Wow. This dude really has no idea how to pronounce Japanese names. (SHI-ge-ru, not Shi-GUU-ruu. Mi-ya-MO-to, not Mai-ya-MOH-toh.)

@implantgames

6 жыл бұрын

I wonder how Miyamoto would pronounce Genthe...

@vegetafan9922

4 жыл бұрын

@@implantgames I don't even know how to pronounce Genthe!

@ZigealFaust

3 жыл бұрын

@@implantgames If he heard it out loud, probably exactly how it sounds. We've all heard Miyamoto's full name said (if not a quick trip through google would have solved that issue).

@Dad_Brad

2 жыл бұрын

And who the fuck gives a fuck.

@Freddis

2 жыл бұрын

lol, the comment is so stupid it has been pinned to the top.

This is one of my favorites.

I still play this game every once in a while because of nostalgia. I love the chip tunes in this game, especially coming from that Gameboy speaker. So many memories...

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

The soundtrack is definitely the highlight for me!

I think SML is still good but I never felt inclined to go back to it since 6 golden coins and Wario Land 1 are much better imo.

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Six Golden Coins definitely pushed the envelope and showed you could have console-sized adventure on the tiny screen.

@FinnMcCoolOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

super mario logan is an odd thing to compare to a gameboy game

@FinnMcCoolOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

@@gumball8328 at long last someone laughs at my amazing joke

I played the hell out of Super Mario Land back then and I still enjoy it. I love the soundtrack. Only one drawback would be that there weren't enough levels.

@fryke

3 жыл бұрын

I'd love for someone to expand it. It was the first game I ever used on my friend's GameBoy before buying my own - and I've come back to this game throughout the years - only recently finding out that someone had colorized it correctly. (Just look for it, you'll find it.) If only there was a "Super Mario Land Maker" of sorts.

Hot take: This game felt old and outdated the second Mario land 2 came out.

@Don_Ramiro

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. It´s hard to believe they are from the same system!

This is by far my favorite episode of "Is [Insert Game] Underrated/Still Good." I personally think it is pretty good. My only real complaint is that it's short, but it offers a nice variety of platforming challenges. I do think Land 2 is far superior in every way, but Land 1 I would say gets the job done. :D

@RetropolisZone

7 жыл бұрын

Fuckin' Mario fanboy.

@SQGReviewShow

7 жыл бұрын

Retropolis Zone Ho lee fuk, am so triggurd.

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the game is short haha, I don't think I could take another 12 levels of mediocrity :P Glad you enjoyed the episode!

@Metalwario64

5 жыл бұрын

I love Land 2, but it's way too easy,

@SeattleScotty

5 жыл бұрын

@@implantgames I would have *loved* 12 more levels of SML1 when I was a kid with my red Game-boy!

This video captures my feelings towards Super Mario Land really well! While the short length works to the game's advantage, and there are several segments which are quite enjoyable and well designed, there are times when the questionable physics and awkward momentum begin to have a negative effect. I think that many elements in the design of the stages would be suited for a different physics engine, or for a different platformer altogether. When the platforms shrink and enemies begin appearing in unexpected locations, the screen becomes more and more cramped, which can complicate things, especially towards the finale. The different location, characters, enemies, and tone of the game is both a blessing and a curse, as it can be both a breath of fresh air (i. e. exotic stages we've never seen Mario tackle before, new staples of the franchise, such as Daisy, experiments like the multiple varied and unique bosses, and new ideas like the submarine and plane), and it can be odd and out of place, often going against the tried and true instincts of a seasoned Mario veteran (exploding Koopas, the very fast and unpredictable enemies, and an altered game engine and sense of scale). Again, because the game doesn't last for 32 levels like its NES counterpart, and was one of the premiere titles for something as little as the Game Boy, Super Mario Land often breezes by without much thought and the off-putting changes can be forgiven, as they do not last more than an hour or less for the connoisseurs. Nevertheless, this Mario title has a distinct atmosphere and taste to it, which cannot be experienced in any other game that I can think of off the top of my head, so it is well deserving of at least a modest try. Excellent review, keep up the great work!

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Hey man, thanks for the thoughtful comment!

@colefitzpatrick8431

7 жыл бұрын

implantgames You make great videos, what can I say?

@Terminatorfan-2016

2 жыл бұрын

Nostalgia is huge for me and this definitely provides that. Trapped on an island for me. I love that it's critically acclaimed.

I went back and beat this game a few months ago. I still like it. The controls always did frustrate me, I just learned that I can't run through while holding right and jumping through the whole level. The controls and level design prohibits such thing. There is no acceleration time. Mario goes 0-60 in no time and he either rises or falls way faster than in other games. Overall, it has its own unique charm and a lot of welcome changes. Also, any game that throws you into a shooting level gets bonus points in my book. (Metal Slug 3, Gunstar Heroes, Rocket Knight Adventures, Rayman games, etc.) I really like the 2nd loop better and wish I didn't have to play through the game to get to it. Great review, man!

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I agree, it would be neat to just start at the second loop. Same goes for the first Kirby game.

How have you only got 16K subs? You deserve so many more.

In the video, you ask if you’re explaining the quirky controls properly. I just wanted to let you know that yes, you put it EXTREMELY well for someone who’s played the game. Your criticisms are valid, but I’m glad at the end there was more pro than con. I’d say you’re right on the money from beginning to end here.

I guess for me I've played Super Mario Land so much growing up that even if I take a long time off from the game I still am used to the controls even though they are noticeably different. I never game over and I hardly lose any lives. Not to mention I know we're literally every pipe that goes underground 2 coins is in the whole game and I also know where all three of those elevator blocks are. you know those invisible blocks that when you hit a little elevator thing comes out from it and when you stand on it it brings you up to the ceiling. There's two of them in 1 - 3 and 1 more of them in 3-3

Man, I love your videos. I actually just beat Mario Land for the first time last night. This video got me to go back to it in the first place.

@gbrot001

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, I literally just beat it about a half hour ago for the very first time. I never actually owned it until a few years ago, so I kinda? have an excuse 😂

Your criticisms are pretty accurate, but we sure did have a lot of fun with this game when we were kids. Standards weren't as high then and there were no post-release updates,, so we were willing to forgive or adapt to some faults.

I felt that mastering the super ball was the trickiest part... especially when you are so used to fireballs.

@TJDious

5 жыл бұрын

Brian's Man Cave you said balls

Listening to Odysseus in the Underworld play during Starman and watching Mario throw a super ball gave me some Mr. Do flashbacks.

I actually find the controls to be quite good. Better than Mario 1, even. Even though I'm relitively young and grew up with more polished titles such as Super Mario Glalaxy, I found getting used to the rythm and flow of Super Mario Land quite easy and can confidently parkour through levels after playing the game only a few times. Just to make sure, I opened the game up and it still felt good.

@Radien

5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it just has a different “feel” to it that throws off Mario players expecting the usual fare?... Incidentally, MarioCraft... since you don't seem to be bothered by Super Mario Land's unusual momentum physics, I wonder what you would think of the game “N.” It's a modern retro ninja platformer which is all about harnessing momentum. Seems that it's freeware now. It was also released on the Nintendo DS as “N+”. www.thewayoftheninja.org/

@handsomebrick

4 жыл бұрын

The controls are a little strange, but the only thing you really need to get used to (even if you're a novice) is the very limited mid-air jump control.

@Don_Ramiro

3 жыл бұрын

What a dumb nonsense

@mariocraft3067

3 жыл бұрын

@@Radien I doubt you will see this at this point, but I have actually played N++! I like it quite a bit, but I'm not the biggest fan of its physics.

This game was one of the first games I completed so it was actually challenging for me as a kid. Also the size of Mario in this game suits the resolution of the Gameboy screen quite well because you can see more of the level and incoming hazards. I also like the game in general it has more variety in the levels than the Original Super Mario Bros on the NES. Even though there are only 4 Worlds each world is themed differently where SMB had 2 themes over 8 Worlds Night and Day and only 1 boss for all of them. I'm glad Super Mario Land was my first experience of a Mario game

@Terminatorfan-2016

2 жыл бұрын

When it comes to original Nintendo and original game boy, my favorite Mario game for the original Nintendo is Super Mario Brothers 3 and this one, as I posted a comment above, is my favorite Mario on the Gameboy.

This is so true. This game was my first Mario, and I never got used to it's controls. You never know when you will safely jump from a ledge, or if you'll suddenly fall to your death. After playing 6 golden coins, I almost never came back to this game.

I'm fascinated by this game as a study of what the bare minimum requirements are for a classic Mario platformer. If there were any less than 4 worlds, or 3 levels per world, that would have seemed inadequate somehow. Despite being simple to program, the Superball is very unique and goes a long way to giving this game an identity; ditto with the exploding koopas. Instead of having actual water levels, the game includes a marine-themed world that culminates in a shmup level where Mario pilots a submarine; this also doubles as an autoscroller level, and a boss level (the game ingeniously repeats this trick at the end with a shmup level where Mario pilots a plane to confront the final boss). Some of the usual themes are missing (no ice or fire worlds, for example) but some interesting themes are added (Oriental, Egyptian, mountainous, futuristic). The game also earns some points in my book for departing from the usual lazy Bowser-Peach thing; Tatanga is a very fresh central antagonist that is criminally underused, and I like how Daisy is explicitly portrayed as Mario's girlfriend. I also appreciate how this game continues the older trend of making Mario a jack of all trades (he pilots both a fighter plane and a submarine, there's a slight archaeology theme going on with Mario exploring pyramids and Easter Island and encountering Chinese zombies, there's a world with a distinct mountaineering feel to it, in another world he's fighting robots), I feel that current Mario suffers greatly from the lack of this element. Of course, Super Mario Land 2 had most of these positive qualities also, while far exceeding the minimum in most respects and having remarkable production values, but I wouldn't hold that against the original Super Mario Land personally.

The Super Ball needs to re-appear in future Super Mario titles and the SML Turtles should return too but reinterpreted as Kamikaze Robo-Troopas that explode upon impact or else they set themselves up as time bombs.

My first ever Game Boy game was Super Mario Land 2, so when I finally played this game it was a deeply disappointing experience. I never fully got into it.

Funny that this popped up on my feed. I was just playing this game! I haven't beat the game yet, but it's my second favorite Gameboy game, right behind super Mario land 2

I did a review of this in 1992 to avoid doing a book report for school! I played SML a LOT! I must agree with you on the point of the controls. Back in the day I just thought I needed to git gud, but now I know it was the loose controls. I always felt like Mario was wearing slippery shoes.

I remember beating this game several times back in them days. I should let it breath again. I understand what you mean by the controls.

Your channel is awesome my dude

@implantgames

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

The good soundtrack made me very tempted to buy it, but I wanted to stop myself because the game only lasts 30 minutes apparently. But then I remembered that I can just write my high scores in my phone and have infinite replayability. Someone back in '89 could have used a sheet of paper and used tally marks as 10,000 points or something

I never thought this game was particularly great. Cute, fun, but not spectacular. Now Mario Land 2... Also that one old magazine review saying a "good challenge". haha Yeah, okay. Did you have trouble with Kindergarten too? :P Regardless, I love this video series.

I understand most of the issues you're bringing up with SML. But only from a modern perspective. To me, SML is simply how Mario on the Game Boy was supposed to look and feel. Especially the simpler graphics. This was the classic Game Boy and this is what it looked like. Later titles, like SML2, almost feel too much like ports of SNES titles, rather than "real" Game Boy games. Their graphics is almost "too detailed" for that little b/w screen. It just doesn't look right. Yes, of course, they do look so much better on a later GB model or even a SGB. But back in 1990, SML was just tailor-made for the original Game Boy.

we just had tiger electronic games before this, so it was instantly amazing when released. Still good...and important for that past experience alone

@BriansManCave

7 жыл бұрын

don't forget the Nintendo Game & Watch... there was a super mario bros game!

@handsomebrick

4 жыл бұрын

I still vividly remember being in grade school on the day that some kid brought a Game Boy to school with Castlevania Adventure. He let me play it for a second and I couldn't believe what I was seeing, real Nintendo games on a device that you could fit in your pocket, I knew I had to have one for myself as soon as possible. People forget what a massive leap forward the Game Boy was.

You think the reason Dasiy was finally let into Super Smash Bros. was to pay tribute to Yokoi-san?

now i use to own this back in my youth and let me tell you it was great fun for me then, it was the like babies first kaizo map for me back then but i enjoyed the charm of the spiders and more real world locations rather then the mushroom kingdom. thanks to the passing of time i have lost my old gameboy and copy of super mario land :l but i now own a GBA SP and super Mario land 2 so i am cool :D btw those are not ninjas in the final stage that are hopping around, they are Chinese vampires, random fun fact i still believe it to be good but in the same way that my old LCD sonic McDonalds game are fun, it's simple but fun

Cool video of my favorite Game Boy game. But I somewhat disagree with you on discussing the controls. I've beat the game several times and I never had any issues with it.

@SmallSpoonBrigade

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't realize there were problems with the controls. I can get all the way to the final boss without much trouble. That can be a pain, but it's mostly a matter of bashing shoot while avoiding the projectiles.

Great review, thank you Sir!

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This should have been the game that came with the GameBoy not Tetris. I would have gotten one that Christmas had it not been for that. No, I got my Sega Genesis with at the time was a perfect launch line-up. I got the pack-in Altered Beast, Space Harrier 2, Ghouls n' Ghosts, and Phantasy Star II when my parents could find it. I did play my friends GameBoy quite a bit though. I would bring my new Genesis and games over to his house so he could play them. While he was doing that I got acquainted with his GameBoy and tons of games...he had every launch game that year. Mario Land was one game I got to play quite extensively and I loved it. We'd be in his room with me sitting against the wall at the backside of his queen sized bed (ridiculous for a 10 year old) closest to the outlet. He would be at the edge playing my Genesis going through game after game..."the graphics are the best I'd ever seen!" Sometimes he would get ridiculous with it and pause the game while his character was engulfed in flames in Altered Beast. "Dude, dude, dude look at the freaking details!" All while I'm trying to play Super Mario Land. Those times were fun but annoying as well. He wound up getting his Genesis two months later on Feb of 1990 for his birthday and that was cool. I knew he loved mine so much and it brought him tons of happiness. After that he started letting me borrow his GameBoy and tons of games as long as I lent him one of my Genesis games which of course I always did. All of this changed when I got my Snes and Sega CD. I could lend out carts but my mom wasn't having any of this lending CD games and letting him barrow my 300 dollar Model 1 Sega CD was out of the question. She didn't care about the Snes but neither did he.

@6:15 Those aren't ninja enemies; they're actually Jiangshi, a zombie creature in Chinese mythology.

I think your assessment is spot on. While there is some fun to be had in Super Mario Land, everyone can agree that the next entries in the series are superior to this one. Super Mario Land 2 for example, would have better graphics and more precise controls along with better, more varied level design. By the way, I've got some more suggestions: I'd like to see more reviews on some more obscure 6th-gen games like Serious Sam, Armed & Dangerous, and even Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy on Xbox. :)

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks man :) As for the Xbox, I'm working on Van Helsing at the moment, and hope to revisit one of the 007 titles sooner than later. The backlog of Xbox titles is massive :D

No one ever mentions the extra high crouch jump you can do as Super Mario in this game

Oh man, throwing shade at Bubsy

I'm pretty sure Pionpi are vampires which explains why they reanimate after you stomp on them.

@testaccount4830

3 жыл бұрын

Zombies, but close enough. Also on the same note, he called them ninjas but the chai kingdom is actually chinese not japanese so i also thought that was weird.

As someone that had this and beat it multiple times over, I always felt it was a colossal disappointment and on a recent replay have even worse opinions about it. THAT SAID. As a launch title for the GB that Miyamoto had no involvement in, it's a god damn miracle of gaming. Super Mario Land 2, on the other hand, still blows me away to this day.

3:30 FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT RIGHT!

Huh. I actually found those "ninjas" hard, because they came back to life. I also found the last levels the hardest--but that may have been because I used up my lives on the earlier levels.

@TomboyGamerGal

5 жыл бұрын

You mean "Chinese Zombies?"

With Miyamoto's san pardon, Mario Land has the most epic ending of all Mario's sagas.

Finally, a review that doesn't say that mario land is a 8 bit game. Do the 4 shades of puke green (It was green to save power) look like 265 colors.

@SmallSpoonBrigade

2 жыл бұрын

Sort of, the greenness of it is the result of the LCD technology, later versions were more grey than green. But,t he 4 shades of darkness is indeed a resources thing. I borrowed a Game Gear one time and the battery life was abysmal, in part due to the number of colors and backlighting.

@bonniethebunny4780

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmallSpoonBrigade Yeah I guess me a year ago just comply forgot and ruled out lcd screens from the table...

Why aren't you posting anymore? You're videos are awesome!

@implantgames

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

There is a charm to the GB games that means I would rather play them over the NES and SNES Marios.

_Shiguru Mayamoto intensifies_

Those are not ninjas, they are chinese folklore vampires and they are really supposed to move that way in the stories about them! XD

The Great Maze ruined this game’s underground theme for me.

I'll tell you, even getting this game as a kid, it was thought of as a disappointment. Mainly because because mario land 2 was out by the time I got it, and I got this one instead of 2. However, I beat this game dozens of times, and still have fun with it once in a while. In fact, the soundtrack is so good, and the 2nd one is just so easy and zoomed in, plus the 1st has so much primitive charm that I actually like the 1st one better. A classic.

His name isn't Meyer Moto. ^^

Those are not ninjas, they are Jiangshi or kyonshī, also called Jumping Undead. *edit* Kirby said it first

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Haha, no worries. I'll be hearing about it for the next few years, no doubt.

@SmallSpoonBrigade

2 жыл бұрын

I originally thought they were leprechauns, but you are correct.

Of course, the real question we should be asking is "Is the Ambassadors of Funk Super Mario Land remix still good?"

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Don't leave me hanging, is it?

@pokepress

7 жыл бұрын

implantgames It's as cheesy as ever, but I still like it.

So my analysis of your analysis is the game is pretty meh, decent for the time, and does have some interesting elements both in gameplay and for the mario universe. And the music is awesome.

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

"Meh" describes the game perfectly :D

@SeattleScotty

5 жыл бұрын

@@implantgames While we had a lot of fun with the game, there was some disappointment that it wasn't closer to SM3 instead of SM1.

I don't understand everyone's frustrations with the game. I beat it the first day I got it back in '89. Yes, it is still good.

@ReviewUA-jy7xi

7 жыл бұрын

I don't NEED to understand.

@navels553

6 жыл бұрын

EX Heihachi Yeah same here, beat it the first day I bought it as a kid (I bought it in 2005 though, I'm young and played it on the gba). I won't lie, I did experience a game over because the controls took me a while to get used to

Is the title rhetorical question?

I just played through it the other day. It's pretty good... I guess

Such a bizarre game for the Mario series, and one that really got outclassed fast by its sequels. Its still fun but the controls are some of the wonkiest in the mainline series.

i liked how if you get game over you have to start from the beginning. i hate all this hand holding modern games have nowadays.

It struck me as really weird that you'd do a review on such an archaic game. I found it really unexpected that someone would go back so far to play something like this. Even back when the Gameboy was new, Super Mario Land 2 blew its predecessor out of the water (graphically, at the very least), and as a kid I expected everyone to abandon SML1 immediately. Still, it proved to be an interesting throwback! I never had a Gameboy, personally, but as a little kid I did once get a chance to briefly play this game on a friend's Gameboy. In fact, this review unexpectedly drew out an ancient memory: After trying the game and struggling with it (either for to inexperience or the shoddy controls), my friend took over and played through the entirety of the game with me looking over his shoulder. Or maybe I saw the rest of the game via maps in Nintendo Power magazine?... It's hard for me to say... memory can be a funny thing at times. :)

You mean to tell me that world 4 was the end of the game? I was not good enough at the game at 9 yrs old to beat the final boss. I guess I played about 99% of the game at least!

Great video, man. Super Mario Land is an ok game, and that's it. I really hate when I saw it being named one of the best GB games as there are plenty of great games on the system.

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I really don't get how this gets rated as one of the best on the system...

Like they said the music is sooo good though :-)

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Gotta love the Game Boy chip tunes!

Music was really good

I know i a ma bit late with this. ( a whole year ) But I do think you are a tad harsh in regards to the graphics. Don't forget that this was one of the first Gameboy games around, and the first Mario game on the Gameboy. Nintendo was still figuring the Gameboy out themselves. So it's no wonder that the game looks rough. The original SMB looks very rough compared to SMB 2 and 3 as well.

I haven't played this game in 30 years

6 coin looks like really big leap into better. i am currwntly trying to bwat 6 coin and its good as hell

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

6 Golden Coins is one of my favorite platformers ever, such a wonderful game!!

@SmallSpoonBrigade

2 жыл бұрын

It is, but I wonder how SMB 3 looked in Japan where Super Mario 2 had basically the same engine and graphics as SMB did. That must have been an astonishing leap as opposed to in the US where we got SMB 1, then Doki Doki Mario before SMB3.

11:08 Fed to the rules and I

SHIGOOROO MAIYAMOTO BRO IM DEAD

I didn't grow up with these games but man was I not a fan of this one lol. I like the sequel A LOT more

"Sugar-roo"

I love this game.

@implantgames

6 жыл бұрын

It's very lovable :)

those weren't ninjas tho.

Great review. But I love this game. The controls are a bit hit and miss sometimes, but that adds to the challenge. The music stays in your head for days after playing. One of the must have games for the Original Game Boy and still addictive today :-)

I found this game difficult to get through. My Mum was the better player. She always had better luck than me. A good fun game to play nevertheless.

When you mention Bubsy and I'm reminded by how bad that game was when I played it. I feel bad for people who played that awful game.

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Haha, the 90's were good for terrible platformers :)

Saresa Land? More like Sand Land.

Those are vampires just saying. 🤦🤷

shiggeroo maiyamoto

It's good.

You don't think this game is the best game ever made?! A perfection of gaming to grace us all?! How dare you! D: In all seriousness, it's a good game and I really enjoy it, but the sequel is better in almost every way.

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Almost? Nonsense :D

Y wouldn't it still b good?.....it's a classic

I’ve always hated this game. Mario’s acceleration is off, as well as the gravity. Can’t go back to the left (just like in the original Mario bros). Music is terrible, especially the super star theme ripoff. You get punished for jumping on koopa troopas; why do they explode? The super ball is only useful in dungeon levels. Mario is supposed to be outside of the mushroom kingdom, but this new world might as well be our world, I don’t know why they even try to hide that fact. Growing up I swore this was a prototype for the original Mario bros. Mario Land’s sequels were the proper releases for the game boy.

HOLY SHIT you BUTCHERED Shigeru Miyamoto's name

Totally wrong!!! Dude learn how to play the game first. Super Mario Land is an awesome game fun to play even today

Ehhh.. I'd say no

@alistair4909

7 жыл бұрын

eh i'd say I agree i think the glitchy controls just ruin it otherwise it's ok but it's not really doing anything that platformers before it haven't done way better. it's just every other gameboy game to me.

@implantgames

7 жыл бұрын

Glad I'm not alone :)

You mentioned the controls so I'll be honest. I felt frustrated watching your game play. I felt like you were making very basic mistakes. I like this game, but I found certain elements didn't fit. Especially the Chinese men. Mario shouldn't be fighting men!

That music was racist af

It was never good, IMO.

I dislike this game it lot ploplom block are too small item are too small. Powerup super ball is useless act like neaf ball

This game was never good.