Super Mario Bros. 3

Trivia

It was named #14 out of 200 of the "Greatest Games of Their Time" by EGM Issue #200 (Feb. 2006).

Super Mario Bros. 3 was voted #3 in the "Top 25 Platformers of All Time" poll in Retro Gamer Magazine (Issue 37).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jul 18, 2007.

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).

The koopa kids were only named in American version. The Japanese version completely omits giving them names.

Sold nearly 30 million copies worldwide.

On the map screen, the treasure ship icon features a symbol on its sail. The symbol is the Japanese word "takara", which means "treasure".

Super Mario Bros. 3 was voted #8 in the Top 100 Games of All Time poll published by Game Informer Magazine (Issue 100, August 2001).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jun 29, 2004.

During the game, Mario can find a Warp Whistle, which will take him to a new area of the game. When using the Whistle, the tune played is the exact melody used from the Whistle in "The Legend of Zelda".

The trivia mentioned about the world record time for SMB 3 being 11 minutes is not quite true. The video in question is actually a composite of frame-by-frame game states and later assembled in a video editor to make a "perfect" run. According to the creator, it took nearly two years to make. The actual confirmed record is a little over 13 minutes.

In the movie, "The Wizard", which is about a 7 year old in a videogame competition... Super Mario Bros 3 was featured as a "brand new game" which none of the contestants had gotten a chance to play before. Nice marketing from Nintendo there! :)

Super Mario Bros. 3 was released in Japan in 1988, a full two years before it hit the U.S.

And Nintendo forgot to change the copyright date on the title screen of the U.S. version...it still reads "Copyright 1988 Nintendo"!