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Jump, Yell, and get angry!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: February 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game (from a kids review) is what is called "Old School", and it is. This game was made way back when with SNES, and now is put on the gameboy advanced SP. I thought in the start it was the best old mario game. NOw i';ve really gotten into it, and now i'm stuck! I can't go any further. This game was fun. I jumped when i finished a world, i yelled in joy, and now I'm angry. maybe i'll find a way to get out.

I really recomend this game even though you might get stuck like me!

:)

Continue the remakes, Nintendo.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: April 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If nintendo can bring themselves to keep releasing past greats, they will continue to reign supreme in the handheld market. Almost nothing can compare to nintendo's brilliant oldies, and Super Mario World is probably one of the most fondly remembered. Not only did it introduce the platform genre to the 16-bit masses, but it defined what makes platformers fun--excitement, challenge, mental puzzles, and, of course, secrets, of which Mario was not at all lacking. With an-unprecedented-for-the-time 96 levels, heck even unprecedented now!, Mario exhibited an incredible amount of playability, not to mention replay value.

From the Butter Bridge secrets, to the 5 star road entrances, to the fan favorite Special secret area that offers an impressive reflexive challenge, Super Mario World is a past-livers dream, though doesn't alienate the future crop of gamers--offering numerous pangs of enjoyment for gamers of today.

If you want a lesson in or reliving of old game design, a design still scarcely matched, and quite fun at that, then Super Mario World for the Gameboy Advance is your best bet.

Gotta Get It!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This was the first video game I ever got, and I still prefer it over my Harry Potter game. This game has really fun levels, but maybe I like it because I like adventure games. I don't think that people who like fighting games would like this. The only thing I don't like about the game is that some levels are really hard, and it gets frustrating to play them over and over. I got my GBA at [a retail store], and it came with the game and a cheat magazine (Nitendo Power Advance), which really helps me. It unlocks about 50 secret levels which I wouldn't have discovered on my own. All in all, it's worth the price. Go out and buy it!!

The 2nd best Mario game of all time returns

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have played this game on the SNES several times. This summer I was at a cabin that had a SNES and Super Mario World. I was unable to tear myself away from the game for the whole week, and I was unable to finish it (I didn't do that badly! That's besides the point!) My point: 74 diverse areas. Ride Yoshi. Several of Mario's unusual powers. This is one of the best games of all time. Only Super Mario 64 is better, but it's shorter. And SMW is on the GBA, meaning I will not be coming out of my room for a while... The best part is I don't need to bug my parents for extra time on a T.V. based console. Hee hee hee...

One of the best Mario games of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the original Super Mario World game from Super NES but now transformed into a Gameboy world. This game is awesome and one of the best in the Mario series (Super Mario Bros. 3 first and tied with Super Mario 64). It's a much better play if you have the Gameboy Player for Gamecube so you can play it on the big screen just like old times but either way, this game will have you playing for hours on end.
The best features about this game are the fact that you can be both Mario and Luigi, have Yoshi (in 5 different colours I might add) and the exclaimation mark stages, the first one (yellow) is the best. This game has so many stages and secrets. The Star World is awesome, especially the Special Stage World, I wish they still made games like this one.
Treading similar waters, this time Mario has a cape and can fly, a lot longer than in Super Mario Bros. 3 where you have the tail and can only fly for a limited time. In this game you can fly over the whole stage...if you want but what would be the point of that? The cape is one of the best items to ever grace the Mario series.
The whole walk through, through Dinosaur Land is awesome, you go through many areas like the Cave and a Forest. I also like the secret level where you can easily go get Yoshi and a couple of mushrooms/flowers or capes...whichever floats your boat. Another great secret is the one stage where you can get 45-50 lives, this should last you the rest of the game. Butter bridge is one of the harder levels, you'll need those lives and where the "cheat" level is located, you should be using them real soon.
In all, this is an amazing game, there isn't much more I have to say, just buy it and you'll understand. An excellent classic and Mario is the best hero ever (well, second to Link). Enjoy.

Polishing a classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

There's pretty much a debate on the best Super Mario game: Super Mario 3, Super Mario World or Yoshi's Island(but you control Yoshi instead). Some might say Mario 64 but the lack of gameplay moves doesn't hold a candle to the many gameplay mechanics each one of the 3 provide. So we delve into one of them: Super Mario World.

Story: What little story there is. As usual, Princess Peach gets kidnapped(I swear that b**** needs bodyguards or take up karate or something). So it's up to Mario to save the day as he traverses worlds in caves, the chocolate level, underwater and in the air.

Graphics: This is Super Nintendo graphics so granted these aren't stunning anymore. But it does have a nice vibrancy to it and the variety of the levels adds some nice changes to the scenery without being too repetitive.

Sound/Music: I often call Nintendo good support music. Besides the Mario theme, nothing is really hummable yet it doesn't feel out of place. They added some voices for Mario and Luigi which as usual get annoying.

Gameplay: I remember playing this on the SNES and I was so happy I cleared all 96 stages, got the Star Road finished, the secret areas and everything. Now I have to do it again, ugh. All the levels are here with some minor tweaks.

It was this one I believe they introduced one of Mario's famous sidekicks: Yoshi, the green dinosaur who likes to eat anything and s**t it out and makes eggs that he can fling at people(only in Yoshi's Island and maybe some others). He also turned into a different colored Yoshi depending on what he ate. So red turtles gave him abilities to shoot fireballs while one enabled him to fly and another gave a slight earthquake quality when he bounced.

Mario 3 wins in turns of transforming Mario. In 3, he had the tanooki suit(that raccoon), the frog suit, that shoe, not to mention the fire flower and the leaf, capable of making him fly. With this one he gets the fire flower and the feather, giving him a yellow Superman cape where he can fly. It's different than the leaf cause that just made him soar straight up while here you can fly across. He can glide down by just holding the button while in 3 you had to repeatedly hit it.

The Mario Advance ports are great for us old school gamers who remembers playing Chrono Trigger, Uniracers and Final Fantasy III(officially VI but that's another story). Don't forget about Mario 3 and Yoshi's Island too.

fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: March 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've had this game for 4 years and i still have't finished it!
It takes a while to finish this game because you don't want to miss anything that's fun!

One of the absolute greatest platformers of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Way back when the Super Nintendo was released, there was a game packaged with it that showed off just what the system was capable of doing. Super Mario World took Nintendo's popular mascot and gave him a bit of a facelift by adding new gameplay dynamics, a new sidekick in Yoshi, much bigger levels, and more challenging enemies. When Super Mario World was ported to the GBA, the game managed to retain most, if not all, of everything that made Super Mario World one of the absolute greatest platformers of all time, along with a few added features. Anyone familiar with the original game will feel right at home with Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World, which is perfect platforming pleasure all the way, and one of the best things you can play on the GBA. The graphics and gameplay are pretty much identical to what you remember, while there are some added sound effects and animations, as well as the original arcade Mario Bros. game included as an extra (which is included with all the other Super Mario Advance games as well). It's still challenging, and most of all, it's still fun all these years later, and if you own a GBA, or even a DS, and have never experienced Super Mario World, then you have been missing out on a great deal. Do yourself a favor, pick this up, you won't regret it.

A brilliantly remade classic!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: December 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Like Kirby's Dreamland, I often played this game on my friend's NES. When Gameboy Advance came out, I got the console ASAP along with this game. It was so cute-a great introduction to the GBA for any age. In this game you play as either Luigi, Toad, Princess Peach, or Mario. Each character has their own unique abilities-Peach can fly breifly by using her dress, Toad has super strength, Luigi can jump very high, and Mario has balanced abilities. You try to pass through different worlds while listening to the familiar Mario tune and sound effects, including voices assigned to each character. I couldn't put it down! Nintendo is doing a fantastic job with the remakes!
*If you liked Super Mario World, you might want to try the newly released remake, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land!

You Don't Want to Put it Down!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had this game when I was in 6th grade (I'm in 10th now). It got stolen, but the point is that it was very fun, so much fun I didn't ever want to stop! I mean, I took it to school, and played it in class (never got caught...heh heh!). That's how, unfortunately, it got stolen.

I like how this game was. In fact, it was a lot better than Super Mario 3, because of newer enemies, the introduction of Yoshi, new levels, and secret courses you can unlock!!

If I had this game still today, heh, I wouldn't even be writing this review right now!!

(By the way, I gave it 4 Stars because it got hard at times, but, all-in-all, a great Super Mario classic!!!!)

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