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Platform: Super Nintendo
ESRB Rating: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Item Quantity: 1

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Super Mario All Stars is a collection of Mario's four greatest adventures in one awesome game pack. With improved graphics and sound for the Super NES, SMB1, SMB2, SMB3, and the Lost Levels, demonstrate the 16 bit excellence we've become accustomed to.

Released as SMB2 in Japan, the Lost Levels' design and play control will remind you of SMB1 but the challenge is far beyond any previous SMB game. The game features multiple scrolling backgrounds, 52 levels of play and lots of enemies for Mario to crush.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Four in one means four times the fun!, Jun 15 2003

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Axel Law "The Happy Seizure Kid" (Derby, KS, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Super Mario All-Stars (Video Game)

[Graphics don't make the game. Anyone who complains that the "graphics should have been better" should be tortured.]

With the Super NES becoming every kid's favorite Nintendo system in the early 90s, it was only a matter of time until Nintendo decided to "remaster" their beloved Mario series and place them onto one cartridge. This not only helped propel the Super NES's popularity, but it served to remind the next generation of gamers of where Mario first came from! Read on:

THE GOOD
This cartridge contains four Mario games: The original Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3 (my personal favorite), and Lost Levels. Lost Levels is actually the "true" Mario 2, but they never brought to the U.S. in a cartridge; instead, the Mario 2 that we came to know was originally an arabian-knights-adventure-type game (I'll get back to you on the original game title) that was refitted to fit Mario's universe. With that said, I'm glad it's here. The graphics and music have been greatly enhanced, but the nostalgia factor of the games are still there (the most important aspect of the game, in my opinion). This also allows you to save your games and warp to a different world as well. I don't see this as a huge improvement, but it's a nice addition.

THE BAD
The ONLY bad thing I can say about this game (and thus, keeping the full 5 stars this game richly deserves) is that some of the sounds have been dumbed down a bit (an example: instead of the BA BOOM BOOM sounds the cannons make in Mario 3, they make a more "popish" sound). Other than that, a perfect game.

OVERALL
What can I say? These games are classic and vintage Mario. All four games are terrific. They also manage to keep the difficulty levels, so these games are certainly a challenge. I'm not Nintendo biased, but I love this game. These are the games we old school gamers grew up on. I hope these games live on through infinity.

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5.0 out of 5 stars You Can't Go Wrong With This One, Nov 25 2003

By Mark Baker - Published on Amazon.com

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Every since the original Nintendo came out, Super Mario Brothers has been a favorite game for many people. The sequels were just a popular, just as much time wasters, and just as much fun.

When Nintendo released their new, better system (which is what, two or three generations old now), they knew they'd have to release these modern classics to convince people to upgrade. But they were smart about it. Instead of releasing them for the Super Nintendo as separate games, making people balk, they took advantage of the better format and released them all on one cartridge, with better graphics to boot. To sweeten the deal, they included "The Lost Levels," a new, harder version of the original Super Mario Bros. not previously available in the states. And they included the ability to save your game or continue on that level when you die, something I greatly missed in the originals.

Ok, I confess, I've never actually beaten any of these games in spite of the combined years I've had them for the original and Super Nintendo's. But I have had loads of fun over the years playing these games. And with four great games on one cartridge, how can you possibly go wrong?

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection of classics, Oct 23 2000

By jasenao - Published on Amazon.com

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Super Mario All-Stars is a great update of the regular Nintendo classics that took the world by storm. It has Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3, and they have a game that is the same as Super Mario Bros. 1 except that it's a lot harder, The Lost Levels. That's a total of four classic Mario Bros. games all in one cartridge. Super Mario All-Stars updated the graphics of all the games to Super Nintendo quality, which is a lot better than the originals. The games are just as fun as they've always been, the sound is a little bit better, and the control isn't perfect, but it's good enough so that it's not frustrating. All the games have 4 slots that will save your games, whether it's 1 player or 2 player, and you can erase them or play them as you please.

Pretty much, if you liked playing the classic Mario Bros. games for the regular Nintendo, you'll definitely like Super Mario All-Stars. I recommend anybody who has a Super Nintendo to get this game.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars This is Old School! (That's a good thing!), July 17 2003

By Katie "Dark Musashi" - Published on Amazon.com

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I used to love this game when I was a little kid! It's cool because it is actually 4 games on one cartridge! Super Mario Bros., Mario Bros. 2, Mario Bros. 3, and Lost Levels. The best mario is still Super Marioworld though(sold on a separate cartridge.) There isn't much else to say, except these were the good mario games before they came out with the less-than-exceptional N64 ones.

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