The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3 

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2:39-2:57 Where did you get this quote?

Super Mario 3 absolutely blew my mind as a 12 year old. The Wizard was probably the best demo ever for a game or product. Had me drooling for the release.

Gaming Historian 🎮 I loved Super Mario Bros. 3📺

Great work on this video!

That must have been torture to have to wait was was probably close to nine hours.

I wake up early to play this game

my mom surpised me with it too i was about 7 years old

Omg that’s like telling a teenager he’s getting laid after school

I would wake up to squeaky buttons being pressed and teeth smacking,that was my mom playing this video game learned all tricks from her best times of my life

Lol the good ol days, Super Mario 3 wad tight! Did you know the game was actually a stage play the while time.

How's your Dad now? I hope you're taking care of him coz that's a cool old man

That's an amazing memory of the times

Back in 2007 when the Wii first came out and was impossible to find, I came home from school, and my dad, who worked as a dairy delivery driver at the time, told me he brought home some ice cream from work. I looked in the freezer, and there was a Nintendo Wii in there.

Damn, I don’t know why but this choked me up 😅

Yes

I did, and then watched his video on the history of Tetris. One of the Russian guys migrated to the US and he ended up slaughtering his family and killed himself. It was strange getting emotional reading the first few people then his threw me off lmfao.

Yes I got tears

No.

​@@ThaGreatWhite813 I AM SORRY BUT WHAT 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Omg i see you everywhere

@@googlecorn1410 lol ikr ??

Junior Orellana The new Justin Y

@@songoku9348 LOL

@@googlecorn1410 same here but he's a good dude.

Out of the original trilogy it's the only one that holds up the best. SMB2 was a bit too withdrawn from the original concept, and SMB1 felt like a bare bones version of SMB3. The only one that competes with SMB3 in terms of "holding up through the years" is Mario world, Yoshis island aswell though that's more of a yoshi game than a mario game

@@Gameprojordan I can agree with that in certain ways even though technically Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island are like next level but I can totally see what you mean 👌🏾

It's 2022 and NES Super Mario bros 3 still holds up

Agreed

You're not kidding. I've recently played through all three chronologically, taking my time to explore. Smb3 truly was a masterpiece and I enjoyed every minute of it.

​@@JH-rt2coget bent

@@sn1000k Are you denying that there are 14+ genders?

I am 43. I co sign.

I had the exact same experience with my aunt. There was one game that she could beat that I could never do. The Hunt for Red October for the Nintendo entertainment system. She died last year, so I’m thinking of picking up the game again and beating it my own for the first time.

Wow gamer grandma

Fuckin badass!

Sounded more like a vacation if you ask me. and edit DisneyLand to Disney world please and thank you. (If you edit it I'll edit my comment)

Yes that is the joke

The proof is in the puddin

Who says you can't have fun at work, especially when the fun shows dividends?

Well, a day of smb3 sells more than paid for his vacation.

and few games since have ever lived up to the hype the devs build up

Great memories my friend

Guess it was historical, cause you defeated the King Koopa in Super Mario Bros 3 before the fall of Berlin Wall.

I always considered the first whistle to be the one from level 3. The 3nd from the small castle in world 1. Theres a third one i used to knownof but i dont recall where it is.

I too have this memory.

I have a very similar memory. Playing this game while my dad listens to music. I can't help but to think about the band White Zombie every time I see this game.

So your mum just walked randomly around the house listening to music?

GCNElite she used to turn on the radio and walk around tidying up the house, cleaning and stuff while I usually helped a bit and played a bit.

Realunmaker oh alright

I Cried in this part..

I bet he did like the nintendo 64 kid when that finally happened. YES! YES! YES! YES!

But a bunch of Chinese bootleggers made it possible in a super Mario world nes bootleg

I was wondering how it was a hardware issue because I remember the Adventure Island series having a character that rode different animals.

@@willn8664 it’s probably due to the size of the game and how much the NES cartridge could hold.

To be honest, there's nothing memorable about not being able to save game or using non-volatile carts back then. More like just acceptance of the fact and that the games back then were much shorter to complete in the first place. It just wasn't "a thing" back then. I remember myself leaving console powered on, when had to stop for a moment or parents wanted to use TV themselves. But it was more like constant fear and annoyance than fun. And God forbid, someone knocking power cable and loosing game state because of that (which was far too common in my experience, with my NES knock-off).

I consider the Mario games and select others like Tetris on the Nintendo consoles as akin to Beatle albums, as they are timeless, addictive, especially these days attractive to young and old as well as being comfortable yet revolutionary and multi-layered.

@@MrDustpile Bingo. I just finished SMB3 on an NES my brother in law had, and we played with my 7 yr old nephew and he liked it just the same as the modern games. They hit the sweet spot.

The game is timeless. That's how well done it was! It truly is a masterpiece.

This comment made me laugh so hard. Thanks for sharing your story!

I remember renting it from a local convenience store. Would get caught by my parents for talking in my sleep, saying jump jump. Renting that thing for a couple days I was literally glued to it playing. Because I was a kid I automatically caught on. But remember my mom could not catch on and she played it enough. She couldn't learn how to speed run. If you can't learn that the game was pretty much useless

Bru you don’t freakin know how relatable and close to home that statement is. I was 4 years old doing the exact same thing in 1991. I just got chills thinking about that b.c I haven’t recalled that memory in so long. 😂 Meanwhile my older brother had just got this shiny new looking thing called a Sega Genesis(lol) and got Sonic The Hedgehog. 35 years latter still The best Christmas I ever had. Indeed a magical time.

@@hightolerance8728 that Xmas had to be pure epicness in ya 🏠 that day

@@RAZORRAZE2K indeed it was indeed. Man

That was me for Mortal Kombat.. Then I'd wrap the gift up juuust the way I found it before everyone woke up 😂😂😂 Shhhhhh

Nice!

😂😂😂

Memories

Lol awesome.

It made criminals of all of us. I begged borrowed and stole to rent it so many times I could’ve bought it

@@guanoApe Not all of us. My dad bought mine with the money he made from arresting thieves. Lol

It was the first game I played on the NES growing up. I feel blessed to have that be my first game I ever played despite it being roughly 8 years old at the time.

Heck yeah! My all time favorite game as well!

I love that giant world!

Me too. But I don't have an NES anymore so this was my main motivation for getting a Raspberry Pi for retro gaming.

My all time favorite is super Mario world but this is close second

Whenever I think of the early nineties I think of that cover, as well as the T2 cinema poster.

@@DaveFallows Still remember being six years old with my dog at the local hotdog restaurant staring in awe at that poster. lol I was six. We went and saw it. Still remember tearing up when he got lowered down into the liquid metal!

King koopa

@@chadwilson461 King Koopa is not a Koopaling.

Living like Larry

LARRY!

@@hungryowl1559 LARRY PRICE CHECK!

100% correct!

Agreed. Always so much love, care and positivity put into each video. Love it!

FOX News has a RU-vid channel

So true. The Mr. Rogers of video games

Agreed

I always thought it was because he looked so goofy, reminded me of the Three Stooges.

That dude that made those names was a tard

Not really the names fitted in with life at that times

@@priceandpride If he is a tard, then he's a tard who came up with names that have stuck throughout the series. So he must have done something right.

My inner teen immediately thought it was probably named after Penthouse Mag founder LARRY FLINT... then I laughed like Beavis & Butthead.

Emmanuel A. Man I can watch Norm make a documentary about the history of folk music. I dig his style of story telling and editing. So this was a no brainer as SMB3 is my 3rd favorite Mario game of all time.

@@thelastdragon5551 I agree, he's great at what he does, I'll be checking out more vids now. I experienced this game playing Super Mario All-Stars and always loved it growing up, I had absolutely no idea it was original on the NES though. I thought it was cool to realize different generations love this game, speaking to how great it is.

Emmanuel A. Same, wonderful work. If I could buy this on DVD I totally would.

I did the same.....let me watch a little while I eat. Finished eating and didn't get up until the video was done.

That is how GH do

A.I. will be doing most of the programing.

The best in the series for sure

So many Nintendo brand games do, I can't believe the original Pokémon Snap graphics everytime I play it. That game looks like it was made this year.

@@deborahchesser7375 some would say Super Mario World is even better

Why did it take them 3 years to get to Europe? I get they need to translate to various languages but that didn't seem to hold up other video game companies. I think this might explain why Nintendo has been left behind the other 2 big video companies.

@Chris Parnham Two reasons. Nintendo took their time optimising games for the PAL region. Mario 3 in particular was extremely well optimised. Nintendo wasn't nearly as influential in Europe; Sega reigned supreme in many markets like the UK and Spain, so naturally their mentality for releasing games over here was more apathetic than in North America and Japan.

same.. nostalgia is very powerful stuff.

Who is this Norman of which u speak

same. I miss being a kid so much.

😊💚🎮👍

Lol gay

I hate how they do that documentary....they keep cutting and going all over the place from topics to person...there is no focus.

Games That Made Us should definitely be a thing. Video games, board games, card games, arcades, different generation consoles and PC. There’s an entire season right there.

They would show only gaymers and promote LGBTQP propaganda

@@dansmith1661 wym

I would definitely watch Games That Made Us if it was made a thing

Awesmic I’d kill for a Super Mario World/SNES and a Super Mario 64/N64 documentary.

Ditto on my end. When that ending sequence came in, that felt just like the end of a classic NES game, I almost cried. Felt like the little kid in me was playing all over again, but this time, looking behind the curtain of the game.

That last song with the ending credits made me shed real tears

Glad I'm not the only one who had teary eyes by the end. I was thinking 'geez I'm such a baby' lol.

Happy to see I wasn't alone in my weeping. Incredible.

That and zelda.i mean just having a system you could play in your house was insane. 1st time i saw atari.i was blown away

it was and still is a masterpiece all of the mario games are , in terms of play-ability, function , movement responsiveness , just great design and programming all around

@@captainscentsible1811 - You've got to include Crystalis in the mix too.

Especially comparing it to very early Famicom games.

Supermariobros 3 demonstrated for what the mmc3 chip in conjunction with the nes was capable off, including split screen and diagonal scrolling, animated tile updates, dpcm playback etc,,, But ,,, it become only just ,,, the beginning, because later nes games such as bucky o hare, metal storm ,sword master and battle toads showed off some incredible multiple background scrolling, while games such as seesam streets and carnaval 92 necca showed some heavy pcm playback etc,,, Some games such as kirby’s adventure are way more detailed & colorful the mario 3, and seeing mario 3 on the snes just blows my socks off about how much better it looks then the nes ,BUT,, If we would push the nes & the mmc3 chip over it’s limit with all these mentioned nes games in mind , we could even make mario 3 on nes more detailed & colorful along with multi scroling backgrounds ,(trough tile updates) And playing 8 channel adpcm trough a chip wich then could mix & stream it as 1 channel trough the nes pcm channel, this way mario 3 can look & sound more closer to it’s snes counterpart, It’s not wishful thinking and Am not trying to make it up but it’s just true!!!

I'm glad these old mario games made their way onto the GBC/GBA(also the DS systems that can play gameboy cartridges) They found a new niche in the modern day as perfect play-on-the-go games. They're straight forward and no nonsense fun. They sure as hell are better than 99% of mobile games even to this day

Tooooo many games now. A blurr if garbage

@@chadpatrick6795 ok boomer

Me too!

Lol

I just found out you could defeat it. Or I had somehow forgotten. I just ran like hell

I never scared me but I did give it a voice i’m going to get you I’m gonna get you I’m going to get you

I live in Texas. Sometimes in the middle of summer it feels like you are in that sequence of SMB3

This is beautiful & sad lol

I had a similar experience to this, but with smash brothers for N64. It was a blast to play, and 4 people could play at once. My mom bought pokemon cards for me, and I'd give out packs to the winner.

Such is the wonder of childhood.

i feel u bro, played smb3 with my dad alot, loved it.. life was easier back then

Do you still have a nes

In my eyes Kondo is perhaps the best of all time. Him and Yasunori Mitsuda worked on some of the most iconic games of all time. Most people don't even know there names which is a shame but you can bet that if you remember and hum the tune of nes and snes games, they were most likely composed by one of these 2 men

Is that guitar rendition on Spotify?

Me to but I started on the og which is iconic

I can’t believe he played so much of it. Hope our dude doesn’t get a strike.

They're all beautiful, but the game's ending theme is what really got me emotional..about childhood gaming years gone by..

So do I, I do not really play any other game but Mario Bros 1,2 and 3 from time to time.

Same! Most iconic video game of all time!

I’m 34 too

Same here. I'm 41 and as a kid in the early 90s there are 2 game releases that stick out as the biggest ever to that point. Super Mario Bros. 3 in 1990. If you were a boy aged 7-15 during Christmas of that year you absolutely wanted SMB3. It was huge. A mega event. The mainstream media outlets covered it. After that...the next biggest release I can think of, as far as hype and media coverage, was of course Mortal Kombat in 1993. Sure the SNES got some coverage at launch but as a singular game...nothing was bigger than those 2 titles in the early 1990s.

@@mindphaserxy man me and my dad and cousin put in work on Mortal Kombat and to this day I have Lui Kang Dragon 🐉 Fatality stuck in my head.

Great story and I'm sorry for the loss of your father.

@@campinatorxbox1610 Thank you so much :)

@@badnewsbruner I'm currently creating gaming memories with my 4 year old. He keeps me up all night playing Mega Man 1-6 and it drives me crazy sometimes because I'm trying to be cool playing these difficult games that I never even played back in the day. I was always more of a Mario/Street Fighter guy. I hope my son writes about me as you have about your dad someday.

@@eartheternal3565 :) I'm glad that you're making these wonderful memories with your son. Also, yes the Mega Man games are absolutely BRUTAL! lol xD I'm sure he will remember his gaming with you fondly!

No one gives a slight fuck about you or your father.

What year was it

You can hear it in New Super Mario Bros Wii, and yes, it sounds like a "we are marching off to war" song.

I was gonna comment and Steven put it nicely enough - very march like, very war like song, invoking something from a war or large scale fight scene in a movie.

@@SumeaBizarro the crescendo just gives me goosebumps

Yea that New Super Mario on the Wii has nice music, I love the castle themes on there

I still play SMB3 on my 3ds from time to time and I still get chills everytime I hear the airship theme 😬

Agreed.

this is his best video yet imo

This and the Tetris video were perfection

@@Rich_LASTELLE yup I honestly feel like the Tetris one is the best video on all of RU-vid

@@Rich_LASTELLE I honestly feel like we'll see him on Netflix or Amazon Prime soon enough

I play it on nes mini :)

hurtig heinz I was today years old.

Same here!! Wtf is right!

LOL! I didn't know that either. Not that I've ever considered myself a SMB3 expert, but just goes to show there's ALWAYS more to learn about that game. I scoffed at the part where they talked about the Strategy Guide published showing ALL the secrets-NOT POSSIBLE! haha!

I wonder If that's only the Japanese version?

@@jimmypchacko Well that could be. I had the European version (in English). You also didn't shrink to mini Mario once hit as flower or leaf Mario.

When I was a kid I struggled for nearly 2 days trying to get past the first castle, the ghost kept killing me. I eventually managed to beat the stage, I jumped up in excitement but accidentally pulled the entire console and power adapter ripping out of the wall. I have never since experienced an extreme low immediately after an extreme high...

@@DamageJackyl same I am from 82, me and sisters used to play in one of our cousins House. Now as an adult recently bought SNES and play with my nephew Súper Mario World and Mario Kart.

Devs don't have passion like this anymore

@@DamageJackyl same also 37 ...so many great memories with this system

Indeed. This game is part of our childhood

I hope you come across a new video game that makes you want to play again. That happened to me in 2017. The game that made me a player again was Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.

Blob EA got it in the face

EA was only really good when they made software for the Amiga.

well to be fair with EA, at the time it was a nascent art based developer working on some of the greatest software on the ultimately doomed Amiga. to them the micros were the future and they weren't going to go back to the 6502 or closed developer environments, because they had issues with the ten games per year policy since EA was a pump.

the nes essentially had all the things they disliked.

In EA’s defense... j/k There’s no defending EA.

@Lassi Kinnunen Umm, this is crap.

Lassi Kinnunen What are you trying to say?? Modern games are so much more complicated than 8-bit games, so they have huge teams working on them, sometimes for years. That’s why they cost millions to make. One team can easily have a hundred people working on it.

Compare that to Mario Odyssey, which has hundreds of names listed in the credits. The industry certainly has grown a lot, and we have Shiggy and his portly little plumber dude to thank for it.

@@Brinta3 "8 bit" game is very hard to make on NES because you need to code in 6502 Assembly.There's also the sounds and sprites are very long to make if you make everything from scratch

A few years ago? Don’t you mean 30 years ago?!? 😂

The Box Breakers You did good, spreading the love instead of keeping it to yourself!

The Box Breakers Baseball bat?

TheWaynelds watch the video :P

If you have a Baseball Bat, you will become Ness from EarthBound.

Nice❤

Same here. It's brilliant

I mean.... Some of the most gut wrenching films ever made were documentaries... But the fact that it's a videogame documentary totally proves your point.

There's nothing quite like SMB3, even after considering all of the other Mario games.

Those member berries be hittin just right.

Same... I wondered why I got teary-eyed at the intro, and am glad I am not alone! 😂

Right , racoon Mario = favorite Mario of all time.

Simpler times.. where most of our knowledge came from school yards word of mouth.

@@sylastial .Definitely

Brian Grossett Game was awesome for it’s time...

Tanooki

That's a win/win on their part. You know they're not just going to simply give any money back.

"All according to keikaku*."

They did the same thing with the 3ds after the price drop. People (like myself) got angry because they paid nearly double for it like a week before, so they gave a credit in the online game store 😑

@@gregmelts no? Lol. They gave you 10 NES games and 10 GBA games

@@Woodenspade which were never released outside of that promotion

2d systems were the most fun!

I remember sleeping over at a friends house, and his the next morning his girlfriend came downstairs and said, "Have you been playing that all night?" lol. Yup, game was so addictive. I played it so many times already but everytime you play it felt new .

That's how I was when my friends had the ps1 and SNES, now that I look back on it I kind of feel like a user hahah. I guess that was pretty normal back in the 80s/90s though.

My sister and I had a friend who was really nice and lent us his game boy. No joke, we would think of strategies before sleeping at night on how to complete levels that we were stuck in. We would also let each other know if we were going to use one of the level ups and special abilities (frog suit, leaf etc) 😂

@@Hijynx87 my friend used to let me take his ps1 home cause he had a bed time and it was in 1997 so it was expensive to buy one .. i was surprised the mom was cool with it we were 12 yrs old and i would go home and play duke nuke em til 2am . I had no bed time lol

This and killer instinct were my childhood. Rmbr i thought i was cool af using warp zines in front of the little kids

I was not aware as european with skewed way we could get games with money etc. - I thought Mario 3 was a Super Nintendo game, it had to be it was mechanically so advanced and like Super Mario World, I mean the collection did have only mario 1. Kid me did not have much of logic in my brain but if the cartridge has Super Mario world too.... Then I saw Super Mario 3 on actual NES once. Just once and I was just baffled, just confused for a long time staring at something that to my logic was like running red dead redemption 2 on nintendo 64. I was an adorable kid if you read adorable as "kinda dumb" but that is what we all were at one point. Did not help that being born in 92, we had a NES from 94 onwards (I think) and SNES when PS1 was new, then PS1 during it's later time and me being grown enough to be able to follow current trends in the world around me. It took years of figuring out how time works and I think in sense, I like history even though I do not study it because realizations that my childhood was spent with technology greatly older than myself and not understanding the fact, made me want to understand these facts and in wider sense, not just having a nintendo as a kid but being a society built from something in past and before me. It is still one window of thought I wonder about when I see children of young age these days, and whatever will be their realizations and windows to past and handling it in current times, and it is perspective that was completely given to me at moderately young age of 11-14, by just having a nintendo entertainment system.

I personally hate how they put the Mario World sound effects in Mario 3.

lost levels was the real mario 2 but deemed it was too hard for americans. so they rebranded some other game in japan and edited it to add mario characters and sold it in usa as mario 2.

Super mario all stars.

😄

Game consoles went past me (too costly, too busy etc) but get that with some other games.

Dude is it weird that I remember doing that as well? It wasn’t due to a lack of sleep, just playing for many hours uninterrupted. It was when I first got the Nintendo, and it was Mario 1 not Mario 3.

True, this game and specially when you had a hard time advancing or just had a great run made you feel it like you lived it.

Eat your teeth and the again...

I love that song 😂

Yup, we indeed had our own.

german mario theme was better. "swing de arm, alpha now, Sex? oh yes! enter! super mario! i'm shit for, OH NO, GUY MAN THAT'S MARTIN MARIO MINE A FAULT, OHYA JUST FOR GAYS"

Rest in peace, Captain Lou Albano.

Yeah kind of weird how this channel can stir up memories you weren't aware were even memories.

Indeed! It is a flawless gem of a game.

I replay it every few years. It never gets old.

I still play it on.my Wii.

I still occasionally fire it up. One day I'm gonna beat it without warps.

I should replay it sometime. I loved the game when I was little but haven't played it since 2006 or so.

Haha, I'd catch my dad playing my NES late at night! Best bonding experience.

Sorry for your pain, but I'm glad you have those memories to strengthen you. Cherish them!

I feel very sad for your pain, but I'm glad you now have those memories to strengthen you, the only memory you should forget is your dad passing away.

May God rest his soul and grant you peace and love when you remember him.

Your dad is playing in heaven right now.

Happy for your fond memories, but sad for your loss.