SMW or SMB3

[lamedude]

SMW's 25th birthday. Many call it the GOAT, but IMO Mario3 is better (this long post summed it up nicely). Mario Maker made me go look up the maps and appreciate them even more. They're not big, but they never felt small when playing them.

 

[007ELmO]

If Nintendo reproduced new NES and SNES machines (originals), I wonder how many people would buy it. I know I'm one that wants to reproduce the NES experience with original NEW controllers and not knockoffs.

Despite my avatar, I answered SMW purely on emotions alone. Nintendo needs to launch the next console WITH Zelda if they want big bucks.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I put SMW over them all..but it is just personal preference.

 

[purbeast0]

they both own, and i remember my mom driving us 30 minutes to the only mall that got SMB3 and being so hype to play it with my brother, but i prefer SMW for sure. but SMB3 was definitely the pioneer game that led to SMW.

yoshi, all of the "red dot" levels that had alternate exists, star world, and then the final battle against bowser? just everything about SMW was incredible.

and who could forget the cape and how you could fly with that thing. so awesome.

 

[futurefields]

for me SMW because it's what I played in my childhood and it seems like SMB3 just with more and better polish

 

[Sulaco]

I have to ever so narrowly award this to SMW.

They're both simply two of the greatest games of all time, irrespective of genre, and choosing between them is pretty much impossible.
SMW gets the slight edge though for its hidden areas, overall length, Yoshi, and worlds.
Still though, playing the Super Mario All Stars version of SMB3 is about as neck and neck as you get. That game is simply wonderful.

 

[KB]

SM3 for sure. Didn't you see "the Wizard"? Best video game tie-in ever

Second, which one SM3 or SMW had a happy meal created for it? Hint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWUh91R2Kr8

 

[007ELmO]

I just bought original NES controllers. I plan to try and beat megaman 2 first, but I will go back to SMB1/SMB2/SMB3 soon thereafter. Reliving childhood as an adult.

 

[Ichinisan]

SMB3 for me. I love both of them, but SMB3 had a lot more flow in level design.

 

[gorcorps]

I liked SMW better, but TBH I didn't play Mario brothers 3 on the NES... only the ported version that came with the SNES. Not sure if that has anything to do with it. The whole hidden star map thing with the different yoshis and everything was awesome to me, and I got a ton of play time out of it.

 

[sao123]

I'm not sure I could choose between the 2.
SMW had Yoshi and more levels and better graphics, but it had 8 more bits to work with.

SMB3 revolutionized everything by adding the Racoon Leaf, Hammer Suit, the Tanooki Suit, the Frog Suit, the P wing. In SMW, all you had was the cape and flower.

SMB3 had so much new that SMW never had...

Vertical levels and mazes reminiscent of the 8-4 world in SMB.
Giant (doublesize) levels.
The toad houses & powerup card game, the hidden coin ship.

 

[Newell Steamer]

SMW is carried by Yoshi - literally.

SMB3 is still true Mario.

I get the appeal for Yoshi. But, Mario should be about Mario, not Yoshi.

 

[007ELmO]

Mario has not been about mario for a very long time.

 

[CZroe]

Super Mario Bros. 3. No question.

Like most NES owners, mine included SMB/Duck Hunt. We couldn't afford much so SMB3 was the only additional NES game we ever got. In several years with little else to play I thoroughly mastered it and THOUGHT I was done with it by the time I finally sold my NES to get my SNES Control Set with no games (~Feb. 1994; most got the Super Set). I bought a cheap used Super Mario World the same day and got to work.

When the free Super Mario All*Stars cartridge arrived by mail several weeks later I had already 100% completed SMW: *96. I spent another week 100% completing the new-to-me SMA*S stuff (Lost Levels and SMB2). When finished I reflected on all of it and something hit me: despite being stuck with it as my only game for several years, I wasn't sick of SMB3 and I wanted to play it more than any of my other games including SMW.

I still play both regularly but I continue playing significantly more of SMB3.

 

[Ichinisan]

[snip]

Yeah. Clearly SMB3, for me. I *love* SMW, but this isn't even a contest as far as I'm concerned.

If anyone had asked me back in 1993-1995, I probably would have answered differently and said SMW was better. I was still hypnotized by 16-bit graphics. Nearly all of my time spent playing SMB3 had been on a black-and-white TV.