What can really be said about Super Mario Bros 3 for the Nintendo Entertainment System that hasn’t been said already? This was Nintendo’s unofficial swan song of Mario games for the NES. A game that really showed that the system still had “oomph”. More powerful systems such as the Sega Genesis and NEC TurboGrafx-16 were already on store shelves. Nintendo knew they had to go all out.

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I was also following the game in magazines of the day. I remember the day my best friend called telling me Super Mario Bros 3 was in stock. Back then we didn’t have access to gaming only stores, games were still a sub category of “toys”. One store in particular was great at getting games first, SMB 3 was no different.

Super Mario Bros 3 cost me dearly

Now I had to convince my mother to let me spend my allowance on the game. See, I had been saving up for months, doing extra chores, doing yard work for neighbors, etc. She agreed since I had been a “good boy” lately. This was only the beginning of a day long torture that I was to endure. I was not even allowed to open the box, let alone play the game.

My first memory of this classic was not from that movie, The Wizard (which I just saw about a month ago), was the commercial.

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SMB 3 by Nintendo is a 2D side scrolling, action platforming, game for the NES. It used a special chip in the cartridge to help the NES pull off the extra graphical touches featured. Some of these include parallax scrolling and more detailed graphics than normally possible. Classic Nintendo style meant tons of secrets embedded in the game. Upon release, this was a seminal launch and it left the competition without a serious answer.

Where to get your copy of Super Mario Bros 3

This classic has seen several re-releases such as on the Super Nintendo in Super Mario All Stars and on  the Game Boy Advance with Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3. Nintendo has also made it available on the Wii Virtual Console and you can grab a copy off of eBay.

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