Super Mario All-Stars (N64)

Introduction This is one of the greatest video game cartridges ever! Most video gamers must have played the Super Mario Brothers games before. This is a good opportunity to own 4 classic games on 1 cartridge. I remember playing these games on the original NES. Super Mario Brothers 3 was the first game that we had for that system and probably my favourite from the bunch. I think it’s great that Nintendo re-released these games for the SNES, as anyone that hasn’t played them before can get to experience all the classic moments from these good games. The graphics are vastly improved from the NES versions. Well, here’s a little about each ...

Super Mario All-Stars – The only several-games-in-one package that is actually worth buying. After the extreme success of the Super Mario Bros. Games, Nintendo had decided to recreate all these games onto one cart. So they made this Masterpiece. I’ll briefly go through all the games included in this cart, so you’ll have a basic idea: ---------Super Mario Bros. This game was the first released (1985). There is your usual ‘Daisy has been kidnapped, save her’ story, and you must be guided through 32 levels, day, night, snowy… They do get harder in order, as you expect. The learning curve in this game is actually not ...

It’s difficult to believe that Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) owners used to pay in excess of 30 pounds for one simplistic game cartridge, containing as much as 200 KB of data. The move from 8- to 16-bit game consoles in the early 1990s saw popular titles from the older platforms, such as Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. series, re-released and re-vamped, complete with ever more extortionate price tag, in a practice that has unashamedly continued to this day. Thankfully, one shred of uncharacteristic generosity entered the Nintendo pipeline sometime before the SNES (Super-NES) release ‘Super Mario World,’ in the form of the four-for-the-price-of-one compilation ...