So I was playing some Super Mario Bros. today and playing the game level by level, no world shortcuts like I usually do. This got me thinking how many people have actually beat the game level by level with no world shortcuts what so ever. So my fellow Bombers, have you beaten the original Super Mario Bros. with no world shortcuts?

I think so. I'm pretty sure.

I have not. I don't think I have ever made it through World 8.

Never owned an NES, so I didn't play much of the original. I definitely did it in the Super Mario All-Stars version, but you could save at the beginning of every world. Way easier.

I did on the GBA version which was part of the NES classics or whatever, and it was fucking hard as hell. Took a long time but I am glad I did.

Yes I have but I used the infinite lives thing from 3-1 or 2-1 or whatever it was.

Nope. I'm pretty sure I made it to the last world, but the only time I beat the final castle was with emulator saves. And yeah, I feel dirty.

I used to be part of a group that played a various amount of video games at a LAN party-ish thing at a church around 2005. In retrospect, it's weird playing a 12-player LAN of Unreal, in a church, and then moving on to a series of old-schoool games through a series of emulators, but yeah. I beat SMB 1-8. In a church. So I have divine proof.

Deal with it.

Course. I had a dream about that weird gray level once. I don't remember what it was about, but I remember it being weird and probably scary.

in super mario bros deluxe and in the NES original

Never finished it with or without shortcuts.

I...think so? I really don't know, couldn't have been more than once in any case. That game gets hard and, more importantly, when you run out of lives, it's OVER.

@RockmanBionics said:

I...think so? I really don't know, couldn't have been more than once in any case. That game gets hard and, more importantly, when you run out of lives, it's OVER.

You can reload from whichever world you died in in every version of it as far as I know.

Anyways, more on topic, I have beaten it without warps on the SNES version.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did on the Game Boy Color version.

@MaxxS said:

@RockmanBionics said:

I...think so? I really don't know, couldn't have been more than once in any case. That game gets hard and, more importantly, when you run out of lives, it's OVER.

You can reload from whichever world you died in in every version of it as far as I know.

Anyways, more on topic, I have beaten it without warps on the SNES version.

You can't start at the beginning of the world in the NES version. Once you get a Game Over you start all over.

Nope, but I will one day.

@JJOR64 said:

@MaxxS said:

@RockmanBionics said:

I...think so? I really don't know, couldn't have been more than once in any case. That game gets hard and, more importantly, when you run out of lives, it's OVER.

You can reload from whichever world you died in in every version of it as far as I know.

Anyways, more on topic, I have beaten it without warps on the SNES version.

You can't start at the beginning of the world in the NES version. Once you get a Game Over you start all over.

You can't keep that data if you reset or turn off your NES, but if you hold A and press start, you'll start at the first level of the world you died in.

@MaxxS said:

@JJOR64 said:

@MaxxS said:

@RockmanBionics said:

I...think so? I really don't know, couldn't have been more than once in any case. That game gets hard and, more importantly, when you run out of lives, it's OVER.

You can reload from whichever world you died in in every version of it as far as I know.

Anyways, more on topic, I have beaten it without warps on the SNES version.

You can't start at the beginning of the world in the NES version. Once you get a Game Over you start all over.

You can't keep that data if you reset or turn off your NES, but if you hold A and press start, you'll start at the first level of the world you died in.

Did not know that you would actually do that. Just tested this myself and it works. Can't believe I've never known this.

I completely played through SMB several times when I was a kid. It was the only game I had for the NES for a few months. Usually I'd keep track of my scores and the amount of time it would take me to complete the game. I really wish I could find the old notebook I kept that stuff in.

@JJOR64 said:

@MaxxS said:

@JJOR64 said:

@MaxxS said:

@RockmanBionics said:

I...think so? I really don't know, couldn't have been more than once in any case. That game gets hard and, more importantly, when you run out of lives, it's OVER.

You can reload from whichever world you died in in every version of it as far as I know.

Anyways, more on topic, I have beaten it without warps on the SNES version.

You can't start at the beginning of the world in the NES version. Once you get a Game Over you start all over.

You can't keep that data if you reset or turn off your NES, but if you hold A and press start, you'll start at the first level of the world you died in.

Did not know that you would actually do that. Just tested this myself and it works. Can't believe I've never known this.

Was that ever in the instruction booklet I wonder. If not then that's almost as far fetched as someone figuring out that you could use the second controller in Zelda 2 to quit and save your game without dying, or that you could exit a level in Bionic Commando.

Yep, I used save states :P

@JJOR64: I beat the All Stars version last week for the first time ever, no shortcuts no infinite lives no nothing. It was one of the hardest things IO've ever done, that last world was just insane, I managed to get past Bowser as small Mario, I couldn't believe it. I even have picture proof!