Super Mario All-Stars
- Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
- SRD (programming)
- Takashi Tezuka, Tadashi Sugiyama (director)
- Shigeru Miyamoto (producer)
- United States: August 1, 1993
- Japan: July 14, 1993
- Europe: December 16, 1993
Super Mario All-Stars Super Mario World:
- United States: December 1, 1994
- Europe: January 1, 1995
Super Mario All- Stars - 25th Anniversary Edition:
- United States: December 12, 2010
- Japan: October 21, 2010
- Europe: December 3, 2010
- Australia: December 2, 2010
Super Mario All-Stars (in Japanスーパー マリオ コレクション, transcribed Supa Mario korekushon, translated Super Mario Collection ) is a collection of video games by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, which appeared on 1 January 1994. The collection contains the NES classic Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3, which were graphically and acoustically adapted to the level of the console. On the occasion of the 25th birthday of Mario appeared on 12 December 2010 Super Mario All-Stars again along with a CD of popular melodies from the Mario games, and an accompanying booklet on the history of Mario for the Wii.
Content
The games Super Mario All-Stars contains the three known Super Mario Bros. games, which had appeared on the previous console and have been extremely successful. In addition, the collection contains Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, known in Japan as Super Mario Bros. 2, which this game the first time outside of Japan was brought to the market. It was originally released only in Japan, as it too heavy kept the difficulty of the game for a publication around the world, why was released outside of Japan, Super Mario Bros. 2. All four games at All-Stars were graphically and acoustically heavily revised, the gameplay but nothing changed. The collection is complemented by a selection menu and can also store the score of each game. With the exception of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels and Super Mario Bros. 2, the games can be played with two players.
Super Mario All-Stars sold a total of about 10.55 million times.
Super Mario All-Stars Super Mario World
In December 1994, an enhanced version of Super Mario All-Stars appeared, also for the SNES. This version contains the four games of the regular All-Stars version but also the successful SNES game Super Mario World. The only difference between the original Super Mario World and Super Mario World version contained these All-Stars version, is a small adaptation of Luigi's sprite. In addition, the selection screen of this version is red instead of blue. This package appeared briefly as a bundle with the console.
Super Mario All- Stars - 25th Anniversary Edition
October and December 2010, Nintendo released on the occasion of the 25th birthday of Mario - Super Mario Bros. was released in 1985 - Super Mario All- Stars - 25th Anniversary Edition. This collection includes Super Mario All-Stars and in a second DVD case a soundtrack CD with ten well-known songs from the Mario games from Super Mario Bros. until Super Mario Galaxy 2 and ten famous sound effects from Super Mario Bros. with a term of about 25 minutes and a 32-page booklet with an overview of the history of Super Mario and comments the developer Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, and Koji Kondo. The latter, who is responsible for the music in the Mario games since Super Mario Bros. has made the selection of songs on the soundtrack CD.
Reception
Due to the fact that this re-release exactly the same as the program includes collection from 1993, followed disappointing reactions to the publication. The games run as in 1993 with 50 Hertz, not 60 Hertz, it only runs in 4:3 picture format, which provides on a widescreen TV for bars to the left and right of the screen, the controller key assignment for the SNES is still displayed in the game itself and is called in the main menu it Copyright 1993. the four included games were for some time via Virtual Console available for the Wii, total cost all four games on Virtual Console € 21, while the anniversary edition for 30 € sold. Although is the price, so the critics, given the extras aktezptabel, a more extensive collection was but have been more appropriate because of the anniversary. Nevertheless, the individual games are still very good.
Metacritic.com On the anniversary edition reached an average rating of 69 out of 100. The individual video game magazines praised the actual games that contains this collection, this is also a good way for Wii owners, who can not download via Virtual Console games. Nevertheless, Nintendo could have done more, the extras are not very special and the price view of that, not quite appropriate. Demhingegen praise the other extras and find the price ok, but do not deny that Nintendo had more might make. From the booklet was feared by some players in the run, it could be a mere nichtsaussagende advertising brochure, the developer comments there but until then unknown to disclose information. Overall, players who already have the original release of All-Stars, or the original game, rather discouraged from buying.
The anniversary edition was sold as of March 2012 alone 2.53 million times.