Hey Leo is back.

I thought it was hard, but not as hard as any of the Ninja Gaidens on the NES or any of the ones rocketpig listed. Except for Contra, I beat that game without dying once.

It was the first one with the world map, and they fixed that issue on the next Marios. There is no way you had that complaint when it came out.

No I am not back I am his dark ghost..

any way, I have SMB3 on the GBA its not as good as the ds game, also I only post when Im bored and not playing my ps3 or someone is spreading false information *cough.. e..pco.t.. cough*

edit: Banjo kazooie is the best game ever made and is god.

-leoj

You guys don't think it's HARD?

It's seriously one of the hardest games I've ever played. Impossible.

Worlds I cannot beat:

World 3

World 7

World 8

The farthest I can get is about the third level of World 8 with warping.

I've let several other people play it on my GBA and they all agreed it was agonizingly hard.

It's like 40438 billion times harder then SM64, SMW and NSMB, and like a million times harder then SMB.

What? Actually having fun while playing games because they don't make your brain explode, cause your thumbs to fall off, and don't cause mortal harm to your TV, is too easy?

SMB3 is my favourite game of all time at the moment.

From the experience I've had with Mario Galaxy that might be surpassing SMB3 soon... I have to finish it first though.

Coming back many years later over and over again completing every level just because it's fun to play is common between me and my mates.

j/k heh... you just need practice. 

No, it was just a poke at NES games during a time when most developers had two options for difficulty levels:

1. Coma-inducing easy

2. Wrist-slitting hard

If you wanted to play most games, you learned to adapt to one of those modes of difficulty.

I didn't think it was too hard, but I was like 10 when I beat it. Mario64 is my hands down favorite, but Galaxy might take that spot if it lives up to the hype. Sunshine was my least favorite.

1) Are you kidding me?  Too similar?  The game has 8 worlds each with their own unique themes!  You've got deserts, ice worlds, big/small worlds, cloud worlds, pipe worlds, water worlds, dark and dreary worlds, and yes, even plain vanilla worlds.  What other kinds of worlds do you want?  Variety is one of the things that really makes SMB3 shine!

2) Wuss.  :P  OK, to be honest, if you didn't grow up in the 1980s or earlier, yes, SMB3 is going to rape you.  But it's not too hard by any stretch of the imagination, and most importantly, it's "challenging-hard" as opposed to "stupid-hard."  There are no impossible situations or automatic-hit situations, there are just challenging situations.  To ease your pain, there are countless ways to rack up infinite lives, and you can continue if you run out of lives.  In fact, every time you pass a fortress or a "vehicle" level, you can continue from there.

3) You replay the levels by starting a new game.  Seriously, what kind of complaint is this?  There's no reason to go back to an old level because the levels aren't like they were in SM64.  There are no multiple challenges, your challenge is just to reach the end of the level.  And there are something like 100 levels in the game.  This game kept me busy a long, long time the last time I played it, because I went through the whole game without warping.