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 THIS GAME IS AWSOME! November 21, 2005
John L. Kittrell (GA, USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Super Mario Bros. Is the greatest NES Game! It featured great graphics (for 1985) and outstanding game play. If you don't like Platform (pitfall) styled games, this game is not for you. Super Mario Bros. is an outstanding game, where the Mario Bros. go out and try to save Princess Peach Toadstool, and rescue her and her Mushroom Kingdom. If you have a NES, GET THIS GAME!
EXTRA FEATURE! This version also includes Duck hunt, but you need the zapper gun (not sold on amazon, but is in the NES section of www.atariace.com) But normaly this 2 Game Cart., is cheaper than plain Super Mario Bros. Duck hunt is also a great shooting game ( Non gory and is also family freindly) these together are a great combo!
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Mario and Duck Hunt January 24, 2005
Sarah (USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've had an NES since before I can remember, and I still prefer it over the newer systems. Mario is always a classic, and Duck Hunt is fun for challenging others. Yay Nintendo!
enjoy the best game ever May 27, 2008
B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is where it all began, folks. Many of us who grew up in the 80's remember this game fondly, because back then, we didn't have as big of a gaming selection as we do today. We only had a few games, and Super Mario Bros. was one of them.
You know what though? People seem to think we must have had it rough back then, only having a few games available for the NES in the mid 80's. Not much in the way of variety. But the truth (the HONEST truth) is this- the smaller choices we had, the more we appreciated the few games we had, unlike today where games seem to be designed with the intention of sucking out as much storyline elements as possible and quickly moving on to the next game to find out about the conclusion of said storyline.
Back in the day we didn't play games like that. We'd wait patiently for a new groundbreaking gaming experience to take us by surprise. Oh and trust me- the new innovations back then *were* incredible. Unlike anything we'd seen previously. It seemed like a few new amazing things happened every year. This really helped the replay value shoot through the roof.
Really, do people even care as much about video games today? It's not like new, groundbreaking features are coming along anymore (except for the Wii and that amazing Nintendo controller, but nothing revolutionary concerning the GAMES themselves are being made anymore).
No, back in the mid 80's, small platform games laid the foundation for what was soon to come. Every single year sparked a new innovation. The first Super Mario Bros. was popular, fun, and playable for just about anyone, and THAT is what matters most of all. It mattered back then, and it matters now.
The object is to just blow through the short levels collecting mushrooms and coins, jumping across platforms, and finding the best way to deal with the amazing enemies throughout the levels. That's it. Simple genius I like to call it.
The fact that the game features water and castle levels shows that Nintendo was really onto something huge back then, and they would continue to make one quality Mario game after another while building and expanding on the water and castle levels for future games. Not just Mario games either- how many games these days have water and castle themes? That's right- literally *thousands*.
Sometimes the first is extremely important, and this game is a perfect example of that. Experience brilliance.
Great Anniversary present November 11, 2009
D. Anderson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this game for a great anniversary present...my husband loved it....thank-you for prompt service.....
Perhaps The Only Perfect Video Game Ever Created June 23, 2009
Zachary Koenig (Fergus Falls, MN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After receiving my first Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991, I instantly became hooked on one game in particular: Super Mario Brothers. It's relatively new style of play (side-scrolling) in combination with an original story and the perfect difficulty arc (anyone can beat the beginning levels, but it takes a true pro to complete the game) made it the game that I played over and over again. Whether it was screaming in frustration due to the Hammer Brothers, hearing in disbelief that the Princess "was in another castle", or the sheer joy of beating that next castle, I played the game over and over again. Of course, being such a young child, I was never quite talented enough to complete the complicated jump moves or decipher the complex mazes (towards the end) well enough to actually beat the game. Yet, I still had a heck of a time trying!
Flash forward (LOST-style) 10-12 years later: Having been introduced to the NES at such a young age, I continued by brand loyalty to Nintendo by playing the Super Nintendo, Nintendo '64, Gamecube, and Wii. I had a lot of good times with those machines, but one day I got the urge to fire up the old NES again, for old times sake. Within moments (well, not exactly moments, as it took some blowing on the connectors and jiggling the game up and down) I was instantly transformed back into that excited six year old kid who couldn't wait to come home from school and play Mario. This time around, with a little practice, I was able to conquer even the final Bowser.
While playing the game at that older age, though, I was amazed at the purity of it. It was original (which can't be said about most SNES games), it was straight-forward (not like Donkey Kong '64, for example), it's difficulty arc progresses in a logical fashion (not like GCN, where in many games you have to be a master gamer to step right in), and the game's internal bugs are cute and looked forward too, not annoying and troublesome as is sometimes the case on the Wii.
Thus, taking all those things into consideration, Super Mario Brothers for the NES is, at least in my opinion, perhaps the closest thing to a "perfect video game" as has ever been created. Not only did it practically save the entire gaming industry, but it also gave hours of entertainment to people across the world. To me, only The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (for the '64) can challenge Mario Bros. in terms of overall game quality.
So, if you are a nostalgic video gamer (like myself) who is a bit frazzled by the current obsessions and skill levels, I would highly recommend dusting of the old NES box and popping in Super Mario Brothers (it often comes on the same cartridge as Duck Hunt). After a few moments of dickering, a few tries to re-master the old skill-sets, you will NOT be disappointed.
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