haha, Jesus Christ - born in '91 = old

I'm ancient in comparison!

Yea, the snes was a great console - it had Zelda and Mario. I was always a bigger fan of Sega though.

Sonic 4 is in production - woo!

@Wiggles - I agree Super Mario 3 is a legendary game.

The power-ups were (and remain to be) a way of making the games fresh and exciting. SMB3 is the best Mario game to date and has been unmatched in it's variety and gameplay.

I Loved Super Mario World 1 & 2, I really think that's where the puzzle element really came into it's own.

Let's not mention the fact Nintendo fobbed the West off with "Mario 2", changing a few graphics in "Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic" - they deemed the "original" Mario 2 too similar to the first game and too difficult for it's US/European players.


It was later released in Super Mario All-Stars under the name "Super Mario Bros - The Lost Levels".

The thing with Sonic that I often find is you either get it or you don't. Sure there were stages where you could just "race towards the end" (usually the first stage or two -the Mario 3 equivalent of course was flying through the level altogether) but to suggest that's ALL Sonic was is doing it a great injustice I think.

There were often times when you had to use your wits. A lot of the time the Sega Team would often use your own speed against you, having dangerous obstacles for you to face following a long speed-way.

You're not alone, a lot of people hated the water levels in Sonic:

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Sonic also had memorable bosses, that you could tell had been intricately designed.

Sure Browser was scary when you faced him in the original Mario but they never really experimented with their bosses after that - in Mario 3 all you had to do was jump on their head 3 times and that was it (make Bowser jump and break blocks 3 times was the only variant in the entire game).

Super Mario World did a better job at that.

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