Yeah I bought my copy of it the day it came out, always hated I couldn't get the pack-in combo cart w/out buying a system. Thankfully a few months ago I found one for $2 that appeared to be trashed with a nice covering of black marker. Took about an hour, but you couldn't tell it had marker on it now and it's awesome.
For a few months growing up we had my NES at my aunt's house to have something to play whenever my family would stay there, so I didn't always have access to my games. So instead since my brother and I both had SNES and Genesis systems, I would play the everloving crap out of Super Mario All Stars. I still love it to this day even if I play their NES counterparts far more often.
Yeah, I don't like All-Stars either. I feel that the controls are different and it screws the games up enough for me to not enjoy them. Plus I like the NES graphics better. I can definitely see the appeal of having 3 games in 1 back in the day but that just doesn't matter anymore.
I've never played All Stars, but from some of what I'm reading here it reminds me of how I felt that they botched up Ninja Gaiden Trilogy.
youve seriously never played all stars???? hows that even possible....... it was the staple of my childhood haha.
thats like a sports fan saying they've never seen an NFL game
Your childhood must have been quite a few years after mine. As I said in my OP, I just barely played All Stars. In 1993, everyone my age still had their NES hooked up and was enjoying the original versions of the games. Any older Nintendo gamer in late 1993 already owned a SNES, so we didn't acquire All Stars through the pack-in.
i directed my comments to roth, but anyway. I didnt get SMAS through pack in . I bought it seperate. I got a SNES in 1992. I was born in 86 so my cousins had NES systems that i played, but my first system to own was a snes
Me too, I was born in the end of 86 which was a hair after the NES boom. The first system I owned was a Genesis but I played the shit out of Super Mario World and All-Stars when I got an SNES. I played All-Stars way before I owned an NES or even saw the original Marios.
I've never played All Stars, but from some of what I'm reading here it reminds me of how I felt that they botched up Ninja Gaiden Trilogy.
youve seriously never played all stars???? hows that even possible....... it was the staple of my childhood haha.
thats like a sports fan saying they've never seen an NFL game
I never had an SNES, I was more of a Genny guy. At any rate, in '93 I was preppin' to go to boot camp, so I wasn't doing a lot of gaming around that time. Now-a-days I figure, I have the originals, what's the point in getting it on a system that I rarely play?
They changed the physics in All Stars as well. It isn't as tight as the originals.
Yup, I believe you're referring to the jumping/brick bashing mechanics from SMB1. For some strange reason Nintendo changed it in all-stars. In the NES version, Mario's head will rebound quickly off of the bricks after he breaks them. In the all-stars version, Mario doesn't rebound quickly off the bricks. This is a pretty subtle gameplay difference, but it actually changes the pace of the game quite a bit.
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I've never played All Stars, but from some of what I'm reading here it reminds me of how I felt that they botched up Ninja Gaiden Trilogy.
youve seriously never played all stars???? hows that even possible....... it was the staple of my childhood haha.
thats like a sports fan saying they've never seen an NFL game
Your childhood must have been quite a few years after mine. As I said in my OP, I just barely played All Stars. In 1993, everyone my age still had their NES hooked up and was enjoying the original versions of the games. Any older Nintendo gamer in late 1993 already owned a SNES, so we didn't acquire All Stars through the pack-in.
i directed my comments to roth, but anyway. I didnt get SMAS through pack in . I bought it seperate. I got a SNES in 1992. I was born in 86 so my cousins had NES systems that i played, but my first system to own was a snes
I've never played All Stars, but from some of what I'm reading here it reminds me of how I felt that they botched up Ninja Gaiden Trilogy.
youve seriously never played all stars???? hows that even possible....... it was the staple of my childhood haha.
thats like a sports fan saying they've never seen an NFL game
I never had an SNES, I was more of a Genny guy. At any rate, in '93 I was preppin' to go to boot camp, so I wasn't doing a lot of gaming around that time. Now-a-days I figure, I have the originals, what's the point in getting it on a system that I rarely play?
They changed the physics in All Stars as well. It isn't as tight as the originals.
Yup, I believe you're referring to the jumping/brick bashing mechanics from SMB1. For some strange reason Nintendo changed it in all-stars. In the NES version, Mario's head will rebound quickly off of the bricks after he breaks them. In the all-stars version, Mario doesn't rebound quickly off the bricks. This is a pretty subtle gameplay difference, but it actually changes the pace of the game quite a bit.