A game so good they made a movie about a runaway boy and his autistic brother to introduce it.

This game is so good it throws in the original Mario Bros arcade game so you can bullshit challenge your brother for their turn. I vividly remember getting the NES at Canadian Tire (Nintendo was EVERYWHERE) around Christmas 1991 and just becoming the game.

Easily the greatest platformer on the NES. The tightly designed levels that usher you along while still providing room for exploration are particularly impressive. I just wish it had a save system and some way to revisit cleared levels.

A masterpiece of side-scrolling invention. Upon every new discovery - a frog suit here, a Warp Whistle there - the game seemed larger than the cartridge. You could play the same level over the course of years and discover something new. That's magic.

I can't say anything bad about this masterpiece. To this day I can still name the worlds in order without having to look it up: grass desert water giant sky ice pipe dark. It plays so well. The world design is great both in the gameplay/challenge sense and in evoking a wonderful charming mood. How fun was it to get those special suits (frog/hammer/tanooki)? You were always sad to lose them but getting them was like reconnecting with an old friend.

"Videoooo...Arrrrmageddonnnnn!!!"

We didn't need anymore proofs of concept. We didn't need anymore Famicom/NES tech demos. What was left was a master class of great design, interesting visuals, and a total package that would still rank near the top of anyone's best platformers of all time list. Considering it came out for a console that was flooded with platformers, that says a lot.

SMB3 moved away from the mindset of arcades, into creating bigger experiences that you could explore from your living room; a big world map, a persistent inventory, lots of neat powerups, mechanics that recover progress after a game over, and most of all, moving away from unfair quarter-munching difficulty to puzzles that encourage exploration. The change wasn't done - the airship punished game overs, and there really needed to be a battery-backed save. But it was still a lovely leap forward.

Super Mario Bros. 3 is undoubtedly the best in the NES era Mario series. It's got some fantastic level design and the game gets harder as it goes on rather than the occasional hard level here and there.

This is one of the best Mario games on Nes. It's packed with a lot of huge levels and bosses. introducing the Raccoon Tail in this game from the start of this game along with the Frog, hammer, Bear suite you get in this game later on. 8 Worlds. Will take you about 5 hours if you do every level. They put a lot of detail in this game. I would say this is the best Mario on Nes.

The levels felt too short for me tbh… yes, even for a 1988 game. It looked INCREDIBLE for a NES game though.

I don't know if it's just because I've only played this after World and later games, but it just doesn't resonate fully with me. It's obviously well-made and looks good for a NES game, but the level design and controls just aren't quite there for me yet.

The boot was amazing. Watching the boot on Youtube in no way compares to the excitement of using the boot yourself. The whole game should have been the boot. Most of the game is really good, but the last part is brutal.

A great game that exudes creativity at every turn. It pulls out all the possible stops in designing interesting levels. While it goes a little too far in some places, it just works too well to not call great, nay fantastic.

This game just took the best parts of Super Mario Bros., added to them, innovated them, played with the worlds and enemies, gave us fun mini-bosses in Koopa kids, gave us fun mini games... just wow. Still, to this day, I want to play this game, far more than the two that came before it.

Yeah, I dunno what to really say about this one. It's the perfection of a formula Nintendo trailblazed in just three short years. In a way, Nintendo has never really stopped being this good.

Damn near flawless. My favorite NES game and it's not even close.

Superb controls, visuals, music, enemies, stages, themes, worlds. Pretty much perfect across the board -- I even liked the auto-scrolling stages! The best platformer of its time, and arguably, at the time, the best game across all genres, too.

This game is a fantastic example of how to do a sidescroller right. Every world feels different, the power ups are all fantastic. It's a solid game, with lots of replay value and enough secrets to find.

My personal favorite of the Mario games.

This might be the game I've played the most on airplanes, so I have no idea what happened towards the end.