Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Nintendo's 1990 platformer for the NES, Super Mario Bros. 3.
The video shows the entire game without the use of warp zones.
Super Mario Bros. 3 was released to a level of hype and anticipation never before seen for a video game, and anyone that set foot in America in late 1989/early 1990 would have found it impossible to avoid encountering Mario in one form or another. Mario 2 was still recent and mega popular, and the dude's mug adorned every conceivable bit of sponsored merchandise under the sun. You could eat Nintendo cereal from a Mario bowl in your Mario jammies on Saturday morning as you watched the Mario TV show, and during commercials, you'd see commercials for The Wizard, the new Fred Savage/Christian Slater/Beau Bridges movie that was to be the ultimate marketing vehicle to introduce... you guessed it! Super Mario Bros. 3!
It was an incredible cultural phenomenon. Mario commanded more recognition and respect than Mickey, Bart, Ariel... pretty much any icon of the time. Well, maybe with the exception of Batman. Batman was probably a fairly close tie.
The marketing campaign had an absurd amount of cash backing it, and it worked. Everyone knew Mario, and every kid either had an NES or was more than likely willing to go to unspeakable lengths to get one. But the hype train can only get you so far, and more than one game has suffocated under the weight of its own hype.
But then again, this is Mario. And somehow, Mario 3 actually surpassed everybody's expectations. It won pretty much ever award ever, it was sold out everywhere for several months after it was released, and it even tended to be exempt from the scorn of "that kid" on the playground who liked to hate on what everyone else liked. It was a master work, and everyone damn well knew it.
It wasn't just that it was an amazing show of how impossibly far Nintendo had pushed the already then ancient hardware - it was (and that's despite the game being nearly eighteen months old when it was released in the US!) - but the gameplay was revolutionary. About as much so as Super Mario Bros. was when it became the de facto standard for action games a few years earlier.
There are 90 stages (!) crammed into the game's 384K rom, split across eight themed worlds overflowing with secrets to uncover. Mario also has a load of new awesome power-ups: you can now fly as a raccoon, swim as a frog, become an invulnerable statue of an apparently castrated tanuki, or... wear a turtle shell as a mallet-wielding mountaineer? Huh? It's all awesome, but it does occasionally make you question the sanity of the creators.
It's wide open to play however you like, too. If you want to make a mad, underequipped dash for Bowser's front lines, just find a few warp whistles and head to World 8! If you prefer to take your time exploring, there is no end to things you'll find with an even minimal bit of effort - coin caches, ghost mushroom houses, secret blocks that allow access to new areas of a level - there's a lot of replayability here. It's too bad they didn't bother including a battery for game saves, but really, that's the only legit criticism I can level at Super Mario Bros. 3.
The controls are still the gold standard for platformers, and that difficulty curve is great. Everyone can finish World 1, but clearing Worlds 6 and 7 without warping is still worthy of whatever the real life equivalent of a PSN trophy might be. I still vividly remember the sheer rage I felt as a kid trying to beat 7-7, and 6-5 wasn't far behind it. The game becomes really difficult toward the end, but it was always fair. And sometimes infuriating. But as many of us I'm sure have proven over the years, it just takes practice. However much.
And finally, what a memorable sense of personality this game has! Everything, from the intro to the enemy animations to the sampled bongos and steel drums, is vibrant and eminently likable. Did anyone else ever pick up on the different ways the game plays up the idea of a "stage"? The intro curtain, the platforms bolted to the backdrops, or the "fade to black" at the end of each area?
The attention to detail was unprecedented, especially given the scope of the game. It might be hard to imagine if you haven't played it, but even with so much crammed in, nothing here is fiiller.
What else is there to say? If you credit Super Mario Bros. with saving video games, then it only seems right that Super Mario Bros. 3 be recognized as the game that would show the way toward the future of gaming. Nintendo has done a lot of miraculous things over the years, but to manage both of those achievements within a single console generation is a feat among feats.
Here's to Mario on his 35th birthday. Well done, bro.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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My dad's friend is obsessed with this game, when he play it he feels like a kid again
The ending was quite emotional with that music and then the curtain comes down. Masterpiece of a game from start to finish.
I just adore this game with all my heart! Every year I have to do at last one playthrough and I always discover something new. Can't believe it's already past 30 years. Happy 35th birthday Super Mario!!!
Super Mario Bros. 3 is simply the best video game I’ve ever played on any video game system or arcade machine. It's still playable today as it was in the 90's. I have this on my Nintendo NES, I played the Super Mario All-Stars version on the Super NES years ago, as well as the Game Boy Advance port in the 2000's.
That sun level is the bane of my existence. It always manage to hit me no matter how hard i tried to avoid
Still now it's hard to believe that Nintendo managed to push the NES this hard, but they were right to settle for nothing less than the very best. The result was a game that defined its generation.
Now a days, we consider the type of gameplay SMB3 offers to be the standard but those developers back then had to go through some serious coding hell to make it happen.
It's incredible and mad respect for it.
Yep, yep! I remember having two of the Mario 3 McDonald's Happy Meal toys--Racoon Mario and the Goomba. Mario's influence was so lasting that I also remember having a Princess Toadstool (remember when she was called that?) toothbrush and seeing reruns of the _Super Mario Bros. Super Show!_ on TBS.
I thought it was in 1988
@@gavingrahampawpatrolyescai5761 It was 88 in Japan. It wasn't released in the states until 1990.
@@RetroPiero And the game is what onlly 386kb? And I think it has added chips in the cart as well to help with bitmapping and such? Also yes assembly (machine coding) is a bitch.
THIS is my favorite video game of ALL TIME.
Well done!
Props for not dying once!
I think I actually did die a couple times, but thanks anyways!
To think this game came out in 1988 in Japan... it's still as playable today as it was back then. That is a testament to how timeless it really is. The only console game from that era more or less (say, '88-'90) in this style that comes close is Wonder Boy 3 on the SMS IMO. Well done indeed, 3 must be a lucky number!
1989 in America.
Best mario game ever made still to this day hands down classic
I can still remember the hype! The commercial with the kids shouting, then it zoomed out to show Mario’s face on the world. It was awesome. My kids were super pumped when they learned about Breath of the Wild 2, and I was trying to explain the hype for Mario 3. But I think you just had to be there. They just kind of looked at me funny.
oh yeah the "mario mario mario" ad it still gives me chills i also have all the happymeal toys on display
and every time i rented the wizard i fast forward right to the smb3 part
@@krystalfan The Wizard, the well known Super Mario Bros 3 advertisement that also had some random story attached to it about some kids participating in a gaming contest.
Miss playing this game
Even though i play this game via the fun sized Super-Mario All Stars, This is be one of the best NES Games.
agree 100%
The very best and biggest 8-bit Mario adventure! I remember playing the Super Mario All Stars version quite a bit back in the day, as well as the GBA port. Love all the different power-ups and costumes they had going on in this one.
Too bad that we don't see the Frog or Hammer Bros suit in future games.
Super Mario Bros 3 is my childhood from the early/mid 1990's. though I never owned the game back then, there were some occasions on which I did play it, and I enjoyed every last minute of it. I didn't even own a copy of the game until 2008.
Late 80s.
Seeing this in the Wizard blew my mind...and learning about that secret in the first fortress. Have so many memories as a kid of this classic. Had so much fun with mario 3....loved firing up the game genie and putting in those weirder codes like moonwalking or always keeping the hammer bros suit. Or the playground talk about how to get the white mushroom houses and ships.
As a wee lad, I actually got the Japanese version before the US version. Thus, I wasn't *too* thrilled about the western release, since I knew we'd get the game eventually.
But seeing the Wizard's Video Armageddon host getting pumped up like this...
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Priceless!
@@Dorian_Scott that host hyped me up, can't lie. Lol super...mario....bros.....THREEE!
The movie The Wizard will always be the reason for Super Mario Brothers 3!!!!!
Yep, I paid to see the 1989 movie The Wizard to get hyped for this. I also remember how shocked I was when I first experienced Giant World, with the massive Koopas and Goombas. A good friend of mine who lived across the street happened to come over while I was playing that world the first time, and he thought the entire game was like that with massive enemies. When you consider this game came out in 1988 in Japan, it really is amazing what they were able to do with the Famicom back then.
SMB 3 was actually playable on NES10 Cabinets throughout the summer of 1989. It DID get a Retail Release in time for the Holidays and I fondly remember my neighbor Zach getting it for Christmas at Kaybee Toys. Mario 3 had Two US releases. Not one.
This game brought out so many good memories as a little kid back then. This game is one of my all time Mario game Series and on of my favorite games of all time. This was a game changer IMO. To finding all the whistle s warps, to getting through that pipe level on world 7 which was a pure pain in the ass, 😂 to a nice sweet ending. This game is a landmark for me and it hold up. Glad to see you playing this legendary game.
This game is tougher than it looks, you need to have godlike platforming skills especially when you reach the final worlds...and it's a lengthy game to, one sit or don't even try.
countless hours of pure joy
plenty of easter eggs
infinite times replay value
90 stages
all under 400KB
8-bit revolution, and especially this Mario game will forever be the impossible project for the rest of human days.
this game is so sweet
Yes! Another Mario from my childhood! Damn I felt like a superstar when I found my first whistle. Then some random boy from school told me he found two of those...
This is THE best NES game.
0:40 Grass Land
14:15 Desert Land
32:12 Water Land
54:09 Giant Land
1:13:21 Sky Land
1:37:11 Ice Land
2:04:12 Pipe Land
2:32:56 Dark Land
👍🏽
Lol
@@gloriousaffliction4041 what do you mean lol?
World î the Piper maze
Uh, Mark Mitchell, I think what @Glorius Affliction meant by lol was the list of the levels.
Honestly, it still looks fun to play today 😂 I played this as a kid loved it!
The iconic mario game... Flying mario? Oh heck yeah!!!
"So I give you... SUPER! MARIO BROTHERS! THREE!!!"
- The Video Armageddon announcer
Shigeru Miyamoto confirms, Super Mario Bros. 3 is a play
This explains the theater curtains.
Shigeru Miyamoto confirma, Super Mario Bros. 3 é uma peça de teatro
Isso explica as cortinas de teatro.
Sliding down the ice was so fun.
It’s part of the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Brothers!
Was waiting for this one still holds up as one of the best mario adventure games of all time nuff said happy 35th mario
Retro gaming history right here...
My God I miss my NES 🔥🔥🔥🔥
me to
same
Just download an emulator on android and use a game controller for ps4 or Xbox to pair it up
i’m 17 and i got one last year for xmas, ITS NOT THE CLASSIC EDITION, it’s the real deal and i got 17 games for it too including all 3 mario’s
@@williamdaniels7655 Awesome!
Well done with the victory jumps to get the wands on the airships! Great playthrough
Tyvm! Haha in any game that would freeze frame your character after a boss, I'd always have to strike some sort of pose.
This is the best mario I have ever played in my life
I love this game a lot
i really liked the graphics of this classic nes game when i was growin up back then
Speaking of the "Stage" theme, Shigeru Miyamoto came right out and said that this game is in fact one huge onstage play.
The fiery sun at 21:22 bore more than the brunt of my anger and tourrettes outbursts. The music of that level provided a fun backdrop to my uncontrolled anger.
Gave me anxiety when I was 8.
i can remember it like it was yesterday. christmas time...1987. my older brother and i got 2 shared gifts under the tree. of course, he is older so he gets to open the bigger one and i got the smaller one. it was a nintendo entertainment system that came with super mario brothers, duck hunt, a controller and the duck hunt gun and then the legend of zelda. we both screamed and cried. we had a big foyer in our home that barely had any heat but it had a tv in it. my dad set up the nes in there and we played for days. fast forward to 1990 and we saved up all our money to buy super mario 3 (i cant remember why we never got super mario 2.) my dad took us to toys r us and back then for video games, there was a giant wall with pictures of all the games, underneath each game was a clear envelope that had a ticket for the game. you grab a ticket and bring it to the register and pay for the game...super mario bros 3. ticket. pay. get game. go home and play. big brother plays first of course. we would stay up all night taking turns but i could watch my brother play this game for an eternity. i miss those days. sorry for the long post, but watching this hit me right in the feels.
Also love that this game is also on the NES Classic Edition too!!
I remember when Jimmy played this game in the movie The Wizard!! Classic movie!!
He kicked ass. I loved how salty "the _gorgeous_ Moira Grissom" looked when she lost.
One of the two best game in the world along with Hudson's adventure island 3
This video helped me SO MUCH with getting past world 8. I wouldn't have figured out that quicksand secret in 8-2 or the right sequence of doors to finish the castle without it. I was about ready to pull my hair out and give up on beating the game in a single sitting. But I eventually managed to do it, and your walkthrough helped me get there. So, thank you so much for uploading this!
Beautiful. What a great and amazing game!
I also remember the cartoon they had of the game called The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3!!!
In my honest opinion, this is the best Mario game I've ever played. Nowadays, I'm playing it on my laptop, alongside Kirby's Adventure and the first two Mario games, using an emulator for NES. It has everything that makes a terrific game: excellent soundtrack, superb graphics, great characters, awesome controls, cool storyline, and so on! Despite of its age, it remains a timeless classic for people of all ages. So much potential contained on such a small ROM size (384 kilobytes)! A truly masterpiece that provides joy and entertainment for all folks. No wonder it's widely regarded as one of the best videogames in History!
Prior to its private consumer North American release, gameplay footage from Super Mario Bros. 3 appeared in the Universal Studios film The Wizard, which helped fuel the game's anticipation among fans. Nintendo of America unleashed their $25 million advertised their campaign. Commercials aired on TV. There were cross-promotions with other companies, including Popsicle and Nabisco. Two books were based on the game, Super Mario Bros. 3: Happy Birthday, Princess Toadstool and Super Mario Bros. 3: The Secret Bridge, were published by Golden as part of their Golden Look-Look Books collection. Six months after the game's release, McDonald's released a set of Happy Meal toys. NBC aired a Saturday morning cartoon, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. was created from September to December 1990 by DIC Entertainment. Despite being based on the game, the show has a different plot. The show aired weekly with 26 episodes and featured numerous characters, enemies, and settings from the video game; the original seven Koopalings are given different names based on their given personalities and are also given a new age order. In the cartoons, King Koopa and his Koopalings attempt to take over both the real world and the Mushroom Kingdom. In 1991, A coloring book was published by Golden.
This game is still an epic masterpiece to this day. A special shout out to The Wizard for introducing this game to all of us.
This was the best Mario game ever! 👍 Exciting levels, great graphics, fun music, tons of tools to use! Brings back so many fun memories! 😊
Do u think it’s better than wonder
The classic of classics
I love the look of the game in this playthrough. It looks different from other videos. I don't know how to describe it. It's a nostalgic, dreamy, back in the day look.
that bowser sprite is so good looks like a SNES game
I prefer the NES version than the SNES Mario 3. I liked the improved graphics, but the original Mario 3 just has...something I like better lol
The best NES game. This game used the MMC chip to push the system to its limit. Looks quite good for 1988. All-Stars didn't had many changes.
Legendary the king of king Mario Mario and Luigi and their friends can't ever go wrong with this
I was able to finish this game. It's one of the greatest video games in my opinion.
So many memories!
As someone who grew up with Super Mario Advanced 4 I find the original version to be the best.
wow my childhood game ever! 😊👍
Still kicking ass and takin names after all these years
nostalgia overload
God I miss this I was and still am a huge fan of these games I played these growing up in the 80s and 90s awesome plus knew all the cheats and everything Lol 😂 haha 😂!!!!!!!!
Hands down my all time favorite Mario game in the entire series of games.
Super Mario Bros 3 the best Nintendo game ever made
Thank you Nintendo complete I always support your CZcams 😘❤️
The goat video game
Yes!!!
I love how they have kept the 3 hits on the bosses.
good memories
My all time favorite video game.
Love that game!!
I always saved the P wing for that Angry Sun level so I'd just fly over everything lol
I used to when I was 8 then figured out how he moves. It's easy to get passed him plus you can destroy him with a koopa shell.
I used to when I was 8. When you figure out how he moves it's easy. Plus you can destroy him with a koopa shell.
I'd say greatest NES game of all time, but Kirby's Adventure exists, and pretty much matches up with this game, and surpasses it in some ways I feel.
One of the best ways to kill Bowser in this game, reach him with the Hammer Bros. Suit and chuck a few hammers at him. He'll go down quickly, like a pile of rocks.
this guy is really good
Thanks!
Thank you for this video !
Better than Black Ops, Halo, GTA, etc. I mean who doesn't love this game. Even if you didn't grow up in this generation you gotta love it. Heck it's better than anything on PS, xbox, etc.
I agree. This is a timeless game. I'm 44, and I got an refurbished nes to play this game again.
The greatest game
i kinda like this classic nes game when i was growin up back then
"castrated tanooki" made me laugh
That videogames is amazing.
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Shigeru Miyamoto confirma, Super Mario Bros. 3 é uma peça de teatro
Isso explica as cortinas de teatro.
Shigeru Miyamoto confirms, Super Mario Bros. 3 is a play
This explains the theater curtains.
It's many years since last time I played it but I think it's still the best of the older games. Taking the differences in hardware into account, I consider it better than SMW too. Lots of variety and great music - I recall the All-Stars version music not being as good.
Wow......World 5-1....I never knew that
I'm in the minority that prefers Mario 3 to Super Mario World. SMW may have tighter controls, but Mario 3 is more challenging and it has more variety; more power-ups, more stage themes (generic as they may be), and even more interactively on the world maps. There's enemies to fight and Toad Houses to enter.
30 years later and I'm still learning new stuff in this game. How do you get the white mushroom house?
I know in level 1-4 you have to get 44 coins. In some levels you have to get a certain amount of coins.
@aaronflowers8881 I think I found it totally by accident one time, along with the cpin ship. To get the coin ship I figured out
@@xxxYouTunesxxx Yeah I just played 3 hours ago and got the coin ship. That's always fun.
@@aaronflowers8881 yea, you have to have your coins, time, and second digit of your score all odd numbers before hitting the end level goal
@@xxxYouTunesxxx Right
i remember playing this on my game boy advance (it’s the same game just different format) when i was a kid (like 6 years old) and having him play it for me to beat the “hard” levels. now im 24 and can complete the entire game all by myself.
i enjoy the all-stars intro
Games with carnivorous plants in them are generally worth playing
I think I only ever beat this game once or twice back in the day, and always with some warping. I never got the Hammer Brother's suit!
In 2021, Mario will officially be 40 Years old.
That's the way Nintendo *_should_* be counting Mario's years. Why they don't count the Arcade *_Donkey Kong_* game is way beyond me.
@@Dorian_Scott I mean, we would have to wait another year to get all the Mario games we got for this anniversary... so I’m glad
Probably due to the fact that in Donkey Kong, Mario wasn't named Mario yet. He was just "jumpman."
Did you use original hardware to record this? Either way, this is definitely the best looking playthrough i could find for the original NES version. Could you maybe do the GBA version as well?
Nope, it's emulated. Thanks! And I might do the GBA version at some point, but I'll probably do the All Stars version before that.
Larry's airship 13:20
Morton's airship 30:05 31:13
Wendy's airship 52:15 53:15
Iggy's airship 1:10:23 1:12:23
Roy's airship 1:34:57 1:36:12
Lemmy's airship 2:02:00 2:03:06
Ludwig's airship 2:28:50 2:31:50
Koopaling
Bowser last castle 2:47:48 2:48:45
It's quite odd how this game gets revealed in a certain movie clip when it was about to be localized. The title screen is a lot better with music in it's 16-bit counterpart and you can't go wrong with how much power ups there are in SMB3. Happy 35th Anniversary to Super Mario.
Kek; you're not wrong, lol.
Great gameplay
Great job
Thank you for cropping off this game's weird left-side overscan.
Np :) I hate seeing that, too.
Yeah, that hardware limitation is a bit annoying.
@@LITTLE1994 Yeah. It's in the overscan area so you never saw it on old tvs.
I remember so much hype around this game that it was an easy way to make friends.
You have a Nintendo but not Super Mario 3...? Why...?
33 Years of Super Mario Bros 3
34.
I have tried dozens of times to pass the last few stages and I can't get past the airship. It's like impossible.
That airship was a nightmare way back. I usually saved a P-wing for it, not that it helped much.
If it's the level with the small airships that go fast, yeah it's challenging, but it's not unfairly challenging.
@@maverickhuntermeta4954 It's no Paperboy. F*ck Paperboy.
@@Dorian_Scott P-wings always helped me with those airships
Yes, I found it almost impossible without the p wing.
2:32:05 hahaha wow my fav koopaling ludwig von koopa gave you some work.