When Super Mario 3 came out, I got the chickenpox. My parents rented it for me for an entire week. I don’t even remember the chickenpox, I just remember staying home from school and playing Super Mario 3. One of the best weeks of my life!
What differentiated SMB from other games was actually the complexity of the game: there's physics with destructible environment, acceleration, deceleration, lots of interactions, and of course all of this had to be balanced perfectly to elevate the gameplay. Crazy that they were able to do all that on the NES.
Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World are such perfect platformers. Even now, I can play them and there aren't many games from the time I consider perfect, but they instantly spring to mind.
One of the best memories I have is playing mario 3 during the summer holidays. It's a game I simply can't take out of my top 10 favourite games of all time.
LOL, you used the main theme, the underground theme, & the water level theme from the Mega Drive bootleg, Super Mario Bros. 2 1998. You got my full respect
Mario Bros 3 is still my favorite Mario game, and one of the only games I've never grown tired of. Every time I stumble across the game every few years, I end up loving it all over again.
Even when it’s Nintendo based, you’re the best around Lord!… this made me dig up my old Nintendo powers and guide books while I put each of these games on my switch in the background just to feel that pure nostalgia
The great thing about Mario is that there's a game for everyone. Platformers, racing, sports, party games, RPGs, you name it. And they're all really fun and easy to play. Great video as always SLX
My aunt bought us a Nintendo for Christmas in 88 or 89. I remember all our relatives gathered around the tv playing Super Mario Bros and that 1st Gumba was giving everyone trouble lol. Looking back now after playing all of the Mario games, Mario Land on 3DS is my favorite modern Mario game. Mario 3 is my favorite retro Mario game.
Quick hit memories: dad was purely a shooter (1941/1942 mainly) and pinball guy back then, but I can as clear as day remember him/his friends drinking cans of something I wasn't allowed to have (which my adult brain has established was beer) and attempting to beat Super Mario 3 (I don't remember Mario 1 as a kid for obvious reasons - I was 2). Also have many memories of my mom asking me to hook up the NES so she could play Dr. Mario. Because of my years of practice vs my mom, I wiped the floor with my friend's overconfident fiance (now wife) a few years back and she still hasn't forgotten.
I dont have time to watch the videos that often anymore, but it fills me with joy that you're still making these videos. You've still got it, it's like I never took 2 years away. What a comforting and familiar reat to come back to. Hope you are happy doing this still.
I remember coming home from school and dad had bought the NES as a surprise to us 3 kids (and himself) and that's all she wrote for my homework getting done the rest of that year :P Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt dual-cartridge.. I think my sister was the first to realise you could smash the bricks after grabbing a mushroom! We were awestruck at the dynamic gameplay and combat options!
Thank you very much for this time travel. It did bring back some fond memories. As a kid those games blew my mind again and again and those feelings as a kid playing those games are something special. Again, thank you! I really like your videos. Keep up your awesome work.
We're the Mario Brothers and plumbin's our game We're not like the others who get all the fame If your sink is in trouble, you can call us on the double We're faster than the others, you'll be hooked on the brothers
My older cousins received an NES for Christmas 1986 (did some family sleuthing years later to determine the year) I was 21 months old and I shit you not, Super Mario Bros is my first formed conscious memory. They let me attempt to play as an infant. I remember being so frustrated watching my cousins fly through the level while I died before the first pit every. single. time.
@@phattjohnson I'm not sure haha. Science would dispute my account--it is believed the earliest humans can form memories is 2.5 years. But even as childhood is mostly forgotten with age, that memory still remains. To this day the SMB first level song does something to me, beyond nostalgia, it is actual time travel, especially if I haven't played it in some years.
To me personally, I firmly believe that the original Super Mario Brothers on the NES is the greatest game of all time. While I fully understand that the home gaming scenes in Europe and Japan never had a crash like in North America in '83, it was SMB success that reignited the video game market here. As far as I'm concerned it is responsible for gaming as we know it.
Glad to see Super Mario Land 1 getting some love. It was different, sure, but it was a revolution for that much of the gameplay to have been replicated on the gameboy at all at the time. Thanks for the vid and the memories!
Great video man! I remember playing Super Mario Brothers on the NES as a kid in the early 1990s. It was crazy good & super impressive. But man o man we went crazy when Super Mario Brothers 3 was released. Everything about the series was turned up to 11, it was one of the most special times we had growing up.
in the early 1990’s you missed out on the consoles that could deliver games with better audio, graphics, music, sound, visuals 3DO, Atari Jaguar/Lynx, Game Gear, Sega Master System, NEO GEO, PC Engine/TurboGrafx, Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive, SNES Super Nintendo
I got it on Christmas back then, and played it several times until 100%. It had great level design and was super repayable, the game constantly throws new stuff at you and makes fun use of its different mechanics. It's one of my all time favourites and the Mario game I like the most.
I remember being excited for The Wizard with Fred Savage about the kid that goes on to win a championship and play Mario Bros 3. I rewatched it a few years ago and still love it. There definitely was an excitement in the air for new Mario games and it's easy to see why. When the franchise is done right, it makes memories that last a lifetime.
1. Sega Master System 2. Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive 3. SNES 4. PS1 5. Sega Saturn 6. Nintendo 64 7. Dreamcast 8. GameCube 9. PS2 10. Xbox 11. 2DS/3DS 12. PSP/PS Vita
Do to my move form SNES to Windows 95; I passed up the Saturn and N64 "Bleem allowing me to rent games form Blockbuster to play on my PC is why the PlayStation is not listed". Windows XP was 1st time I ever tried Super Mario 64.
Good stuff man! As an owner of the original NES (non-Deluxe) Set from the NY launch. I got the system in October 1985 as a birthday present. I was also watching no less than ten stores here for Super Mario Bros. to come out and I didn't see it hit here until a few months later in February 1986. If you see some of the early news reports for this, and even Wil Wheaton, from issue #1 (Feb 1987) of the Nintendo Fun Club News, he said "We've had SUPER MARIO BROS. at home since March [of 1986]". I personally think [February of 1986] is the official USA release date for Super Mario Bros. on NES. Nintendo would rather keep it as 1985 for both Japan, and USA. So they can keep the "Since 1985" tagline. It's within five months, but I wish Nintendo would be more honest about the release date here.If it was in fact in October 1985, I'd love to know WHERE! :) -Matt/VGO
Hey, SLX! Now THAT was a nostalgic trip... I coukdn't help re-living the moments of my childhood and teen years, with your stories and perceptions about these games. Thanks for that! Great video, man... cya next time!
I posted this yesterday but it didn't post for whatever reason. Metallica's Master Of Puppets works well with SegalordX lyrics. Master, Master! Master of SEGA is loading the vids, pumping out content like no one has seen, in the end there is no one but him, time to subscribe and join his discord.
I remember seeing Super Mario for the Nes at someone's house and wanting a Nes. It was my first time seeing a game this different from what I was used to on the Atari 2600. After playing and enjoying my own copy (the one with Duck Hunt), I also went on to enjoy Super Mario 2 and Super Mario 3, the latter of which is still one of those games I still replay today. Then when I got the N64 and Super Mario 64 I remember just standing at the waterfall outside of the castle and thinking how realistic it looked, ha! This kind of first-time experiences always makes me smile when I think about it. Growing up and seeing all these changes was fun and not something noticeable in today's games.
Love seeing someone else enjoy Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) and not just shit on it because it was so different. But I gotta ask - what about Super Mario Kart & Super Mario RPG? Just no personal experience with these titles at the time?
SMB3 and SMW are some of my favorite games of all time. When I got my Wii U, one of the first games I bought for it was SMBU, and it instantly transported me back to the early '90s when I played the older games with my best friend. I absolutely loved SMBU's take on the SM franchise with tweaked-yet-traditional Mario gameplay and those beautiful high def graphics. It was perfect.
Another gem from Sega Lord X I know it’s rare for you to do other consoles but when you do you always come correct consistency is key thank you for all your work
I will always remember the Mario mainline games. Been playing 2D and 3D action games since I was a kid. And that’s how I’ve been a fan of action games ever since. It gives me a sense of adventure, running my way through the levels and battling enemies on the way and overcoming obstacles.
I've always considered me & Mario "well super Mario bros" to be birthday buddies given we where both born in 1985 "GOD I FEEL SO OLD". Regardless of that both Mario & the Nes holds a very special place in my heart and always will. It was one of the first game series I ever played at the age of four in 1989, and one I still love to this day. As always I want to say thank for the content SLX, keep up the good work!
Awesome upload SLX! Loved it! I love seeing games and consoles from back in the day that I DIDN'T own such as the Mario games and NES/SNES consoles. My family was on the SEGA side during the 8 and 16-bit generations but we jumped shipped to the Nintendo branding with the N64 for the 32-bit and beyond generation. The NES was never popular over here in Auz, the Master System from SEGA pissed all over it, quite the opposite across the pond in North America of course. Lucky for me, there is a Super Mario Bros unlicensed release on the Mega Drive which is pretty much identical to the original Nes game. Heh, heh I can play it on my EverDrive.
Wait, you thought Sonic looked better than Super Mario World? I have to admit, that's the first time I'd heard that. You're videos always strike closer to home to me than with most other presenters. As a kid, I thought I'd give up playing video games when I grew up. With me turning 47 this year, I still play quite a bit. I remember sitting in 8th grade history class and someone near me had a Nintendo Power with Super Mario Brothers 2. I was super excited.
Feels good gaining the perspective from a gamer that lived through the high times of those games like me....even if you were a Sega kid lol, I preferred Nintendo but like you I was old enough to use my own money to buy so I had a genesis too. It makes me feel old when I see gamers on TH-cam saying " oh I was 7 years old when Mario sunshine came out and it was my first Mario game I played " lol
I grew up with Genesis. It wasn't until I started having severe health problems that I had to be taken to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh & undergo surgery. The hospital had a game room & it wasn't until then that I finally got to play the SNES & Super Mario Bros 3. I was so jealous of JUST SMB3 that I would've been willing to sell my Genesis & all my games just to be able to play it again. 1994. I was 6. About 1 year after my profile picture.
SLX coming with the heat 🔥🔥! I really enjoy videos like these because it gives a different type of gaming journey. I love the Sega Genesis! I love hearing about other platforms as well. As always good wholesome content man! Great Video!
Always love hearing about your personal experiences with games, especially long running franchises. I've got a ton of memories around Mario as well; from being absolutely enthralled with the first three Super Mario Bros titles as they released to being astonished at Super Mario World cramming so much content into a launch titles. When Mario 64 first hit I was of course very interested and being a 13 year old with no income to speak of did manage to rent the console to give it a try only to find it was so radically different I kind of didn't like it at first, still after an hour or so it all clicked it absolutely defined the 3d platformer genre for me.
Super Mario 64 and the first Tomb Raider. The birth of true 3D gaming. Both of these games would serve as a blueprint for all further 3D games to come and their legacy in 3D games can be felt till today.
Having started gaming with a Mega Drive and Sonic (I was VERY little), my first Nintendo system was the Game Boy and my first 2 pieces of Mario media were Super Mario Land 2 and DiC’s Super Mario World cartoon! (When I got Paper Mario TTYD as a teenager, I imagined Luigi saying his lines in that game in his 90s DiC voice!)
I remember going to do laundry with my mom and going into the K-Mart next door to look around. I found a TV and a SNES sitting on a mountain of boxes for said SNES and TV, creating a "demo unit" if you will. I proceeded to stand there and have my mind blown playing it while my mom finished the laundry. Growing up in the wild west of technology was wild. 😂
We had a video rental store that stocked Japanese Famicom games with cartridge adapters on them for rent. We rented Mario 3 even before The Wizard hit theaters. We were some of the first Americans to ever play SMB3. We waited and waited and waited for it to finally come out in America. I never knew it was pretty much an entire year we waited for it to release until you just said so. I always knew it was a really long wait, but didn't know it was a whole year
You know when I think about it, one could argue Sega STILL hasn't gotten 3D Sonic right. That was one area Nintendo destroyed Sega in. The transition from from 2D IP's to 3D almost always went seamless (almost..looking at you DK64). The Mario series always set the standard of whatever the mainline platform at the time was, and that is what makes it the all time GOAT Videogame series.
@@phattjohnson it was so novel to be able to alter the level by destroying bricks. I cannot think of an old game other than dig dug or bomberman that let you alter the screen as much.
1987. That was the year i first saw and played a Nintendo. It's funny to say now, but Super Mario Bros seemed so real then. There just wasn't anything like it. I miss those good old days.
What is this? Nintendo Lord X? 😋 I grew up with these titles during my childhood so I have a special place in my heart for them. Mario really paved the way for not only Nintendo, but video games as well! I was a Genesis kid, but I did envy SNES owners! The red plumber still is going strong today with some great titles!
Great video. Would you ever consider doing a video dedicated to the ill-fated Sonic X-Treme for the Sega Saturn? Would love to hear your take on the story of what happened and the history of the prototypes released to the community.
Super Mario Land was the first game I ever played so this video definitely brought back some great memories. I went on to play through the sequels as well, including all Wario games. They were all a lot of fun. The only games in the Wario series I have yet to play/complete are Master of Disguise and the latest Warioware for Switch. Crazy to think gaming icons back then are still going strong today.
I love you covering games and franchises not belonging to Sega. I wasn't even alive at the time of their release, but Mario World and Mario 64 had to be astonishing transitions from a generation to another back then. Shame Sonic couldn't keep up at the moment.
can't belive how close we came to get super mairo 64 2, which i refering to mairo 128 which would been made for 64 disk drive! However it was scrapped, never see direct sequel to mairo game on the same platform, till the wii with super mairo galaxy 2.
As a child who was very Nintendo biased, my love for Nintendo is purely nostalgic these days. Thank you for covering what I know, from the perspective of the 'enemy'.
I concur that I remember playing the NES prior to Super Mario Bros. my uncle had it and several of the original "Black Box" releases like Kung-Fu and Popeye, so my NES days didn't start with Super Mario, but DK and Mario Bros. I have to say SMB3 was my all time favorite though, so many different powerups!
Appreciate the mention of the oft-overlooked Vs Super Mario Bros. Loved playing it in the arcade. At the time, I actually thought the NES version was a home port
I remember when i´ve played Super Mario 2, also known as The Lost Levels on the Super Nintendo for the first time, and this game is way more difficult, than the Doki Doki Panic version we get in the west.
Wait are there people who think the first super mario bros game is too easy? That's such a strange complaint to me lol, it kicked my ass for a while and ive beaten a couple nes games people consider hard. Plenty of other gen z gamers I know had the same experience. There's even a hard mode option in the game you can use
i remember playing super mario 2 on nes when i was a kid god it was so hard back then played it recently and it wasnt as hard as i remembered guess my gaming skills have improved over the years
Yes to all in this vid! And does anyone else become overwhelmed with melancholy when listening to the Mario 64 ending theme? I dunno what it is but, gets me in the feels!
It really is an unexpectedly... not somber, but soft and gentle tune for an ending song. Not a big triumphant finale, but more of a sweet lullaby for the night after you've won "the big game" so to speak.
I had a 2600 starting when I was five and didn't get an NES until I was maybe 10. I don't think there's been a bigger jump in gameplay between console generations. Other than maybe Pitfall and Adventure all 2600 games were super simple and went on for as long as you didn't die or quit. Shoot this and avoid these was pretty much 80 percent of the games on it. When I got Super Mario Brothers with my NES it was like an actual world in the tv and I had no idea what would happen. This was before the genres were really solidified so every game I got was something radically different.Dragon Warrior, other than maybe GTA III, was the last time I recall firing up a new game and being totally floored with the revelation of the new type of gameplay I was introduced to. Also I never thought it was too easy. I never beat this one, if course I didn't know about the continue code so I had to slog my way to world 8 through the whole game every time. Even with the warp zones that took a bit and world 8 is tough, especially 8-3 and 8-4.
Growing up poor in the late 90s a neighbor of mine was moving out of his trailer and he was going to toss a bunch of stuff out and one thing he gave my older brother who was his friend was a nes with two games mario/duck hunt and heavy barrel. Only thing I used to do is watch wrestling so that's really all i had to look forward to since being poor theres not much to do. That nes made everything better and to this day those are the fondest memories my siblings have playing mario 3 or mega man 3, and caveman games etc. :')
I love "Super Mario Bros. 2" so much that I will practically defend it from anyone who hates it just because of the game being a re-skin of "Doki Doki Panic!", especially since everyone tends to forget that the latter was actually worked on by the exact same people behind "Super Mario Bros." to begin with.
As a wise Derek Buck from CGR Undertow once said: "You can divide any game ever created and divide then into two categories: the ones that came before Super Mario Bros. and the ones that came after." It's so true. P.S. While Super Mario World is my favirite game of all-time, Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) is the true sequel in my eyes and my favorite Mario game on the NES (just narrowly edging out the legendary Super Mario Bros 3...a great big thank you to the legend that is Howard Phillips (the one and true Game Master) for making it all possible. P.P.S. Super Mario RPG should never be counted out either...another legendary game in a long line of legendary games.
"When Super Mario Land 2 6 Golden Coins landed in late 1992, I was trying to support a Sega Genesis, a Turbo Grafx 16, a Sega CD, a Super Nintendo, a Game Gear, AND a pregnant girlfriend." Dude how old ARE you? I'm hearing your voice, and from the stories and cues up until this point I would have guessed like late 30s maybe early 40s, but this one offhand detail has thrown my entire understanding. Were you like a working adult in 1992, or was this a teen pregnancy situation? That is such a wild lore drop lmao
@@SegaLordX That's awesome dude. I was just surprised because you sound a lot younger than 48 lol Sounds like you've had an interesting journey, and it's cool that you're sharing your experience in these videos. I'm glad I stumbled on your channel.
A fantastic video, but I think there's a small oversight on not talking about the Mario franchise in the modern day, with it being insanely popular in the speedrunning community. It is probably the most speedrun franchise in all of gaming, and Super Mario 1 has essentially been beaten perfectly by humans (sum of best), a monumental achievement never done before except in the simplest of games.
When Super Mario 3 came out, I got the chickenpox. My parents rented it for me for an entire week. I don’t even remember the chickenpox, I just remember staying home from school and playing Super Mario 3. One of the best weeks of my life!
You might've been fully healed on Tuesday.. but best to play it safe and not give it to other kids in your grade ;)
What differentiated SMB from other games was actually the complexity of the game: there's physics with destructible environment, acceleration, deceleration, lots of interactions, and of course all of this had to be balanced perfectly to elevate the gameplay. Crazy that they were able to do all that on the NES.
Super Mario World really was the pinnacle (in my opinion) of Super Mario greatness.
Super Mario Bros has always been one of my very favorite video game franchises!
Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World are such perfect platformers. Even now, I can play them and there aren't many games from the time I consider perfect, but they instantly spring to mind.
One of the best memories I have is playing mario 3 during the summer holidays. It's a game I simply can't take out of my top 10 favourite games of all time.
LOL, you used the main theme, the underground theme, & the water level theme from the Mega Drive bootleg, Super Mario Bros. 2 1998. You got my full respect
Mario Bros 3 is still my favorite Mario game, and one of the only games I've never grown tired of.
Every time I stumble across the game every few years, I end up loving it all over again.
Even when it’s Nintendo based, you’re the best around Lord!… this made me dig up my old Nintendo powers and guide books while I put each of these games on my switch in the background just to feel that pure nostalgia
Now that the vid is over, I have Alisia Dragoon in demo mode as I read these great mags
This guy never reads comments, eh?
The great thing about Mario is that there's a game for everyone. Platformers, racing, sports, party games, RPGs, you name it. And they're all really fun and easy to play. Great video as always SLX
You know Sonic has similar diversity? Pinball, platformers, racing games, an RPG (that is shitty, nowhere near the quality of the Mario RPG’s).
My aunt bought us a Nintendo for Christmas in 88 or 89. I remember all our relatives gathered around the tv playing Super Mario Bros and that 1st Gumba was giving everyone trouble lol. Looking back now after playing all of the Mario games, Mario Land on 3DS is my favorite modern Mario game. Mario 3 is my favorite retro Mario game.
Quick hit memories: dad was purely a shooter (1941/1942 mainly) and pinball guy back then, but I can as clear as day remember him/his friends drinking cans of something I wasn't allowed to have (which my adult brain has established was beer) and attempting to beat Super Mario 3 (I don't remember Mario 1 as a kid for obvious reasons - I was 2). Also have many memories of my mom asking me to hook up the NES so she could play Dr. Mario. Because of my years of practice vs my mom, I wiped the floor with my friend's overconfident fiance (now wife) a few years back and she still hasn't forgotten.
SLX videos are always consistently high quality. Like a Mario game.
Or a Sonic game
Thank you. Appreciate that.
@@lutfimakarim8258 Nah, Sonic games haven't been consistent quality for the last 15 or so years.
@Lutfi Makarim Sega Lord X is Mario quality, Gamesack is Sonic quality.
@@nintendianajones64 *lies detected* 🤖
Most important video game franchise of all time. Super Mario bros 3 is still my favorite platformer ever
I second that. But my first love would have to be Super Mario World
I kinda like 1 and 2 the most
@@alex64gamingsame
Super Mario 3, World, and 64 are my favorites
All top tier games. The mario galaxy games for the wii are also excellent✌️
Nintendo content? Yes please!
I absolutely love Nintendo and Sega 🙏🏽
I dont have time to watch the videos that often anymore, but it fills me with joy that you're still making these videos. You've still got it, it's like I never took 2 years away.
What a comforting and familiar reat to come back to. Hope you are happy doing this still.
Super Mario 3 Is A Bad Memory For Me. I Was So Addicted To It That My Mom Literally Threw My Nes Into The Trash For Not Studying Well.
You should make a new memory with it, a good one.
I remember coming home from school and dad had bought the NES as a surprise to us 3 kids (and himself) and that's all she wrote for my homework getting done the rest of that year :P
Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt dual-cartridge.. I think my sister was the first to realise you could smash the bricks after grabbing a mushroom! We were awestruck at the dynamic gameplay and combat options!
Simply one of the best retro gaming channels.. 27 mins went by fast like a Sonic blur! 👊💥
Thank you very much for this time travel. It did bring back some fond memories. As a kid those games blew my mind again and again and those feelings as a kid playing those games are something special. Again, thank you!
I really like your videos. Keep up your awesome work.
We're the Mario Brothers and plumbin's our game
We're not like the others who get all the fame
If your sink is in trouble, you can call us on the double
We're faster than the others, you'll be hooked on the brothers
My older cousins received an NES for Christmas 1986 (did some family sleuthing years later to determine the year) I was 21 months old and I shit you not, Super Mario Bros is my first formed conscious memory.
They let me attempt to play as an infant. I remember being so frustrated watching my cousins fly through the level while I died before the first pit every. single. time.
Ha! That's gotta be a 'formative' memory :P How did it impact your opinion towards gaming going forward?
@@phattjohnson I'm not sure haha. Science would dispute my account--it is believed the earliest humans can form memories is 2.5 years.
But even as childhood is mostly forgotten with age, that memory still remains. To this day the SMB first level song does something to me, beyond nostalgia, it is actual time travel, especially if I haven't played it in some years.
To me personally, I firmly believe that the original Super Mario Brothers on the NES is the greatest game of all time. While I fully understand that the home gaming scenes in Europe and Japan never had a crash like in North America in '83, it was SMB success that reignited the video game market here. As far as I'm concerned it is responsible for gaming as we know it.
SLX is the Gen X friend I grew up with back East but never got a chance to meet.
Glad to see Super Mario Land 1 getting some love. It was different, sure, but it was a revolution for that much of the gameplay to have been replicated on the gameboy at all at the time.
Thanks for the vid and the memories!
Great video man! I remember playing Super Mario Brothers on the NES as a kid in the early 1990s. It was crazy good & super impressive. But man o man we went crazy when Super Mario Brothers 3 was released. Everything about the series was turned up to 11, it was one of the most special times we had growing up.
in the early 1990’s you missed out on the consoles that could deliver games with better audio, graphics, music, sound, visuals 3DO, Atari Jaguar/Lynx, Game Gear, Sega Master System, NEO GEO, PC Engine/TurboGrafx, Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive, SNES Super Nintendo
Sega lord has broke out taking even more games. Still the most iconic into
Yoshi’s Island is such a beautiful game. It’s hard to believe how it spawned an entire spinoff series when it could have just been a one off
The final boss battle though is annoying, though.
I got it on Christmas back then, and played it several times until 100%. It had great level design and was super repayable, the game constantly throws new stuff at you and makes fun use of its different mechanics. It's one of my all time favourites and the Mario game I like the most.
Yoshi’s Island is great, while Yoshi’s Story is awful! Most of his spinoff games have been too simple. Yoshi's Woolly World was my favorite.💚
I remember being excited for The Wizard with Fred Savage about the kid that goes on to win a championship and play Mario Bros 3. I rewatched it a few years ago and still love it. There definitely was an excitement in the air for new Mario games and it's easy to see why. When the franchise is done right, it makes memories that last a lifetime.
I'm still chuffed I managed to find the magic whistle in the World 1 fort before the movie spoiled it for me :P
NES to N64 were the best times
Even on PC gaming.
Even on arcades
1. Sega Master System
2. Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive
3. SNES
4. PS1
5. Sega Saturn
6. Nintendo 64
7. Dreamcast
8. GameCube
9. PS2
10. Xbox
11. 2DS/3DS
12. PSP/PS Vita
Nah. Master system to Saturn was better.
Do to my move form SNES to Windows 95; I passed up the Saturn and N64 "Bleem allowing me to rent games form Blockbuster to play on my PC is why the PlayStation is not listed". Windows XP was 1st time I ever tried Super Mario 64.
"The entire thing was a dream for me"
I see what you did there :P
Ah! Bowakawa, pousse pousse
DO A PART 2!!! this is cool seeing your perspective on other consules
my first video i ever played was Super Mario Bros.
Good stuff man! As an owner of the original NES (non-Deluxe) Set from the NY launch. I got the system in October 1985 as a birthday present. I was also watching no less than ten stores here for Super Mario Bros. to come out and I didn't see it hit here until a few months later in February 1986. If you see some of the early news reports for this, and even Wil Wheaton, from issue #1 (Feb 1987) of the Nintendo Fun Club News, he said "We've had SUPER MARIO BROS. at home since March [of 1986]".
I personally think [February of 1986] is the official USA release date for Super Mario Bros. on NES. Nintendo would rather keep it as 1985 for both Japan, and USA. So they can keep the "Since 1985" tagline. It's within five months, but I wish Nintendo would be more honest about the release date here.If it was in fact in October 1985, I'd love to know WHERE! :) -Matt/VGO
Hey, SLX!
Now THAT was a nostalgic trip... I coukdn't help re-living the moments of my childhood and teen years, with your stories and perceptions about these games.
Thanks for that!
Great video, man... cya next time!
He's the Sega Lord,
He's the Atari and Nintendo Lord,
He's the Video Game Lord X.
Whilst original, something about the lyrics here feel a tad derivative.. can't quite put my finger on it.. ;)
I posted this yesterday but it didn't post for whatever reason.
Metallica's Master Of Puppets works well with SegalordX lyrics.
Master, Master!
Master of SEGA is loading the vids,
pumping out content like no one has seen,
in the end there is no one but him,
time to subscribe and join his discord.
Everyone always forgets Mario switched trades and started laying down pipe.
He went from nailing and screwing to laying down pipe 😆
Given all the piranha plants and stuff in the pipes, I guess the Mario games are all just elaborate warnings about the dangers of STDs
I remember seeing Super Mario for the Nes at someone's house and wanting a Nes. It was my first time seeing a game this different from what I was used to on the Atari 2600. After playing and enjoying my own copy (the one with Duck Hunt), I also went on to enjoy Super Mario 2 and Super Mario 3, the latter of which is still one of those games I still replay today.
Then when I got the N64 and Super Mario 64 I remember just standing at the waterfall outside of the castle and thinking how realistic it looked, ha! This kind of first-time experiences always makes me smile when I think about it. Growing up and seeing all these changes was fun and not something noticeable in today's games.
What a wonderful episode that I didn't expect.
Love seeing someone else enjoy Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) and not just shit on it because it was so different. But I gotta ask - what about Super Mario Kart & Super Mario RPG? Just no personal experience with these titles at the time?
I just wanted to cover the main Super Mario games. Adding the spinoffs would have made the episode a lot more work.
Your videos are perfect! Please keep them coming and thank you for all that you do.
Glad you like them!
SMB3 and SMW are some of my favorite games of all time. When I got my Wii U, one of the first games I bought for it was SMBU, and it instantly transported me back to the early '90s when I played the older games with my best friend. I absolutely loved SMBU's take on the SM franchise with tweaked-yet-traditional Mario gameplay and those beautiful high def graphics. It was perfect.
Another gem from Sega Lord X I know it’s rare for you to do other consoles but when you do you always come correct consistency is key thank you for all your work
I will always remember the Mario mainline games. Been playing 2D and 3D action games since I was a kid. And that’s how I’ve been a fan of action games ever since. It gives me a sense of adventure, running my way through the levels and battling enemies on the way and overcoming obstacles.
ahhh another SLX joint !! ❤️🥰🥰
I've always considered me & Mario "well super Mario bros" to be birthday buddies given we where both born in 1985 "GOD I FEEL SO OLD". Regardless of that both Mario & the Nes holds a very special place in my heart and always will. It was one of the first game series I ever played at the age of four in 1989, and one I still love to this day.
As always I want to say thank for the content SLX, keep up the good work!
Awesome upload SLX! Loved it! I love seeing games and consoles from back in the day that I DIDN'T own such as the Mario games and NES/SNES consoles. My family was on the SEGA side during the 8 and 16-bit generations but we jumped shipped to the Nintendo branding with the N64 for the 32-bit and beyond generation. The NES was never popular over here in Auz, the Master System from SEGA pissed all over it, quite the opposite across the pond in North America of course.
Lucky for me, there is a Super Mario Bros unlicensed release on the Mega Drive which is pretty much identical to the original Nes game. Heh, heh I can play it on my EverDrive.
Wait, you thought Sonic looked better than Super Mario World? I have to admit, that's the first time I'd heard that.
You're videos always strike closer to home to me than with most other presenters. As a kid, I thought I'd give up playing video games when I grew up. With me turning 47 this year, I still play quite a bit.
I remember sitting in 8th grade history class and someone near me had a Nintendo Power with Super Mario Brothers 2. I was super excited.
Yay, more Sega Lord X content! Thanks for doing this video, I didn't know the depth of Mario's history. It's cool to learn something new
Episodes like this is why Sega Lord X > Gamesack
You forgot the best thing to come from Super Mario Bros. in the '80s. Doing the Mario dance from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show. Do the Mario!
Super Mario Bros will always be the Game that revolutionized The Gaming Industry Along with Pac Man
Feels good gaining the perspective from a gamer that lived through the high times of those games like me....even if you were a Sega kid lol, I preferred Nintendo but like you I was old enough to use my own money to buy so I had a genesis too. It makes me feel old when I see gamers on TH-cam saying " oh I was 7 years old when Mario sunshine came out and it was my first Mario game I played " lol
I grew up with Genesis. It wasn't until I started having severe health problems that I had to be taken to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh & undergo surgery. The hospital had a game room & it wasn't until then that I finally got to play the SNES & Super Mario Bros 3. I was so jealous of JUST SMB3 that I would've been willing to sell my Genesis & all my games just to be able to play it again. 1994. I was 6. About 1 year after my profile picture.
I can’t watch right now but I’m happy to see you doing Nintendo stuff. Love your work.
SLX coming with the heat 🔥🔥! I really enjoy videos like these because it gives a different type of gaming journey. I love the Sega Genesis! I love hearing about other platforms as well. As always good wholesome content man! Great Video!
Glad you enjoy it!
Always love hearing about your personal experiences with games, especially long running franchises. I've got a ton of memories around Mario as well; from being absolutely enthralled with the first three Super Mario Bros titles as they released to being astonished at Super Mario World cramming so much content into a launch titles. When Mario 64 first hit I was of course very interested and being a 13 year old with no income to speak of did manage to rent the console to give it a try only to find it was so radically different I kind of didn't like it at first, still after an hour or so it all clicked it absolutely defined the 3d platformer genre for me.
Super Mario 64 and the first Tomb Raider. The birth of true 3D gaming. Both of these games would serve as a blueprint for all further 3D games to come and their legacy in 3D games can be felt till today.
Having started gaming with a Mega Drive and Sonic (I was VERY little), my first Nintendo system was the Game Boy and my first 2 pieces of Mario media were Super Mario Land 2 and DiC’s Super Mario World cartoon! (When I got Paper Mario TTYD as a teenager, I imagined Luigi saying his lines in that game in his 90s DiC voice!)
I'm glad you covered the Game Boy titles! I used to play through Mario Land all the time as a kid, especially on long plane flights!
I remember going to do laundry with my mom and going into the K-Mart next door to look around. I found a TV and a SNES sitting on a mountain of boxes for said SNES and TV, creating a "demo unit" if you will. I proceeded to stand there and have my mind blown playing it while my mom finished the laundry. Growing up in the wild west of technology was wild. 😂
Just wanted to say thanks for the content. Been a fan for years and not sure I've commented anything. Great video as always.
We had a video rental store that stocked Japanese Famicom games with cartridge adapters on them for rent.
We rented Mario 3 even before The Wizard hit theaters. We were some of the first Americans to ever play SMB3.
We waited and waited and waited for it to finally come out in America. I never knew it was pretty much an entire year we waited for it to release until you just said so.
I always knew it was a really long wait, but didn't know it was a whole year
As always thanks for your point of view and opinion on this subject
You know when I think about it, one could argue Sega STILL hasn't gotten 3D Sonic right.
That was one area Nintendo destroyed Sega in. The transition from from 2D IP's to 3D almost always went seamless (almost..looking at you DK64).
The Mario series always set the standard of whatever the mainline platform at the time was, and that is what makes it the all time GOAT Videogame series.
Being able to destroy bricks was pretty cool in the 80s
I was BLOWN AWAY when we'd been playing the game for like half an hour and my sister finally discovered you could do it!
@@phattjohnson it was so novel to be able to alter the level by destroying bricks. I cannot think of an old game other than dig dug or bomberman that let you alter the screen as much.
1987. That was the year i first saw and played a Nintendo. It's funny to say now, but Super Mario Bros seemed so real then.
There just wasn't anything like it.
I miss those good old days.
What is this? Nintendo Lord X? 😋 I grew up with these titles during my childhood so I have a special place in my heart for them. Mario really paved the way for not only Nintendo, but video games as well! I was a Genesis kid, but I did envy SNES owners! The red plumber still is going strong today with some great titles!
Great video. Would you ever consider doing a video dedicated to the ill-fated Sonic X-Treme for the Sega Saturn? Would love to hear your take on the story of what happened and the history of the prototypes released to the community.
Super Mario Land was the first game I ever played so this video definitely brought back some great memories. I went on to play through the sequels as well, including all Wario games. They were all a lot of fun. The only games in the Wario series I have yet to play/complete are Master of Disguise and the latest Warioware for Switch. Crazy to think gaming icons back then are still going strong today.
Thanks for the love letter, this was my childhood as well! Great video man!
I love you covering games and franchises not belonging to Sega.
I wasn't even alive at the time of their release, but Mario World and Mario 64 had to be astonishing transitions from a generation to another back then. Shame Sonic couldn't keep up at the moment.
can't belive how close we came to get super mairo 64 2, which i refering to mairo 128 which would been made for 64 disk drive!
However it was scrapped, never see direct sequel to mairo game on the same platform, till the wii with super mairo galaxy 2.
As a child who was very Nintendo biased, my love for Nintendo is purely nostalgic these days. Thank you for covering what I know, from the perspective of the 'enemy'.
I concur that I remember playing the NES prior to Super Mario Bros. my uncle had it and several of the original "Black Box" releases like Kung-Fu and Popeye, so my NES days didn't start with Super Mario, but DK and Mario Bros. I have to say SMB3 was my all time favorite though, so many different powerups!
If someone put a gun to my head and told me to name the best 2D platformer of all time, I'd probably go with Mario 3.
Appreciate the mention of the oft-overlooked Vs Super Mario Bros. Loved playing it in the arcade. At the time, I actually thought the NES version was a home port
I remember when i´ve played Super Mario 2, also known as The Lost Levels on the Super Nintendo for the first time, and this game is way more difficult, than the Doki Doki Panic version we get in the west.
no body know player better than nintendo
no body make games like nintendo
this company literly enlighten home gaming and my childhood
Wait are there people who think the first super mario bros game is too easy?
That's such a strange complaint to me lol, it kicked my ass for a while and ive beaten a couple nes games people consider hard. Plenty of other gen z gamers I know had the same experience.
There's even a hard mode option in the game you can use
I think I finished Battletoads as a kid before I went back and finished Super Mario Bros 1 (had already finished 2 and 3).
I've played it since the late 80s so it's too easy now, but it's still fun. But like any game you get better the more you play it
i remember playing super mario 2 on nes when i was a kid god it was so hard back then played it recently and it wasnt as hard as i remembered guess my gaming skills have improved over the years
Yes to all in this vid! And does anyone else become overwhelmed with melancholy when listening to the Mario 64 ending theme? I dunno what it is but, gets me in the feels!
It really is an unexpectedly... not somber, but soft and gentle tune for an ending song. Not a big triumphant finale, but more of a sweet lullaby for the night after you've won "the big game" so to speak.
Most overrated game of all time probably. The thing has not aged well, at all.
This is the first time I ever saw the original SMB2. I don’t know why I never bothered to check it out. Thanks for another great episode!
Gotta respect the old days of mario, even though the graphics look old by today standards the gameplay was certainly there
I had a 2600 starting when I was five and didn't get an NES until I was maybe 10. I don't think there's been a bigger jump in gameplay between console generations. Other than maybe Pitfall and Adventure all 2600 games were super simple and went on for as long as you didn't die or quit. Shoot this and avoid these was pretty much 80 percent of the games on it. When I got Super Mario Brothers with my NES it was like an actual world in the tv and I had no idea what would happen. This was before the genres were really solidified so every game I got was something radically different.Dragon Warrior, other than maybe GTA III, was the last time I recall firing up a new game and being totally floored with the revelation of the new type of gameplay I was introduced to.
Also I never thought it was too easy. I never beat this one, if course I didn't know about the continue code so I had to slog my way to world 8 through the whole game every time. Even with the warp zones that took a bit and world 8 is tough, especially 8-3 and 8-4.
The magic of the first Super mario, the controller. Remember it stil, how i lifted the controller to jump.
I got a GameBoy in 89
Growing up poor in the late 90s a neighbor of mine was moving out of his trailer and he was going to toss a bunch of stuff out and one thing he gave my older brother who was his friend was a nes with two games mario/duck hunt and heavy barrel. Only thing I used to do is watch wrestling so that's really all i had to look forward to since being poor theres not much to do. That nes made everything better and to this day those are the fondest memories my siblings have playing mario 3 or mega man 3, and caveman games etc. :')
First time to hear SLX talk about Nintendo games, it is great!
Mario will always have a special place in my heart.
I love "Super Mario Bros. 2" so much that I will practically defend it from anyone who hates it just because of the game being a re-skin of "Doki Doki Panic!", especially since everyone tends to forget that the latter was actually worked on by the exact same people behind "Super Mario Bros." to begin with.
great video!! super mario bros 64 would be the second game that mario would have a life gauge. remember there was one in super mario bros 2
Great video but you forgot about Super Mario RPG, Legend of the Seven Stars! It was released in 1996 on the Super Nintendo!
Just the mainline platformers, man. No spinoffs.
Now i wanna see a diehard nintendo fan who also likes sonic games.
I am a nintendo fan but i do like those early sonic games as well.
As a wise Derek Buck from CGR Undertow once said: "You can divide any game ever created and divide then into two categories: the ones that came before Super Mario Bros. and the ones that came after." It's so true.
P.S. While Super Mario World is my favirite game of all-time, Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) is the true sequel in my eyes and my favorite Mario game on the NES (just narrowly edging out the legendary Super Mario Bros 3...a great big thank you to the legend that is Howard Phillips (the one and true Game Master) for making it all possible.
P.P.S. Super Mario RPG should never be counted out either...another legendary game in a long line of legendary games.
"When Super Mario Land 2 6 Golden Coins landed in late 1992, I was trying to support a Sega Genesis, a Turbo Grafx 16, a Sega CD, a Super Nintendo, a Game Gear, AND a pregnant girlfriend."
Dude how old ARE you? I'm hearing your voice, and from the stories and cues up until this point I would have guessed like late 30s maybe early 40s, but this one offhand detail has thrown my entire understanding. Were you like a working adult in 1992, or was this a teen pregnancy situation? That is such a wild lore drop lmao
I was 17 when my first daughter was born. Working since 15.
@@SegaLordX That's awesome dude. I was just surprised because you sound a lot younger than 48 lol
Sounds like you've had an interesting journey, and it's cool that you're sharing your experience in these videos. I'm glad I stumbled on your channel.
A fantastic video, but I think there's a small oversight on not talking about the Mario franchise in the modern day, with it being insanely popular in the speedrunning community. It is probably the most speedrun franchise in all of gaming, and Super Mario 1 has essentially been beaten perfectly by humans (sum of best), a monumental achievement never done before except in the simplest of games.
Excellent reviews as always SLX, would love to see you cover the Mario Kart series someday.