Legacy Super Mario Land

super mario land launch title game boy in 1989

the game begot super mario land series of portable mario games. super mario land 2: 6 golden coins added non-linear overworld , introduced wario, evil version of mario, game s villain. subsequent wario land: super mario land 3 began wario franchise. after 19 years, 2011 title super mario 3d land nintendo 3ds became mario s first game in stereoscopic 3d. audrey drake of ign argued both wario land , super mario 3d land not legitimate sequels , , wrote latter felt more super mario bros. 3 mario galaxy influences successor super mario land 2.

super mario land remembered miniaturized super mario elements , twist on every mario mainstay imaginable . many of new elements did not recur later in series, making super mario land strange compared rest of series, or ign s thomas described singular oddball . ign s marc nix felt retrospectively super mario land uninspired mario game, funky voids of white , ufos instead of strikingly original mushroom kingdom. mean machines put off alien theme, easy difficulty, , dot matrix screen blur. ign s travis fahs wrote game comparatively not ambitious super mario bros. 3. mean machines felt if not true mario game , not worth high review score, , in retrospect, not classic .

eurogamer s schilling wrote mario felt different—lighter, more friction—and game felt radical , distinctive risks took. ign s thomas cited out of place gameplay elements shooter levels, exploding koopa shells, non-extinguishing fireballs, , non-princess peach plot departures series. thomas attributed mario creator miyamoto s lack of involvement in game s development, described famously hands-off . schilling of eurogamer instead blamed game boy s technical limitations. perplexed new sphinx, seahorse, , moai head enemies, , considered exploding koopa shells cruel trick disdainful of series core gameplay. super mario land s shooter levels, new series, not revisited in subsequent series games. , subsequent series games such super mario land 2 both dropped original s tiny scale , chose classic fire flower fireballs on first installment s bouncing balls.

the game included in multiple rankings of top game boy games, , official nintendo magazine listed @ 73 in top 100 nintendo games. after debut in super mario land, princess daisy appears in later mario series sports , racing games.