November 20, 2024
Torah Smash! The Podcast for Nerdy Jews
Episode 68 - Super Mitzvot Bros. …with Special Guest Sparkle Peters

The Nintendo video game company has been filling our homes with fun and excitement for many years. Some even say that the best video game of all time was Super Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. Twitch streamer and podcaster, Sparkle Peters, joins us to discuss the innovation around the tutorial levels in video games, save skimming, and sometimes just throwing the instructions out all together. Plus, did you know that you’re remembering Rainbow Road wrong?!

00:02:09 Super Mario Bros, World 1-1
00:05:02 Teaching as you do, especially the act of mitzvot
00:07:58 Learning right from wrong in real time.
00:09:52 Video game tutorial levels… or not.
00:15:46 Enjoyable puzzle games
00:20:17 Getting gaming help
00:24:45 Just doing, not being taught
00:28:21 That’s enough rules, let’s just play the board game
00:30:20 The E.T. Video Game
00:32:04 Experiential educator playgrounds
00:34:49 Does save scumming teach us?
00:37:38 Mario Kart’s mandela effect
00:40:05 Learning little by little

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