Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros. 3

1988
Platformer
Super Mario Bros. 3 centers on plumbers Mario and Luigi who embark on a quest to save Princess Toadstool and the rulers of seven different kingdoms from the antagonist Bowser and his children, the Koopalings. (wikipedia.org)
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Super Mario Bros. 3

1988
Platformer
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Rated 13 Nov 2019
100
96th
A game so good they made a movie about a runaway boy and his autistic brother to introduce it.
Rated 16 Jan 2018
100
100th
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.
Rated 28 Jan 2018
9
97th
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.
Rated 04 Feb 2018
92
90th
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.
Rated 07 Apr 2018
95
98th
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.
Rated 28 Jan 2018
10
99th
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.
Rated 26 Jan 2018
80
67th
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.
Rated 23 Jan 2018
80
83rd
This might be the game I've played the most on airplanes, so I have no idea what happened towards the end.
Rated 25 Jan 2018
91
90th
My personal favorite of the Mario games.
Rated 04 Feb 2018
100
91st
Damn near flawless. My favorite NES game and it's not even close.
Rated 18 Apr 2018
97
88th
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.
Rated 06 May 2018
90
95th
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.
Rated 22 Oct 2018
84
91st
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.
Rated 15 Jan 2019
66
41st
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.
Rated 21 Mar 2019
70
71st
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.
Rated 23 Sep 2019
6
64th
The levels felt too short for me tbh… yes, even for a 1988 game. It looked INCREDIBLE for a NES game though.
Rated 20 Oct 2019
80
87th
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.
Rated 12 Feb 2020
80
28th
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.
Rated 26 Dec 2020
88
84th
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.
Rated 19 Mar 2022
100
98th
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.
Rated 19 Jun 2023
100
0th
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