Speedrunner Speculates About The Best Possible Super Mario Bros. 3 Time Humans Can AchieveÂ
Kirua recently broke the world record for glitching through to the end of the game and now believes the best possible time is only a few seconds away.
A Look At Super Mario Bros. 3's Secret Glitch Levels
It’s been almost 30 years since Super Mario Bros. 3 released for the NES, but we’re still discussing its secrets in 2017. In this case: glitch levels that are hiding within SMB3. Perhaps you’ve seen them before.
Robot Finishes Super Mario Bros. 3 In Two Seconds
Yesterday’s tool-assisted speedrun (TAS) block at Summer Games Done Quick ended with a Super Mario Bros. 3 run that lasted barely longer than a blink.
World's Fastest Mario 3 Player Versus Stephen Colbert Eating A Hot Pocket
Super Mario Bros. 3 speedrunner Mitch Fowler can finish the game in just over three minutes. Is that faster than Stephen Colbert can cook and eat a Hot Pocket? Well no, though it’s still pretty impressive.
The Making (And Legacy) Of Super Mario Bros. 3
SMB3’s entire development team consisted of just eleven people: Miyamoto and Tezuka as directors and designers, four additional designers, four programmers, and Koji Kondo as composer. During SMB3’s two years of development, Miyamoto’s days at the office had no definite start or end time, and he often stayed up…
Watch The 25-Year-Old PC Version of Super Mario Bros. 3 In Action
It’s long been a game development legend that the creators of Doom made their own version of Super Mario Bros. 3 for the PC ages ago. Today, we get to see what it looked like.
Miyamoto Confirms That Super Mario Bros. 3 Was A Play
One of my favorite video game theories to emerge over the past few years is that Super Mario Bros. 3, with its hanging blocks and curtains, was actually just a stage performance. Turns out, according to Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, the theory is true.
Man Spends Six Years Crocheting One Super Mario Bros. 3Â Map
Norwegian computer programmer and skydiving champion Kjetil Nordin put over 800 hours of work into researching and crocheting this lovely recreation of the map for Super Mario Bros. 3 World 1. Redditor Buttermynuts spent several minutes making it into this equally lovely GIF.
25 years ago, Hollywood tried to make the Nintendo Power Glove look cool. Today's the 25th anniversary of The Wizard, the movie that was essentially a big commercial for Nintendo where Super Mario Bros. 3 was revealed to the world.
The Secret To Beating A Mario Level Without Looking
Wanna be able to beat the first level of Super Mario Bros 3 without looking? This guy figured out a really cool trick: jump along with the music.
​Not the Fastest Super Mario Bros. 3 Speedrun. Surely the Prettiest.
Nintendo just release their classic platformer Super Mario Bros 3 for Wii U and 3DS yesterday. The NES classic probably looks great on the company's current hardware. Good for them. But SMB3 looks utterly amazing in this 4K resolution tool-assisted speedrun posted on YouTube.
Super Mario Bros. 3 Finally Comes To Wii U And 3DS Today
Rounding out today's Nintendo Virtual Console update is Super Mario Bros. 3, generally considered one of the best platformers ever made. I have no idea why it took this long for Nintendo to release their NES classic on 3DS and Wii U, but hey. BABY STEPS.
Super Mario Bros. 3, More Classics Hit Wii U Virtual Console in April
Advance Wars fans, break out the champagne. The much-loved strategy game from Nintendo, along with fan-favorite Metroid, Yoshi and WarioWare titles, will be hitting the Wii U next month.
Attack on Titan's Opening—Starring the Cast of Super Mario Bros. 3
Uploaded in July, about a thousand or so people have viewed this fan's virtuoso recreation of Attack on Titan's opening using Super Mario Bros. 3 sprites. The Bill Blaster at the one-minute mark, followed by the billowing Mushroom Kingdom standard and the squadron of Tanooki Toads—this is strict attention to detail.
The Horror: If Super Mario Bros. 3 Were Made For Smartphones
There are things in the world that should never happen. Game designer Ethan Levy's "evil" Candy Crush-ized remake of Super Mario Bros. 3 is one of them. He was just kidding when he explained how he'd re-make it. Hopefully.
16-Bit Characters Fit Perfectly In Real-Life Environments
Mixing old video game sprites with real life is not one of the most difficult artforms, but if you're creative enough the results can be immensely atmospheric, just as the latest pieces from deviantART user Victor Sauron show.
Super Mario Bros. 3 Was Kind Of Different In Japan
You might have already known that Nintendo changed a few things when bringing NES platformer Super Mario Bros. 3 to North America—mostly to make it easier—but it's still fascinating to see the changes presented side-by-side.
Washington DC's Metro Line Makes A Perfect Super Mario World Map
Designer Dave Delisle did a really great job recreating the Washington DC Metro Line as a Super Mario Bros 3 world map. With its 86 stations as separate levels, Washington's Metro would be an extremely long Mario game (and a damn good one, with names like The Pentagon).
id's John Carmack Gets a Reminder on How Mario Used to Kick Our Ass
Here's a short, cute clip from id boss John Carmack's keynote address at this year's QuakeCon, in which the brutality of Super Mario Bros. 3 is compared to the more pedestrian Mario games of today.
