IrishNinja
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it was amazing, for sure! but truth be told, i recall Mario 64 blowing my mind way more, it was such a huge (and awesome) jump at the time. still waiting for something to impress me like that did.
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So uh, Mario World must've blown's everybody's mind huh?
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MrCunningham
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Yeah, Super Mario 64 was mind blowing for me too. I remember playing it at a Future Shop Kiosk a few days after it was released in North America. Everything about it felt so new and different... even the controller seemed alien at first, I would look at the three pronged N64 pad and wonder how I was suppose to grasp it with my hands.
Doctor_Thomas
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Super Mario World is the closest a game ever came to being perfect.
Theognosis
Member
This.
entremet
Member
That's right. Don't know about the phoning in part. SMB3 was a huge act to follow, though. And any of the main tropes were set there, similar to Ocarina of time and subsequent Zelda games.
Game blew my mind when I was eleven, man.
Probably the most "holy shit" moment that lives with me to this day is that first time you fight Bowser in the Clown Car and get those first two hits. The sound effect, the lighting (and the lightning!
), everything when he zooms at the screen... I was like "this is crazy... nothing is ever beating this."
...ah to be an eleven-year-old kid again.
Same here, but its one of those comparisons I feel bad about making because they're both such good freaking games!
I have the same problem with Chrono Trigger and FF6 comparisons, I can never decide which is better. T^T
Probably the most "holy shit" moment that lives with me to this day is that first time you fight Bowser in the Clown Car and get those first two hits. The sound effect, the lighting (and the lightning!
), everything when he zooms at the screen... I was like "this is crazy... nothing is ever beating this."...ah to be an eleven-year-old kid again.
Same here, but its one of those comparisons I feel bad about making because they're both such good freaking games!
I have the same problem with Chrono Trigger and FF6 comparisons, I can never decide which is better. T^T
Yep, I remember it being exactly this.
Xane
Member
This. I still play this annually.
KyanMehwulfe
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Super Mario 3 also had The Wizard releasing a few months before hyping up every kid in elementary school young enough to be mesmerized by 80s training montages and a dinosaur park scene lol
Joeys_Rattata
Neo Member
I was born about 8 months after SMW came out, so by the time I played it for the first time, I had already played 64. Despite that, I still loved World.
HOWEVER, I think Super Mario Bros. 3 had a bigger impact on me, especially once I realized what most NES games were like. 3 just seemed (and still kind of does) on a completely different level than every other NES game.
Super Metroid is the real mind blowing SNES game though. Just played it for the first time early last year and I was in awe.
HOWEVER, I think Super Mario Bros. 3 had a bigger impact on me, especially once I realized what most NES games were like. 3 just seemed (and still kind of does) on a completely different level than every other NES game.
Super Metroid is the real mind blowing SNES game though. Just played it for the first time early last year and I was in awe.
DXB-KNIGHT
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Mario 3 for me
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Seeing Super Mario World on an import Super Famicom in the mall in 1990 was my first "HOLY SHIT NEXT GEN" moment, the kind of which just doesn't happen anymore.
Can you imagine seeing that thing as a Mario fan, without notice, because it was before the internet and before I got into Nintendo Power even?
I finally played it a year later, and took it home 2 years later... and the reality of it was amazing.
Thanks for making this thread, OP, because in the decades since, SMW has been kind of calcified into a very, very known quantity. It's "just classic Mario". But there was a time when it was "Next Gen Mario". I mean I love Mario 64, but even I think SMW was somehow a bigger leap in its day, because we just didn't see game series leap generations at the time. Seeing something known... and re-emerge as Super Shiny and Futuristic?? It blew my mind 24 years ago, and it might be why I'm posting here today.
(It also took me about 23 years to finally get the correct 16-bit Nintendo console... the Japanese Super Famicom. Honestly gentlemen, we got robbed by the US SNES design. Seeing the multi-colored buttoned machine in my living room sets off something pavlovian in me... )
Can you imagine seeing that thing as a Mario fan, without notice, because it was before the internet and before I got into Nintendo Power even?
I finally played it a year later, and took it home 2 years later... and the reality of it was amazing.
Thanks for making this thread, OP, because in the decades since, SMW has been kind of calcified into a very, very known quantity. It's "just classic Mario". But there was a time when it was "Next Gen Mario". I mean I love Mario 64, but even I think SMW was somehow a bigger leap in its day, because we just didn't see game series leap generations at the time. Seeing something known... and re-emerge as Super Shiny and Futuristic?? It blew my mind 24 years ago, and it might be why I'm posting here today.
(It also took me about 23 years to finally get the correct 16-bit Nintendo console... the Japanese Super Famicom. Honestly gentlemen, we got robbed by the US SNES design. Seeing the multi-colored buttoned machine in my living room sets off something pavlovian in me... )
Mario 3 was amazing and also mind blowing. While I feel that SMW was more fun and a better game overall, it was just more of an expansion of what made SMB3 amazing.
SMB1 blew minds, SMB3 blew minds, SM64 blew minds, Yoshi's Island
SMG1+2 were probably the last mind blowing Mario games.
While a great game, unless you never played SMB3 until All Stars, the game wasn't even slightly mind blowing.
SMB1 blew minds, SMB3 blew minds, SM64 blew minds, Yoshi's Island
was great wasn't it?
While a great game, unless you never played SMB3 until All Stars, the game wasn't even slightly mind blowing.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
So not true. It tells me you came to it late or something. It was the shiniest thing ~1990-1991.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Everyone I knew who was gaming in 1991-1992 wanted or was getting a Genesis. The 4th iteration of Super Mario (6th game in 5 years if we're counting both Mario 2s + SML) was old hat at that point. I'm not even really speaking to the quality of the game, but just to what was hot at the time.
Most of the friends I made who owned an SNES were slightly younger people who never had an NES.
entremet
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Yep. Genesis was the hotness at that time. It was gaining momentum and had a really nice library.
The SNES didn't win me back until Super Metroid. That game was a revelation for me.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
There could definitely be a generational gap to it. Mario World was the next hottest thing on the playground after Vanilla Ice's Ninja Rap.
I can relate to that because years later Nintendo 64 was the kids' favorite, and now those games are a certain generations' childhood darlings... but everyone I knew as a teen and up then was all about Playstation.
Or like... Pokemon. Everyone under 25 thinks the late 90s was all about Pokemon. But anyone ~30+ thinks it was about the Wu-tang clan, FF7 and weed.... or whatever
Beren the Empty-Handed
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It's definitely great.
But SMB3 will always be my mind-blowing Mario game.
But SMB3 will always be my mind-blowing Mario game.
Zombie Lyle
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One of my all time favourite games. Recently bought it again for about the 5th time off the Wii U eshop.
Megalosaro
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But anyone ~30+ thinks it was about the Wu-tang clan, FF7 and weed.... or whatever
I associate the late 90s with both. Then again, I am 27. Between both ranges
Shin Kojima
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I experienced it just as you described OP. But my most amazing sequel experience has got to be Super Metroid. I was already a huge Metroid fan, then I saw some Super Metroid screens in a magazine... you won't believe how amazing that looked at the time. And when I finally got to play it.. Best game ever. Still is.
edit: I was about 16 at the time.
edit: I was about 16 at the time.
Here For The Free Feed
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i loved mario 3 & 64 a lot but it was super mario world that blew my mind the most so yep, agreed.
Absolute nonsense. A friend got the Super Famicom when it came out, and the VHS tape he made of himself playing SMW got passed around my school for months like it was community porn or something.
Android18a
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I must admit I found SMW kind of underwhelming in my youth actually. Mario 3 was one of the biggest games of my childhood, but after the NES I initially got a Megadrive, and had my senses blown away by Sonic and Sonic 2. In comparison, I thought SMW looked really tame. The graphics were really basic compared to the Sonic titles, and it was slow and didn't seem like much of an evolution of the NES games.
I can still appreciate the quality of the game, but it never blew me away the way Sonic did.
For reference, I'm 31 and a UK gamer And for me the 90s was all about RPGs, Warhammer and anime. Pretty much the same as now, actually...
I can still appreciate the quality of the game, but it never blew me away the way Sonic did.
For reference, I'm 31 and a UK gamer
And for me the 90s was all about RPGs, Warhammer and anime. Pretty much the same as now, actually...Captain Chaos
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The Music. THE MUSIC!
It certainly blew my mind, just like OP said. Funnily enough, as a kid I was most impressed by the Vanilla dome, and the fact that you could do levels inside or outside of it, and that the levels inside of it were clearly cave levels in the dome itself. That was when the world became 'real' to me, and I gained a sense of time and place to it that made the whole thing more rewarding.
It was one of those special games where every level had something you hadn't seen before. Mario 3 broke tons of new ground, but SMW is the better game by far.
It was one of those special games where every level had something you hadn't seen before. Mario 3 broke tons of new ground, but SMW is the better game by far.
The SNES was my first console, so I'm not sure if it blew my mind at all as it was kind of the standard I was introduced to for console games.
Mario 64, on the other hand.... oh man. I remember going into my local game rental shop (remember those?) and they had the Japanese version of the console and Mario 64 a few months before the North American release. It was hooked up to a TV and any people in the store were invited to try it. I swear, as soon as that controller went into my hand, it was magic. That sounds a bit much but it really blew my little 11-year old mind away at the time.
Mario 64, on the other hand.... oh man. I remember going into my local game rental shop (remember those?) and they had the Japanese version of the console and Mario 64 a few months before the North American release. It was hooked up to a TV and any people in the store were invited to try it. I swear, as soon as that controller went into my hand, it was magic. That sounds a bit much but it really blew my little 11-year old mind away at the time.
I just love this game. Back when I was a child, I sold my SNES to try out a SEGA console.. After a week I sold that console again. Not because the games and the console I had were bad, but because I just had to play SMW again.
Later I had to sell my SNES again, because I wanted an N64, but shortly after I bought a GameCube and had a little more money, I bought an SNES again, so I could enjoy this game some more.
At the moment I have bought it on the Wii, Wii U and have an old TV hooked up where I play it on the SNES every once in a while.
This is one of the very few true all time classics for me. 16bit + gameplay + rock-solid mechanics and they managed to make the already perfect design from SMB3 even better.
Later I had to sell my SNES again, because I wanted an N64, but shortly after I bought a GameCube and had a little more money, I bought an SNES again, so I could enjoy this game some more.
At the moment I have bought it on the Wii, Wii U and have an old TV hooked up where I play it on the SNES every once in a while.
This is one of the very few true all time classics for me. 16bit + gameplay + rock-solid mechanics and they managed to make the already perfect design from SMB3 even better.
Glass Rebel
Member
I always felt that SMW and 64 were a bit middling. Impressive on a technical level at the time but somewhat boring. SMB3 and the Galaxy games respectively are superior in most ways. SMW never really "blew" my mind, 64 certainly did though.
Paracelsus
Member
Most replayable of the older Mario games for sure. Maybe the easiest, also.
Yes, that is basically what it felt like as a kid. I remember I was in a Toys'R'Us when I first got a chance to play it. And it was just crazy. It looked so bright and colourful and amazing and then my god - YOSHI was the coolest thing of all-time(at the time!).
That was an amazing time to be a kid and I was super lucky to get one for X-mas that same year, even though we didn't have a lot of money.
Chuckpebble
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I distinctly remember sitting in on Halloween and drawing Super Mario World screen shots on graph paper with fine tip markers. I pined for that game for so long.
Moon_frogger
Member
It remains my favorite mario game but it didn't blow my mind like mario 3 or 64. It was just an incredibly solid mario game. Technically still the best platformer ever made IMHO.
Diablohead
Member
My early memories of mario world were from visiting a friend and playing their copy, I never owned a snes myself and back when mario world was new I loved it, gliding with a cape was something I had never seen in a game before outside of sonic 2 master system hand gliders, but that was completely different and they never worked.