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Originally Posted by DaveOrion
Super Mario World was my personal favorite and really the only one I played beginning to end. I had one hellofa a time with tubular, if I recall correctly you have 99 men, with the very last man I had that day, I finally completed tubular.
Map of Super Mario World
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Thanks for detailing your own personal story, and so soon, Dave (regarding
Super Mario World, I mean).
I, too, thought that
Super Mario World was the penultimate Mario Bros. institution, and I would always love to go back time and again to play this classic game (though I'm quite sure you start off with 4, 5 or 6 lives at the beginning, your character, plus a "x5" at the top, but as you progressed, the maximum number of lives alotted was "x99").
The thing is, up until a few years ago, I had never actually beaten the game (or gotten past the Dense Forest level, also known as castle #5). I took the shortcut of the Star Route Warp inside the Forest, and hitched a ride there, beat the first Star level, and that opened immediately to Bowser's castle. It took me almost a decade to actually beat the entire game, get through the chocolate mountains, beat the bonus "tubular, radical" levels in the center of the Star Map (which, ironically, I beat before I ever knew how to open up the Chocolate Mountains, or Ring of Fire maps) and finally collect every single instance of those oval Yoshi coins.
Even though those that had a dalliance with both this game and
Super Mario Bros. 3, which I think was released a year later, and is by far the more popular of the two, (I always thought it was over-rated) my preference was beating up on Bowser's kids before I knocked ol' King Koopa outta his clown car and rescued the day.
Plus, it had this awesome Easter Egg once you got 100%.
The masked koopa,
courtesy of mariomonsters