I've already reviewed Super Mario All-Stars as well as the original games upon which it is based, so this is a review that's already running with two layers of redundancy. If you want a quick summary: All-Stars is a pretty good collection of remakes and historically valuable for bringing The Lost Levels to other territories, but my preference lies with the NES originals.

Not to brag but uh, I own a CRT, you know. Maybe you wanna come over, play a little Hyperstone Heist sometime? Unfortunately, I don't have a Super Nintendo, which means we can't play Super Mario All-Stars the way Miyamoto intended. I do have a little work around, though: Playing it on the Wii instead.

That throught process is what led me to replaying this again, and as far as what All-Stars is, there's not a whole lot to say. I think there's some added input lag, but it was really only perceptible to me in the original Super Mario Bros. and The Lost Levels, whereas USA and Super Mario Bros. 3 feel totally fine. I'm not sure if I'm imagining it or what. Otherwise, it's still the same collection of games, arguably to a fault. Just the SNES ROM on a disc, and Nintendo couldn't even be bothered to use the one that contained Super Mario World.

Selling a Super Nintendo ROM at full price seems like a bad deal, even if you do some pretty spectacular mental gymnastics to sell this as four full games rather than one rerelease. Nintendo did try to sweeten the deal by adding some supplementary material in the form of a soundtrack and booklet covering the history of Super Mario. These pack-ins are of questionable quality, with the soundtrack containing a whopping ten songs followed by ten sound effects. On top of this, Nintendo released All-Stars for a limited time, hoping that the fear of missing out would further drive sales. This is a tactic that apparently works for them considering they gleefully indulged in it again for 3D All-Stars and Super Mario 99. As a consumer, the only worth such practices have for me is in buying a copy to resell later at a greater value than what I played. You won't see me with a fresh lobotomy listening to a one second clip of the coin sound effect, I am not nearly enough of a Nintendo Faithful.

Oh, and it didn't even remain a limited release. Nintendo eventually put out another version of All-Stars that gutted the bonus material. Just an extra "fuck you" to the people foolish devoted enough to buy the Limited Edition. All of this makes All-Stars a quintessential Nintendo product, one that so perfectly highlights the company's greed and the anti-consumer practices that drive them.

This game isn't bad but it is extremely lazy. It is just a SNES emulator playing Super Mario All-Stars and not even the version with Super Mario World apart of it. The menus aren't even edited to show Wii controls, it still shows SNES controls. The entire package just screams lazy.

Honestly speaking though, I am not really fussed by this game all too much. I just find it fascinating that Nintendo would release a physical game disc with the only thing on it being one SNES ROM. This thing is just a fun little oddity to own. If you want to play Super Mario All-Stars then this does the job. There are better and more convenient ways of playing Super Mario All-Stars, so I don't see why anyone would ever use this as more than just a decoration on the shelf.

Absolute joke of a game. This port was full price and not only that but it didn't even include the newest version of the games that the SNES version did. This is a ROM of the original release version on SNES that is 5 megabytes on a disc that could fit several hundred copies of this game and then still have room left over for the entire SNES and NES library. And it was priced $60 for a 20 year old game.

The game itself is stellar - a collection of the Super Mario games including Super Mario World, Mario 2 etc. But if you thought Super Mario 3D All Stars was shameless profiteering, this was way worse.