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Welcome to the "BEST GAME EVER!!!" Project Top 32 Brackets!

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 Round of 16.

73 - Super Mario Bros. - 1985 - NES
100 - Super Mario 64 - 1996 - N64

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

I don't think I would pick Super Mario Bros over any of the main line Mario titles.

I actually picked super mario bros. here over 64. I have two reasons for this. The first reason is that 64 was kind of an unpolished game in certain ways. There were a lot of goofy ass glitches. The second reason is that I preferred Super Mario Bros. structure to the "collectathon" type of game that 64 represented. There are some people who swear by 64's non-linearity and poo-poo all the other Marios, but I personally found the non-linearity to be a mixed bag. There were times that I was genuinely frustrated at being unable to find some star here or there. Both are 10/10 games in my book though.

Jordan wrote:I actually picked super mario bros. here over 64. I have two reasons for this. The first reason is that 64 was kind of an unpolished game in certain ways. There were a lot of goofy ass glitches. The second reason is that I preferred Super Mario Bros. structure to the "collectathon" type of game that 64 represented. There are some people who swear by 64's non-linearity and poo-poo all the other Marios, but I personally found the non-linearity to be a mixed bag. There were times that I was genuinely frustrated at being unable to find some star here or there. Both are 10/10 games in my book though.

I don't think Mario 64 is the pinnacle of the series, but I find the structure of Super Mario Bros less appealing. The main thing is that I'm not really into arcade like experiences so I don't like that there's no way to save the game. That a game over results in going back to the beginning.

Two childhood favourites, I guess I'll go with 64 since I have more fond memories of playing it when i was younger. Love both game though.

Abstaining. I always found the flying controls in 64 atrocious (perhaps it's just me) and I accept that Super Mario Bros has been trumped so many times by so many games as a quality platformer since then that I can't sing about it any more.

Mario's first 3D outing is still among his best.
SMB, while important has been overshadowed many times over.

The Shoemaker wrote:

Jordan wrote:I actually picked super mario bros. here over 64. I have two reasons for this. The first reason is that 64 was kind of an unpolished game in certain ways. There were a lot of goofy ass glitches. The second reason is that I preferred Super Mario Bros. structure to the "collectathon" type of game that 64 represented. There are some people who swear by 64's non-linearity and poo-poo all the other Marios, but I personally found the non-linearity to be a mixed bag. There were times that I was genuinely frustrated at being unable to find some star here or there. Both are 10/10 games in my book though.

I don't think Mario 64 is the pinnacle of the series, but I find the structure of Super Mario Bros less appealing. The main thing is that I'm not really into arcade like experiences so I don't like that there's no way to save the game. That a game over results in going back to the beginning.

If you hold A (or B?) when you press Start at the opening screen after a game over, it will jump you to World X-1, where X is the world where you game over'd. Just for what it's worth.

Turai wrote:Mario's first 3D outing is still among his best.
SMB, while important has been overshadowed many times over.

SM64, while important has been overshadowed many times over.

Which 3D Mario do you rate better than 64 Kong?