Super Mario Bros.

The Good
It's addictive, you really want to beat it and it's the original Mario game. You get power-ups like the mushroom and fire flower and fight classic enemies. Each world had 4 levels, the fourth level being a castle. At the end of each castle you have to fight Bowser.

The Bad
Just one thing: When you get game over you must start back from level 1. I can see not starting on the level that you died on, that'd make it to easy, but at least at the beginning of the world you were on (say if you get game over at level 3-3 you go back to 3-1 or something) or as a minimum have a save point once after every 2 worlds!

The Bottom Line
Even though it;s the mother of all Mario games I wouldn't get it. It was a good game when it came out, but nothing compared to Super Mario World or Super Mario Bros. 3. However, I would suggest getting Super Mario All-Stars for SNES because that way you get an upgraded version of this game, Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3 and Super Mario the lost levels (which is similar to Super Mario Bros. 1 but with all new levels never before seen). For my rating I'm going to give this game a good rank since its probably the best game of it's time (mid-late 80's) but compared to even the games for SNES it's not very high quality.