A wrong time ago, before Eegra was even an internet sperm, I went to Tokyo Game Show 2006, and had a magical encounter with a dodgy Korean Mario bootleg for the MSX, called Super Bros. World 1. You can read the full story here, or, if you can't be bothered, you can probably get the gist from this photo of the box:
Super Bros. World 1 is probably someone's childhood gaming memory, which makes it just as valid as the 'real thing', by any meaningful standard. That's why I have a fascination for this sort of cultural bric-a-brac -- I wonder who made it and how and why, and who played it and where they bought it and how they remember it. There's a hundred stories about this game, and I'll probably never hear any of them. It's a little mysterious, this weird Mario from a parallel universe, and it makes me a little excited, and a little sad.
Someone else with a great fondness for out-of-the-mainstream gaming curios is Jeremy Penner, who not coincidentally runs Glorious Trainwrecks. Recently he happened upon some footage of Super Bros. World 1 in action, which he uploaded to YouTube for all to enjoy, and it would be remiss of me not to share it with you here:
Jembleby writes...
Items of interest:
- The music is a pretty decent rendition of SMB3 music!
- Fireballs bounce off of coins!
- The terrifying Deadly Hover-Boulder in stage two!
