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Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
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The highest ranking Nintendo game on my list is also in my opinion the best NES game ever made. I have many fond memories of playing Super Mario Bros. 3 as a kid, sitting on the floor in front of the television, finding secrets and discovering new items and places in the stages that felt massive compared to anything I'd seen in other games up to that point. The vast majority of NES games haven't aged all that well, even many of the ones I still love to this day, but of the limited number that do still hold up, Super Mario Bros. 3 is the best.
Even going beyond pure nostalgia that allows me to enjoy some of the other games of my childhood, this is one of the games I never have to make any kind of excuse for still fully enjoying. It's just as brilliant today as it was back then, and although I don't play it very often these days, I do still find myself wanting to go back to it every once in a while. And when I do, I know it's going to be great, even after all these years.
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