Warp whistle madness

Well I have been playing heaps of Super Mario 3 on original nintendo lately. Its become quite disconscerning. Not the amount that I play but how much better I am now than when I was a kid. I use to be horrible at those linear game play games. I would constantly fall down through the sky or into the lava, I had hand eye co-ordination galor in real life sports but my gaming skills seemed to be void of these powers. But now, now I am pretty damn good at these games. I can kill King Kupa easily and all but the level 8 ships are easily enough beat without a p-wing. Does anybody remember how to activate the statue-teddy bear mario. I still forget. I mostly just nab the two level one warp whistles and good around in the later levels trying to find new things but really arent kids supposed to be better at these games or is it just a reflection on how much time I am alloting to gaming?

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