Super Mario World or Super Mario 3

I say Super Mario World...yup, way better.

It's close for me, but I gotta go WORLD.

The short levels really do Super Mario 3 in verus World for  me. I love the length and challenge of the later levels of World. While I prefer the Tanooki suit and Raccoon tail, I can't pick 3 over World. I now I'm in the minority, but I don't care.

I wish they would put Super Mario All-Stars on Virtual Console.

Super Mario All-Stars + World.

Id buy that.

Oh wow! I'm going with super mario world... I enjoyed and played it a lot more

Two awesome games, but SMW is my favorite.

SMW.

Super Mario World, I've never played 3.

Probably Super Mario 3 but I loved Super Mario World as well. I'd say Super Mario 3 has the edge, as I grew up with it longer than SMW because of All-Stars.

Both awesome games but my personal Favorite was part 3. All the transformation, items, and levels are what made super mario 3 a superior game.

Super Mario World is defiantly my favorite of the two.  Yoshi makes the game a little easy at some times though.

Mario World, best game eve made

Wow...two games that can truly be called classics.

I'd have to give the nod to SMB3.......but not by much.

Super mario world!  Yoshi 4 life

Super Mario 3 but both were classics.

Super mario 3 ... that probably because of more childhood memories.

3 is very good but smw is still the daddy of mario games for me

Super Mario World

It was a hard choise

Super Mario 3... definitely a hard choice

World was better because of the non-linear nature of the overworld, but 3 had better powerup items.

So, here's hoping NSMBW combines the best of both worlds

SMB3 gets high praises, and deservedly so, but I just love SMW. World gets my vote.

Super Mario World gets my vote. :) 

Oh, good question. While I would say that World is a more advanced game and looks better and plays better... Mario 3 is... totally inferior. Fuck that game..,

Only kidding, both are great, World is better by a slight margin.

Definitely 3. The level design is perfect, great music and great aesthetics. I didn't like World all that much, but I have much less nostalgia for the SNES in general.

Also, SMB 3 is the best game ever.

3 all the way. It's really the best platformer game of all time. World is good too, but 3 is the king.

I AM THE KING!

(But 3 is better than World.)

Super Mario World

Super Mario World. 3 is a great game, but I played it so much back in the day I just can't go back to it. Plus it gets pretty damn tedious once you get to World 7 or so.

i enjoy super mario world more

@snake_eyes_ex: lol challenge in a mario game. lol

In Seriousness, SMB3 is the best. I loved its implementation of an inventory system as it allowed you to stockpile on power ups and damn...... I sure did love using flutes. I'd take flutes over yoshis.

SMB3 had the superior start screen as well. Lets not leave that out too guys. :)

Never finished SMW so i'm going to go with SMB3, ah the NES memories.

World for sure, although 3 is a close second. I never had a snes growing up, so playing world at someone else's house was a treat for me. Now that I have one, I play it quite frequently. I'd say it's aesthetically my favourite game... Whenever I see that opening title screen I get a big dumb fucking grin plastered across my face.

I've beaten Super Mario World, I've even gotten 100%. I have yet to beat Super Mario 3, or even get to world 8 without a warp whistle. The difficulty curve for Mario 3 is too high, somewhere around world 4, when you're faced with a nightmarishly difficult platforming section, you ask yourself, "is this fun?". Super Mario World keeps the difficulty right where it needs to be and slowly ramps up, but if you are a masochist gamer, you can do side routes and secret areas to get to the hard stuff.

World or maybe 3.

I remember playing World a lot more so I'm going to go with that one but I also really enjoyed 3.

Going with Super Mario 3, but I loved World a lot too, both of them were great games. I just have a lot of good memories of 3 when my brothers and I would stay up trying to beat it on the SNES when I was really young.