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Posted: Jun 17 2007 07:37 pm

What's your favorite Mario game? I'd have to say my favorite is the lost levels from all-stars. I would have said the Famicom Disk System Mario 2 but I fucking hate the lack of game saves and whatnot. I do however prefer the old-school graphics, and I really wish Nintendo had made a lost levels with the original NES graphics.

For example:

White and green, with the side-standing pose, clearly way fucking cooler. On top of that, the flat, sparse backgrounds of the NES version that are simplistic yet leave nothing to be desired are sorely missed in the SNES incarnation. Fuck all that distracting souped up bullshit.

Anyway. Lost levels / Mario 2 Japan is my fave. It's super rewarding to beat a level, it's easy and fun to pick up and play, and difficult to master. The difficulty scaling is perfect, the level design is really genius when you get down to it, and the gameplay is simplified but complex, timeless, and incredibly fun. It is really the perfect Mario game for me. Hell, it's a LUIGI game for me, fuck Mario.

Other than that, I'd say Mario World is the other fave of mine. Although it loses first place to lost levels due to its easiness (you can fucking fly over the entire game), but unlocking all the secrets is a great summer project when you're bored and haven't played it in a few years.

Posted: Jun 17 2007 07:57 pm

Super Mario World, most definitely. I had the old SNES version, but I've also got the GBA version. It's nifty in the sense that I don't have to spend eight minutes fixing the SNES when I want to play SMW.
Second Favorite is, surprisingly, Super Mario II. Yes, I know it's actually Doki Doki Panic, but it's still damned fun.

Title: Doctor of Science Joined: Jun 11 2007 Posts: 188

Super Mario Bros. 3 is my number 1 I think, it was the first Mario game that you could fly in.... also the hammers bros. suit, tanooki suit and Kuribo's shoe are 1337.

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Posted: Jun 17 2007 08:06 pm

I heard that in some versions of All-stars for SNES, there's a bug where you can merely PRESS SELECT on controller 1 to select from any power or item in the game, including Kuribo's shoe. Yeah, that's right, you could get fucking Kuribo's shoe on any level. I used to replay that ONE goddamn level in world 5 just for 5 glorious minutes of stomping around in that thing in some confined space. It was that great. But imagine the glory of having that thing on any level. That'd probably make Mario 3 my favorite...maybe...

Fuck the haters that dislike Mario 2 for it "not being a real mario game". Guess what, morons? Nintendo stole 99% of their Mario mythology and characters from the goddamn game that they didn't even make, so next time you say it's not a real mario game, remember that you refuse to acknowledge Bob-omb, Birdo, Shyguys, all that shit.

Of course, 99% is an exaggeration. But to say that anything besides a SIGNIFICANT portion of Mario mythos is "borrowed" from Doki Doki is lying to yourself. And that makes you a fart head.

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I'm a big fan of super mario world.

I liked the updated grafickxs in all stars as well. sorry Sad

Posted: Jun 17 2007 09:20 pm

I like Mario's Time Machine. Learning is fun.

Posted: Jun 17 2007 09:36 pm

For awhile in the early 90s I was console-less. At that point in time, I made my mom buy me such craptacular PC titles as Mario Teaches Typing and Mario Is Missing. I was so desperate for a Mario fix, I didn't care they were stupid.

I'd probably say Mario 3 is my favorite, because it had so many fun power-ups. I think the most disappointing part of NSMB was the lack of cool power-ups. Turtle Mario sucked, Mega Mario was essentially a second invincibility star, and Mini Mario was semi-cool. They shoulda given us Raccoon Mario again, dammit.

Posted: Jun 17 2007 09:51 pm

I have a Super Mario 3-e eReader card that lets me have as many Kuribo's shoes as I want on any level. Beating a koopaling by curb stomping them with that thing is fucking awesome.

Posted: Jun 17 2007 10:16 pm

Valdronius wrote:

I like Mario's Time Machine. Learning is fun.

Posted: Jun 17 2007 11:39 pm

Mario Kart on the SNES. I perfer racing over platform gaming anyday.

Posted: Jun 18 2007 12:32 am

SMB3 all the way. That game was insane. I killed entire days playing it.

Posted: Jun 18 2007 12:32 am

Mario Kart is pretty terrible as far as racing games go. Battle mode, however, is fucking awesome, and could stand alone as its own game. The racing mechanics in Mario Kart 64 were a lot better than the SNES one though. On the SNES, you couldn't turn around without hopping 50 times, which was annoying as fuck.

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Joined: Nov 29 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 91

It's SMB3 for me, hands down. SMW is great too, but SMB3 just has more of that "classic" Mario flavor to it. I really like NSMB a lot, and it feels pretty much like "SMB5" to me (if you count SMW as 4), but it really could have used a good flying power-up, something time-limited like the raccoon tail in SMB3 or the bunny ears in SML2, but not game-breaking like the cape in SMW.

By the way Murdar, Doki Doki Panic was technically made by Nintendo too. They didn't really "steal" anything to make the North American/European version of SMB2. I don't think anyone was really trying to dump on that game either, so no need for the huge rant. However, if you really want to stick it to someone who thinks vegetable-throwing Mario 2 is not a "real" Mario game, remind them that it's also a part of the Japanese Famicom game library as Super Mario USA. You can't get more legitimate than that in the eyes of a fanboy, right?

I wish Nintendo had gone with "Super Mario Bros.: For Super Players" as the title for JPN SMB2 in the rest of the world. It's sort of the unofficial subtitle for the game as per the JPN packaging and it was actually used in the SMB1-ified SMB2 JPN levels they put in SMB Deluxe for the GBC. "The Lost Levels" always seemed like a dishonest title to me. They weren't "lost," the rest of the world outside of Japan was simplied denied them for several years.

Posted: Jun 18 2007 03:56 am

eddieh4444 wrote:

Super Mario Bros. 3 is my number 1 I think, it was the first Mario game that you could fly in.... also the hammers bros. suit, tanooki suit and Kuribo's shoe are 1337.

Seconded

Posted: Jun 18 2007 11:06 am

I was actually a fan of the second game when I was younger, and I still am. I only really liked it on the NES, although I'm not quite sure why I didn't care for the All-Stars version.

I always played as Luigi, though, making the game too easy.

Posted: Jun 18 2007 12:47 pm

i always played as toad, because he's so quick. i love trying to fly through mario levels as fast as i can.

i guess my favorite is either 1 or 2. i remember feeling pretty awesome the first time i got to the last world in the first game. same goes for beating 2.

Posted: Jun 18 2007 01:40 pm

Delition wrote:

I was actually a fan of the second game when I was younger, and I still am. I only really liked it on the NES, although I'm not quite sure why I didn't care for the All-Stars version.

I always played as Luigi, though, making the game too easy.

Mario 2 on NES, for sure. The all-stars version is too "nice" looking.

Posted: Jun 18 2007 05:36 pm

Super Mario 3 is probably my favorite too. I enjoyed all of them a lot though.

I actually first played Super Mario 2 (Lost Levels) after reading Syd's article and downloading it (I never had an SNES and never played stuff like Super Mario World/All-Stars until I discovered the magic of computer emulation), and it's a lot of fun too. Probably my second favorite, because there's more levels than the original SMB and it's more challenging.

The American Super Mario 2 is probably my least favorite, but I still love it.

And yeah, the old-school graphics rule.

Posted: Jun 18 2007 05:43 pm

The one thing that pissed me off about SMB3 was that I could never unlock the secret toad house in Level 2.

I mean, it wasn't THAT big of a deal because the prize was that stupid fucking anchor, but it was still frustrating.

Posted: Jun 18 2007 05:59 pm

Mine would probably be SMB3 as well. One reason because its the first Mario game I played and second my first Mario game was all-Stars and I hated the SNES version of the first Mario game

Posted: Jun 18 2007 07:42 pm

Given the options from those two consoles I'd have to say Mario RPG (which I don't think anyone else has said).

Posted: Jun 18 2007 08:00 pm

i was thinking of saying that one too. im not really a big mario fan though. i can never really get up to the second level on any of them. although i remember having some mario game for the gameboy when i was little that i got relatively far in

Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

I've gotta go with Super Mario World. It took all the greatness of SMB3 and kicked it up a few notches.

Honestly, I really like the updated graphics in All-Stars. Not as a replacement, but as an alternate way to play.