Game cover: Super Mario Land

Super Mario Land

Release date: 21/04/1989 by Nintendo R&D1

Platform

Also known as: スーパーマリオランド · 슈퍼 마리오 랜드 · 슈마랜

Nintendo 3DS
Game Boy

Score

74

Main story

1h

Main + extras

1h

Completionist

1h

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.

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