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Super Mario Bros. (& The Lost Levels) - History & Retrospective | Coop's Reviews

Yep, after 6-7 years of making game reviews, Cooper is finally looking at the Super Mario franchise... yahoo!!! This is also the 69th episode of Coop's Reviews, wow.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:49 - Brief History of Nintendo
06:21 - The Video Game Crash of 1983
08:39 - Super Mario Bros.
24:14 - Cut Content
27:09 - Ports
32:40 - The Lost Levels
43:15 - End Card
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  • @coopercastille
    @coopercastille Жыл бұрын

    What was your favorite Mario game growing up? (this was also the 69th episode of Coop's Reviews, wow)

  • @benpopalisky1168

    @benpopalisky1168

    Жыл бұрын

    Mario 64

  • @anthonyhuwe6495

    @anthonyhuwe6495

    Жыл бұрын

    Grew up on all the NES/SNES Mario, but I think Mario RPG ended up being the one that has the most impact on me

  • @noahdelacruz3285

    @noahdelacruz3285

    Жыл бұрын

    Super Mario Galaxy

  • @Keepitclassy245

    @Keepitclassy245

    Жыл бұрын

    Super Mario 3D Land was my first 3d Mario game and it was probably my favorite game growing. I’d play that shit all the time

  • @Ssneaky_Pete

    @Ssneaky_Pete

    Жыл бұрын

    Super Mario Bros 3!!

  • @AnthonyPoole246
    @AnthonyPoole246 Жыл бұрын

    Lost Levels is peak game design. Every developer should look at it for inspiration. A gift to mankind

  • @keeby4
    @keeby4 Жыл бұрын

    I appreciate how you take time in your reviews to talk about unused content, it helps differentiate from other reviews.

  • @TeamBlueToad
    @TeamBlueToad Жыл бұрын

    Super Mario Bros. is literally the first game i have ever played. And boy, am i glad that i played it! Such great memories that i simply can't forget.

  • @PiC4rri
    @PiC4rri Жыл бұрын

    I actually love The Lost Levels. When you've mastered Super Mario Bros. the game feels boring and too easy, The Lost Levels really push the gameplay of the first game to its limits so it's really refreshing to play.

  • @silveramyknux241
    @silveramyknux241 Жыл бұрын

    17:26 The English manual for the power says that the blocks the Toads were turned into gives power ups/coins.

  • @benjaminknotts745
    @benjaminknotts7457 ай бұрын

    I remember going through lost levels thinking “I mean come on, it’s old and easy” and then remember how much my hands would be sweating, my heart racing, and only by world 5 and be thinking “good God, am I in HELL?!” And then asking myself, “Is this really worth it?!”

  • @barelyhere7200
    @barelyhere72004 ай бұрын

    37:41 that’s not Bowser. That’s actually his brother. Ya Bowser actually has a brother. Lost levels is his only appearance. It would be really cool if he returned one day

  • @benpopalisky1168
    @benpopalisky1168 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent review, Coop. The NES Mario games are some of the best.

  • @bemasaberwyn55
    @bemasaberwyn55 Жыл бұрын

    Fun fact Coop, I have never actually beaten Lost Levels as Mario. Luigi's higher floatier jump was always more conducive to my play style. Also I beat this before I had beaten the first Mario Brothers and the u.s.a. version of Mario 2

  • @marleyfett6569
    @marleyfett6569 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder how long until he does a video on the more obscure Mario games, assuming he does, of course.

  • @TheJadeFist
    @TheJadeFist Жыл бұрын

    One note of difference between versions of Mario 2 vs the Lost Levels All Stars version, are the springs work better in the original version, where as the all stars version you can fail to get the spring jump and just do a little bounce and probably die.

  • @birdfromglover
    @birdfromglover Жыл бұрын

    That pic of 2-year-old you at Christmas is so cute dude! LOL Love the content, so glad I stumbled across this 👍🏻

  • @SSKO2
    @SSKO27 күн бұрын

    There was also a version of Lost Levels on GBC as a part of Super Mario Bros Deluxe, which is probably worse than the NES version due to screen crunch Oh wait, you mentioned it in the video itself, Nevermind lol. I didn’t make it that far till now

  • @gumi2521
    @gumi2521 Жыл бұрын

    31:37 Sadly, while i have a lot of love for the SMB1 on All-stars, i feel some of the small changes kinda ruin it for me. Destroying bricks now remove your speed entirely, and they fixed the hitbox on Mario's lower half, which means the trick to jump over the piranha plants is not possible anymore. I've seen a lot of people who love SMB1 and can even speedrun it have a hard time even beating the All-stars version sometimes because some of it's minor changes are enough to mess up entire runs because of this small things.

  • @williammcguire130

    @williammcguire130

    Ай бұрын

    Damn, SUPER MARIO BROS being ruined because they took away cheese strats is a new level of anal for me. You could just... play it normally and enjoy it?

  • @gumi2521

    @gumi2521

    Ай бұрын

    @@williammcguire130 How is being able to have proper control over Mario a cheese strat? Literally 4-2 has a section that is harder now because of this issue, since the game wasn't designed around Mario loosing momentum when hitting bricks as tall Mario specifically. Small Mario doesn't have this issue, so it's 100% an oversight. Also this issue isn't present in any other 2D Mario game, this is ONLY a SMB1 All-stars issue and nothing else.

  • @michaelturner2806
    @michaelturner28064 ай бұрын

    Feels weird to go into that much depth with the early history of Donkey Kong and not mention Radar Scope, Popeye, or John Kirby. But I'm sure if you went into the weeds on every such thing the video would be so long you'd still be editing it today.

  • @Daynx89
    @Daynx89 Жыл бұрын

    The Animal Crossing ports could also be downloaded onto a GBA as long as it stayed on! I used to download Super Mario Bros onto my SP and take it with me because I could.

  • @jescis0

    @jescis0

    11 ай бұрын

    I know it's somewhat apples and oranges comparison, but I'm sure that was a lot better than the crunched GBC "Super Mario Bros. Deluxe"! 😉😉🤔🤔

  • @bearman.mp4
    @bearman.mp4 Жыл бұрын

    I know about the debate between “La-Ki-Tu” and “Lak-i-tu” but I’ve never seen anyone call it “La-eh-ku”

  • @jonathanthomas9259
    @jonathanthomas9259 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine if Super Mario Bros. would’ve had gunning edition.

  • @jjb1908
    @jjb190811 ай бұрын

    Dude, Myamoto was very hands off with The Lost Levels. He was tackling Zelda and had just became a father. He did check in on it every now and then and helped a bit. Lay off him

  • @coopercastille

    @coopercastille

    10 ай бұрын

    nah

  • @jjb1908

    @jjb1908

    10 ай бұрын

    @@coopercastille Takashi Tezuka had director duties for the Lost Levels. Blame him. If you must blame Myamoto for something, do it for saying that Paper Mario Sticker Star didn't need a story

  • @90sNath
    @90sNath Жыл бұрын

    17:00 accurate emulation i see. Interesting. This slowdiwn also occurs on my real cart in the exact same way. Mine is a Super Mario/Duck Hunt/World Class Track cart noless

  • @jescis0
    @jescis011 ай бұрын

    Being from the US and I never been outside of where I was born… that being said, I HAVE played Super Mario Bros. 2(J/The Lost Levels) at first on the US Super Mario All-Stars, then Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, I then imported q Famicom and Famicom Disk System buying a copy of it on the OG Japanese hardware… and I then bought the GBA Famicom Mini port! I completed it on most versions(at least, GBC has the Original graphics instead of the actual graphics, the screen crunch makes it even HARDER!) But I did participate in the Nintendo Power "No Warp" challenge for the patch, so there's that! But I actually prefer the OG Japanese Famicom Disk System version! Another "neat feature" of the Famicom Disk System version is the retry option removes the star progress, sort of like the Kill/Elimination mode in Zelda games and the Famicom Disk System version of the Metroid and "Kid Icarus" games! I guess because if you keep beating the game, it keeps adding more stars filling in the title card with rows of stars until a certain amount! 😉😉

  • @silveramyknux241
    @silveramyknux241 Жыл бұрын

    25:51 This is funny cause a bootleg Mario World for the NES was able to get Yoshi into the game.

  • @ghosty2548
    @ghosty2548 Жыл бұрын

    Dude waited so long to upload that universe changed and he started Mario videos

  • @TheJadeFist
    @TheJadeFist Жыл бұрын

    King Kong is in the public domain, any one can use the character or reference it. Donkey Kong is also a different character, even if similar in that initial game. (Maybe it wasn't at the time?)

  • @hideofreakingkojima5457

    @hideofreakingkojima5457

    Жыл бұрын

    The novelization of King Kong is public domain and Warner Bros, RKO Pictures, Paramount, and Universal owns their film rights/interpretations of King Kong. After the Nintendo lawsuit, companies like Colleco and Atari sued Universal for telling them to pay royalties of King Kong.

  • @josh6453
    @josh6453 Жыл бұрын

    30:02 Super Mario All-Stars

  • @juliannocartagena2007
    @juliannocartagena2007 Жыл бұрын

    27:33 But it’s on 3DS as well!

  • @samabbitt5587
    @samabbitt5587 Жыл бұрын

    When you gowing to green day 1994-1996 part 2

  • @chillmccool
    @chillmccool Жыл бұрын

    29:49 adding to being able to play Super Mario Bros. on Gamecube there is also the Game Boy Player, which will let you play this GBA version of Super Mario Bros. on Gamecube as well. Kind of a cheap throw-in but I mean it's another way to play it on Gamecube so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @orignialname4983
    @orignialname4983 Жыл бұрын

    Good review 👍

  • @xenxander
    @xenxander9 ай бұрын

    they rejected 'lost levels' because 'too hard' but games like silver surfer and arki warriors were released? Games that were not even playtested properly got released.. I find this excuse to be just that. i want to know how they felt when they palytested ghost and goblins for the first time. This is so inconsistent with some of the release.

  • @kIRO_mmz7110
    @kIRO_mmz711011 ай бұрын

    WHERE SUPER MARIO BROS SPECIAL ITS THE TRUE SEQUEL EXCLUSIVE ON OLD JAPANESE COMPUTER MADE BY HUDSON SOFT YOU SHOULD MAKE AND A VIDEO ABOUT USE THE 35 ANVRSERY EDITION

  • @doughnuthead8757
    @doughnuthead8757 Жыл бұрын

    Mario Bros Lost Levels was better off called 'Expert Mode' or proto-DLC, like an expansion. It'd be more honest that way.

  • @RainLion10

    @RainLion10

    Жыл бұрын

    On Super Mario Bros. Deluxe it's called Super Mario Bros.: For Super Players Edit: Actually nvm I noticed it already mentioned it in the video

  • @TheJadeFist
    @TheJadeFist Жыл бұрын

    Lost Levels aren't that bad, there's only a few spots where it's kinda BS, like in one of the dash -3 levels requires a full running jump and bounce off of a koopa trooper that's not even visible from the platform you jump from to bounce on top of something else, that may or may not even actually be at a position that Mario can bounce off of and get enough height to make the landing.

  • @MisterSpeedStacking

    @MisterSpeedStacking

    Ай бұрын

    You can easily scroll the screen enough to see it. Get good.

  • @pineapplemarshmallow9008
    @pineapplemarshmallow90088 ай бұрын

    24:19 27:07

  • @jackko21
    @jackko21 Жыл бұрын

    my dad had the donkey kong game and watch and oil panic and my mum had donkey kong jr game and watch

  • @NeoKokoro20
    @NeoKokoro20 Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, The Lost Levels felt like a fan-made ROM hack of SMB1.

  • @iiOmarSP
    @iiOmarSP Жыл бұрын

    Lost Levels peak level design moment: 8-2 is an endless cycle until you hit a specific brick to go to the end of the level. But Im one of those people who prefer the original 1 and 2 over their All Stars re-release, with the reason being the physics alone. But other than that good video!

  • @MisterSpeedStacking

    @MisterSpeedStacking

    Ай бұрын

    Why is that supposed to be bad? Are Boo Mansion levels in modern Mario games bad because they have looping rooms?

  • @lordkiza8838
    @lordkiza8838 Жыл бұрын

    Id love to rewrite the lyrics to the intro for you

  • @williamwhite1036
    @williamwhite1036 Жыл бұрын

    38:47

  • @MisterSpeedStacking
    @MisterSpeedStackingАй бұрын

    There's not a single leap of faith in Mario 2, you can always scroll the screen enough to see the enemy you must jump on. Howard Phillips was a scrub. Your only critique of the game is that you're awful at video games and the game doesn't reward you for playing carelessly and mistiming your jumps. Poison Mushrooms are a clever way to add risk to question blocks, and they give you more than enough time to react. World 9, as anyone with basic knowledge of the history of these games, is a reference to the minus world. "For Super Players" is not a "retitle", it's the original subtitle of the FDS game, to exclude whiny babies like you from purchasing it.

  • @snoozy04
    @snoozy04 Жыл бұрын

    Super Mario 2 Japan is the worst Mario game ever. I mean, there's a reason it's never in someone's top 10 list.

  • @samabbitt5587
    @samabbitt55873 ай бұрын

    37:32