![]() ![]() Sure, we owned an NES console prior to its release, but this game is the first one I remember staring at in the store, longing for the day my parents would buy it for me. 3 is the game that made me a Nintendo fan for life. 3 will always be special to me due to how it shaped my love of gaming when I was young, and I believe it remains to this day one of the best examples of 2D platformer game design. Seeing people get to explore the design of this game in Super Mario Maker, fleshing out under-developed concepts and coming up brand new ones, is a wonderful thing. Having recently encountered people who were new to the game, who didn’t have that information, it’s clear my feelings toward the title might have been completely different without that help. Looking back, certain parts of the game would be massive barriers without the knowledge in that book, particularly in the fortresses in the later worlds that were more like photo-ghost houses. Both my aunt and my best friend growing up owned it and it was integral to my experience with the game. The Nintendo Power Player’s Guide for the game will always be special for me too. Even though the game has lost most of its challenge for me over the years due to repeated playthroughs, I still experience the same joy as always every time I go back. The game just never gets old for me no matter how many times I play through it. On one occasion, with the Game Boy Advance port of the game, I 100% completed it for the second time in less than a week only to go back and start again. I find the short, focused levels refreshing compared to other games in the series and the genre as a whole, and give the game a brisk pace that almost makes up for the lack of a save feature in the original version of the game. Unique power-ups like the Tanooki and Hammer suits exist in such limited quantities that I sometimes feel reluctant to use them. ![]() The game is brimming with ideas, almost to a fault, as some of the most interesting things about it are limited to single instances. ![]() Even so, I constantly feel compelled to go back and experience it again. I must have completed it dozens of times over the years across many different iterations of the game and on various platforms. 3 was the first video game I ever played many years ago on my aunt’s NES, and to this day remains one of my favorites. ![]()
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