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Super Mario Bros 3 Princess Letters – After many years, I finally had a nostalgic playthrough of the one and only Super Mario Bros. 3. Each last stage over the course of approximately three hours. I’m sorry to say, I didn’t come away with any innovative take on this classic among classics. As expected, it was total digital bliss; not just one of the best NES games, best Mario games, and best platformers, but legitimately one of the best video games ever made.

I’m not about to waste tons of column space explaining what SMB3 is or what a massive impact it had on fan culture. After all, it moved 18,000,000 copies, second only to the ubiquitous SMB/Duck Hunt pack cartridge. Anticipation for this was so strong here in North America that we willingly used our 1989 vacation time to pay real money in real movie theaters and suffer through a bland elementary school production of Rain Man , all to see that sweet Mario 3. gameplay footage. The NES craze was a strange and heady ride, and Nintendo’s last word in 8-bit Mario marked its undisputed peak.

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Undoubtedly, a big part of what makes this a blast is its unapologetically more-is-more approach to the exciting platforming, flashy power-ups, and tantalizing secrets that made the first Super Mario Bros. such an important moment in gaming. Thought 32 levels was a lot? Try 90! Do you like throwing flames with the Fire Flower? Wait until you’re charged with flying through the sky with the Super Leaf or annihilating everything in your path with the all-powerful Hammer Suit! Excited to discover Warp Zones and hidden coin caches in the clouds? Well, now you can also hunt down Warp Whistles, Treasure Ships, and White Mushroom Houses, among other things.

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Pure quantity will only get you so far before the law of diminishing returns shows up to bite your ass, though. Herein lies the second pillar of SMB3’s success: constant innovation. The developers never stop throwing new ideas at you, and this is in addition to clever twists on established gameplay elements. New enemies are everywhere, while old ones have been given variants (like the Paragoombas, who flit around raining their pesky Micro-Goomba spawns on Mario) or behave in surprising new ways (the beetles and spiny they can now launch surprise attacks from rooftops). Each of the eight worlds has consistent themes that inform the nature of the challenges that await Mario there. You’ll encounter quicksand, sandstorms, and the occasional literal killer sun in the desert world, for example. Given the harsh limitations of both the NES itself and the memory chips at the heart of 80s game cartridges, it’s hardly surprising that a journey of this length would ever manage to fall victim to repetition. If anything, it sometimes seems downright extravagant. Take the strange case of the Goomba Shoe Power Up, a strange boot vehicle that Mario can order from certain Goombas. Appears in a single solitary stage.

One aspect of SMB3 that stood out to me this time around was the bold nature of its auto-scrolling segments. Similar to underwater areas, auto-scrolls are a controversial and often maligned subset of platformer level design. Here, though, I love them. I’d even go so far as to say I’ve never seen autoscroll better. The airships that house Bowser’s seven Koopaling sub-bosses are the most famous example. The ominous music, flashing lightning, and unpredictable drifting motion of the ships themselves do a spectacular job of building tension and selling the player on the concept of a massive aerial war machine. This dynamic comes to a head in the final world, where Mario takes on the entire Koopa army, navy, and air force alone! It’s at this climactic moment that the “Super” part of the series title arguably comes out for the first time. If that doesn’t count as a superhero, what does?

Okay, let’s imagine for a moment that any criticism of Super Mario Bros. 3 could be somehow relevant almost 35 years later. I know, I know. Humor me, I guess. The only real missed opportunity with the original Famicom and NES iterations is the lack of a battery saver to record player progress. This is a pretty long game by system standards, doubly so if you haven’t mastered it. A battery was certainly an option, as evidenced by the international release of The Legend of Zelda in 1987. For whatever reason, probably to keep costs down per unit, Nintendo opted for it. You can use all three Warp Whistles to jump into any game world relatively quickly, as long as you can find them all, but that doesn’t allow you to keep your stock of extra lives and power-ups between sessions. Fortunately, the official remake included in the 1993 Super Mario All-Stars compilation includes the proper save and is a good choice for those who, unlike me, do not have a strong sentimental preference for the graphics and sound of the NES version.

Obviously, I’ll end up recommending you play Super Mario Bros. 3. Not my personal favorite NES game, not when Castlevania III, Zelda, and The Guardian Legend are among the contenders, but I totally understand why. the inexorable voice of history has spoken The Greatest NES Game. Its scope, creativity and verve were unmatched at the time. Shit, they’ve gotten together precious few times since then! Bye.

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Thanks to Stephen Grillo, who suggested this week’s game, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3. I usually try to cover a series in chronological order, but what fun is it to turn down a reader request? Also, it’s not like Wario Land has that much in common with the two Mario Land titles that came before it. Instead, this 1994 platformer serves as the first starring role for Mario’s rude and greedy arch-rival Wario. After his failed attempt to occupy Mario’s castle in 1992’s Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Wario has decided to build his own. With blackjack and prostitutes, I guess. Being a lazy stalker at heart, he’s not about to devote an honest day’s work to his new studies. He settles on the kitchen island, home to Captain Syrup and his Brown Sugar Gang, a group of pirates known for making off with a number of priceless treasures. May the best thief win!

However, there is much more than a lack of morals that separates Wario from his pure role. Wario Land represents a fresh take on platforming that nevertheless feels right at home in the larger Super Mario environment. Wario is considerably larger and less agile than Mario, better suited to brute force than fancy footwork. Its pokey motion is really an asset when you’re stuck watching the action on an original Game Boy’s fuzzy LCD screen. And while Mario defaults to precision headbutts and fireballs that dispatch his foes quickly and cleanly, wild Wario favors a shoulder charge that would make an NFL lineman proud. That, or throw stunned opponents as improvised projectiles.

Temporary power-ups obtained from blocks will transform Wario into three alternate forms. While it looks a lot like classic Mario items like the Fire Flower and Cloak Feather, they each have their own twists and don’t exactly match anything seen before. Bull Wario, for example, gains a versatile horned helmet that improves his shoulder charge, adds ground-pounding movement that stuns all standard on-screen enemies, and allows him to latch onto ceilings. As expected, getting hit while powering up will cause the current item to be lost and demoted to a smaller form until a replacement is found. Get hit again when it’s small and you’ll lose a life.

Everything else, from the level design to the way checkpoints are implemented (you have to pay a toll from your precious coin stash to activate them), reflects Wario’s unique nature as a ball waste of a protagonist. Secrets exist mostly in the form of locked treasure rooms that require keys to open. Sometimes it’s the room itself that’s hiding. Sometimes it’s the key. Occasionally, it’s both. Although technically optional, this element of exploration is still paramount, as the bigger your budget at the end of the journey, the more elegant your ending. Wario could end up ruling a small house, a stately palace, or even his own planet. It all depends on how thorough you are in finding that loot. It made me see something that might not otherwise seem so different from Super Mario World’s hidden stage exits in a whole new light.

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Interestingly, the scope of this character-driven game design extends to rewarding the player for making Wario dispatch his victims in a particularly cruel and violent way. A villain who drops a token coin when defeated with a normal shoulder charge will produce ten if stunned first.