/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7976832]

Which 2D Mario was best?

[Anonymous No.7976839]

>>7976832
World

[Anonymous No.7976845]

>>7976832
1 has far and away the best mustache

[Anonymous No.7976851]

They're fucking terrible, always were. Four frames per fucking second is insulting, at the very least. No modern game should have four frames per second, this isn't the fucking stone-age. If you aren't using graphical upgrades then you need to either wear glasses or learn some self-respect.

[Anonymous No.7976870]

Sonic The Hedgehog.

>>7976851
Fpbp.

[Anonymous No.7976878]

They're fucking terrible, always were. Four frames per fucking second is insulting, at the very least. No modern game should have four frames per second, this isn't the fucking stone-age. If you aren't using graphical upgrades then you need to either wear glasses or learn some self-respect.

[Anonymous No.7976910]

Really love SMW but I hate a lot of the sprites in it, Mario itself being one of them. 3 is the best one.

[Anonymous No.7976921]

Land

[Anonymous No.7977063]

perfection

[Anonymous No.7977130]

>>7976832
2/USA would be the best if it had a few extra frames to it, it's almost like a proto World sprite but World's sprites have always looked washed out and weird to me

[Anonymous No.7977146]

>GROW

[Anonymous No.7977304]

>>7976832
1 > 2 > 3 > 4, in that order

[Anonymous No.7977307]

>>7976910
This. 3 has the best sprites, but SMW is the most fun

[Anonymous No.7977320]

I always loved how Mario in 3 looks like a bear or something while crouching, which makes even more sense with the tanooki suit on. I wonder if it was intended since they never did anything like this again.

[Anonymous No.7977331]

>>7976832
World small Mario is the most soulful.

[Anonymous No.7977556]

>>7977331
agreed. SMW mario is the very beginning of the mario we all know and love today.

[Anonymous No.7977576]

>>7977320
He's just ducking so hard he's comically pulled his cap halfway over his head

[Anonymous No.7977643]

>>7976832
this is the hardest question of my life

[Anonymous No.7977646]

>>7977063
This sprite is aesthetically pleasing, I like it a lot but I'd still go with 2 USA
>>7977556
I'd argue that 2 USA looks more like the concept art of him, they translated it perfectly into the game

[Anonymous No.7977753]

>>7976832
Always liked 3 sprite best.

[Anonymous No.7977796]

>>7976832
Super Mario Land 2

[Anonymous No.7977865]

World for little, 3 for super

[Anonymous No.7977869]

Mario Madness had the best mayors

[Anonymous No.7978047]

>>7976832
I like the 3 sprites, best game too

[Anonymous No.7978323]

world > 2 >=3 > 1 >>>>> LL

[Anonymous No.7978596]

>>7976832
The fact that Mario grows and shrinks always bothered my autism. He couldn't do that in Donkey Kong and it is just a strange power. So I have pieced together this story that Super Mario Bros is supposed to be like Mario and Luigi doing shrooms and having a bad trip together where they dream that the girl from Donkey Kong is now a princess and all the sewer turtles from Mario Bros have some kind of king that they answer to who is like the Donkey Kong of the sewer turtles. And in their dream world, doing more shrooms makes them stronger and keeps them in the dream world for longer. Then in Super Mario Bros 3, they are performing a play or something inspired by their dream.

Anyway, I prefer the original.

[Anonymous No.7978607]

Nostalgia makes me think World is the best. As a kid, I loved seeing a more animated and colorful Mario sprite, just like the cartoon and the artworks.

[Anonymous No.7978614]

1, but Sonic The Hedgehog is better than all of them.

[Anonymous No.7978640]

>>7976832
Super Mario World, duh!

[Anonymous No.7978647]

Mario 3 (all stars version)

[Anonymous No.7978884]

>>7976832
Even as a kid I thought that the Mario sprite in 3 was a weird downgrade compared to 2's
3 was the best game though

[Anonymous No.7978987]

>>7976832
World, that's why they based paper mario on it

[Anonymous No.7979001]

>>7976832
beta SMW

[Anonymous No.7979307]

I like mario

[Anonymous No.7979365]

I like them all, but 2 looks the best to me. It has the whites of the eyes, which provides a lot of expression, and it has the nice strong outlines of the 3 sprites (which are also really strong). The W ones don't look as good to me. Big Mario looks kinda cramped somehow, and he appears to be looking at nothing in particular rather than looking forward, which makes him appear slightly dopey to me. I also dislike the long, narrow-looking nose on the jumping small Mario.

The big head on small Mario in 2 is kinda weird. But I'm okay with it. I think 1 and 3 do the best job of making small and big Marios look like the same character though.

1 is fine but the very limited palette makes the eyes look uninteresting to me, when they should have a strong visual presence regardless of style, and the screen-facing symmetry of his body when his head is clearly pointing to one side has always seemed awkward to me.

[Anonymous No.7979393]

>>7976832
World, without a doubt.
It literally perfected the 2D platforming-formula.

[Anonymous No.7979525]

[Anonymous No.7979559]

SMB2J

[Anonymous No.7979565]

>>7979307
meet mario

[Anonymous No.7979589]

>>7978647
Up next on National Geographic...

[Anonymous No.7979604]

>>7979565
Boy, I love reading old articles in video game mags more than fresh ones.

> the plans for his biggest project yet, a feature-length motion picture are well underway

When you're from the future and you look into the past to see people who were full of predictions and believed in a bright tomorrow

[Anonymous No.7979650]

>>7979001
>All that scrapped SMW content.
I'm very fond of World, but man what I wouldn't give to glimpse into an alternate reality where we got THAT game instead.

[Anonymous No.7980017]

>>7976832
the inclusion of the grow state annoys me because you never notice that sprite

[Anonymous No.7980106]

I love the World little but hate world's super

[Anonymous No.7980391]

>>7978596
>Mario growing and shrinking doesn't make sense
>but fighting a gigantic ape that kidnaps a lady, throwing barrels into an oil drum which gives birth to sentient flames is totally fine

[Anonymous No.7980414]

>>7976832
none

[Anonymous No.7980423]

>>7977320
How do you see a bear???

[Anonymous No.7980472]

Mario Land. Someone make this for me

[Anonymous No.7980480]

>>7979525

[Anonymous No.7980487]

>>7980391
I mean in the context of cartoony Popeye-esque shenanigans and King Kong in pop-culture, you can see where they're getting at.
Super Mario always seemed like just so many random things slammed together. Obviously it's because gameplay came first, but imagine going to another timeline and describing all the pipes and mushrooms and giant turtles and they won't believe it's one of the most popular video game series of all time.

[Anonymous No.7980493]

>>7976910
The color palette is awful, same for the sprite work, the sprites shading and tones are really lacking too

[Anonymous No.7980494]

>>7977320
Are you autistic or something

[Anonymous No.7980517]

>>7976832
World. I always thought SMB3’s black and red sprite was ugly.

[Anonymous No.7980615]

>>7978596
I here ya. Which one is the real mario? Completing SMB in super mario allstars as small mario, you will be given a mushroom before you get your kiss from peach.

[Anonymous No.7981804]

>>7976832
Always thought it was cool how you can see Mario 2's sprite was editted into 3s. They have almost the same sillhoute.

[Anonymous No.7981847]

>>7976832
1>3>W>2

[Anonymous No.7981874]

>>7977320
Looks more like the weirdest dog than a bear. Had to back away from the screen a bit to come to that conclusion.

[Anonymous No.7981982]

>>7981874
>>7977320
looks like mr frosty

[Anonymous No.7982158]

>>7981804
Given 2/USA released here less than a month before 3 released in Japan it was probably the other way around, they probably took a WIP 3 sprite and shoved it into the game

[Anonymous No.7982276]

Supaa Mario Burazazu Suri

[Anonymous No.7982328]

>>7977320
what the fuck are you talking about

[Anonymous No.7982421]

>>7977320
I respect this post.

[Anonymous No.7982458]

>>7980472
fuck is that just a mock-up

[Anonymous No.7982465]

>>7976832
>Grow

What? That middle sprite definitely wasn't in SMB

[Anonymous No.7984221]

>>7982458
Not him, but yeah I think it's a mockup.
There is this though:
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4477/

[Anonymous No.7984736]

>>7978596
Cool, I have headcanon too.
>Be Mario and Luigi, hardworking Italian Americans from Flatbush, Brooklyn
>Try out careers as demolitionists, carpenters, plumbers
>That one time when Mario was a carpenter, an ape snatched his girlfrield
>After that, try to be a zookeeper, it doesn't work out. (Thanks, DK Jr.) Wild times.
>Start plumbing business with Luigi. Get a contract from the city to clear critters out of the sewers.
>Giant turtles and other weird shit down there, it doesn't seem exactly naturel
>But, hey, urban legends about giant alligators and goldfish and whatever, right?
>Anyway, the plumbing business works out
>Sometime later, they're working on some lady's bathtub drain
>Secret warp zone to the Mushroom Kingdom, and now we're hooked on the Brothas!
>Plot of SMB1 happens, the Bros save Princess Toadstool and defeat King Koopa, go back to Brooklyn
>At some point, somehow, the Bros open a warp zone between the basement of their plumbing business office/shop in Brooklyn and the Mushroom Kingdom (no idea how, but that's where the warp zone is in the Nintendo Adventure Books)
>So they can go between the real world and the mushroom world at will
>Plots of SMB2, SML, SMB3, SMW happen
>Something freaky or supernatural happens that turns Mario's dickhead old boss, Foreman Spike, into Mario's creepy doppelganger, Wario
>Maybe it involves GLOM, that clone-creating machine that Iggy Koopa invented in one of the books
>Anyway, plot of SML2, the last canonical Mario game happens
>All Mario games since then haven't involved the real Mario (who sounds like Captain Lou Albano), they star an empty-headed clone, possibly a Koopa creation, who can only shout "WAHOO!" and "ITSA ME!" and other nonsense