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    magfrump's Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)

    [January 31, 2007 06:39:46 AM]
    Every game designer's dream (at least, one hopes--some games don't show this very well) is for some nerdy college student, 20 years after the game's release, to be so happy about some mundane acheivement that they take a picture of it and brag to their friends.

    Okay, maybe that's a little more specific than "for people to enjoy the game even after it is technically outdated" but I finally set up a nice shot of my inventory being filled by three warp whistles, and I really wish right now that I owned a camera (or some sort of digital screen capture hardware).

    Using the whistles to jump around (and with no need to conserve them with 3 at my disposal) I visited some of my favorite levels from the fifth and sixth worlds (specifically the one with goomba's shoe) before heading on to the eighth world. I'm still annoyed by the darkness and masses of minibosses before you even get to the first few levels, but it sets the mood nicely and slows down play just enough to make racing for a ridiculously fast game-completion time interesting.

    Again, surfing through the hundred or so levels of this game, I'm astounded by the variety of levels they managed to fit, and make easily distinguishible, in an 8-bit platformer. The simple controls, lack of loading time, and wide variety of items and minigames, not to mention nostalgia, all keep me running back to this game when I get fed up with the wii's weird motion sensitivity or stuck on some puzzle in Zelda.

    Overall, Super Mario Bros. 3 is possibly the best game ever made. I say this with deep love for Super Smash Bros, Final Fantasy VII, and the cult classic Pokemon Snap, but in as much objective honesty as I can muster when dealing with these pieces of art which helped shape my life.
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    [January 31, 2007 03:42:57 AM]
    Super Mario Brothers 3 was the first video game I ever played or owned. I vaguely remember getting it, along with a sweet top-loading NES for Christmas one year--and it remains one of my top Christmas gifts of all time.

    It's been a long time since I've played, and I am a bit rusty--I died twice in the first four levels. Fortunately, I have died so many times in the game that it didn't faze me and I drove through the first several worlds with relative ease.

    Even though I've been watching these levels scroll by my entire life, the level of graphics the game has even on the original NES is fairly good by Super Nintendo standards, and the level design is elegant and filled with secrets that I exploit like old friends that I no longer care about. The huge numbers of items (from the mushroom to the music box to the frog suit) give it a lot more variety than the first two mario bros games, and the levels have a great variety (especially between the differently themed worlds)

    For years after I stopped seriously playing the game, I continued to find new secrets, learn new tricks, and overall be surprised by the sheer volume of material and thought that went into this game.
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    magfrump's Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)

    Current Status: Finished playing

    GameLog started on: Wednesday 31 January, 2007

    GameLog closed on: Friday 23 February, 2007

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    magfrump's opinion and rating for this game

    Yeah... this game has been around what, twenty years? I've beaten it. Who hasn't.

    Rating (out of 5):starstarstarstarstar

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