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Game is fun but frustrating because you can't save your game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 53 / 64
Date: November 12, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is a classic Mario game. It is very challenging because every time you lose all your lives, you have to start at the beginning. This gets boring after a while.

Pretty cool

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: December 22, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game was pretty cool, but I had failed to read the instruction manual and got really frusterated at a few levels. I think its really cool that it keeps sending on new challenges. I would recomend this to people with at least a sliver of patiance though.

One of the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: September 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When you play this game, you'll see why it sold over a million copies. "Super Marioland" was the first great adventure game for the Game Boy, and it's still one of the best. I've been playing this game since it first came out and I still like playing it anytime I play the Game Boy. For the Game Boy, it has good graphics, control, the sound is cool, and it's a lot of fun. My only complaint is that there's only a few worlds, there could've been 2 or 3 more worlds to make it even better. It's not that hard of a game once you get used to it, but it's not too easy either.

If you have a Game Boy, I would recommend getting "Super Marioland," it's one of the best games you could get.

It's a fun game!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: January 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a really fun game. Only a couple of problems really... first off, everything is so tiny! The other thing is, there are only 12 levels, and none of them are as difficult as some of the levels of the original Super Mario Bros. But, for the Game Boy, it is a really good game!

The Best Mario Game Of Them All

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When you play this game,You will see why it was the top selling game for years.The controls seem a bit different,but you will get used to it in no time. It is great fun. The graphics are bad,but gameplay fun makes up for it. The music is the best of any mario game I've played. You cant save, but that would make it to easy. When it was made the mario games didn't save.Buy this game. You wont regret it.

Oldie but goodie

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I can't believe I got this game for Christmas fourteen years ago. For months after, I would actually *dream* this game.

Now, for original Game Boy, it's no masterpiece like Metroid II, Tetris, or Link's Awakening. But Super Mario Land is, however, a fine jumping-stomping-smashing-fireball-spitting Mario game, and one of the first and best games available for that giant grey plastic box of yore.

While the "save" problem is annoying to me as a gamer now, I'd never even heard of "saving" and "restoring" when I got this game as a kid. It just wasn't done back then. It was no different from playing Mario Bros. on Nintendo to me.

Once you get past the charmingly crude graphics (that's why we call it a "digital antique"), the sound and gameplay are enough to keep you occupied. Quality Mario action. 3 1/2 stars.

Great First Mario game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: June 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This was the second Game Boy game I ever played (the first was Tetris, which came with Game Boy's back in 1990) and was the game that made me a crazy Game Boy fan. Sure, it wasn't the traditional Mario game in the storyline. You fought the alien Tatanga to rescue Princess Daisy of Sarasaland instead of King Koopa, Princess Peach, and the Mushroom Kingdom. But, you were still Mario, there were still power mushrooms and fire flowers, and you still got to crush those poor, little Goombas.

As Mario games go, this one is pretty easy. 4 Kingdoms. 3 worlds per kingdom. And a bass that is easy to beat. Beating the game will only take a little concentration and maybe an hour, tops, for even the most unskilled gamer. But, it has great replay value (if you lose all your lives, there's no save, and there are special, harder games if you win, which also you can't save) and is a great game for young kids to start off with in addition to obviously Pokémon. Don't be surprised when they take a break from raising Pokémon that SML will be in their Game Boys. I knew it was when I got my Game Boy in 1990.

MarioFan(usuallly)

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: December 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

A mario game that you can't save? Both of my kids and I gave up on it. If there's a cheat code out there that lets you save your progress, then I would say buy this game. Otherwise don't even bother.

Great gameplay makes this game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Don't be fooled by this game's relatively crude graphics. Since this is a first-generation Gameboy game, I can let that slide. The music and sound f/x are good for the GB, but what makes this game shine is the gameplay...classic Super Mario gameplay with some new ideas (traveling via submarine and airplane). The last fight (the one with Tatanga) is more of a shooter, but still this is a very fun game. A word of advice...do NOT be fooled by the crude graphics! This game is a blast!

Mario's first appearance on the little screen

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Mario's gotten smaller, but the action's only increased. Not just a standard platformer, Mario exhibits his jumping power and fireball finesse, along with his piloting abilities in submarines and airplanes. Yes, not only can you fly two different vehicles in two levels, but now there's actual bosses besides Bowser as well. This is a very well rounded platformer with enough action to keep you happy for play after play.

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