Actually, the original Super Mario Bros. was 26 years old when New Super Mario Bros. came out, not 20
Wait yeah you're right. They were both 20 years old but Super Mario Bros. was 20 years and 8 months old though (so it was closer to 21 years old). But practically the same yeah
Middle-Aged Super Mario Bros.
This truly was Toadsworth's most random appearance yeah. Not to mention they used his model for all the "Toads" that ran outside after the castle got hit by lightning in the opening of the gamei think this was the first game i played that had toadsworth in it, funny how that turned out to be one of his most random appearances. i remember putting my super mario advance 2 cartridge in the gba slot that came in ds game boxes for some reason, and trying to make a custom corner image to add to NSMB's cover to make it look like it came with a bonus game. since at the time those two were the only 2D Mario games i'd played.
at the time i definitely got the vibe that this was SM64 if it was a 2D Mario game, but that was mostly due to it reusing so many assets from SM64DS and having abilities like triple and wall jump. when i fought Petey Piranha i recognized him from Super Princess Peach (i even remember going "hey cool it's Boss P. Plant!")
aaand now that i think about that, that must mean SPP was actually the first game i played with Toadsworth, since he was in that game, but I feel like i took notice of him for the first time in NSMB (or maybe i got NSMB first but got to Petey after playing SPP idk)
regardless, the fact that this game is 20 years old is certainly not making me feel any younger
I've played every single game (except U and Luigi U, but I do have U Deluxe so I technically have these two, but just not their original versions as the Wii U is the only console between the DS and Switch 2 that I don't have). I kinda miss them. Wish we could've gotten another. Or at least a dedicated level editor for them (like the fangame Super Mario Bros. X2)
Yeah, any new NSMB games will not happen I don't think. Considering that NSMB2 and NSMBU got critically and financially panned, I don't think a NSMB3 will ever happen unfortunately.
NSMB2 kinda deserved it. Not saying it's bad but it's definitely the weakest one of the four (five if you include NSLU). It wasn't really as worthy of a direct sequel to NSMBDS as the name says. NSMBU didn't deserve it though. It was a worthy direct sequel to NSMBWii and probably one of, if not, my favorite of the NSMB games. The only reason people hate it was because it was the fourth game in a series that was largely the same and the fact it releases so quickly after NSMB2 (only 3 months were between the release of NSMB2 and NSMBU). If NSMBU followed the pattern (in case you get the "pattern" I'm talking about: I mean that, before NSMBU, every 3 years a new NSMB game came out. MP had a similar pattern before MP9, where every year (or in case an MP game came out pretty late into the year, it would take 2 years) a new MP game came out) and came out in 2015 instead (and if the advertising of the Wii U), it would've probably been praised almost as much as NSMB and NSMBWii
