What is the best world of Super Mario 3?

i assume that's the double whistle thing? that's like the only game cheat/warp that i discovered on my own as a kid, i thought i was a genius.

this is my favorite mario gameplay video ever made

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPm1oQXosSE

hahaha

"This is fuckin' worse than an R.L. Stein book!"

http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/

i love his accent! what is that accent?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ifS4BhrNmI

Maybe a japanese accent?

unlikely tho

Japanese? Are you deaf?

6 > 1 > 5/4 > 3 > 7 > 8 > 2

his accent:

http://z.about.com/d/animatedtv/1/7/y/Q/athfcarl.jpg

i just saw a dude playing super mario 1 on his laptop at work!

My brother just beat NES TMNT and my whole family is hugely in awe of him (he is 22).

uh

haha
that game was hard!!

It wouldn't be that hard except for that fucking water level.

like I would always lose a turtle or too

BAD WATER LEVEL aka the RAPHAEL KILLER

WATER LEVEL is pain.

also the bombs?

I was mainly impressed bcz when I was like seven and he was five, I would watch him play that game, and every time he made a mistake, he would yell that I distracted him and throw the controller really hard at me. So it is a game whose difficulty I associate with personal collateral damage.

i don't know, i didn't even really fuck with that game, i would just play through tmnt: the arcade game over and over.

it'd be hard enough without the bombs

you can turn your hand palm-down and use a couple of fingers?

OMG Thanks Jordan, yr modest tip allowed me to BEAT 6-5!!!

(I then lost all my lives on 6-6, but my glory shall live on forever!)

This is dope imo:

awesome

All the stuff coming out lately with the Lua scripting has been incredibly bizarre - see also Mega Man 2 with laser eyebeams.

that looks incredibly frustrating. the mega man one is amazing.

the rainbow thing is awesome. Anyone played the Kirby game that's the other half of the mashup? Great stuff, until you get to collecting the last few things. I don't think I ever finished it, frustrating piece of shit...

My brother just beat NES TMNT and my whole family is hugely in awe of him (he is 22).

I do not believe this. While I probably last played this game when I was 5 or 6, I'm fairly sure it's impossible.

Only two votes for world 8? No one likes a challenge, eh? (Although it wouldn't have been my vote either, and I admit that I always ended up using the P-Wing on one of the levels. I forget which one.) The Desert world deserves to be recognised if only for the level where yr being chased by the sun. Thrills and spills aplenty.

as for New Super Mario Brothers, while it's no Super Mario 3, I got completely obsessed with it for two days. I must have played it for about 20 hours in that period. And then I was done. :(

Ha I beat NES TMNT back in the day (''88? '89?)! It took me 2 months of nonstop playing, but I did it. (Also, since the game was rented, it cost me $200 in late fines. Oops.)

I'm pretty certain i beat TMNT in jr. high; xp.

no way. All I remember is alternating between dying every minute and getting lost.

world 8 had all kinds of tricks...you could swim under the boats for the whole gunboat level, you could get lucky and skip over the stages that the giant hand drags you into, etc.

i think super mario bros 3 is the best video game of all time... as for favorite world, i'd go with giant world or cloud world for sure. ice world is fun, but the hammer suit is definitely less useful than the tanooki suit. playing the game with the game genie code where you start every level with the tanooki suit is pretty fun.

my cousin was able to beat tmnt, but i never could. there's a corridor you walk through before you get to shredder that is nearly impossible to get past without dying, although shredder is pretty easy to beat if you know what weapon to use.

All of yr first paragraph basically OTM, except I don't know if I would say it is my #1. Top five for sure, though.

I remember getting to Krang once when I was younger.
I bet Battletoads is harder than TMNT. Ive never heard of anyone beating it outside of emulators. (but apparently there is a cheat for unlimited lives)

Hmm... I'll give TMNT the edge on that one, mostly because Battletoads at least had secret warps so you could skip stages. Both had really brutal unforgiving platforming, though.

In college I tried to beat Battletoads and I was aware of every warp location. The farthest you can warp to is level 8 (from level 6). Then you have to beat five levels in a row. One of them is a water level very much like TMNT water level (hard as crap)

man there are so many situations there that would result in an inevitable, unsighted death on the first time of playing.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/Yiyiposter.jpg

it's so soothing to watch a well-played platform game.

i remember playing battletoads at a friend's house but i think we never got past a level where you're on like jetcycles and have to avoid all kinds of obstacles

watching some of those levels i can't imagine how it would work with the 2p co-op

The funny thing is I think there's a glitched level in Battletoads that wasn't even tested for 2-player, and is literally impassable - 2P speedruns have them forced to kill off one partner and complete that level solo.

http://www.giantbomb.com/super-mario-bros-3/3030-10299/forums/super-mario-bros-3-was-a-stage-play-my-mind-is-blo-463610

I've played this game a kazillion times, but somehow I never figured this out. Obviously I noticed the various elements (the rising curtain, the 2-dimensional "hills", levels ending with going beyond the "stage", etc), but they never clicked together.

Miyamoto confirms this theory here.

Sorry, here's the link to the Miyamoto video:

https://twitter.com/NintendoUK/status/641929274719608832

that's kind of a weirdly phrased question though

Well yeah, but once you look at it all through this theory, it's kinda impossible to think it wasn't intentional. There's even the famous cheat in the first(?) level where you have to crouch long enough on top of the white pillar, and then you get to run behind the theatre set to a warp point.

Also, it explains how Mario can "transform" into a raccoon and tanuki while he's quite obviously wearing a mere costume.

I (subconsciously) knew it all along

whoa, wait a second

what if ALL 2D platformers are secretly stage plays? think about it...they all have 2D set-like objects....they all have "stages"