Semifinals: 2/2 - The Legend of Super Mario

[This Old Neon]

Welcome to the "BEST GAME EVER!!!" Project Semifinals!

You can vote for 1 game in this bracket. Vote carefully—you can't change your vote after submitting it. The top game at the end of the week will advance to the Grand Finals.

21 - Super Mario Bros. 3 - 1988 - NES
80 - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - 1991 - SNES

You are encouraged to discuss your choice and your reasons for selecting the game you did.

[SkyPikachu]

Abstaining sadly yet to play either game.

[Turai]

While Mario 3 is a good game, my main motivation for voting on it is because I don't want to see a Zelda game win.

[VictorViper]

Abstaining sadly yet to play either game.

Jesus CHRIST, man. Fix that. Consider it an education. Wow.

[SkyPikachu]

Abstaining sadly yet to play either game.

Jesus CHRIST, man. Fix that. Consider it an education. Wow.

They're both on my to do list next year.

[The Shoemaker]

Abstaining sadly yet to play either game.

Jesus CHRIST, man. Fix that. Consider it an education. Wow.

What he said.

Been brewing on this one all week. Both are very fine games. I think I'm going with SMB 3. It's something I can pick up and play anytime. ALTTP is just as good, but if I had to think of a game I wanted to play right now, it would be SMB 3.

[A Beta Fu7ure]

Abstaining sadly yet to play either game.

Good god. What are you doing with your life? Quit your job now!

Just kidding: I don't actually think either of these games deserve to have made it this far...but I am surprised there is anybody left on videogame forums who hasn't played at least one of them. I actually envy you Slurm, these are two games I often want to play but find too unfamiliar to get very far in without boredom setting in. That's why I've enjoyed playing fan-edits of both engines recently.