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1989

Super Mario Land

Tonight at a glance

Platforms
3DS · Game Boy
Mode
Single player
Age rating
PEGI 3
Violence
Mild

The story

Super Mario Land is the first Mario's outing on the Game Boy. It is a side-scrolling platformer much in the vein of the previous Super Mario Bros. This time, Mario must save Princess Daisy, rather than Princess Toadstool, from her kidnapper Tatanga, a mysterious spaceman. The game follows largely the same formula of its aforementioned predecessor, with Mario defeating enemies by jumping on them and collecting coins and power ups by hitting floating blocks, with each world leading up to a boss fight which is defeated using by collapsing the floor. A unique feature of this installment is two scrolling shoot-'em-up levels, the first of which Mario pilots a submarine, and the second an aeroplane.

  • Action
  • Fantasy
  • Science fiction
  • anime
  • shoot 'em up
  • magic
  • robots
  • ufo
  • side-scrolling
  • egypt

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

Production

Rating
74 / 100 · 312 players
Developer
Nintendo R&D1
Publisher
Nintendo, Playtronic, Mani