A timeless classic and a great remake, making it the definitive way to experience such a fun and, albeit, time consuming game.

I feel like at some point in my life, I did briefly dabble in this game, but my impatience prevented me from ever progressing anything above World 1-1, which seems like such an idiotic oversight now. This time around, I enjoyed it pretty thoroughly for what it was and took my time to learn the mechanics before I really committed to trying to beat it. Though my run for this port of the game was a bit shorter, I did spend another week or two trying to learn the mechanics of the original port on Switch's NES emulator before I even found out there was an All-Stars remake of the first three games on the SNES emulator, which kind of saved my life. Nothing against the original, I surprisingly enjoyed that too, but graphically - the All-Stars version is just so much better.

A great platformer, definitely a huge influence to it's successors. Whilst it can be grueling at times, I think for a game this old, it has aged almost like fine wine. Visually, it looks really old, but the mechanics themselves hold up substantially well by today's standards, so I'm very interested to see how it was improved upon given this isn't even considered the best in the series by many.