Super Mario Original

[Ursa Koda]

I was walking a long walk with my wife and one of our cats yesterday, in the sunshine, picking wildflowers for her garden;


and we talked a little about videogames, and we both agreed that the original Super Mario brothers game, was actually the perfect game;


it is flawless. Even if they make different new Super Mario's, people still want the original game also.


It is absolute genius. I just wanted to say this about this immortal little piece of computer history.

 

[Vox Novus]

The third one is the most fun to play in my opinion out of the traditional style of games.

 

[Canini]

I agree with SMB3 being more fun and "better" than the original. My reasoning for this is that the third game also adds strategic aspect (order to tackle levels, when to use power-ups etc) that the first game lacks.

 

[rue669]

Super Mario Brothers 3 was fantastic! I loved the map system in it. 

 

[XxXhelazz]

super mario 3 was the game I enjoyed the mist from the nes games. It's near perfection and is one of the funniest mario you can play

 

[Canini]

To me it is very interesting that people prefer SMB 3, and not a single person has mentioned Super Mario World (which is often seen as even more polished). To me this proves the necessity of a varied environment, since most of SMW takes place in a single area (with mostly the same music over and over).

 

[Ursa Koda]

The original Prince of Persia was cool ^^


First pc-game i ever played!

 

[Astel]

I feel that SMB3 was the ultimate SMB experience. Super Mario World may be more polished but it lacks imagination, where are the different suits? Enviroments? Power ups like the shoe? Never liked Super Mario World to be honest.


Now, the original one deserves it's place in the story of video games, but it aged badly.

 

[TheTsunaru]

To me it is very interesting that people prefer SMB 3, and not a single person has mentioned Super Mario World (which is often seen as even more polished).

I would probably pick SMW as a better game over SMB3 (even though both are excellent), but I think most people didn't think to delve into the SNES when the topic at hand was a game on the NES.


SMB is definitely one of those games that has surpassed the test of time though. I doubt there'll ever be a time where its not considered a good game.

 

[Corfaisus]

You can walk your cat? How'd you teach it to do that?


Anyway, while you may feel fondly about Super Mario Bros 1, I'm going to have to side with most others in this topic and throw my hat in the ring for Super Mario Bros 3. It's a bit like comparing Megaman 1 to Megaman 2, or Castlevania 1 to Castlevania 3, in that they took what worked from the original, expanded on it, and knocked it out of the park with the new guy.


People have reverse engineered what made Super Mario Bros 1 a brilliant game in its own right, and even Shigeru Miyamoto expounding on the matter explains what exactly they were going for with each step along the way, but Super Mario Bros 3 just had so much more game.

 

[Ursa Koda]

You can walk your cat? How'd you teach it to do that?

Well, our cats are very strange. They follow us when we go for walks,  and when we go out with the boat for a little fishing, they sit on the docks waiting until we come back, even if it takes an hour or two. Very loyal! I find that fishing is very good for my work with rpg maker, because me and my wife is talking alot about game and graphics and ideas and stuff.


The relaxed atmos away from the screen makes good ideas!


About Super Mario, I wouldn't say the game has aged, I would state that our demands have increased

 

[XIIIthHarbinger]

Perhaps it's simply an age thing, but I think the original Super Mario Brothers will always be something special.


Honestly when the original came out is was such a unique experience, much like the original Zelda, for those of us who had really only seen Atari games & arcade games like Pacman & the original Donkey Kong previously; games like those were simply amazing in a way that is hard to explain.


Personally I love seeing how much the medium has evolved over the decades, but in the last twenty years the improvements made, have largely been just that, improvements on things that have already been created. While the first iterations of games like Metroid, Zelda, & Super Mario Brothers created genres that really hadn't existed previously.


Now some improvements can become genre defining, for example fighting games existed prior to Street Fighter 2; but even people like me have a hard time remembering what they were, because they were all eclipsed by Street Fighter 2 to such an extent, that Street Fighter 2 defined what the genre was, & what all other games in the genre were compared to for years.     


Super Mario Brothers 3 was certainly one of my favorites on the NES, but it was hardly genre creating or genre defining. It was simply taking a formula that already worked & refining it to create one of the most popular entries in a multi decade spanning series. No small achievement by any means, but not inventing the wheel either.  

 

[Phil32]

Even though I was born in 1986 and was born and raised on the NES, I've never beaten Super Mario Bros. :X


Keep getting to 8-3 and those blasted Hammer Bros. always take me down. Though I haven't tried a legitimate run in years. 


My favorite 2D Marios are Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros. 3, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

 

[Karlski]

I love the sprite sheet.. Every mario sprite fits on a single sheet