Floods of Bullet Bills from both directions and on every horizontal parallel. Ceilings that smashed Mario’s head and sent him helplessly into lava pits. Massive gaps that had to be cleared with a perfect long jump. was America’s first experience with The Lost Levels, and it was hell. 2., aka The Lost Levels, aka the punishingly difficult sequel released, at that time, only in Japan. In fact, when you get to World 6-3, you’re not even playing Super Mario Bros. Might be a little tricky, but I can still do this. No problem, you think, remembering that time you did a no-warps run on the original back home.
Yep: World 6, of the game’s total eight worlds, is as far as you can warp. Ah ha, you think, they’re going to change things up a little because it’s the arcade version! And you progress through your usual sequence, finding the Warp Zone at the end of World 1-2, then the next one in World 4-2 that will clearly lead you into… wait, World 6? You easily make the jump, though, and there’s the Fire Flower. Another ? block sits just above, in a slightly less reachable place. You near the ? block that holds the Fire Flower, ready to power yourself up. You glance around to see if anyone is admiring your prowess. Good thing I have a Nintendo at home! You trigger the 1up mushroom on your first jump, its invisible hiding spot burned into your retinas. Look, it’s just World 1-1, you think, as you dispatch a Goomba and pick up a Super Mushroom. “I play that all day at home! I can run through it in a single life! I know where all the hidden 1ups and warp zones are! I should drop in a quarter and beat the game!”Īs you begin to play, your confidence starts feeling justified. Your eyes pass over the marquees, and you spot it: Vs. You have a small pile of coins, and a room full of arcade delights to choose from.
Imagine yourself, if you will, as a 1980s child at the arcade. When you start playing it, you’ll think it’s just a slightly different Super Mario Bros. It’s a coin-op version of the Nintendo Entertainment System pack-in that came out in 1986, after the home game. Super Mario Bros., came out in Japan, the US and Europe last week, and will surely come to Australia one day. This is exciting, since Nintendo has never before done any home releases of its original arcade titles, some of which were markedly different than the NES versions. While Nintendo hasn’t yet begun to add its classic console games to Switch, we’re getting something else instead: Nintendo’s classic arcade games, courtesy the Arcade Archives series by the publisher Hamster. is available on the Switch! Well, a long-forgotten version of it, anyway, that’s probably not the one you were expecting.
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