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Game Name:
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
System:
Game Boy
Genre:
Action/Platformer
Developer/Publisher:
Nintendo
Release Date:
Japan: April 21st, 1989
United States: August 1989
Europe: September 28th, 1990 |
(Grade: B-)
Its a pretty good gameboy game and made an excellent GB launch title.
When the GB needed more titles for launch, it was Mario to the rescue.
Its obviously not Miyamoto's work but its good enough. Gunpei Yokoi
designed this game instead. He is (well was....I'm not touching this
anymore) the creator of Metroid and Kid Icarus and was also a lead
designer at Nintendo. I have to say, for a Mario game unsupervised by
Miyamoto, the game is very well done. Of course, if it was made by
Miyamoto, this would probably be his weakest work .
Its classic gameplay rolled into a tiny cartridge. The setting may not
fit the game too well but the gameplay is still great. It plays a lot
like Super Mario Bros. The screen scrolls to the right but you can't
go back. Sound familiar? You bet it is. This game is pure classic
gameplay and it preserves the spirit of the original game. In fact,
its so much like SMB that some purists consider it the true American
Sequel to SMB.
Graphics are laughable, even for a gameboy game. Sprites are
simplistic, enemies are tiny, and the levels don't fit Mario too well.
And seeing how far the next two Super Mario Land games went, there is
no excuse for how simplistic everything looks in the original game.
The music is much better and very catchy. Who could forget World One's
theme? And in the Marine-Pop and Sky-Pop levels, the SMB theme is
remixed . Yay for remixing everyone's favorite videogame song!
Super Mario Land is a short game. And its also hard to find. I got
lucky when I stumbled on it at Gamestop. There are only 4 worlds in
the game but it has a hard mode when you done. And the last level is
so much fun that its worth going through the game all over again. It
takes less than an hour to beat but its meant to be an on the go game.
So when you have to go somewhere, its a perfect plug in and play game
for trips. Super Mario Land was the start of something great. The Next
Super Mario Land game and the Wario Land games are sequels to this
game. Nice introduction, wouldn't you say?
Written By: WillBillXP
Date Submitted: February 12th, 2007
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