Jdog535 on 08 April 2016
| Shadow1980 said: Super Mario Bros. 3. It's the perfect platformer. It took everything about the original SMB, itself a revolutionary and amazing game, and made it better. The expanded roster of enemies and selection of power-ups, new types of blocks that changed how the game played, and advancements in level design, combined with precise controls and impeccable art design that made the best of the NES's limitations and offered a bright, colorful new Mushroom Kingdom filled with myriad environments from desert to snow and everything in between. Honestly, the only thing bad about the game in retrospect is that you can't revisit levels you've already completed without restarting the game. When that's the only drawback to a game, you know you have yourself a masterpiece. I can honestly say that no other game has brought me such fun and enjoyment as SMB3. SMB3 to this day is to me the pinnacle of both its franchise and its genre, and while future 2D Mario games were amazing themselves, none of them was quite as good as SMB3. It was also the first game to have a truly massive amount of hype behind it. It had a huge ad campaign, tons of coverage in Nintendo Power, and was even revealed to Western audiences for the first time in the climax of the movie/100-minute-long Nintendo commercial The Wizard. Having sold over 17 million copies, it was by far the best-selling console game ever not originally bundled with a system, and it would hold that record for over a decade later until it was finally dethroned by GTA: Vice City. It set a new bar for blockbuster status in video gaming. And that's why it's the greatest game of all time to me. |
I remember the good old days of playing SMB3 with my friends in their basements, just drinking juiceboxes. I still do that nowadays. I love the game so much.
