It was almost as if they had read my 11 year old mind and delivered to me exactly what I wanted.
SUPER MARIO LAND 2 6 GOLDEN COINS SECRET LEVELS PORTABLE
This was what portable gaming was becoming. Each world was like venturing forward to something completely unique, there was a sense of discovery in each level and finding that there were actually secret worlds was really just the icing on the cake. I mean goddamn it, Mario was ACTUALLY recognisable as Mario in this game rather than 10 pixels jammed together to form some sort of a mustached silhouette as was the case in the first Game boy outing. Not that it fixed everything, for one it was still a walk in the park when compared to the NES games and Super Mario World, but for once it felt like it didn’t matter what all the other kids were playing on their home consoles, I had something just as good in the palm of my hand. But it was a tad on the easy side, and simply just didn’t feel complete.īut Super Mario Land 2 – man, that’s a different story. That’s not to say I didn’t love the game, I mean being one of the first three games I owned for what was then easily my most played gaming platform, it holds a special place in my heart. It didn’t feel like it could almost belong in the living room displayed on an old wood-paneled television set (in 1993 no less).
I say that because, as good as the game was, it didn’t feel like a proper Mario game. The first Super Mario Land for Nintendo’s handheld was good – great even, but in an ‘its a portable game’ way.
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