Overview
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player)
- Genre
- Release Date
Game Boy
31st Jul 1989
28th Sep 1990
21st Apr 1989
3DS eShop
- 6th Jun 2011, $3.99
- 7th Jun 2011, £3.60
- 7th Jun 2011, ¥400
Nintendo Switch Online (Subscription)
- 15th May 2024
- Series
- Tags
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Reviews
Review Super Mario Land (3DS eShop / GB)
Mario's first Game Boy adventure is short, but sweet.
Given the popularity of the Super Mario Bros. series at the time of the Game Boy's release, it came as no real surprise that Nintendo would release a Super Mario title for its brand new portable game system. Now the 3DS eShop is available, it makes just as much sense for Super Mario Land to be...
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Super Mario Land Guides
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Super Mario Land News
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (18th May)
Well, well well
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News Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Library With Three More Classics
Japan receives one extra game
Nintendo has expanded the Switch Online Game Boy library today with three more classic titles today. The latest batch of titles includes the platformer Super Mario Land, the Breakout-like release Alleyway, and the sports game Baseball. All of these were released in 1989 and line up with the Game Boy's 35th anniversary...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 22nd)
Ready to party?
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Random YouTuber Speedruns Touching Grass (In Every Mario Game)
Ground theme
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Random Fan Reimagines Sonic As A 'Shredder's Revenge' Style Beat-Em-Up
Oof, yes please!
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Random Pixel Artist Reimagines Super Mario Land Series For Game Boy Advance
And it looks amazing!
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Video What Was Your First Video Game Ever?
Go on and tell us!
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Grey and green never looked better
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Feature A Brief History Of Nintendo’s Home Hardware Add-Ons
A multi-format menagerie
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Anniversary Super Mario Land Launched 30 Years Ago Today In Europe
Mario's first portable platformer
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Previews
First Impressions 3DS Virtual Console
Time travel meets blur-o-vision
Virtually nothing is known about how the 3DS will handle its new eShop apart from that it will eventually offer a Virtual Console for Game Boy and Game Boy Color software, and in New York City and Amsterdam this past Wednesday Nintendo Life was able to test out a couple of games confirmed for Shop shelves: Super Mario...
About The Game
Relive the madcap mayhem of Mario's very first Game Boy™ adventure!
Ancient ruins, giant crabs, Koopa Troopas, flying stone heads, and hungry sharks await you in this re-release of the 1989 Game Boy game.
In the beautiful kingdom of Sarasaland, a mysterious alien has appeared and hypnotized the inhabitants, while kidnapping Princess Daisy™ for himself!
Travel over land, in the air, and underwater, as Mario runs, jumps, and bounces his way to fortune and glory on his mission to save Princess Daisy and restore peace!
Ancient ruins, tempestuous waters, and brand new challenges await!
Comments 18
This game was excellent.. and still is! The levels are amazing and I still play it often.
First Mario game that i played.
Still a great game. One of my favourites, certainly!
Probably some of the best music on the system
Black and white.
Oh my God so many memories............................................back to the 1990.
Getting this when eShop comes
No review??
@fishman100: remember that the eShop isn't open yet. I'm sure a review will be up shortly after E3, once it's been released :3
Dear Americans, prepare your 3DS for the tomorrow's update.
I dont get it. 400 points. Isnt the 3DS all in money
Yes the eShop uses cash-based amounts but we're still on a Nintendo Points-based back end here. We'll have the cash amounts live soon! Apologies for any confusion.
FYI this game is £3.60 in the UK.
I've downloaded it.
Have this on my 82 (or so) in 1 GB cartridge, and this was probably the best game in it. Loved it so much, and I thought it was difficult and was proud to be able to beat it. Will wait for the color ones that I didn't play. wasn't this playable in GBC with added colors? I can't try it because the pirated one doesn't work on GBC.
While the game's graphics look pretty dated, even by Gameboy standards, the game is actually still not bad. It's kinda short, (only 4 worlds, but admittedly the levels seem longer then they actually are, in a good way) but luckly you'll get a harder mode once you beat the game. (With more enemies basically.)
The soundtrack is also quite good for 8-bit standards, and one of more unique ones in the Mario series. I have many fond memories hearing the Muda stage (World 2) especially.
The game is also worth buying/playing just for the awesome submarine/airplane "shooter" stages, (only 2 of wich, but still fun) wich mix in a few things from the normal Mario stages to. (Such as getting mushrooms & star power ups, and shooting blocks to break them, and see what's hidden within.) I'd love to see a Mario game bring back the Sky Pop airplane again, but I don't think it'll ever happen. (Seeing as how the SML games weren't made by Miyamoto or the rest of the Mario team, but more-so by Gumpei Yokoi, and the Gameboy system team.)
cheap for a classic
I'll say something nice first: the music is incredible, and it'll get stuck in my head at random times. The storyline is so bizarre, it's surreal: saving Sarasaland from the "mystery alien" Tatanga? Really? I guess it's really no weirder than the rest of the game, where a Koopa strapped with a suicide vest is about the closest you get to the main series. I'm surprised no one ever mentions the controls in SML. They're so loose it makes the game artificially difficult, and if you're like me, you'll die a lot of cheap deaths before you learn how to compensate for Mario's movements. That said, for some reason, it's still compulsively playable.
Being one of the kids who had a Gameboy long before they had a Nintendo console, this was my first Mario game and probably was for many others. I played it a ridiculous amount. Looking back? Not bad. Not good, but not bad.
If this at times seems like a passable facsimile of a Super Mario game, that's because it was the first major Mario production to not involve Shigeru Miyamoto. Super Mario Land was executive produced by Gunpei Yokoi, and honestly you could do a lot worse. Most of the important elements are present: the legendary plumber, coins, mushrooms, flowers, stars, a general movement towards the right. Conspicuously absent: Bowser and Peach, and Toad for that matter.
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