Board 8 > I just beat Super Mario Bros 3 after 25+ years

(+) Yeah! (+)

No flutes or any of that. The only break I gave myself was playing the All-Stars version for the save function.

My God was the second half of world 7 and all of world 8 rough. And the final airship stage was fucking BRUTAL.

If you don't count P-wings and clouds as legit items, I would definitely consider this the hardest of the classic 2D platformers (not counting extra levels).

I am proud of myself.
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Yeah, beating every level in Mario 3 is an accomplishment. Great game.
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Congratulations!

Best 2d Mario, or best 2d Mario?
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Lolo_Guru posted...

Congratulations!

Best 2d Mario, or best 2d Mario?

Onto the SNES games

Once I beat those I plan on doing a definitive ranking of the "classic" 2D platformers (Mario, Sonic, DKC).
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hey, one i've beaten! great game. i also used the save feature. good god i cannot imagine beating all the worlds in one sitting.
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Sounds like somebody never played The Lost Levels
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Don't think I've ever done this but I did beat all the Lost Levels so I'm pretty proud of that
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Only beaten once, via the GBA version more than eight years ago.

However I like the TRG playthrough of the game. Would have to replay it to have much of an opinion on it.
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I got to World 7 and gave up. This game is too damn hard.

Its been a super long time since I beat the game without skipping anything

actually, it was probably when I was a kid and it took several weeks (All stars)

and it was a family thing too, among the siblings
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WazzupGenius00 posted...

Sounds like somebody never played The Lost Levels

And I never will
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Punnyz posted...

actually, it was probably when I was a kid and it took several weeks (All stars)

Yep, this took me a few weeks. Eventually had to settle for a world per night. Had to restart world 8 after dying on the final airship like 25 times.

Oh I also played on 2-player for the extra lives >_>
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Not playing the Game Boy ones?
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SeabassDebeste posted...

hey, one i've beaten! great game. i also used the save feature. good god i cannot imagine beating all the worlds in one sitting.

The secret is to leave the console on overnight <_<
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Jakyl25 posted...

Not playing the Game Boy ones?

Limiting myself to the main console guys for now, lest I get burnt out by platformers. I'm skipping the 8-bit Sonics and Sonic CD for the same reason.
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Ah, so youll be playing Hotel Mario for the CDi then <_<
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After Mario Is Missing perhaps
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Good clean edutainment
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Don't forget Mario's Time Machine
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HarrietTubgirl posted...

I would definitely consider this the hardest of the classic 2D platformers (not counting extra levels).

Have you played Sonic 1? I think that's harder. Unless you're only talking Mario.
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i don't think sonic 1 is harder than smb3.
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I remember once playing SMB3 for an entire day as a kid, not skipping any worlds, trying to get to the end, but I gave up after I lost all my lives in one of the World 8 mini-fortresses and got sent back to level 8-1. When I finally went back and finished it years later (along with all of the other NES games that had frustrated my younger self), I found out that the Bowser's Castle area was right after that point.

In that one successful playthrough, I did end up skipping World 7, though. I was trying not to skip anything, but once I reached that world, I just didn't feel like dealing with it again.
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I'm surprised by how difficult people are saying this game is, never really thought of it that way myself. Granted, I played it a lot as a kid, then later in life I went back and played it all the time when I was bored and needed to kill some time so eventually I had enough practice to make almost everything in it trivial, so maybe I'm not in the best place to judge since my memories of it are mainly from a time after I'd already gotten really good at it
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Yeah, platformers get "easier" the more you play them, which is part of the beauty of them, but beating every level as a first timer is pretty tough in Mario 3. It's an excellently designed game.
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Yeah in fairness world 7 and 8 have some stages that aren't trivial even when you have a decent bit of experience. That underwater auto-scrolling stage and the fast airship are pretty tricky. The game is in a good place difficulty-wise where it's not unreasonable for pretty much any player to beat it, but it's not easy enough to be dull even when you've played it a bunch
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jcgamer107 posted...

HarrietTubgirl posted...

I would definitely consider this the hardest of the classic 2D platformers (not counting extra levels).

Have you played Sonic 1? I think that's harder. Unless you're only talking Mario.

Sonic 1 is not harder unless you try for the Chaos Emeralds
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I dunno....maybe it's because I've played SMB3 a ton, but Scrap Brain Zone in Sonic 1 is a friggin' nightmare. So many things will OHKO you.
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Sonic 1 might have more "death traps" than your average Mario game, but I don't think it's necessarily harder than Mario 3 because of it.
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Panthera posted...

Yeah in fairness world 7 and 8 have some stages that aren't trivial even when you have a decent bit of experience. That underwater auto-scrolling stage and the fast airship are pretty tricky. The game is in a good place difficulty-wise where it's not unreasonable for pretty much any player to beat it, but it's not easy enough to be dull even when you've played it a bunch

fuck I wanna play some mario
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Congrats! I beat the GBA re-release many years ago (and eventually beat every level without using whistles to skip). I'm not sure I would have beaten it without the save feature.

WazzupGenius00 posted...

Sounds like somebody never played The Lost Levels

An extremely wise decision for somebody to make.
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I'm into SMW now. Holy crap the difficulty has been toned down. This feels insane.
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Yeah, Mario World is a big step down in terms of platforming difficulty. The difficulty in World is in finding all of its secrets.
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I only play SMW without power ups now.
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Can't remember if I've beaten SMB3 in Super Mario All-Stars, but this year I decided to beat the GBA version after seeing some idiot teens (

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGrM4S-ZM1Y" data-time=") fail in it. On my phone, no less! No matter if the emulation gives save states, it was hard to win it all.

For how much I love World, the one time I beat Bowser was using the Star Road shortcut. The game is so big, and some levels are just abusive.
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I find it funny that when I was 10 I beat every stage in this game no problem but now at 38 years of age I do agree... it's f***ing hard as hell. Not sure how I ever did it as a kid.

I still play the game all the time on my GBA though. It's got one of the best NES Ending themes imo too.
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