What is the best world of Super Mario 3?

this clearly calls for a fourth attempt

perhaps the game genie could be useful here

I heard that if you collect 99 Fire Flowers they turn into 99 Magic Whistles and you can use them all to fly straight to Bowser's castle and save the princess and then play the whole game over as the princess and you get 99 free P-Wings if you do this

FEROTA

Pipe Maze is fun as heckiny, too, it's like Kid Icarus but...comprehensible.

World 3 is great when you break the rock and then you sail to the 10 BILLION FREE STUFFS CASTLES.

^^ u&k

My favorite mario tunes of the moment:

sitar in lava level of mario 64
metalphones in ghost world of mario 64

haha I remember when I first did that double-warp-whistle thing, I was actually disappointed it didn't take me to some kind of alternate universe/minusworld place.

-- nickalicious, Monday, June 4, 2007 5:34 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

nicka did you try using it a THIRD TIME????

-- Curt1s Stephens, Monday, June 4, 2007 5:37 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I think I actually did this and it just picks you up and drops you back off in the same stage.

-- Jordan, Monday, June 4, 2007 5:56 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ha yeah i was totally disappointed

Super Mario World ghost houses had my favorite music. There was this creepy organ fall-off thing.

The SMW ghost house is great indeed.

Any love for Sunshine? I'm on my 14th run. My little cousin(5 years old) can't get enough of it and it seems like it's the only thing she wants to play. Starting to get a little bit sick of it..

And I tried looking for my N64, but it's nowhere to be found. EEK

Best thing about Super Mario 3: flying

I like mario world flying better

Hammer Brothers suit
Tanooki suit
Frog suit
boot
canoe

What a great game. When it came out no-one (among my friends) had parents who would buy it for them, so we picked up (stole) empty beer cans at frat houses and played it on the Play-Choice 10 with the money we got.

best mario 64 music is on jolly roger bay, i used to just trance out for hours playing that level

Hammer bros suit OTM, I was deadly w/ that thing... there were not enough of them in that game

xp

The goomba shoe thing was ace. But I think that was only in one level. Jumping on the head of those stupid pipe-plants was excellent. Flying in Super Mario World was so much better than the flying in Super Mario 3. I remember the first time I did the flying, day after my holy communion and some kid in my street had got a Super Nintendo and Mario Bros. for his communion and the shit just blew me away. Became really good friends with that guy and he was a total asshole.

But, of course, the best thing with SMB3 is to play from 1->8 playing every level. :)

-- CraigG, Monday, 4 June 2007 09:54 (12 hours ago) Link

Yes! This is how you have to do it ever single time you play the game.

Also, we're all pretty much in agreement that this is the very best video game ever, right? Why don't they just make more Mario games like this, anymore?

^ rong

But Kevin Arnold kid brother could not have won NES tournament in THE WIZARD without the help of warp whistles!

^ I was just about to mention that.

That ending was bullshit! How in the world would the sidekick girl know where the secret warp whistle was? In the movie, they chose Super Mario 3 for the final because it hadn't been released yet (hence, it would be fair to both contestants). AND, would the girl just be allowed to shout out tips to one of the players?? Even when I was a kid I thought that ending was stupid.

World 3 is great when you break the rock and then you sail to the 10 BILLION FREE STUFFS CASTLES.

OTM. I'm not wild about World 3, but I always thought this was pretty cool.

This is definitely one game where having the Nintendo Power guide actually made it BETTER, because there was SO much stuff you'd never find otherwise, or find once and never be able to figure out again like the magical coin ship and the White Mushroom House and so on...

Also, continuing the Mario cake theme:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/79/246142642_b55e28d929.jpg

More here.

Why don't they just make more Mario games like this, anymore?

The New SMB for the DS was pretty great, if way too short and not nearly packed with all these details.

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I have no idea why I used to sing "blow chunks, marry hunks" to the World 2 background tune, but I did.

"blow hunks, marry chunks" seems like sounder logic now.

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IN A SMACKDOWN

shame.

now do one for mario 2.

夢工場 ドキドキパニック,

Mario 2 is the shit.

I've never even beaten Mario 3, the 7th and 8th boards are crazy hard.

Oh yeah, how do you get the Hammer Bros. suit? I've never done that either...

That cake looks really good to me right now...

You get the Hammer Bros. suit by beating the Hammer Bros. in world 6.

Who the hell voted desert? Come forward!

you can get one in a mushroom house too! I forget which one though.

There's a bunch of mushroom houses that randomly give you Tanooki Suit, Hammer suit or Frog Suit. I think there's also a hidden big "?" block that gives you a hammer suit.

Worlds 7 and 8 are the hardest in all of mariodom aren't they.

World 8 isn't so bad! You can swim underneath the big ship, after all. :>

Yeah let's do Mario 2! One time I had like 30 lives and was getting bored and started just jumping in random holes and found a warp zone! I think it was in level 4? It was at the bottom of a waterfall that looked like a deathhole but wasn't.

Mario 2 desert stages >>>>>>>> Mario 3 desert stages.

I did not vote Desert Hill, but there was a point (early on in my mario 3 days, when I was like 10) when 2.4 & 2.5 used to be my 2 favorite consecutive levels.

Nickalicious OTM, Mario 2 desert stages are exciting. Especially when you're in, you know, a basket and you're digging down in the sand with a slower character (not Toad), and dudes are chasing you. Especially the flying masked guy and you have to keep throwing away the key, you know?

I believe it's world 6.5 that was UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE for me to beat when I was 7

Someone help me beat 6-5! I've tried it a million times but I can't get past it! "Starfighter" here suggests a plausible solution, but I can't do it. How the hell are you supposed to hold the koopa shell (by holding down b) AND fly (by hitting a repeatedly) at the same time???? HALP!!!

GREEN HILL ZONE

yup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwZA11D9ws

^^^I STILL CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS WITHOUT A THIRD HAND

you can turn your hand palm-down and use a couple of fingers?

hey remember this?

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v171/166/109/3700497/n3700497_31336687_3296.jpg

Was the spinning thing in the underwater tmnt? i forget

^^^think i had the spectrum version :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAMSZmyymOo

shit was intense.