Super Mario Bros. 3 NES Nintendo Review

A proper classic and the perfect way to kick off the Retro Month festivities! :

Don't have any version of this in your collection? Then you truly are missing out on one of the best platformers ever...

Yeah, amazing game. Obscenely hard at points though

For rookie gamers maybe! :tongue: This is how Mario games should be, not like Princess Peach's adventure...That's why I still hold respect for Mario Sunshine, because it was ridiculously taxing at times. Pure gaming goodness! :-D

Oh yeah< I'd rather have a hard game than an easy one. But I've had this game for an absolute age and still haven't completed it. I yearn for the day I do it.

I'm currently playing through the GBA version of it. :-D

Really? Blimey! Where can you get up to? I love the moving ship level...gruesome!

This is a mario game i didn't like, it's kinda hard and I could never be bothered to complete it plus the characters always felt very floaty when jumping around. I like the art and style of the game but I always just thought it was far more annoying than anything else.

Wow, controversial! Are there any others out there that don't like this game as much as C3 does? If so let us know why! :

lol, maby I would have liked it had I played it when it first came out but I already experianced Super Maio World on the SNES at the time.

I love Yoshi's Island - now THAT was a brilliantly designed game that wasn't too easy or hard.

Apparently there's a lot of SMW's style in the NEW Super Mario Bros, which is good to hear.

Yeah i've played Yoshi's island about 4 times on the GBA but thats only because my younger bro kept erasing the save file when I got to about world 5 :roll:

Yoshi's Island is the best of the Mario platformers I think.

There was quite a Super Mario Bros. 3 influence in Mario Kart DS which i thought looked pretty cool.

It was such a shame that Yoshi's Island never received a high class follow-up. Yoshi's Story is very good, but limited in length and replayability and Yoshi's Universal Gravitation / Topsy Turvy was inventive, but clearly not developed by Nintendo (outsourced) and lost its thrill later on.

I can't wait for NEW Super Mario Bros, because Tezuka-san has said he's looked at the original and SMW games for inspiration on how to make a classic gamer-friendly Mario game!

I never played Yoshi's Story all the way through, mainly because it wasn't charming like the original at all. I just couldn't get into it.

I still hold hopes for a Yoshi's Island 2 on DS, using a similar control system to Yoshi's Touch and Go...

Ah, that's the other one...Touch & Go. I always forget about it because it's just a jazzed-up demo, not a full game in my eyes. It has SUCH potential, but was wasted unfortunately. Perhaps, like you say Mike, it's control technique will be re-used...just like Namco's doing with Rousseau the Thief's Pac-Pix gameplay.

I liked it, but there just wasn't enough there. It had the charm I was seeking, but not enough content...

Awesome review, I also loved this game (although it's not my favourite Mario title), haven' played it for a fair while, though.

Retro month is already beginning to wet my retro appetite, time to dig out some golden oldies me thinks! :D

Exactly Mike - a more substantial game based around that format could have been exceptional!

And thanks Karn, my retro palette is also getting moist between this and the Children of Mana preview I'm currently writing (mmm, Mana goodness *drools* ... :read:.

Am I going to have to get you a bib, Adam?

Too late! :eek:

:lol:

glad to see retro month is finally up and about, huzzah!

I really love this game, the music is brilliant and I've always found myself humming it at random points in the day :-D

In the SNES version of this, I think I got to like... world 4... In the GBA version I'm on near to the end of world 2 and it's insanely hard even now...

As for Yoshi's Island, now THAT is a brilliant game. I love it. I remember the joy I felt when I completed it on SNES. Played it non-stop one day :-D don't remember how old I was... I now own it on GBA, but haven't completed it yet. Maybe i'll give it another play through. I hope somebody reviews that during this month *hint hint*

Suffice to say, SMB3 is a legend. I wrote at length on the historical significance of this installment here. Im pretty sure it was Cubed3. You had a topic up on this and we were having lots of comments, then had a crash and lost it all.

This really was an accomplished piece of creative work at the time and I'm sure it was an eye opener for many game designers out there.

by the way, regarding your earlier note on Yoshi Touch & Go. I think it was a bad idea that Nintendo used "Mario & Yoshi combo" for it. It was very misleading in terms of character branding.

Touch & Go was more of an arcade type game, not a platformer. Characters like Donkey Kong would have been a better character to represent its arcadeness and hence avoiding misunderstanding for hapless consumers.

Got it on all stars. Love it to bits.