this is what inspired Paper Mario isn't it? The way they're on a literal stage here, with the curtain and the flat wooden hills. Hang on, I've just realised something for the first time. Super Mario 3 is in a weird situation where it's a sequel to a different game in the West than it is in Japan, so it's simultaneously a return to the old formula and an evolutionary step forward. 2's two whole pages of text, but better than the Japanese Super Mario Bros. It's a bit of a step back from the American Super Mario Bros.

This little skit they've got set up here helps introduce the game mechanics, but there's no intro here to set up the plot. First he jumps on his brother's head, then he kicks a shell at him! Seriously, I found someone who dislikes Super Mario 3, how amazing is that? Uh, not that I'm implying that I like it, I'm not giving that away until the end, but I have definitely played it before and I have.

3 has actually appeared on Super Adventures before, about four years ago now, but I wasn't the person who played it and the guy who did absolutely hated it. I didn't get a NES until something like 2001, so it's not like I was personally inconvenienced by any of this. Whoa, I just did the math there: that's three years that we were left waiting for this, while Americans were already playing Super Mario World! I say 'we'. It's not a particularly special date to me seeing as it came out 18 months later in Britain and a year or so earlier in Japan, but I'm being impatient considerate of my American readers.

I've timed this one better than most, as today is the game's 25th anniversary. Mario lasted just four months and then it was all Yoshi games and edutainment after that. 3, the final Super Mario for the NES! It's not the last game he showed up in on the console though, as he got his medical degree just before the SNES was released. Today on Super Adventures my Mario Marathon Month continues with Super Mario Bros.

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