Whats the Greatest Mario Game Ever?

**cyrien** · August 25th, 2006, 05:11

A tough question. I remember going over to my friends house and playing Mario on the NES the first time(the best selling game ever with over 40 million copies sold, bundled with the NES as well though)... the disapointment of Mario 2.
Beating but not being terribly impressed with the first few mario games on the Gameboy (man that first gameboy could take some serious abuse).
The sense of wonder and awe that was Super Mario 3... anyone remember those comercials(the best selling game ever if you exclude bundle packages with over 18 million sales)? Finding everything in the game for the first time...
Then of course saving up and buying a SNES for myself. Super Mario World of course on it and playing that game to death, but there was a slight disapointment as it just wasn't quite as rich as SMB3. Once again unlocking everything in that game. Darn but those super secret levels just past the star world were hard...

Mario Kart was awesome... four player battle mode with a bunch of friends... many an evening was spent that way(and perhaps a few school days as well... but you know the bus never showed up to pick us up so it wasn't our fault...) The intense frustration of the cheating Kart AI on 150cc, darn infinite feathers(whatever happened to those... I loved the feather) and one infinite item of their choice, not to mention they always finish in the same order every race depending on the character you choose, I used to make it a point just to mess up somebody right at the end to get variation! Then finally getting cold on everything despite it all.

Mario 64 was good but just not something I got too excited about... maybe because I was getting older? I dunno. I still unlocked everything.

Smash Bros and Mario Kart 64 were both awesome... played those in college with bunches of friends. Most ppl had PS1 but I tell you what my N64 got the most use for social play, since I can't speak for private play. And the two favs were Mario Kart 64 and Smash Bros.

My nephew loves Mario Sunshine, but I got the same feeling with it I got with Mario64... good but not for me. Still unlocked everything. My nephew mostly plays on my savegames just having a good time.

Smash Bros for the GC was awesome as well. Whenever my younger cousins or nephew or niece come over always have a blast with that or Mario Party 4(no one mentions those?)

Never played the new DS Mario... yet.

The Mario RPG/Paper Mario... good games but not rating best ever Mario game.

All things considered in this way too long post... Mario 3 for NES has to be the best. It had challenge and difficuly and more options and paths and challenges than any other Mario game I can remember playing. Close second... Super Mario World on the SNES then Mario Kart 64, just because it was just as awesome as the first and challenging without the super cheap high level AI.

**fire master** · August 25th, 2006, 05:17

Originally Posted by crackkills

Apparently fire master is the moron, he doesn't even know how to make a sentence understandable.(Its ok, he probably wont even know what this means)
-I got your back Apoklepz, Narnia rules- LOL

Your a moron because I was talking about the dcemu member Your Still With ME. SO STOP BEING A MORON!!!