"The Princess is in another Castle!" - The Mario Series Discussion Thread

This thread is to discuss all things Mario. From the first Mario games on the NES to the latest on the Gamecube and Wii. Talk about your favorite classic Mario moments and prepare for upcoming Mario games.

Just to start some discussion, I'm going to ask each of you what your favorite Mario games are. Here are mine (in no particualr order):

Super Mario Bros. 3 (SNES)
Super Mario World (SNES)
Super Mario 64 (N64)
Mario Kart 64 (N64)
Super Smash Bros. (N64)

Like I said before, discuss anything Mario related!

 

I cannot wait to get New Super Mario Bros. I know it's gonna be awesome.

 

I have probably spent more time playing Super Mario Bros 3 than any other game, ever. Probably.

 

Me and two of my cousins have been playing Super Mario World rather religiously for the past few weeks, and our patience has paid off. We have finally made it to Bowser. I have came so close to beating him (one or two more hits and he's done), but I have never gone the distance.

When we do beat him, it will be the first time any of us have beaten Bowser in any game...ever.

 

I'm kind of sad. No Mario game will ever surpass Super Mario World. I know the argurement can be made, and Raven most definently will argue this point, but SMW was a game that took me over 10 years to finish completly. I beat it repeatedly, yet only found a few of the secret worlds.

My god the secret worlds. The Yoshi Star, the 80's term pipe world, everything about that game was the fantastic.

 

I took the 10 year plan on SMB3.

 

Yoshi made that game a plus.

 

I've never had to take that long for any of the side-scrolling console games. Although I've played Yoshi's Island only a couple of times. I plan to buy it off eBay in the near future.

 

Hmm...

Mario 64
3/World
Land 2
2
Lost Levels
Land
Original

I can't wait to play the New SMB! That looks sweet!

Whatever happened to the koopalings?
Larry, Morton, Wendy O, Iggy, Roy, Lemmy, Ludwig Von > Bowser Jr.

 

I can beat that game in 13 minutes.

 

Don't forget Super Mario RPG.
Now that game was fun, it was the first RPG I understood how to play as a kid.

 

RPG introduced me to RPGs in general.
I hopped from that (barely beating it) to Chrono Trigger.

I recently replayed RPG and just tore through it. The game is ridiculously easy if you follow the basic rule of level up once or twice per area.
Never could beat that stupid Yoshi race.

But isn't RPG out of the series proper?

 

What about Mario & Luigi? I've never played either of the games in that series but isn't it similar to RPG with turn based combat and timed button presses with some platforming?

 

New SMB although very fun is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo short.

I was kinda disappointed.

 

I repeat: I miss the koopalings

 

Ah yes, he was probably the best boss in the game. Much more fun to fight than that final boss, it's like they weren't even trying.

 

Well from what I gathered, they were trying to go back to SMB basics, but re-envision it.

 

Yeah, when playing SMW the Moleman Pipe Bosses were the hardest ones! If I recall right, there were two fortresses with that boss.

 

I can honestly say, aside from the Resident Evil series, this is the only series of which I've played every single game...

Scratch that... i haven't played any of the DS titles to spin-offs.

Hopefully I'll be able to pick up a DS soon.

 

I havn't played SMW 2: Yoshi's Island (but I've watched someone play it and it looked ridiculuous), Super Mario Sunshine, any of the Paper Mario Games, or any of the DS games.