Hey everybody do the Mario again
Written: Jul 24 '02 (Updated Jul 24 '02)
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Pros: pure classic entertainment
Cons: it's primitve compared to todays games
The Bottom Line: CLASSIC
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| tommy_lop's Full Review: Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo |
This is probably one of the best games of all time, and I was hooked the first time I played the game at a friend’s house when I was just a wee lad. Since then I have about 4 copies of this game, 2 on the NES (don't ask because even I don't know how I got 2), 1 on the snes, and then the GBC remaking of it. This is of course not a bad thing cause this is probably one of the best Mario games out there.
Story.
The Mushroom kingdom was a peaceful kingdom where the people lived happily. Until Bowser and the Koopa clan attacked and turn the citizens to stone, they also kidnapped Princess Toadstool the only person capable of turning them all back. The mushroom kingdom problems reached the ears of two humble brothers called the Mario Bros and they went out to rescue the princess and bring order back to the mushroom kingdom.
Graphics.
Well if you played the most recent version of this on the GBC then you will probably know what this looks like, with a few minor variations. The graphics are blocky and Mario skips along with a very small frame rate. The backgrounds aren't exactly great either compared to later NES games. You get a nice blue backgrounds with trees, clouds, mountains, and fences. While these may look primitive today you have to considered that coming from the Atari 2600 the NES graphics gave out just about has much eye candy has the more modern PS2 and Gamecube.
Sound.
This is where the Super Mario Bros theme song came from, since then it has been in every Mario Bros game and cartoon show. And it's a pretty catchy tune to and it's still worth hearing even in it's raw nothing but beeps version that the NES provides. Of course there are the classic sounds effects from the cling of the coins to the boings of Mario jumps all of this is classic.
Gameplay.
The gameplay is pretty simple to understand if you haven't played this or the hunderedsof remakes it goes simply has this, run from one side of the world to the next, hit the flag at the end of the world to complete. Every 4th world is a castle in which you will have to fight Bowser in order to free a Toad, in the last one of course the princess is in. To complete these you have to run under Bowser and hit a switch. These are the basics so I hope your not to confused yet because there's still the power up's section.
In some of the ? boxes that you come across contain Mushrooms that make you big, and once your big they will contain flowers that let you shoot fireballs. There are also stars that make you invincible for a short period of time. There that's basically it for the power up's no frog suit, cape, or green dinosaur on this one. So has simple has it is how's the challenge.
The answer is it's actually pretty challenging despite having primitive AI. Sure it starts easy enough to beat it in your sleep but my stage 4 the challenge goes up and by stage 8 it's pretty challenging. Of course you can make it a lot easier by finding warp zones that let you skip stages a person who uses these can beat the game in under 10 minutes.
Of course you still have to get past the dreaded world 8. World 8-1 took me years to beat believe it or not. A huge stage, very little time, a lot of holes and enemies and not a single power up in the entire stage. World 8-3 picks things up with the annoying hammer brothers who just stand there and pitch hammers at you and basically the only way to get past them without getting it is throwing a fire ball at them. These stages took me a long time to get thorough, of course that was back when I was 9 so it was a time ago, now days I can beat the game practically with my eyes shut.
What's one thing the NES has that the others don't
All right there's been a remake on this for basically every Nintendo system, each with graphics updates and unlockables. However there is one thing that Nintendo has taken out of these and that's the minus world. A bug in the game, made it to where you were dumped into water world which would keep recycling over and over again until you ran out of time and lives. There's nothing much accomplished by going here.
To get it all you have to do is go to the end of 1-2 stand on top of the pipe that would take you to the surface and the end of stage flag and punch a block. Jump and duck so you can get stuck inside the blocks and dragged to the other side where the warp zone is. Hurry up and enter the pipe that would ordinarily lead to world 4 before the welcome to Warp Zone sign appears. If you accomplish this congratulations you have entered the minus world, the only way out is by resetting.
Final recommendation.
The original SMB is a classic not to be missed and you should have no problem finding it or one of it's remakes at yard sales or on online auctions.
Recommended:
Yes
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