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Super Mario Land (1989)

Nintendo R&D1

Game Boy · Nintendo 3DS

3.41 from 1595 ratings

3027 members have it in their collection · 45 playing now · 313 backlogged · 197 wish listed

How long? Main story 2h · with extras 14h · 100% 2h (from 34 logged playthroughs)

Super Mario Land is the first Mario's outing on the Game Boy. It is a side-scrolling platformer much in the vein of the previous Super Mario Bros. This time, Mario must save Princess Daisy, rather than Princess Toadstool, from her kidnapper Tatanga, a mysterious spaceman. The game follows largely the same formula of its aforementioned predecessor, with Mario defeating enemies … Read more
Super Mario Land is the first Mario's outing on the Game Boy. It is a side-scrolling platformer much in the vein of the previous Super Mario Bros. This time, Mario must save Princess Daisy, rather than Princess Toadstool, from her kidnapper Tatanga, a mysterious spaceman. The game follows largely the same formula of its aforementioned predecessor, with Mario defeating enemies by jumping on them and collecting coins and power ups by hitting floating blocks, with each world leading up to a boss fight which is defeated using by collapsing the floor. A unique feature of this installment is two scrolling shoot-'em-up levels, the first of which Mario pilots a submarine, and the second an aeroplane. Read less

Details

Developers
Nintendo R&D1
Publishers
Mani, Nintendo, Playtronic
Genres
Platform
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Science fiction
Franchises
Mario, Mario Bros.
Series
Super Mario, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Land
Event
Nintendo Direct 6.21.2012

Release dates

  • Apr 21, 1989 (Full Release) (Japan) Game Boy
  • Jul 31, 1989 (Full Release) (North_America) Game Boy
  • Sep 28, 1990 (Full Release) (Europe) Game Boy
  • 1994 (Full Release) (Brazil) Game Boy
  • 1995 (Full Release) (China) Game Boy
  • Jun 06, 2011 (Full Release) (North_America) Nintendo 3DS
  • Jun 07, 2011 (Full Release) (Japan) Nintendo 3DS
  • Jun 07, 2011 (Full Release) (Australia) Nintendo 3DS
  • Jun 07, 2011 (Full Release) (Europe) Nintendo 3DS
  • Feb 03, 2016 (Full Release) (Korea) Nintendo 3DS

Featured in lists

NSO Collection - GB + GBC by Roach · 43 games · 2
Game Boy Greatness by Retrobert · 16 games · 1
Finalizados o jugados suficiente para convalidar by gorka182 · 138 games · 1
Best Mario Games (All Time) by RehRomano · 15 games · 0
Every Platformer I've played, ranked by shinespark · 133 games · 0
Childhood by tylerisrandom · 92 games · 0

Rating distribution

5 stars
195
4 stars
481
3 stars
723
2 stars
172
1 star
24

Community All Reviews Statuses

TheBeautifulEric

Status TheBeautifulEric May 16, 2024

Beat this game for the first time today, so that feels pretty good. Honestly, the only thing that really stands out is that it's a Mario game and it doesn't really look, sound, or feel like a Mario game. I like the music and the devs did a good job avoiding a problem I have with other handheld platformers where …

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Beat this game for the first time today, so that feels pretty good. Honestly, the only thing that really stands out is that it's a Mario game and it doesn't really look, sound, or feel like a Mario game. I like the music and the devs did a good job avoiding a problem I have with other handheld platformers where you don't see enough of the screen. It doesn't really do anything wrong per se, but I find I didn't really enjoy it enough to recommend this game to other people in 2024, outside of Mario fans that are curious.

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benhenry3

Status benhenry3 Jan 19, 2024

Pretty good game just a bit mediocre. It was for the original gameboy so the game is really short and can be beaten in about 30-40 minutes. Not much to say other than the worlds are pretty cool and the music is good.

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Inc

Status Inc Jul 3, 2023

Day 17: Some people don't like Super Mario Land. Those people probably missed out on this little ditty.

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Reset_Tears

Status Reset_Tears Nov 21, 2021

For a first handheld entry on hardware as old as the Game Boy, Mario Land is a decent take on the Mario 1 formula. But at the end of the day, it's not as good as Mario 1, and is a lot shorter to boot. It's a strangely janky old-school Mario, but I get it was surely the best they …

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For a first handheld entry on hardware as old as the Game Boy, Mario Land is a decent take on the Mario 1 formula. But at the end of the day, it's not as good as Mario 1, and is a lot shorter to boot. It's a strangely janky old-school Mario, but I get it was surely the best they could manage for the system at the time.

I do think it's still worth playing if you're a Mario fan, if only for the weirdness of it all. A lot of enemies (such as the Chinese hopping zombies, which I thought were ninja girls lol), locales (you go to Easter Island in this one), and gimmicks (Mario can spit a bouncing bowling ball) that didn't really stick around for the Marioverse at large, which gives it all an odd "fan game" sort of feel to it. What other Mario game is going to have you defeat the final boss (yes, a space alien) in a shoot-em-up stage with Mario piloting a biplane?

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internpepper

Status internpepper Aug 4, 2021

I liked this one as a kid, but this one just didn't age well and there's not much point in playing this when you already had the original Mario Bros games on the NES. The physics and controls are wonky and the schmup sections drag it down a lot for me as it doesn't feel like a Mario game. Some …

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I liked this one as a kid, but this one just didn't age well and there's not much point in playing this when you already had the original Mario Bros games on the NES. The physics and controls are wonky and the schmup sections drag it down a lot for me as it doesn't feel like a Mario game. Some of the music in this game is pretty great though. One of the weaker Mario titles, but I would much rather play this than The Lost Levels.

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GigaDeathNullGolem

Status GigaDeathNullGolem Nov 20, 2019

Hey this is pretty cool. Having just played Donkey Kong Country the other week this def reminds me of that aesthetic. But plenty of other details make it look better than the raw rugged clay look of late era SNES titles, it's on par with gamecube i think!
New Super Mario Land demo on SFC cartridge

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Hey this is pretty cool. Having just played Donkey Kong Country the other week this def reminds me of that aesthetic. But plenty of other details make it look better than the raw rugged clay look of late era SNES titles, it's on par with gamecube i think!
New Super Mario Land demo on SFC cartridge

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DMH

Status DMH Feb 5, 2017

Completed in 1 day! Oh, the memories. Score - 306260 -- A bit short, but still fun

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juicetown

Status juicetown May 4, 2016

Just Finished this. Top score was 314230. With 52 Lives. Pretty Awesome game, short and sweet :D

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