see the day where Mario and Sonic would be in the same video game, let alone two. Mario & Sonic go to the Olympic Games was a nice, honorable way to bridge the gap for SEGA's superstar and Nintendo's number one. Still, it wasn't until the official news started curculating that Sonic would finally make an appearance in Super Smash Brothers Brawl that things got exciting.
Roughly twelve years ago my bestfriend empee3 and I were just starting to become close friends. She was an avid Mario fan, a collector of Nintendo Power, a girl who liked her Goomba's flattened... I was an obsessed Sonic fan, a collector of Archie's Sonic comics, a girl who liked emeralds and rings... We should have been rivals, arguing over the superiority of our games, but instead we became friends. We respected each other's love of the characters and the games that made them.
To make a long story short, I shared with her my comic collection and my love for drawing, together we started a fan comic. Colored pencils and Sharpies in hand our fan comic "Mario vs. Sonic" was born. We never finished it. We laughed about how great it would be to see them together in a game and we sighed at how it would never be so. We grew up and moved on but our hearts remain true to the characters that inspired us and our childhood.
With Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Nintendo has brought unimaginable gaming possibilities to us. I look forward to sharing the game with her this weekend. I hope it brings back as many wonderful memories for her as it did for me. We now have rekindled hope for a Sonic & Mario adventure game.
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