Am I a fake gamer for only finishing this now in 2023? Yeah.

In all seriousness though, it's alright, but really nothing special. I could see how this would be revolutionary in a day where there was nothing else like it, but compared to every other platformer that came after it, it's pretty average. The controls aren't as tight as I would normally expect from a Mario game (jumps are sluggish if you don't spend a solid second or two building momentum, and landing can be rather slippery) and the level designs are fun enough, though most were not particularly memorable.

7-4 and 8-4 are dumb for being puzzle levels in a game that at no other point insinuates that it plans on including puzzles.

O começo da franquia Mario (e a minha primeira review)

Mario. (não, ele não está no meu armario :v) Ele é um encanador que resolve salvar a princesa do mundo dos cogumelos enquanto um dragão tartaruga/Bowser rapta ela enquanto o Mario avança de castelo em castelo.

O que dizer desse Jogo? Este jogo foi basicamente o que salvou o crash dos games e também ele é muito bom para o que se propõe na época, mas a gameplay em certos pontos não se adaptou bem pros padrões de hoje em dia porque ele é bem simples para um plataformer atual. 6/10

Pros: Big adventure filled with 8 worlds. Tough platforming challenges, variety of level types, useful power-ups, and cool secrets. Incredibly fun to speedrun through too!

Cons: The platforming mechanics are a bit stiff, the timer is annoying (as it is in most Mario games), and not being able to scroll the camera back from where you came to the left, is a bit of a bummer... Otherwise, I got no real complaints, I can play this game again and again and again.

What it means to me: Most likely my very first video game, as it came packaged with the NES, though too young to understand and play it well at the time. But as I discovered more and more about it, the more I loved it, and then to finally conquer the adventure and defeat Bowser at the end, saving the princess, I felt a sense of accomplishment I'd never felt with any other game. This one is special, it pretty much changed the world.

Como esquecer do Mario que deu início a tudo?

Design badass, trilha sonora marcante e um plataforma mediano (envelheceu bem mal hoje), são essas as definições que achei pra conseguir resumir super Mario Bros.

Sério não tem muito a se falar desse jogo, seus controles hoje em dia são bugados, mas se você é fã da estética do NES e fã de Mario, esse título é um prato cheio.

NES Week: Day #7

So, we’ve finally made it. After enjoying some simple pinball, ‘climbing’ up some icey mountains, hitting a ball with a racket, finding gems as a red blob, being a motorcyclist, and fighting with some balloons, we have finally made it. We’ve made it to Super Mario bros.

I could’ve gone for duck hunt for the last game but I thought that wouldn’t be great enough and that the perfect game to play at last is Nintendo’s mascot himself! My history with this game is pretty short. I used to play quite a bit of it but never get past world 6. Turns out there was a way to getting to world 8 all the way from world 5 so…that was nice to know at last after I’d gone through quite a lot of pain but oh well.

In the game you play as Mario on his way to save princess toadstool from the evil king koopa (or peach and bowser). On the way you’ll come across goombas, koopa troopas and buzzy beetles. You’ll also find lakitus who just love to annoy you every chance you get. As a game, Super Mario bros. has aged pretty well. Not ridiculously well but definitely well enough for it to still be played today. And yes: it is pretty difficult near the end but not as difficult as some other Mario games on the NES (looking at you lost levels) but overall you’ll still be able to enjoy a timeless classic.

Classic, recognisable music, decent enemies, bullet bills come at the wrong time, your princess is in another castle!

el juego que lo comenzó todo. la primera aventura de mario con el objetivo de rescatar a la princesa peach de las garras de bowser, como primer juego de la saga y tambien un juego del año del 85 las mecánicas, objetivo y todo lo que lo compone es para mi demasiado simple como el primer kirby de game boy, obtienes una habilidad la cual es un champiñon y te hace mas grande y ahora pues romper bloques y cuando un enemigo te ataque solo te regresara a el estado original de Mario,otra habilidad es una flor que te da poderes de fuego y haces volitas,por lo que ven...son muy simples. cual es el objetivo de cada nivel otra vez ...muy simple. llegar a la meta vivo...el juego se compone de ocho mundos los cuales son repetitivos, solo cambian pequeños detalles para que no digas que es igual. conclusión: un primer juego de una saga clásica sincera y simple y nada mas.

The kind of all-timer that comes once in a decade; as primitive as it is, it's proof that graphics don't mean everything and that in the end it always comes back down to level design, mechanics, and just general vibes. And the original Super Mario Bros, regardless of it's age, is still a masterpiece in level design and mechanics. The way Mario feels is timeless - heavier then other games in the series but still somehow distinctly Mario, and the levels progress in difficulty in a way that feels right.

And once you reach the end, with some of the hardest levels in the game and it throwing pretty much everything it can at you, it feels genuinely satisfying. Your princess is in another castle, but when the journey is this good and well aged, it's hard to not wanna see it through.

I'm sorry to say that I do not like Super Mario Bros on the NES, I can already hear the Nintendo Youtubers outside of my house...

This game is a platformer game alright, it's the iconic NES game that helped the industry and bla bla bla, the type of talk you'd hear in a video essay about the NES or Mario's history but if we remove the historical context out of this game it becomes pretty mediocre.
Instead of praising this game for doing things first, I think it would be more fun to talk about its flaws, for example, the terrible momentum physics. Playing this game after playing Mario Maker 2 really shows how terrible the momentum is and how easy it is to miss a jump with the weird accelerations that just never seem to be right.
Something else that I hate is the 8 worlds that are pretty much the damn same, I can't force myself to even play worlds 1-3 because why would I, the warp zone is right there! The temptation is just too strong! With each world having pretty much the same stage layout and order it gets really boring and repetitive, and with that 1-up trick you can have enough lives to remove any difficulty from the game and pretty much just turns the game into a 100 Mario challenge from Mario Maker.
The stages and enemies, you can tell me a billion times that the 1-1 stage is the most iconic stage and how smart it is for the player or whatever the Nintendo YouTubers keep repeating as if they all shared the same game essay, you can't tell me that anything outside of 1-1 and 1-2 are actually well-designed stages, at best I'll give you the entirety of World 1 but anything past that is bullshit with terrible enemies like the cheep cheep and hammer bros, or the GIGANTIC lava bar from the castle stages... these just sucks man...

Do take this with a grain of salt as this is how I view this game and this is my opinion and not yours, you might think this game is a timeless masterpiece and that's good for you but I don't think this means it should be free from actual criticism even if it's an old piece of media.
This game did age tremendously well compared to other NES games from that era like Clu Clu Land and many others and I do well acknowledge that fact.