I played Super Mario Bros 3 again for the first time in something like 20 years, and I went through each level properly instead of warping straight to World 8.
It still holds up incredibly well, before I knew it was 3 in the morning! Great game design is timeless…
The ROM hacking tools and community for Super Mario Bros 3 in the late 90s/early 00s is a big part of the reason I’m a game dev now.
Making crazy ass Mario levels to annoy my family, learning how the hardware of that era worked, and dissecting how those games were made were just as much fun as playing through the games themselves for me.
@ahsanfayaz I was playing shinobi 3 yesterday and thinking something similar: “Good games don’t get old.”