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incredible! Accept no other version than this one!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Dude... As Tradewest used to say,"TRASH THE REST, AND PLAY THE BEST!".
This is truly the greatest incarnation of SMB1 that I have seen to date!
the only three ways that I would like to see it improved would be

A: Port it to the DS to allow the following;

B: Allow a toggle between classic graphics and the graphics (but NOT that gawd-awful reworked play control) which were used in the SNES compilation cartridge, and allow mid-game toggle between classic NES scale and "zoom"(close-up) perspective that was standard in this GBC rendition.

C: MMOSMB1! It might be difficult to figure out how to do this, but if it were possible to string several worlds (with all 4 areas included) together, I can imagine the hilarious result, running in a frantic race with dozens of marios' of many different color schemes, all scrambling to jump, squash, run, and shove their way past the othes from start to finish, with respawning blocks, creatures, and Bowzers! This GBC counterpart offers over 14 worlds, with 4 areas each, and alternative versions and rulesets for 8 of those worlds. it wouldn't be the most compelling game invented, but getting 16 or more different players simultaneously scrambling for this kind of goal would definitely be a sight to see!

A Mario Classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Now the old Super Mario Bros. is back with a lot of extras.
First, it's the original game with a nifty save feature (On the map screen hit select to change into Luigi)
Second, Three Savable files
Third, A challenge mode in each level for colllecting the five red coins, Finding yoshi's egg and beating the level with a certain score.
Forth, A versus mode when you and a friend play (a single player mode can be unlocked)
Fifth, a picture album
Sixth, A Toy box containing a calender,You can hold your Birthday, special dates, and notes)a furtune teller, and a banner gallery on witch you can print out banners through the gameboy printer.
Seventh, The original Super Mario Bros. 2 released only in Japan and was later remade on Super Mario Allstars(A collection of classic Mario games, Super Mario Bros.,Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, & Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels( Super Mario Bros. 2 In Japan)) For the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or SNES. On this game it is called Super Mario Bros. for Super Players or SMBfSP (Confused Yet?)

a deluxe game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

whoah.How should i sat dis.dis game gives u 100+ HOURS OF PLAY.GRAPHICS R R GREAT OLD SCHOOL.STORY MODE IS AWESOME!!!!!!AND BOY DIS GAME WILL GIVE AN AWESOME INSANE SUPER GIANT AND GREAT LEVEL IM STUCK ON THE 3RD LEVEL OF WORLD 4 MY FAV LEVEL IS THE LEVEL WHEN 1ST FIGHT THOSE TURTLES WITH BOOMERANGS BUT THE LEVEL WAS KINDA HARD

Too much fluff

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun because it has the orginal Super Mario Bros in it. The nostalgia is there on the small Game Boy screen. The down part is the fluff, like images to print out. All this is a total waste of memory on the cartridge.

Momma mia, what a come back!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was a vivid gamer back in the day, and Mario was always one of my all time favorites. I have long since moved away from the video game scene, but now and then I play the classics on the PC. And when I played this version, I was amazed at how great it had been revived to the GBA. The graphics are the same, the gameplay is the same, the sound is the same, but there is new extras and bonus stuff, a pathway to choose, multi player ect.. I have to say this is the best Mario Bros. (1) game ever! Even better then Mario All Stars (snes) version!!!

the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i had this game and its great i love the fact that it is exactly the same except for the fact that instead of 3 lives you start out with 5 and when you die you are asked if you would like to continue or start over. two great pros to the classic game which make it even better. also the new levels are challenging but great. i lost my copy of this game a few years and now i cant find it anywhere! :'(

Super Mario Bros. Deluxe - A True Classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Super Mario Deluxe was my first Gameboy game ever. It was my first video game ever. It was my best video game ever. Even after buying 16 other Gameboy Color and Advance Games, this is still one of my favorites.
I know what you are thinking: This is a Gameboy Color game! It must have horrible graphics and ridiculously simple gameplay. Well, you are wrong. Yes, it is a Gameboy Color game. Yes, I bought it 2000. But, it is a great game. The graphics are blocky (What do you expect from a Gameboy Color game?) but still pretty good, and the gameplay is anything but simple.
You play as Mario, and you have to collect gold coins, jump on enemies, and save Princess Toadstool, more commonly known as Princess Peach. Once you complete every level in Regular Mode, you have to go through the same levels again as Star Levels. They do have minor changes to make them harder, such as replacing Goombas with Buzzy Beetles, but they are pretty much the same as their regular counterparts. Also, as you complete each level in Regular Mode, it becomes available in Challenge Mode. When you complete a certain amount of the game, the You Vs. Boo Racing Option becomes available. (You can also race against a friend via a link cable.) After you complete more of the game, the Super Mario Bros. 2 Option becomes available. But, that is still not all. You get a table of ten high scores that you can combine with a friend's table. You unlock pictures for your photo albums and other features that can be printed with a Gameboy Printer (which hardly anyone has) and you can tell your fortune and record important events on a daily calendar. Whew, that's a lot of features!
As you can see, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is a very complex game. It took me two months to complete the Regular and Challenge Modes alone, and I haven't fully completed any of the other modes. Super Mario Bros. Deluxe never gets old, though. When I brought it to school in 2003, four or five kids were swarming around me asking to play it, more people than were ever asking to play a Gameboy Advance SP game all at once. I have summarized my review in the following list of pros and cons:

Pros:

It has tons of different features and modes.
It takes a very long time to fully complete.
Even after you beat the game, it never gets old.

Cons:

It has blocky graphics.
Many of the features require a Gameboy Printer, which not many people have.

Wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the account to the SNES version, its graphics are way better than the original, it even holds alot of secrets, EX. Get enough points and you can play "The Lost Levels, boo race" and more! not to mention this game is such a great gift for the little ones, it is so easy, my little brother (Whose is 6) has almost completed the game!

Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have this game and I Love It. It is a challenging game and teaches good stradgy.I rate this Game 5 stars. Buy This game you will love it (or whoever you are getting it for will).

Pixel Perfect Port

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's been nearly fifteen years since the plumber wandered into the Mushroom Kingdom, and gaming has never been the same since. When the NES was released in 1985, the game that shipped with the system was the instant classic Super Mario Bros. And what better way to kick off the first year of the Game Boy Color's life than with a true Mario game? The Game Boy Color game Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is a pixel-by-pixel translation of the original NES game, with a ton of added features. And because the original Super Mario Bros. still holds up extremely well after all these years, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is an absolutely fantastic game that borders on perfection ? perfection in Game Boy standards, of course. There are many different modes in the game, but the main game is the 1985 classic Super Mario Bros. 32 levels of platform-hopping gameplay where you must go through the world, jumping on enemies and collecting coins, making your way to the next castle before time runs out. Collect 100 coins and you've earned a secret life. Make sure you jump on...aww, skip it. You've played this game before. What you haven't played are the new modes injected in the Game Boy Color version. The Vs. Mode requires two Game Boy Colors and a link-cable, but this game is a whole lot of fun. It's a race to the flag pole between Mario and Luigi, and you'll try to screw each other up by hitting triggers that will put blocks up in the way. Very cool use of the original Super Mario Bros. engine, and worth the purchase of another cartridge just for this feature alone. Super Mario Bros. Deluxe also has a Challenge Mode, where you'll have to find five red coins and a Yoshi egg, as well as beat the level's preset score to finish the level completely. This is pretty darn difficult, hope you have a lot of patience. When I say pixel-perfect, I mean it. Even though the Game Boy Color screen has less resolution than a standard television, the developers have translated the same pixel count for every object in the game, from Mario to the koopas, turtles, even the question-mark blocks. Granted, this reduces the screen visibility somewhat, but the developers have added user-controlled screen-scrolling to the mix. If you want to see above or below where you're standing, it's all a matter of pushing up or down on the pad. All 32 levels, from 1-1 to 8-4 are patterned after the levels in the NES classic. Nothing's changed. Well, that's not exactly true, you can now save your game in progress, something you could not do in the original. It also remembers which levels you've completed, and unlocks secrets based on how many you've finished. So it's not always a good thing to find the warp zones so early in the game. Secrets? That's right. As you complete certain tasks in the game, you open up little hidden trinkets. Things like a Photo Album where you can print out earned pictures on your Game Boy Printer, or a Toy Box where you can make messages and print them out. Oh, and just because they could, the developers stuck in a fortune teller (just think "Mario Magic 8 Ball") and a calendar option where you can enter important dates and save them to a cartridge. Do they need to be in there? Of course not. But they're cool additions nontheless. Super Mario Bros. remains one of my top 10 favorite games of all-time, even though it's almost a decade and a half old. Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is such a perfect translation, it makes me wonder if it's easy to port NES games to the Game Boy Advance. Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is the Game Boy Color-specific game to own, hands down, and will be the title that, hopefully, will key a revolution of porting NES games to the handheld system. Buy this game. Now.

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