Hey guys! How were your weekends? Mine was good. Actually, it was pretty quiet. Today I'm finally going to be talking about Super Mario Bros. 3, the final Mario game released for the NES back in 1988 in Japan, 1990 in North America, and 1991 in Europe. So let's get right into it.
After the interesting way they went with Super Mario Bros. 2 Nintendo decided to go with a more traditional Mario game for Super Mario Bros. 3. They didn't just make another harder version of Super Mario Bros. like they had with The Lost Levels. Instead they opened up the world alot more and actually had another quest for the majority of the game, instead of just Bowser kidnapping Princess Toadstool. He still did that, but not until the end of the game when you're about to hit the final world. Instead you have to save the seven kingdoms from Bowser's kids (pre-Bowser Jr. of course) because each kid put a spell on each king using an airship to go from place to place.
Like the previous three Mario games that I've talked about, I watched family members play Super Mario Bros. 3 on Super Mario All-Stars for the Super Nintendo when I was a kid. However, this is actually the only other game in the original Super Mario Bros. series that I also got to play on the NES as well, besides the original game. I got to play the original version of Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES one time when I was in the hospital. I think it was sometime in 1996 or 1997 when I was admitted for something. In addition to getting to play Super Mario 64 on the then brand new Nintendo 64 console, I also got to play The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES, AND I also got to play Star Fox on the Super Nintendo as well. I think this is the game that my mom spent the most time on when I was growing up. Super Mario Bros. was a pretty quick game to get through, even if you didn't beat it in one sitting, The Lost Levels was so hard that it was impossible to beat, and Super Mario Bros. 2 almost doesn't feel like a Mario game. Super Mario Bros. 3 had so much more to do in the game. I mean you had eight maps to complete, with numerous levels on each map, plus a fortress, and the castle at the end. So it's a much longer game than the original Super Mario Bros. is.
If I have to be honest, Super Mario Bros. 3 isn't my favourite Mario game for the Super Nintendo. Maybe it's because I didn't play Super Mario Bros. 3 as often as my mom and siblings did, but I actually prefer Super Mario World over Super Mario Bros. 3. However, I have to say I prefer the score for Super Mario Bros. 3 more than the score for Super Mario World. I think it's because there's a wider variety of music for this game than for Super Mario World, both for the individual levels and the overworlds (the maps) and the music also doesn't sound as repetitive.
And while you have way more power-ups in Super Mario Bros. 3, I find Super Mario World to be visually more pleasing. Mainly because there's alot going on on the screen in Super Mario Bros. 3 with the power bar/inventory bar at the bottom of the screen. It's still a really good game, and is one of my favourite games in the Mario franchise, along with Super Mario World and Super Mario 64. I just prefer Super Mario World over it. In other words I just really wanna talk about Super Mario World. Lol.
Alrighty I think that's gonna be it for me for today. I will be back tomorrow for the first installment in my Disney VHS overview/review series that I was supposed to start last week, but didn't because I actually thought I was going to do VHS Reviews instead. But no, there are so many Disney VHS tapes that I want to talk about in more detail than I did in my History of Disney Movies on Home Video overview series that that's what I want to focus on. I'm going in the order in which each tape (and later DVD and Blu-ray) was released in, so tomorrow we'll be going all the way back to 1981 to talk about The Adventures of Chip 'n' Dale. And then on Thursday I'll be reviewing the first episode of Loki which drops on Wednesday. So until then have a great evening and I will talk to you all later. Take care.
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