Super Mario World
What is it?
Considered by the staff here at Hot Blooded Gaming to be the quintessential Mario game, Super Mario World was the first pack-in for the SNES and went on to become one of the most beloved platformers in gaming history.
How can I play it?
Super Mario World (SNES)
Super Mario Advance 2 – Super Mario World (GBA)
Super Mario World (Wii Virtual Console)
John’s take:
We don’t plan on doing many Flashback Fridays for bad games, but this game is head and shoulders above most of the rest. Even today, Super Mario World stands as a symbol of close-to-perfection in platforming elements, with simple, unique powerups, beautiful colorful graphics and one of the most annoying levels ever. (Man, that seemed way harder when I was a kid.)
I was obsessed with this game when I got my SNES, and I was dumbfounded by the amazing level of color, the detail on the characters, and all the awesome secrets. You thought the Warp Whistles in Super Mario Bros. 3 was cool? Wait til you see the Star Road. Complete with an Halloween-style overhaul once you beat the special super-hard Star Road levels, it’s very fitting for today’s Flashback Friday.
I reminisce fondly even about jumping around in the very first “level”, Yoshi’s House, jumping around at first just to see if there was anything hidden around, and then coming back with Yoshi to eat all the fruits hanging at the top of the level. I remember playing Yoshi’s Island 2 over and over just to kick the turtle shell into all the Koopa Troopers and get a 1up, to jumping as high as possible at the end of the level to try and get the most points, playing the bonus game at the end of each level and how exciting it was to pull off making every single block of the bonus level a star. I even remember feeling so cool when I unlocked the Top Secret Area! and figured out that, hey, if you jump up near your powerup when you have a fire flower and a feather, you can hit Select over and over again and get effectively unlimited points! This game was a magical thing for a young child.
As if the game weren’t cool enough for just being Mario in 16-bit, Super Mario World throws another curveball at you when you go through the Yoshi’s Island 2 stage, jumping up, hitting some ? blocks to get some coins and suddenly a freaking EGG comes out and HATCHES into a KILLER RAPTOR (pictured). Yoshi immediately became a fan favorite, especially considering that you could take a hit while on him and just hop back on, over and over and over! No skill required, perfect for a 5-year-old.
The game introduced a whole host of new features for the Mario series: the branching paths that you could take to make the game as short or long as you want (you could beat the game in 12 minutes,) the new awesome graphical effects in the haunted houses, the multiple exits to each level outside of a warp zone, the differentiation of the Koopa Kids rather than being variations on the same type of boss, and who could forget King Koopa’s smiley face hover ship?
The original Super Mario Bros. is often held up to be the iconic platforming game– usually by those too young to have actually played it in its heyday. People like myself, who grew up with these games, playing and loving them with all their heart, tend to find that Super Mario World is a pure evolution of the genre, moving that much closer to perfection. Let’s hope New Super Mario Bros. Wii can pull that off.
Ahhh! the good old days when life was so great with nintendo playing super Mario world definitely gonna buy it for the wii.
I often don’t give this game enough credit, but this is one of the games that really started turning me into a “hardcore” gamer and made me really fall in love with the SNES.
baught it for my brothers GBA but i ended up using it more since it was the first game to own
I still have this game for my SNES! This was my favorite game!
This was my first love
I love this game, got it on wii
Oh man I didn’t realize this was on the VC, I should totally pick it up. I remember loving this game when I was a kid.
This game holds ALOT of memories for me…..such a classic
I love this game so much idk its probably my favorite game EVER
I still play this game, it is really the only SNES game I play. I play on my save from when I was a little kid, and just brings back so many good and frustrating memories.
I love that game! I still play it when I need my Mario fix, too.
I still have this and still play it to this day. This game never gets old.
good memories on the GBA
This game opened up my eyes to video games, it was brilliant fun and it’s probably one of my favourite old school games.
Bad memories of me playing a Rom hack for Super Kaizo World
good flashback friday
super mario world!! loved the hell out of this game. every morning before i went to school i would play one level each day and when i got home i would played some more. i miss my child hood
Yea i remember playin this game with my cousins all the time ^__^
I has this game on my Nintendo!
Amazing Game, Hilarious Movie. End of story.
Oh boy, the great times playing this game growing up!
It even had some of the best (that is to say most evil) level mods that I have ever seen.
I much more prefer Super Mario 64
What Super mario world did on the snes, the 64 multiplied that by 10!
Great game still
Amen. I grew up playing this Right along side donkey kong country.
The countless hours I spent playing this classic!
I all ways remember the cape the cape was always good
lol its Flashback Friday! WOOT