All right, Super Mario All-Stars was released in 1993, some eight years after the Japanese release of Super Mario Bros. Although I, in most cases, prefer playing the original, I still enjoy playing the a All-Stars version.
Super Mario All-Stars gave some great graphical updates to the old Mario games, including, Parallax scrolling in the backgrounds. The ability to save your game was also added, that at the time, not so much now, was a big deal. The NES equivalent of saving your game outside The Legend Of Zelda, was simply leaving your Nintendo on and pushing it off to the side until you were ready to play again. That alone makes the collection of games worthy of playing as a separate title.
Also Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels or Super Mario Bros. 2(スーパーマリオブラザーズ2) in Japan, was included. I really enjoyed playing these four worlds, they were much more challenging then the eight worlds of Super Mario Bros..
Anyways, the problem is that I can’t easily believe that Nintendo will ever release Super Mario All-Stars for the Virtual Console. Why would Nintendo release a game for $8 when they could sell the original three games for $5 a piece. I don’t know about you but for me this is upsetting. Will I ever see Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels on the Wii? I thought of three things Nintendo could do. One thing they could do is allow those who bought all three to download All Stars for free or a Dollar or so. Two they could offer the Super Mario All-Stars Rom with The lost levels being the only thing available, and sell that for a few bucks. finally they could release a whole new Lost Levels remake for the Wii. I hope that what ever the case, Nintendo Will give Mario Fans what they want, and release some form of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
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