Super Mario 3

MonkeyDLuffy · Post by **MonkeyDLuffy** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:54 pm

looks cute. comes out teusday. i wanna be a squirel O.O who else wants this so badly they would....kill their bio teacher for it? I WOULD! *goes after teacher, stealth mode, kinda like what excel did in the first episode trying to kill Rikdo (creator of the show) wiht all the sound effects but no pause of sympothy cuz my bio teacher MUST DIE!* wow that was a really long action.

Tempest · Post by **Tempest** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 11:00 pm

o.o They re-released it, or is this a remake?

MonkeyDLuffy · Post by **MonkeyDLuffy** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 11:07 pm

its for GBA, i beleive its a remake of it.

shansen · Post by **shansen** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:37 am

I just read about it on IGN ... http://pocket.ign.com/articles/454/454824p1.html is the article.

Before reading that, I assumed it was just a straight port of Super Mario Bros. 3. However, it can use the e-Reader peripheral (with another GB Advance + link cable) to upload other stuff, including new levels that feature different power-ups (the cape from Super Mario World, and apparently even a boomerang like the Boomerang Bros. use).

It sounds pretty interesting ... considering it's dealing with probably the most popular non-RPG game for the NES, and one of the most popular games of all time for any system, period.

Luchia Nanami · Post by **Luchia Nanami** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 7:35 am

This is the best selling game of all time afaik. Most popular non-RPG NES game? No..it was THE most popular NES game!

I want it....and will get it. But for Christmas

Waiting is the price of getting it for free

In the meantime I'll be collecting them cards.

Plus I really don't agree with supporting the Mario Advance series. Quite frankly it's a ripoff as they could have just released Mario All-Stars from the beginning and then worked on new Mario's all this time.

Jumbled Thoughts · Post by **MarioKnight** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:50 am

More like the most popular game of all time, I believe it still holds the record for the most copies of a game sold. The number it sold escapes me right now, I'll look it up later and post it here though.

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:45 am

I'll beat you to it, Dan :P

SMB3 holds the world record with 15 million copies sold world-wide. SMB actually has sold 40 million, but a huge majority of those were bundled with the NES, so it doesn't count.

Lucied · Post by **Lucied** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:22 pm

I could have sworn that GTA Vice City topped 15 million...

Tempest · Post by **Tempest** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:48 pm

I *love* SMB 3. I used to play the nintendo version all the time. Then they Released "SuperMario All-stars" on SNES that contained the original 3 mario brothers. Played that to death too.

Em · Post by Em » Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:20 pm

I'm shocked I've been secrhing for over 10 year's for this game on the NES almost got the copy of mario All Star ( i belive it's called) few year's back but lost my cahnce and they bring it out on the advance. I twas my favoutrite Mario game I nver got to finshes it but my time will come one last thing

BOOYA BABY! * dances*

Post by **Tiff** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:35 pm

I loved SMB3 as well, but SMB2 was always my favorite.

J Anderson · Post by **J Anderson** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:20 pm

There's also the much rarer SMB All-Stars + Super Mario World SNES cartridge. I believe it was a system pack-in late in the system's life.

RyoRei0110 · Post by **RyoRei0110** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 5:17 pm

I love SMB3, simply because I think it was more fun than SMB and SMB2 (I've beaten SMB 100 times and I quit SMB2 after stupidly saving (on emulator) on this one level where I'm completely stuck -_-) and I watched my bro play for years so I've practically memorized all the hidden goodies ^^

yoshmaster5 · Post by **yoshmaster5** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 4:07 pm

I'm putting it on my X-mas list.

Luchia Nanami · Post by **Luchia Nanami** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:47 pm

I got Series 1&2 today of the e-card sets. Very nice stuff!

I beat all 10 of them newfangled levels but not perfectly just yet. They really make this game go beyond just Mario 3.

What more new item cards could they make? New new I mean.. Mario World really didn't have anything new past the Cape. hm..Maybe they could add in FLUDD??

Oooo but hey! They could make a E-Switch that activates Yoshi in all levels!

I eagerly await Series 3&4! For more new levels and stuffs!

Jumbled Thoughts · Post by **MarioKnight** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:24 am

This game is definetly on my xmas list, it was the first game in my life that I got the day it came out (since it was so close to my birthday) and I loved it to no end. I was on the fence initially with this release of the game since earilier this summer I had seen screenshots with two of them being e-reader levels, though I didn't know that at the time so I was against getting it until I found out that they were only special levels and not remakes of original levels. I almost picked it up on Saturday but stopped myself to try to control my funds better this xmas season, I've already planned my me-gifs between now and xmas (DDR Ultramix for Xbox Live, .hack//SIGN DVD5 LE, half a laptop (pay friend other half after xmas), and mabye a couple used games). Now I really can't wait to play this game and relive all those memories from the past.

J Anderson wrote:There's also the much rarer SMB All-Stars + Super Mario World SNES cartridge. I believe it was a system pack-in late in the system's life.

Yep, that it was. Even though I have both games, I'd really like to get my hands on that rare cart.

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:25 pm

The game kicks. It has a lot of old-school, nostalgia-like goodness, and the added effects of the e-Reader cards are too fun not to indulge. Granted, adding some of the weapons might make the game a little cheap/easy, but there's still plenty of challenge factor for someone like me, who always found the NES games so hard to beat ><.

J Anderson · Post by **J Anderson** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 5:20 pm

I just played through SMB Advance(SMB2 + Mario Bros). It looks like they took the graphics from All-Stars for the most part, but they threw in a lot of new stuff. The added speech clips were nice, albeit some were irritating.

I still have no idea why the pink shyguys became blue.

Sailor Sapphire · Post by **Sailor Sapphire** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 9:44 pm

I still have the NES version...my sister and I would fight over who'd get to play as Mario A LOT!

You see, a particular Game Genie code we both liked was one where Mario could re-use items, but Luigi couldn't. So needless to say, whoever was Mario had the advantage.

These fights would sometimes escalate to the point where Mom would tell us to calm down and play, or get kicked off the NES. At that point I usually did one of two things:
A. Admit defeat and play as Luigi
B. Suggest a game we both could agree on (Zelda was usually the game we picked)