Best version of SMB EVAR!
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/extralife/27283
The Game Boy Color was a wonderful device that had awesome games, Links Awakening DX and Shantae among them. But there was also Super Mario Bros. DX, a “deluxe” port of that granddaddy sidescroller that took the original game and heaped additional content upon it such that even SMB masters would find plenty to do, especially if you had a Game Boy Printer. This was Super Mario Bros. turned up to eleven, packed to Blooper gills with modes and unlockables.
Oh, the original game is in there, of course, but there’s also a challenge mode. You must achieve a certain high score in every stage AND find Red Coins and a Yoshi Egg in every stage! Nefarious! Better still, accruing a certain aggregate score in the main game (an easy feat for any hardened Nintendo vet) unlocked The Lost Levels (though not called that). It was modified to be easier than the original game or the Super Mario All-Stars version. But oh yes, dear readers, I beat that game. I beat it hard. Another points-based unlock is You vs. Boo, in which the player must race a Boo through several customized stages filled with obstructions. Beating one Boo unlocks its much-faster successor, so this mode proved quite challenging.
The “Toy Box” area of the game involved a fortune-telling card game, a calendar (GBC as Blackberry), and several pictures that one could print out on the Game Boy Printer, even to the point where you could make little comics—text bubbles include—featuring the Mario characters. The better you do in challenge mode, the more pictures you unlock. One other nice feature in the Toy Box is the Yoshi Egg Roulette. Spin the wheel, and a screenshot from a random stage will pop up to give you some indication of where the Yoshi Egg is in that stage. Very helpful!
Finally, there was an awesome two-player mode. Memory fails me as to whether players had to use the link cable or whether the IR sensor was sufficient, but the mode was basically like You vs. Boo without the Boo, and Mario and Luigi raced through the customized stages in an effort to be the best there ever was.
Now, the game did suffer from one flaw: because of the GBC’s resolution, the game appeared to be a little too “zoomed-in,” so you’d have to hold various buttons to scroll the screen left, right, up and down to really see everything. However, it really wasn’t a hassle, and being so familiar with the original game, I never really found it necessary. It certainly needed to be done during The Lost Levels, though, as I was completely unfamiliar with that sequel at the time.
The game’s not terribly hard to find and it’s one of the best offerings on the Game Boy Color—a system I wish I still had a working version of. You may recall that Nintendo tried to create an independent “Virtual Console” on the GBA by releasing several “NES Classics,” including Super Mario Bros., the two NES Zelda games, and the original Castlevania. I was stupid enough to buy them all except SMB, because I had the superior version already (and it worked fine on GBA). If you stumble over a copy of SMB DX, I recommend picking it up without a second thought—it’s the best version of that game.
IIRC, the calendar was gimped because anything you entered was erased when you shut the game off.I don't think it was meant to function in-game, the markings were for when you printed it out using the Game Boy Printer.
This game was the example of how to re-release a game and has never since been matched.It's definitely a nice package, but Super Mario All-Stars is a better example since it included four games and upgraded the graphics and sound in each one.
If you like all these games, if you like mario and luigi, why don't you like Paper Mario?
I'm beginning to suspect insanolord simply hates/trolls the Super Nintendo.You may not have known this but, Alien Mind Probes have revealed that when Insanolord was young Mario from Super Mario World jumped out of the TV like in the Japanese Megaman Cartoon Not the awesome American one. Then proceed to Kick Insanolords Puppy and Introduced him to Crimm. That meeting is still blocked by Insanolords sub-conscious to this day.
Super Mario RPG is like Final Fantasy with Mario.
I'm beginning to suspect insanolord simply hates/trolls the Super Nintendo.Hey, I absolutely love Super Metroid and Yoshi's Island.
If you like all these games, if you like mario and luigi, why don't you like Paper Mario?
Because Paper Mario is Fischer Price's My First RPG for Babies.
Beat the first game. Fairly recently. Vowed never to touch the series again.
To be totally honest, I agree with everything SilverQuilava said, even if it was a little too harsh.
It's not Zach's fault that he hates children, happiness, and sunshine. The funny thing is that the critiques of Paper Mario that I could see (slow pace, lots of talking) are duplicated in Mario & Luigi. To love one and hate the other seems weird, however I can see why people would prefer one over the other.
My show of allegiance is this: I've beaten every Paper Mario games. I only beat the first M&L game.