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Re:Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary by PopsiclePete on Friday May 29, 2015 @01:33PM (#9626020)
In many ways, it's a "perfect" game. Smooth scrolling, no frame rate issues, cool art style, amazing music, excellent control. No tutorial levels, no shitty movies, no hand-holding. Just - go. It blew my mind in so many ways. Way ahead of its time.

The first game on the PC that came close to matching that experience was Commander Keen, which was, what, 1991? 6 years later...

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Re:Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary by jsingleton on Friday May 29, 2015 @02:01PM (#9626242)
Fun fact, Keen was originally a Mario port but Nintendo didn't want it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen#Creation_and_de...

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Re:Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary by wodenokoto on Saturday May 30, 2015 @03:57AM (#9629438)
No save games. This is a complete deal breaker. Yes, those first couple of levels are really, really good, but they are not good enough to let the developer demand that you play them again and again, instead of letting the player get on with new challenges.

I really don't consider Mario games interesting until Super Mario World, unless you have an emulator with save states.

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