Genre
Perspective
Non-Sport
MobyRank MobyScore
Game Boy Advance
91
3.2
NES
95
4.1
Wii
...
2.9

Description

Bowser is back, and along with the Bowser kids, he's out to spoil Mario's day once again.

This time, along with nabbing the Princess, the Bowser crew have also taken the magic wands from the Kings of each land and turned them into creatures. It's up to Mario and Luigi to get back the magic wands, defeat Bowser, and save the Princess all before the day is done.

Old and new power-ups abound in each level for the Mario Brothers, including the return of the Super Mushroom and Fire Flower, plus the new power-ups including the frog suit, the warp flute, and the most important of all, the leaf, which allows you to fly and attack enemies with your tail.

Alternate Titles

  • "Super Mario Brothers 3" -- alternate spelling
  • "Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3-e" -- e-Reader Title
  • "Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3" -- GBA Title
  • "SMB 3" -- Informal title
  • "スーパーマリオブラザーズ3" -- Japanese spelling
  • "スーパーマリオアドバンス4" -- Japanese GBA spelling

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User Reviews

MAMA MIA!!! What a game this is! Just the perfect Gameboy game. Game Boy Advance Rensch (165)
I remember the original commercial for this game... NES STU2 Bronze Star Contributing Member (72)
Simply Flawless 10/10! NES Alex Mills (3)
A must-have for all fans of Mario! NES Dark Cloud (35)
The closest to perfection ever NES darthlobos1182 (9)
A masterpiece among Mario's. NES MegaMegaMan (318)
Strangely... This scroller is completely perfect. NES The Imperial Darkhorse (131)

The Press Says

Netjak Game Boy Advance Nov 12, 2003 9.7 out of 10 97
GameZone Game Boy Advance Oct 19, 2003 9.5 out of 10 95
Armchair Empire, The Game Boy Advance Nov 30, 2003 9.5 out of 10 95
Video Games NES Jun, 1991 95 out of 100 95
Portable Review Game Boy Advance Oct 23, 2005 38 out of 40 95
Deeko Game Boy Advance Oct 20, 2003 9.5 out of 10 95
Nintendojo Game Boy Advance 2003 9 out of 10 90
Eurogamer Game Boy Advance Oct 14, 2003 9 out of 10 90
Gamezine Game Boy Advance Sep 12, 2003 17 out of 20 85
Game Shark Game Boy Advance Nov 10, 2003 B+ 83

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Trivia

At some point, Nintendo re-released Super Mario Bros. 3 with a couple of text changes.

If you picked up a copy of SMB3 close to its release date, you may have noticed that Toad ends his N-Spade game instructions with "Miss twice and your out!", which is incorrect, as "your" should have been "you're". However, you also may have noticed that there was no more room in the text box to include an apostrophe. In the new version, Toad says "You can only miss twice!" instead of "Miss twice and your out!". Instead of resizing the text box so they could include an apostrophe, they just rewrote the last sentence using the same amount of characters.

Another change was to Princess Toadstool's letter to Mario after beating World 2. Instead of "Kuribo's shoe," she now says "Goomba's shoe." Kuribo is the Japanese name for Goomba.

As for the credits, the level names were changed to less-creative titles in the new version. Basically, all the names were changed to "Something Land". The changed names are in parenthesis: Grass Land (Grass Land), Desert Hill (Desert Land), Ocean Side (Water Land), Big Island (Giant Land), The Sky (Sky Land), Iced Land (Ice Land), Pipe Maze (Pipe Land), Castle of Koopa (Dark Land).


This entry was contributed by Kartanym Bronze Star Contributing Member (9944) and gamewarrior (5127)
 

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