wow, good poll.
First off, i have to say i like ALL the mario's, cept for RPG's (paper included), i mean, i have my own life and marios just seems boring in comparison.
however the og nes games, were the only reason to own an nes, i know cuz i still have mine under the coffee table, and besides occasional 1943, metroid, zelda, and dr. mario (technically a mario title i guess), the only games played by guests, etc. are mario 1,2, and 3.
i STILL can't decide if i like 2 or 3 better, and 1 invented video games in my opinion, i mean pong and breakout suck in comparison.
then, the ultimate platform mario came out, super mario world.
problem is, there was a super mario world for NES AND for the SNES, so which one is the poll talking about? personally i still play the snes super marioworld in zsnes at least once a week. the awesome, radical, etc worlds above the star road are totally killer, i mean there's like 80 levels in that game, and they're all great.
just this year i discovered mario 64. i never had a n64, or a machine good enough for emu, but then i discovered corn, and mario 64. from that day i have played mario 64 for at least a few minutes everyday, but often hours. I'm still trying to get a couple more stars and hit the second tower (i'm at 49 right now!). the puzzles, races, cannon aiming, precision 3d jumping, timing and etc. it takes to play this game, and the ease with which u learn these things IN GAME, make this possibly the finest stand alone video game ever (besides multiplayer fun stuff, i especially like dr. mario 4 way and pokemon puzzle league and have an in house quake 3 LAN, so you can see i'm serious about gaming, lol).
just my quick mario fan diatribe.
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