Super Mario 121!

tl;dr at the bottom!

I've been trying to incorporate casual games into my stream for a long time, but have never really found a way to give purpose to what I'm playing outside of just playing the game. Though casual gaming is fun, its always been pretty difficult for me to stream for this reason. With my recent hand issues, I've become unable to stream the hours I used to just doing speedruns, and my average stream has dropped from 6-8 hours per day as it was when I achieved partnership, to 2-4 hours now. I also stream far less frequently; five days per week instead of the seven I used to. I was never a daily streamer, I just love streaming.

And this is about to change. I was talking to my friend Marioman847 about Mario games and he mentioned that Mario appears in over 100 games. I was thinking about these games and realized that there are SO many amazing Mario games I haven't played. To list a few: SM64, SMG1, SMRPG, and all of the Paper Mario games. ALSO all of the horrible mario games like Hotel Mario and Mario Teaches Typing. I'm going to play through all of them, every game Mario appears in. I'm sure something like this has been done before; TheMexicanRunner does NESMania for example, but I'm not really trying to do anything original. I'm just trying to find a fun way to play through all of the amazing games I've missed out on. The only games I'm not including are the ones that I'm unable to get my hands on without paying an insane amount of money, i.e. arcade machines and the Nintendo watch.

Before anyone asks, no, this does not mean I'm quitting speedrunning. Speedrunning is a passion of mine and a huge part of my life. But with my hands the way they are, there's just no possible way I can run SMS forever, and this will give me an opportunity to branch out a bit and hopefully find a way to continue streaming. Currently my hands usually start hurting after about 4 hours of SMS attempts. So for the majority of Summer, I intend to do SMS speedruns for as long as my hands feel good and then switch over to this "Super Mario 131!"

I have created a Google doc for people to track my progress, and I'm sure I will come up with many improvements to the way viewers can keep up with the course of this. I don't know how long this will take but I am excited to play all of these games!

Link to the doc can be found here: http://121.bounceyboy.com

Hope to see you there!
Bboy

tl;dr
Playing every Mario game available to me casually. Not quitting speedrunning, this is a way to stream more without killing my hands. Check out the link above! :)