Super Mario World turns 25!
 

Until recently, I couldn't care less about this game. I downloaded it a couple months ago and watched some walk throughs and I know it's a great game now! So today is the day!:)

The videogames we grew up with have anniversaries, it's not surprising, it's rather annoying to see all these threads and news articles celebrating anniversaries of games. It's not as interesting when we celebrate Super Mario Bros every 5 years, the first time they made a big deal about it was cool but yeah there's hundreds of games and you see all these anniversary articles/threads for every flippin' videogame. Imagine if they did this for movies or music.

Jesus Christ.

It turns 25 tomorrow, It was released on Nov 21st 1990, I remember playing this game when it first came out, In fact, It was the game that came packed in with the SNES.

Simply the best game ever.

preach!

it is the twentieth...

Agreed.

I meant Nov 21st 1990.

Hmmm. Oops. Well, at least the title will be correct tomorrow!

It was my favorite Mario until 3D Land. I want big into Mario, as a kid, but I appreciate it more, now. I'm terrible at them, but they're fun.

SMW will stand the test of time. I'll be playing that game until my mind deteriorates.

I've beaten this game countless times. I'll love it forever. And as a kid, I use to draw its map and a map of a supposed future sequel/remake all the time :lol:. It's one of those games I'll never get tired of, no matter how much I play it and despite knowing pretty much every level by heart.

Same here.

I played the gba version in the early 00s and I loved it. It's still my favourite Mario game. I haven't played it in years, though.

I've played both the original and the GBA remake. The SNES cartridge had stopped working so we ended up buying SMA2 when ti came out. I believe it offered you the possibility of playing as Luigi, didn't it?

A year or two later, my family bought SMA4 because our SMB3 NES cartridge didn't work anymore either.

Yep, you could play as Luigi as well in the GBA remake. I think I stuck with Mario, though.

I beat some levels as Luigi. But I didn't like using him much. His jumping and running were a bit odd. He had a bad grip but could also stay in the air for longer periods iirc

Mario games are incredibly easy. The only really hard Mario game was of course Mario 1, but that was only because back then you couldn't save and if you lost all your credits you would start back at the very beginning of the game. Mario 1 was brutal because they didn't even give you the option of continuing at the world you lost at, you had to start back at level 1-1. Of course the wrap pipes helped if you just wanted to rush back to where you were up to.

The all-stars version made Mario 1 and Lost Levels a lot easier to complete.

Japanese SMB2 was way harder.

There was a way to start at the world where you lost all of your lives. You just had to know what to do.

Huh. I've beaten every Mario platformer game. I thought smb1 was harder than 2. I mean Japanese smb2, by the way. I had the first three on Nes. Had sma4 on game boy, downloaded smw and of course own all the modern ones.
So, yeah, I've beaten all the main ones. But I agree with cubed that the first one is harder.
Sorry for the long post...

I actually dislike the fact that after you clear the game with 100% completion, the enemy graphics get covered in weird autumn themes that can't be turned off. It's fun to see it happen, but it's not the way I'd prefer to keep replaying levels.