Synopsis
by Brett Alan Weiss
Mario's first Game Boy adventure, Super Mario Land looks and plays much like the original, groundbreaking Super Mario Bros.. Mario is out to save Princess Daisy instead of Princess Toadstool, and he can throw superballs instead of fireballs, but the side-scrolling, turtle-trouncing, coin-collecting action is much the same. Super Mario Land owners will notice several additions to the SMB formula, including stone statues (and other new enemies), bonus rounds, and levels where you pilot an airplane or a submarine. The graphics are too small (even for a handheld game), and the game is easy to beat (even though it has no save points), but gameplay is fittingly super.
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Extra Creditsby Brett Alan Weiss
One of the first games produced for Nintendo's venerable Game Boy system, Super Mario Land is one of many offshoots of Shigeru Miyamoto's Super Mario Bros., which revolutionized the videogame industry on the NES in 1985. The title virtually created the 2D side-scrolling platform genre, which thrived in the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s.
Super Mario Bros. has influenced so many games it is impossible to list them all, but here are some of the more prominent examples: Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988), Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990), Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), Donkey Kong Country (1994), Disney's The Lion King (1994) and Super Mario 64 (1996).
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Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo of America, Inc.
Nintendo R&D1
2011
Extra credits by Brett Alan Weiss
One of the first games produced for Nintendo's venerable Game Boy system, Super Mario Land is one of many offshoots of Shigeru Miyamoto's Super Mario Bros., which revolutionized the videogame industry on the NES in 1985. The title virtually created the 2D side-scrolling platform genre, which thrived in the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s.
Super Mario Bros. has influenced so many games it is impossible to list them all, but here are some of the more prominent examples: Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988), Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990), Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), Donkey Kong Country (1994), Disney's The Lion King (1994) and Super Mario 64 (1996).
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Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo of America, Inc.
Nintendo R&D1
2011
Controls: Joystick/Gamepad
Flags: Launch Title
Included in Package: 20-page Instruction Manual, Consumer Information and Precautions Booklet