Super Mario World

“Super Mario World is just perfect. It’s the ultimate distillation of everything the SMB series brought to video gaming. The level designs are inspired and endlessly inventive. The movement is intuitive but very deep (you can do SO MUCH with the cape!) The character designs are filled with personality. There are endless secrets and mysteries to uncover, enough depth to make you want to keep coming back again and again. And the difficulty curve perfectly threads the needle of challenging but not ‘Nintendo hard.’ There’s no Mario game I enjoy coming back to more – or any platformer for that matter.” – ultramattman17

“Super Mario World is my vote. It was so good-looking and fun, introduced Yoshi, and had better mechanics than 3 while not being as complicated as later entries making it very accessible to virtually anyone, was such a good-looking game that showcased the power of the SNES over the NES and had a soundtrack that plays in my head to this day.” – Strossus