This is the game that started it all. As a young child, I would get the chance to go to the neighbors house and play his original Nintendo and we would play endless hours of games such as Mario Bros 3 and duck hunt, but out family had never owned a video game console.
That all changed during the Christmas day, 1992. A gift from our grandmother, my two older brothers and I tore into wrapping paper to expose the magnificent Super Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Mario World cartridge included.
When we got home that Christmas morning, my father had a heck of a time setting it up. So much so, we were told we had to go to the neighbors house to hang out until it was ready. (When its your first time setting up a video game console, they can be more puzzling then you realize.) That Christmas evening, everything changed. I got my first turn playing the new console under save slot C. Even as a young kid, I knew that this was an awesome game. I did struggle, given it was my first experience on this console and I was young, but I persevered and eventually conquered the game. Each additional play through got easier and easier to the point where I started to think I was the fastest in the world to 96 exits. (I was poorly mistaken.) I wouldn't even crack the top 1000.
GAMEPLAY
Still among one of the best platformers of all time, everything about this game is crisp and responsive. It's as precise as you can get on the Super Nintendo, and there are no cheap deaths. If you died, its because you sucked in some way. It was nice to have each separate distinct bosses, instead of continually facing the same boss fight each and every time. That being said, Nintendo didn't go all out as some boss fights are just slightly hard versions of an earlier battle. This fact, and this fact only, keeps it from being a perfect rating.
REPLAYABILITY
This game relies on nostalgia for its replayability, even more so with the release of Super Mario Maker and Super Mario Maker 2, where people can make their own Super Mario World levels. However, Nostalgia is a powerful thing, especially if you can play the game with the original SNES controller.
RATING
4.9 Antlers out of 5 (The closest to a perfect game I have ever played.)