Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition is a Mario special edition pack for the Wii released as a Wii emulation of the SNES game Super Mario All-Stars. The game is a tribute to the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. and includes an extra package, with a Super Mario History 1985-2010 booklet, that tells about Mario's history and the people who made a big effort making the Mario games, and a CD with many songs across the main series. The game itself is a unaltered emulation of Super Mario All-Stars for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, down to showing the SNES controller in the configuration screen rather than any of the standard Wii controllers.
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Nintendo straight up copy-pasted a SNES ROM into a Wii disc. And charged 30 bucks for the fanciness. 3 stars only because the content is still of 3/4 legendary platforms and the fanciness is indeed nice.
Enjoy your $30 limited edition SNES ROM that doesn't even include Super Mario World like the later version.
It was a dick move not to put this on the virtual console.
It was a dick move not to put this on the virtual console.
I always thought the argument that this was a bad/lazy release was pretty short-sighted. When I got this as a kid it was one of my first exposures to the original NES 2D Mario games, and I loved looking through the booklet that came with it. Just because there's not a ton of crazy behind the scenes stuff or extra content doesn't make this a bad collection. Maybe it's just a way to introduce a younger audience to these classic games--or rather, this classic compilation.
Yeah yeah I know the NES games were available individually on the Wii Shop Channel for less, but some of you ancient Nintendo nerds who were adults at the time of the Wii forget that some people (me) didn't have access to Wifi at the time. So getting this $30 Wii game version with a small bonus crash course in Mario history was perfect for me as a kid.
Sometimes you gotta remember that a simple collection like this can be the gateway into spawning new fans. Sure, more content isn't a bad thing, but this amount is just fine too.
Happy belated 25th Anniversary Mario.
Yeah yeah I know the NES games were available individually on the Wii Shop Channel for less, but some of you ancient Nintendo nerds who were adults at the time of the Wii forget that some people (me) didn't have access to Wifi at the time. So getting this $30 Wii game version with a small bonus crash course in Mario history was perfect for me as a kid.
Sometimes you gotta remember that a simple collection like this can be the gateway into spawning new fans. Sure, more content isn't a bad thing, but this amount is just fine too.
Happy belated 25th Anniversary Mario.
When it comes to ports, it doesn't get much funnier than this.
Maybe it was foolish to expect more from a game celebrating 25 years of Mario as a kid, but a simple rom of some old SNES games was not enough to make me play for more than maybe an hour.
In truth, I only ever asked for this game so that I could enjoy the booklet and music CD, not so much for Super Mario All-Stars itself. While I have played All-Stars to completion, I did not do so on this release, and have since sold the game (but kept the bonus goodies for myself).