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Posted on 09-18-10 01:41:19 AM

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Well, there was the MB physics, and the DK physics, I guess. Both of those were weird, IMO, probably because, again, I didn't grow up with them.

I find it hard to play Mario Bros. now because I expect the jumping and turning and whatnot to be more like SMB1, SMB3, or SMW.

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Posted on 09-18-10 03:20:15 AM (last edited by saturos at 12-30-18 01:48:40 PM)

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Posted on 09-18-10 03:22:25 AM

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09-17-10 10:22:25 PM
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Originally posted by Spontaneous Madness
I love the SMB1 physics.
And they can't really be odd.. cause there was nothing beforehand to compare them to, really.

Except for that whole real life thing.

Turning and acc/decelerating in midair?

It's definitely more fun that way though.

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Posted on 09-18-10 10:59:50 PM

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Originally posted by Spontaneous Madness
I love the SMB1 physics.
And they can't really be odd.. cause there was nothing beforehand to compare them to, really.

Doesn't matter if there was nothing before them, you can still compare them to the sum total of Mario as a whole, and, in those terms, they are odd. Mario 3, Mario World, and Mario USA (not sure on Mario Land 1/2) are all a lot less stiff in terms of jumping mechanics.

Also, you can't gain height by jumping on enemies in Mario 1.

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Posted on 09-19-10 05:44:22 AM

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Originally posted by Colin
Fun fact: I was playing SMB2J years before Lost Levels. You have to *LOVE* rental stores that had a few pirate carts on the shelves.

I also played SMB3 months before release. Same deal; pirate cart.

Those were the days!! In Montreal, every single video rental store had those pirate Famicom carts (with a NES adapters), even the big chains. Nobody knew they were pirate copies from Hong-Kong, everyone thought they were simply Japanese imports.

We had SMB 3 almost a year before the official north-american release. It was sold for more than $100CDN. We also had a lot of multi-carts that were even pricier.

The games had special boxes and labels printed by the distributors. SMB2J was labeled SMB 3, and SMB 3 was labeled SMB 4. There was also a lot of other misleading labels, like that "Mario Baby" game which was a Konami game that had nothing to do with Mario, or a Castlevania 3 labeled game made by Capcom where the main character didn't even had a whip!

Back in the days, I remember seeing a "Doki Doki Panic : Dream Factory" game cart. Looking at the label, I saw that it seemed to be just like SMB 2 (US)! I always felt that SMB 2 was a weird Mario game, and having played SMB2J, I figured out the whole SMB2/Doki Doki Panic/SMB2j story all by myself (this was before this information was easily found on the internet, and before the Web itself.)

One day Nintendo paid attention to Montreal and the pirate distributors were busted and the carts disappeared from rental store everywhere, with only a few remaining in pawn shops and flea markets.

I still have a pirate SMB2J cart somewhere. The nice thing about it, you can start on any level by holding the d-pad in any of the 8 directions and pressing start on the title screen (and holding A+direction will get you to the A-B-C-D levels). I never managed to get to level 9-1 though.

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