3. Never give up

If there’s a game to teach us to hang on in there, even when victory seems out of reach, it’s Mario Kart.

You might be stuck in last place mere seconds from the end of the race, desperately trying to overtake Wario, then bam! You pick up a Starman or a Bullet Bill and you’re blasting into the lead.

Equally, the iconic Nintendo racer is saying: don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched. Sure, you’re in first place and the finish line is in sight. But you never know when a dreaded Blue Shell is going to zoom over and smash the complacency out of you.

http://tech.uk.msn.com/gaming/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=148423758

Some of these are quite funny.

I like #12. Sounds nice and meaningful =)
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12. Your princess is in another castle

This gaming trope originated in Super Mario Bros, in Mario’s tenacious searching for the kidnapped Princess Toadstool.

We like to think of it as a hopeful metaphor for single gamers looking for love: you might have to stomp a lot of Goombas and search a lot of castles, but in the end you’ll find that special someone. Aw.

That was actually pretty lame when it could have been pretty funny. I was wondering why they took the incredibly safe route on all of those reasons that could have been gold and then I realized I was on MSN.com.

Make your own better version and amuse us with it.