Topic: A Challenge to Mr. Lindemann

[jrlibrarian]

Mr. Site Director,
 
It has once again come to my attention that one of your games of shame is Super Mario Bros. 3. It is the same for me, as I have never played the game. However, I have bought a NES Game Pak of it, and will begin playing it shortly.
Therefore, I challenge you to complete the game before me. Neither of us have played it extensively, but hopefully we both will shortly.
 
Will you accept my challenge?
 
 

[TJ Spyke]

I never beat the game on the NES, I could never make it all the way through Bowser's castle. I did beat the Super Mario All-Stars version and Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 version though. Maybe it is because I was just a kid when I played the NES version? It's been at least 10 years since I played the NES version.

[KDR_11k]

I beat the SNES and GBA versions, the former only with warps though (was a little kid back then) and I never had a NES (back then we had a C64).

[Mop it up]

The main problem with the NES version is that, for some reason, it doesn't have a save feature. So if you want to play every level, you'll have to use the Warp Whistles to return to the worlds you were playing. It's best to stop after completing a world rather than in the middle, so you won't have to replay stages.

[BeautifulShy]

You could just keep the NES on if you have to go somewhere. Start where you left off when you left.

[Mop it up]

That's dangerous, plus it isn't practical to have a system on for a week straight, it'd likely freeze up at some point in the time. Don't make excuses for a game's flaws.

[BeautifulShy]

I wasn't making excuses I'm just saying what could be done.

Another thing you can do is just set up some time to beat it in one sitting.

[BlackNMild2k1]

But hasn't Nintendo already addressed that problem with save states for VC games?

[Dasmos]

That's dangerous, plus it isn't practical to have a system on for a week straight, it'd likely freeze up at some point in the time. Don't make excuses for a game's flaws.

I used to leave my NES on for weeks at a time so I didn't delete my Excite Bike tracks.

[Mop it up]

True, that's one advantage of buying the game on the Virtual Console over the original release. But fixing the issue fifteen years later doesn't excuse the original.

I used to leave my NES on for weeks at a time so I didn't delete my Excite Bike tracks.

I used to do things like that too, but saving is by far better. Super Mario Brothers 3 was one of the biggest NES games released, so it's very strange they didn't bother with putting in a save battery, especially when some obscure effort like Wario's Woods has one.

[TJ Spyke]

To be fair, Wario's Woods came out 4 years after Super Mario Bros. 3 (remember that it came out in December 1994). However, other big name games like The Legend of Zelda came out several years before SMB3 and had a save feature and SMB3 was a much bigger game. Even Metroid at least had save codes.

[Stratos]

Yeah, I'd leave on my NES for long periods of time and turn off the TV when my mom forced me to go play outside.