I Finally Beat Super Mario Bros.
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Yeah the hammer-jerks and those spikey Lukito thingies are the worst.
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I remember back in elementary school me and my brothers would play super mario allstars before school and we would actually leave the system on all day with the tv off just so we could start playing from the same spot when we got home. seems really stupid conisdering you can save in those games. 
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congratulation... Finally you achieve it. It is always proven that when some person will to get it he will get it. And you set the example again. By the way where is the party tonight??
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I've beaten the first Super Mario Brothers game countless times over the years. I even downloaded it on the Wii to play whenever I feel like some nostalgic gameplay. Speaking of that, I leave the save state at the title screen after having beaten it once so that everytime I play it now, it is on the second run with the Buzzy Beetles and faster enemies for challenge.
Super Mario Brothers: The Lost Levels is not fun IMO. I have beaten it twice in my life, once on the Super Mario All Stars SNES cart, and once on the GBC Super Mario Brothers Deluxe cart. How I had the patience to play that version through I'll never know. Downloaded it on the Wii as well, but it proved to me that my patience as an adult for the game does not match what I had the patience for as a child.
I remember reading about it as a kid, and feeling gyped that we had Super Mario Brothers 2 as our sequel in the USA, when Japan had a game in the same style as the first. I no longer feel this way. The Lost Levels seems about as fun as a rom hack that has been made ridiculously difficult, where only endless trial and error will yield a single instance where you get lucky and pass some of the insane challenges the game presents. Looking back, I ventured to beat it to say I had, and to take on the challenge, but it is never a game I would start again, just for fun. Super Mario Brothers 2, IMO, is the better game, and far more fun.
Here's a fun little story for my fellow retro gaming fans, if you have bothered to read this far. One Christmas, earlier this decade, we had a family reunion. My cousins brought their Gamecube, and were playing Sonic Adventure 2 on it. I gave the game a try, because I had the first one on Dreamcast and liked it, and was curious about the sequel. I was having a hard time with the final boss, and my cousin grabbed the controller and showed me how to beat it, and then proceded to play the Super Sonic/Super Shadow sequence at the end.
What followed was remarks to this effect: "I thought you were good at video games, you must be getting old." (My cousins are about ten years younger than me BTW). I then grabbed their "Sonic Mega Collection" disc and said, "You think so huh? Where you guys at in Sonic 3 & Knuckles? They said those "old games" were hard, and unbeatable.
I did my usual playthrough of the game, grabbing all emeralds early, and blazing through most of the game as Super Sonic, and in the later half, Super Sonic level 2, and watched them quietly watch with anticipation and wide eyes as I tore through the parts they couldn't get past with ease. I finished off the game, and handed them the controller back. What followed was two statements from them: "You can be Super Sonic in the normal stages and not just in space at the end?" and "Dang, you have 87 extra lives and 52 continues built up on the save file!" I told them any level could now be played that way under the save file, and to have fun with it.
They started playing with that, and I went to my Grandma's to visit with other relatives. (This is next door to my Uncle's house, where we were playing the games) A few hours later, I came back, and they had our Uncle's NES out playing Super Mario Brothers on the NES (You knew this had to tie back in to the topic, right?) Anyway, they were in world 3 and dying left and right, saying the game ws impossible, and that even I was too young to be good enough at a game THAT old.
So I made a bet with them, I told them they could choose any of my Gamecube games that they'd like to have and set it on top of the TV. I then grabbed their Sonic game and put it up there. I told them I'd give the game a try, and if I could beat it in 15 minutes, I got both games, but if I failed, they got both games. They laughed, and said it was a fool's bet. So I set the clock timer, and ran through using the warps they didn't know about, and beat the game in around 14 minutes. (Just for suspense sake). Their jaws dropped, and they started to get upset with me. I grabbed both games and started down the hall with them. They started to throw a fit, I told them to be men about it, and they calmed down. Then I handed them both games and told them I always enjoyed our visits.
They thanked me for the game, and I didn't hear anymore "old man" remarks after that.
Super Mario Brothers: The Lost Levels is not fun IMO. I have beaten it twice in my life, once on the Super Mario All Stars SNES cart, and once on the GBC Super Mario Brothers Deluxe cart. How I had the patience to play that version through I'll never know. Downloaded it on the Wii as well, but it proved to me that my patience as an adult for the game does not match what I had the patience for as a child.
I remember reading about it as a kid, and feeling gyped that we had Super Mario Brothers 2 as our sequel in the USA, when Japan had a game in the same style as the first. I no longer feel this way. The Lost Levels seems about as fun as a rom hack that has been made ridiculously difficult, where only endless trial and error will yield a single instance where you get lucky and pass some of the insane challenges the game presents. Looking back, I ventured to beat it to say I had, and to take on the challenge, but it is never a game I would start again, just for fun. Super Mario Brothers 2, IMO, is the better game, and far more fun.
Here's a fun little story for my fellow retro gaming fans, if you have bothered to read this far. One Christmas, earlier this decade, we had a family reunion. My cousins brought their Gamecube, and were playing Sonic Adventure 2 on it. I gave the game a try, because I had the first one on Dreamcast and liked it, and was curious about the sequel. I was having a hard time with the final boss, and my cousin grabbed the controller and showed me how to beat it, and then proceded to play the Super Sonic/Super Shadow sequence at the end.
What followed was remarks to this effect: "I thought you were good at video games, you must be getting old." (My cousins are about ten years younger than me BTW). I then grabbed their "Sonic Mega Collection" disc and said, "You think so huh? Where you guys at in Sonic 3 & Knuckles? They said those "old games" were hard, and unbeatable.
I did my usual playthrough of the game, grabbing all emeralds early, and blazing through most of the game as Super Sonic, and in the later half, Super Sonic level 2, and watched them quietly watch with anticipation and wide eyes as I tore through the parts they couldn't get past with ease. I finished off the game, and handed them the controller back. What followed was two statements from them: "You can be Super Sonic in the normal stages and not just in space at the end?" and "Dang, you have 87 extra lives and 52 continues built up on the save file!" I told them any level could now be played that way under the save file, and to have fun with it.
They started playing with that, and I went to my Grandma's to visit with other relatives. (This is next door to my Uncle's house, where we were playing the games) A few hours later, I came back, and they had our Uncle's NES out playing Super Mario Brothers on the NES (You knew this had to tie back in to the topic, right?) Anyway, they were in world 3 and dying left and right, saying the game ws impossible, and that even I was too young to be good enough at a game THAT old.
So I made a bet with them, I told them they could choose any of my Gamecube games that they'd like to have and set it on top of the TV. I then grabbed their Sonic game and put it up there. I told them I'd give the game a try, and if I could beat it in 15 minutes, I got both games, but if I failed, they got both games. They laughed, and said it was a fool's bet. So I set the clock timer, and ran through using the warps they didn't know about, and beat the game in around 14 minutes. (Just for suspense sake). Their jaws dropped, and they started to get upset with me. I grabbed both games and started down the hall with them. They started to throw a fit, I told them to be men about it, and they calmed down. Then I handed them both games and told them I always enjoyed our visits.
They thanked me for the game, and I didn't hear anymore "old man" remarks after that.
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Great story, LoneCynic.
Is it weird that I can't remember if I've ever beaten SMB 1?
Is it weird that I can't remember if I've ever beaten SMB 1?
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I've beat it, but definitely not in this century. My shame is that I've never beat 3! Good story, LoneCynic. I can't believe I read all that but I'm glad I did! 
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I'm surprised you are the only one here who has admitted that! When this thread was made, I hadn't beaten it either - I did beat it some time this month, though.Ramatut4001 wrote:I've beat it, but definitely not in this century. My shame is that I've never beat 3! Good story, LoneCynic. I can't believe I read all that but I'm glad I did!
World 8 is hard. Maybe even has some cheap moments. Particularly I cannot beat the castle in World 7 and stage 1-2 in World 8 - and I have no idea where I am supposed to go in the castle before Bowser's castle in World 8.
So without a cloud powerup to skip the castle in World 7 and the one before Bowser's in World 8, and two P-Wing powerups to skip stage 1-2 in World 8, I find it near impossible for me to beat.
So it is more or less essential for me to play the game most all of the way through to gain cloud powerups and P-Wings for the aforementioned levels - otherwise I'm screwed.
My shame, however, is that I haven't even played the first Super Mario Bros! - or Super Mario Bros 2, for that matter. Blasphemous, isn't it?
From what I've gathered, though, the original is especially difficult and without doubt the most difficult of the three - so that certainly sounds impressive LoneCynic!
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Super Mario Brothers isn't too terribly difficult, if you know some tricks. The single block gaps in World 8 can simply be run over top of at full speed. Sounds hokey at first until you try it, but it really is the only way to make it past without running out of time. As a reverse to what you'd expect to have to do, the jump that requires you to leap a gap to a single block width, then immediately over another gap seems annoying hard at first because it seems you have to run jump over it. Simply stop, do two normal jumps, without pressing the run button, and you get over it every time without any hassle. Everything else is just quick reflexes, and good platforming. The Hammer Brothers in 8-3 are a breeze if you can get there with the Fire Suit, but otherwise you have to dodge them. Check the blocks around their stations for powerups, there is one in both stations.
Super Mario Brothers 2 is tricky, but there are warp zones in it as well. To use them, you have to use the potions to go to Subspace at the correct pipes, and go down them while in the nighttime subspace. Here are the locations:
1-3 -Very end before going into the base, carry a potion there and go down the pipe to Warp to World 4
Somewhere in World 3 you drop down a waterfall and take a potion with you. There is a pipe at the bottom, use it there and go down to Warp to World 5
in world 4-2 I think there are whales with waterspouts, There is a lone pipe halfway through the level. On an island in the middle of the level, use the potion there and go down to warp to World 6
Near the end of World 5 somewhere you come up a ladder and there is a pipe up on a ledge above you. Take a potion there and go down to warp to World 7
I listed those from memory, so I don't recall exact locations, but hopefully that will help some. Also, Luigi is the best choice for this game. Aside from sand digging levels, where you should choose Mario or Toad, always be Luigi. He jumps the highest with the power jump, and jumps the farthest. Forget using Princess Toadstool, she lifts the slowest, and her jump is weak. Sure, that floating ability seems useful to beginners, but her shortcomings will screw you up later in the game. Hope this advice helps anyone trying to finish Super Mario 2.
Super Mario Brothers 2 is tricky, but there are warp zones in it as well. To use them, you have to use the potions to go to Subspace at the correct pipes, and go down them while in the nighttime subspace. Here are the locations:
1-3 -Very end before going into the base, carry a potion there and go down the pipe to Warp to World 4
Somewhere in World 3 you drop down a waterfall and take a potion with you. There is a pipe at the bottom, use it there and go down to Warp to World 5
in world 4-2 I think there are whales with waterspouts, There is a lone pipe halfway through the level. On an island in the middle of the level, use the potion there and go down to warp to World 6
Near the end of World 5 somewhere you come up a ladder and there is a pipe up on a ledge above you. Take a potion there and go down to warp to World 7
I listed those from memory, so I don't recall exact locations, but hopefully that will help some. Also, Luigi is the best choice for this game. Aside from sand digging levels, where you should choose Mario or Toad, always be Luigi. He jumps the highest with the power jump, and jumps the farthest. Forget using Princess Toadstool, she lifts the slowest, and her jump is weak. Sure, that floating ability seems useful to beginners, but her shortcomings will screw you up later in the game. Hope this advice helps anyone trying to finish Super Mario 2.
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I actually beat the All Stars version of SMB2 with Princess. I found that she's awesome against Wart. You can simply float behind him, wait for him to open his mouth, and then plug him, all without having to worry about his bubbles.
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