One of the best Nintendo Game Boy games of all time! I have this game and play it on my original Game Boy. You got to play this on the 1989 Game Boy, because that's what makes it fun and classic!
As Mario games go, this one was by far the most exotic. Easter Island heads? Chinese ghosts? But it was pretty swell. I think the Gunpei Yokoi (creator of Metroid and Gameboy) had more input in this game than Miyamoto. On a side note, if you beat this game either once or twice in a row, you get a hard mode with lots more enemies.
Never got round to finishing this game when I was younger on my Game Boy. Actually only finished this game for the first time about a month ago on my 3DS.
yesterday, i was messing around on my GBA SP on Donkey Kong for the GB, and i realized something that i never realized before. just to make sure, i tried it with Tetris and it still worked! all you have to do is, as you're booting up the system, hold one of the four directional buttons. it actually changes the color scheme! left=blue, right=green/red up=brown, and down=yellow/purple! it's so awesome! (it only works with original GB cartridges. not GBC or GBA) thought i'd just let you guys know!
When I was six I lost my first Gameboy Color in a rental car while on vacation and this was the game that was in it, that was the most devastated I had ever been because of video games, I never actually got another copy of this game, however when I got my 3DS I went to the store and purchased this game, I have since put about 4 hours into it. -Dark Crow I
I just got finished playing through this game using an emulator, and it was not bad, it was really challenging and tough on some levels. Although it was a short game, the game was pretty good considering this was a game boy game from 1989 and one I never have played before until tonight.
One of the best Christmas's in my life, 1990, when I got my first GameBoy, this game, and Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword Of Chaos, just to name a few of the NES/GameBoy titles that wound up in my stocking that morning. Good times. :)
I always used to think those robots were bowls of ice cream, and the sinking floor tiles were hamburgers. Luckily these days I realize that the floor tiles are actually oreos.
This was so awesome when it first released, Black n white is the way everyone remembers it...adding in the colors actually dillutes the feeling, memories & experience.
oh man, i remember being in grade 4 in 1990 and playing this on my original gameboy during fundays, like the valentines day party, or the half day before christmas vacation, all the kids would gather around my desk and we'd pass my gameboy around, memories :)
This game was a true classic when I played this on my Game Boy Color back in elementary school. It makes me want to buy it again on the 3DS to relieve the fun I had with this game.
@rickster397 That seems to be shot from the screen with a camera. Weird, since most of CGR's GB-reviews are shot using a super gameboy, or the gameboy player
@mrbisshie All of the background tiles get one 4-color palette, while all of the sprites (most moving things like the player, enemies, platforms, etc.) share a second 4-color palette. For SML1 it appears to use something like black/red/beige/cyan for background and transparent/red/pink/beige for sprites. I believe the GBC and GBA have a set of user-selectable (hold D-pad during boot) palettes for GB games, as well as a database of which GB games should use which palettes by default.
Yes, that's 125 bucks for a *presumably* mint-condition game, meaning factory-sealed, mint box with an included mint instruction manual. I'm sure you can find a used copy of the game itself for around $0.10 - $5 somewhere online.
I used to have a blast playing this game as a kid, but not really for just playing each level.. I liked to find the hidden paths and invisible floors that allowed me to skip through the level or find interesting things.
The graphics are really good for a launch title of the gameboy very little ghosting and simple black and white (or grey and green) colors. The enemies are random seeing as they don't respawn and the game doesn't allow backwards scrolling. Infact if you die in an area with constantly spawning enemies they won't spawn in the area you respawned in.
Did you guys know that theres a cheat if your at the Easter Island head thingy world once you lose your last life and die right away keep pressing start over and over again even when the game over screen shows up keep doing it and one the game over screen is gone and press start on the title screen you'll begin at the same Easter Island world :P
Mark this is probaly the most underrated and greatest game in the Mario franchise. This show btw is my favorite review show along avgn. I would surely want u and him to at least make one review together! Btw have u played this back in the past when it was out. Anyways may god bless ur show, and I really wish I can donate u a game to review.
Just got this on my 3DS as a Gold Member's reward. Haven't played this game in YEARS, I had it for the original Game Boy! :D Will have LOADS of fun playing it again! :)
if someone wants to play this game, here's a little tip: at 3:25 jump just a little left of the 4 brown blocks. there are some invisible blocks you can walk on! that's how you get down there
@CrassCast How did it "steer too far?" Other than a different location and bad guy, it wasn't exactly anything so outlandish. Remember, we're dealing with a universe where an Italian plumber saves a princess from mutant mushrooms and turtles. A space alien isn't that absurd in the grand scheme of things. The controls were overly difficult? To whom exactly? Sure, the jumping mechanic itself wasn't the best in a Mario game, but the controls were very easy to pick up and play.
Mr. Mark, I'd like to inform you that the Gameboy version of Donkey Kong is very different from the arcade original. If you don't know that already. It's very cool. Also, do you know The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (Awesome name right?) is on the 3DS for download? I could see you digging the sense of humor in it. I know I do.
@CrystalSnake100 The reason why is that the story in this game, Mario isn't in the mushroom kingdom, he's in sarasland.bowser is not in this game either, he's replaced by tantanga a evil alien. In other words, the setting is really different in this game compared to super Mario bros series.
so what you're saying is, the nintendo 3DS is still around in the year 2084 when you filmed this? hell id figure they would have a new system to play super mario land on instead of a 3DS
I realy enjoy your reviews. You can use humor without fall in the stupidity that we see in youtube this days. The fact that some people don't get the jokes, in my opinion, is a good news.
@IronFury To continue, I think people fail to realize that Super Mario Land is arguably the first major game on the system, and with it comes experimentation. Is Super Mario Land perfect? Not at all, but is it a bad Mario game let alone a bad game in general? Absolutely not. They took what limitations they had at the time and tried to make something out of it that was playable and a way to test out the capabilities of the newly made Gameboy at the time.
@WenGobou Yeah! after trying all of the combinations, i decided that my favorite is B+Left. for some reason, i just like the black/white color scheme. it seems to me like the "adding four colors" feature of the later game boys almost always just doesn't work out all that well. I just prefer the black/white. plus, it makes me feel old-school :)
Man, you're a lot more charitable toward this game than I am. It's an OK launch title, but there are so many superior side-scrollers released for the Game Boy that I'd bump this one pretty far down the list of must-haves.
@NintendoFanboy1235 I know I realized that too. neon yellow gargoyles quest anyone? When I was smaller, I always thought you had to mash all the buttons, ah the things we do when we are kids.
At least Mark knows that Super Mario Land is still a good game despite a few inconsistancies between this and the other core Mario games. It seems like Derek focused on the game's trivial and illegitimate issues like enemies being different and the bad guy being Tatanga and not Bowser.
@CrassCast I'm not even denying that Super Mario Land has problems, because as I stated before, the jumping mechanic itself wasn't great. I agree on that point. However, if he emphasized THAT instead of complained about things like a flying saucer being in a level, it would have been a much better review. I don't have a problem with him disliking the game, but emphasize things about it that are legitimate negatives, like the flawed jumping mechanic, or how short it is.
I love this game. I don't remember how I got it, since I was born in 1992, a good 3 years after its release, not to mention the dawn of the SNES. But somehow it's been around since I was a kid. Picked it up the other night and beat it in one sitting :] Only took about 4 hours.
I can't believe you didn't mention the most frustrating part of this whole game -> you can't save, I used to freak out all the time as a kid when I was game over :-P
@IronFury Here's the problem though, you're saying this review is far better than Derek's, when this one implies Super Mario Land is a flawless masterpiece. SML had big problems, but what difference is there in a review that's overly positive, to one that's overly negative?
@CrassCast Derek's review was pretty much, "It's different therefore it is bad." Just because it is "highly produced" doesn't mean it is a good review. Personally, I couldn't care less if he disliked the game, but elaborate on why you think it isn't a good game other than "it is different."
wow, such polarized opinions between Mark and Derek
Derek is a joke
Derek is a loser 😂
This was my first Gamenoy game... loved it. 13 years later, I still have it, as well.
The music was memorable and catchy, very fitting for the levels.
One of the best Nintendo Game Boy games of all time! I have this game and play it on my original Game Boy. You got to play this on the 1989 Game Boy, because that's what makes it fun and classic!
As Mario games go, this one was by far the most exotic. Easter Island heads? Chinese ghosts? But it was pretty swell. I think the Gunpei Yokoi (creator of Metroid and Gameboy) had more input in this game than Miyamoto.
On a side note, if you beat this game either once or twice in a row, you get a hard mode with lots more enemies.
Never got round to finishing this game when I was younger on my Game Boy. Actually only finished this game for the first time about a month ago on my 3DS.
yesterday, i was messing around on my GBA SP on Donkey Kong for the GB, and i realized something that i never realized before. just to make sure, i tried it with Tetris and it still worked! all you have to do is, as you're booting up the system, hold one of the four directional buttons. it actually changes the color scheme! left=blue, right=green/red up=brown, and down=yellow/purple! it's so awesome! (it only works with original GB cartridges. not GBC or GBA) thought i'd just let you guys know!
When I was six I lost my first Gameboy Color in a rental car while on vacation and this was the game that was in it, that was the most devastated I had ever been because of video games, I never actually got another copy of this game, however when I got my 3DS I went to the store and purchased this game, I have since put about 4 hours into it.
-Dark Crow I
I don't know if you guys know this, but a really famous ventrillo harassment uses this theme and I keep getting reminded of it.
Can't believe I was playing this 20 years ago. Makes me feel so old. Time flies with Nintendo.
I just got finished playing through this game using an emulator, and it was not bad, it was really challenging and tough on some levels. Although it was a short game, the game was pretty good considering this was a game boy game from 1989 and one I never have played before until tonight.
This game was my go to for years when my parents would go places. Oh, the big huge Gameboy and I would have fun while grownups did grownup things. =)
One of the best Christmas's in my life, 1990, when I got my first GameBoy, this game, and Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword Of Chaos, just to name a few of the NES/GameBoy titles that wound up in my stocking that morning. Good times. :)
Still got the classic cartridge back at home. Of course I had to download this for my 3DS!
I always used to think those robots were bowls of ice cream, and the sinking floor tiles were hamburgers. Luckily these days I realize that the floor tiles are actually oreos.
The falling ceiling tiles always look like loaves of bread to me....and the mushroom looks like a muffin.
This and Donkey Kong were awesome back in the day and still look great today.
I like how he was sarcastic when he mentioned "Mario driving" now they need to do a Mario fishing and hockey game
I'd be more excited about a Mario shooter. Not because I'm that into shooters, but because it would be hilariously out of character for the franchise.
Derek's own personal hell, would be to watch this review once a day, every day!
Witout a doubt a really better review than Derek that crushed my children nostalgia when he review the game!!! Thanks Mark!!
Once I noticed that dead pixel towards the bottom left of the screen, I couldn't unsee it. It bugged me for the whole video :P
You ruined the video for me
***** i did not see it
+Nerdicai There's also some horizontal blanking at 0:05 #FormerTelevisionQCTech #INoticeTheseThingsEverywhereForeverNow
+Nerdicai
"he is playing 99,7% of Super Mario Land".
Nerdicai yeah that's true
This was so awesome when it first released, Black n white is the way everyone remembers it...adding in the colors actually dillutes the feeling, memories & experience.
The music is incredible. I didn't even play this as a kid and it still sounds nostalgic
oh man, i remember being in grade 4 in 1990 and playing this on my original gameboy during fundays, like the valentines day party, or the half day before christmas vacation, all the kids would gather around my desk and we'd pass my gameboy around, memories :)
Mark, I love your comment at 4.30 ! It's really sad that todays games don't have that sparkle anymore! :(
This still has one of the better fan soundtracks. It just slaps (if you're really into jazz).
This game was a true classic when I played this on my Game Boy Color back in elementary school. It makes me want to buy it again on the 3DS to relieve the fun I had with this game.
I always found it weard that you could get the coins with fireballs
Rubber ball
@rickster397 That seems to be shot from the screen with a camera. Weird, since most of CGR's GB-reviews are shot using a super gameboy, or the gameboy player
If you press the buttons while on the Gameboy screen you can change colour of the game.
I am 32 years old now and this was groundbreaking back then
@mrbisshie All of the background tiles get one 4-color palette, while all of the sprites (most moving things like the player, enemies, platforms, etc.) share a second 4-color palette. For SML1 it appears to use something like black/red/beige/cyan for background and transparent/red/pink/beige for sprites.
I believe the GBC and GBA have a set of user-selectable (hold D-pad during boot) palettes for GB games, as well as a database of which GB games should use which palettes by default.
Yes, that's 125 bucks for a *presumably* mint-condition game, meaning factory-sealed, mint box with an included mint instruction manual. I'm sure you can find a used copy of the game itself for around $0.10 - $5 somewhere online.
I think the sprites in this game look soo adorable. I want to hug the mario sprite when he's in the submarine thingy X)
Watching Mark's reviews in 240 like a boss.
I used to have a blast playing this game as a kid, but not really for just playing each level.. I liked to find the hidden paths and invisible floors that allowed me to skip through the level or find interesting things.
The graphics are really good for a launch title of the gameboy very little ghosting and simple black and white (or grey and green) colors. The enemies are random seeing as they don't respawn and the game doesn't allow backwards scrolling. Infact if you die in an area with constantly spawning enemies they won't spawn in the area you respawned in.
I played this game so much and still do! Got it when it first came out.i was so happy! You need some practise tho ;)
Did you guys know that theres a cheat if your at the Easter Island head thingy world once you lose your last life and die right away keep pressing start over and over again even when the game over screen shows up keep doing it and one the game over screen is gone and press start on the title screen you'll begin at the same Easter Island world :P
It doesn't matter what you play it on. The cartridge never had a save feature.
Mark this is probaly the most underrated and greatest game in the Mario franchise. This show btw is my favorite review show along avgn. I would surely want u and him to at least make one review together! Btw have u played this back in the past when it was out. Anyways may god bless ur show, and I really wish I can donate u a game to review.
Every song in this game is amazing. There is not a single one that's worse than the others. All of them are so classic! I can't get over it!
@VGA322 It eventually became Black and White with the re-designe Game Boy Pocket
Just got this on my 3DS as a Gold Member's reward. Haven't played this game in YEARS, I had it for the original Game Boy! :D
Will have LOADS of fun playing it again! :)
Great review! One of my favorite games.
Love playing this game on the old black n white gameboy. The music is terrific
if someone wants to play this game, here's a little tip:
at 3:25 jump just a little left of the 4 brown blocks. there are some invisible blocks you can walk on! that's how you get down there
you missed the extra life at the beginning hidden in the blocks just before you get the flower power up
This was my first and only mario game for the game boy.. the memories. Funny how old video game music can hit you.
@CrassCast How did it "steer too far?" Other than a different location and bad guy, it wasn't exactly anything so outlandish. Remember, we're dealing with a universe where an Italian plumber saves a princess from mutant mushrooms and turtles. A space alien isn't that absurd in the grand scheme of things. The controls were overly difficult? To whom exactly? Sure, the jumping mechanic itself wasn't the best in a Mario game, but the controls were very easy to pick up and play.
Mr. Mark, I'd like to inform you that the Gameboy version of Donkey Kong is very different from the arcade original. If you don't know that already. It's very cool.
Also, do you know The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (Awesome name right?) is on the 3DS for download? I could see you digging the sense of humor in it. I know I do.
I remember playing this game all summer and finally beating it. Good memories.
I beat this game today.
I used to be addicted to this game... the music is just so damned good
This is the first video game I ever owned and still remains one of the best games I've ever played.
The good old days of this channel
I feel like with a lot of these I always go "You mean he hasn't reviewed this yet?" But it's all good, I get to see em when they're new!
@NintendoFanboy1235 Yes i've found this aswell and if you press a direction and A or B then you can change the color AGAIN!
@CrystalSnake100 The reason why is that the story in this game, Mario isn't in the mushroom kingdom, he's in sarasland.bowser is not in this game either, he's replaced by tantanga a evil alien. In other words, the setting is really different in this game compared to super Mario bros series.
so what you're saying is, the nintendo 3DS is still around in the year 2084 when you filmed this? hell id figure they would have a new system to play super mario land on instead of a 3DS
I realy enjoy your reviews. You can use humor without fall in the stupidity that we see in youtube this days. The fact that some people don't get the jokes, in my opinion, is a good news.
i had this as a kid I used to play this all the time on my brick Gameboy
THE MEMORIES.. THE MUSIC... IT'S ALL COMING BACK
I loved this game back then and now on the virtual console!
Does the virtual console version support the color palettes?
this was one of the first Gameboy games i ever owned when i got my Gameboy over 20 years ago now!
I love playing that game. I just was playing it on the Gameboy Advance!
lots of memories as a kid with this game
@IronFury To continue, I think people fail to realize that Super Mario Land is arguably the first major game on the system, and with it comes experimentation. Is Super Mario Land perfect? Not at all, but is it a bad Mario game let alone a bad game in general? Absolutely not. They took what limitations they had at the time and tried to make something out of it that was playable and a way to test out the capabilities of the newly made Gameboy at the time.
@gabulldogs96 no, a nintendo ds can only play ds and game boy advance games but no gameboy and gameboy color games
I think it depends on your Internet provider.
@ExcaliburSonicSprite No, but it is on the 3DS'
Mario driving a car? GENIUS!!!! how has nintendo not thought of this yet?
@WenGobou Yeah! after trying all of the combinations, i decided that my favorite is B+Left. for some reason, i just like the black/white color scheme. it seems to me like the "adding four colors" feature of the later game boys almost always just doesn't work out all that well. I just prefer the black/white. plus, it makes me feel old-school :)
the "fireball" is actually a high velocity ball. everyone thought it was weird for mario to have a ball.
The manual called it them "Super Balls".
I just searched "Nintendo" in the search bar and found this! Might as well watch it!
@VGA322 Actually it was light green and dark green
Man, you're a lot more charitable toward this game than I am. It's an OK launch title, but there are so many superior side-scrollers released for the Game Boy that I'd bump this one pretty far down the list of must-haves.
I cannot resist games like these, especially NES mario games and GB mario games.
What's up CGR? I am your #1 fan
The music in the game is true beauty.
Just bought a gameboy color in kiwi green and super Mario land. ^_^
I just realized where the sounds for Pokemon Games came from...
Gotta love that cute submarine!
@NintendoFanboy1235 I know I realized that too. neon yellow gargoyles quest anyone? When I was smaller, I always thought you had to mash all the buttons, ah the things we do when we are kids.
Why are there two different reviews for this game from CGR?
mark you should make a video of you going to funland.(or did you already do that?)
At least Mark knows that Super Mario Land is still a good game despite a few inconsistancies between this and the other core Mario games. It seems like Derek focused on the game's trivial and illegitimate issues like enemies being different and the bad guy being Tatanga and not Bowser.
Link's Awakening? Please? it's on the 3DS eShop too :)
only mark can talk about super mario land for 5 minutes
@CrassCast I'm not even denying that Super Mario Land has problems, because as I stated before, the jumping mechanic itself wasn't great. I agree on that point. However, if he emphasized THAT instead of complained about things like a flying saucer being in a level, it would have been a much better review. I don't have a problem with him disliking the game, but emphasize things about it that are legitimate negatives, like the flawed jumping mechanic, or how short it is.
I love this game. I don't remember how I got it, since I was born in 1992, a good 3 years after its release, not to mention the dawn of the SNES. But somehow it's been around since I was a kid. Picked it up the other night and beat it in one sitting :] Only took about 4 hours.
This game was outstanding. Definitely one of the best GameBoy games I've played.
This game was the tits back in my GBC days I never got to beat it tho guess I should pick it up on my 3DS
The music in all Super Mario Land/Warioland is AWESOME!!!!
Thanx!! Doin shpping list research - gettin my new 3DS tomorrow, Lord willin
I can't believe you didn't mention the most frustrating part of this whole game -> you can't save, I used to freak out all the time as a kid when I was game over :-P
Ah 2011, the year before the 3DS got Kid Icarus Uprising and other badass games and made the console the hottest handheld of the generation.
@IronFury Here's the problem though, you're saying this review is far better than Derek's, when this one implies Super Mario Land is a flawless masterpiece. SML had big problems, but what difference is there in a review that's overly positive, to one that's overly negative?
Is the year 2084 and 3DS still exists? I totally failed pointing on psvita!
@CrassCast
Derek's review was pretty much, "It's different therefore it is bad." Just because it is "highly produced" doesn't mean it is a good review. Personally, I couldn't care less if he disliked the game, but elaborate on why you think it isn't a good game other than "it is different."
Nothing about the can can?