The music of this series is amazing too. I can still hear the original song from the first NSMB. I was shocked and delighted to see the baddies stop and dance to the beats.

1:44 Super Mario World was internally known as Super Mario Bros 4, and Yoshi's Island was Super Mario Bros 5, as revealed in the Gigaleaks a few years back.

You put so much work into your videos. You deserve more views 👍

Not sure why any of the animosity toward any of the New games exists. I've spent thousands of hours playing every 2-D Mario for the last 40 years and they fit in perfectly. I love them. And Wonder, incidentally, is proving to be incredible.

It's actually amazing how well you explain the sequence of each of the Mario series at 1:20 :D

“It’s a me, Mario” will forever be seared into my brain. ☺️

Lovely stuff buddy. I was personally addicted to the Wii U version, spent hours finding the secrets etc, loved it. Maybe is my age but I've alway preferred the 2D Mario titles.

I remember this series very fondly, especially as a huge Mario fan myself. Now, this series definitely doesn't peak to the likes of the classic 2D entries (especially Super Mario World, in my opinion) and I do think it's a tad "stale" nowadays, but I still greatly enjoyed it for being simple "pick up and play" games that was rarely the case for some of the other 2D sidescrollers and even then, this series did introduce one of my absolute favorite power ups in the franchise: Gold Flower.

Hate to be that guy but acoording to Nintendo's own IR Sales report, Mario Galaxy 1 on the Wii alone sold 12.8 Million copies. Mario Galaxy 2 Sold 7.4 Million Copies. So, the 2 games collectively sold over 20 Million.

The "New" series is full of fantastic games!

So no ones going to point out the McDonalds cart he slipped in at 14:00?

Another fantastic video. Thanks for making and uploading this, I really enjoyed watching it last night. I have always found the naming and numbering of these games baffling so this video is awesome.

I tried getting my hands on a Nvidia Shield in China to get those region exclusive HD releases. The locals just laughed at me saying "that thing just didn't sell well AT ALL". Sigh. Great video once again matey!

Hey man. I just wanted to say that I love your channel and the complete history series. I know how much effort and time it takes to create youtube videos (I create content myself). I've been watching your channel for 3 years now and it's really nice to see your channel grow, but I think you deserve more. I hope to see you holding that gold button one day my friend.

When I was doing a list of favorite games of all time, the Mario entry came down to Super Mario world and New Super Mario bros Wii. Wii won due to the 4 player ability. This game is so much fun when you actually have 4 people playing together.

I think people started to dislike the games because they had replaced the 3D games.

Idk how I ended up here but I’m glad I did! U have a new sub loved this!!

I’ve never heard of people hating on these games! The original DS and Wii games are great!

I like the "New" series. Multiplayer on the Wii also brought much joy around here.

OK, I have to commend you on the amount of editing you have done! I was so impressed that I decided to subscribe to your channel.

This has to be the definitive retrospective on these games, well done. The first 2 are best sellers and totally deserve their sucess imo. Let's not forget that back when the DS one first dropped, it indeed had the novelty of a 2D Mario platformer with a 3D aesthetic, as after the 3D games and various spinoffs I always wanted to see something like that. And kudos for endorsing Yoshi's Island as a mainline Mario platformer at the start. The Gigaleak straight up confirmed it was titled "Super Mario Bros 5" during development. And the GBA did technically get an original Mario platformer... sort of. The port of SMB 3 (Mario Advance 4) has e-reader support, which inlcudes 33 brand new unlockable levels, plus 5 recreated SMB1 stages, in a game mode called World e. Said original SMB1 has 32 levels so this counts as a full game I guess. Anyway, since the e-reader didn't catch on overall, the feature was scrapped in Europe and only 1/3d of the level cards came out in North America (11 out of the 33 new ones and 1 out of the 5 SMB1 ones. Japan did get all the levels). And the ROM even has evidence that more stages were planned at some point, based on found unused data. Fortunately, all of the 38 e-reader exclusive levels have since been added to the port in future rereleases, such as the Wii U VC and more recently in the GBA's NSO service. So with the latter, one can now experience the "real" Lost Levels of 2D Mario history.

Great video Slopes!!

25:26 Sir, you forget Alex Kidd in Miracle World😎

16:05 *"For the last fifteen years, Mr Miyamoto has been thinking about one new way to let you play a Mario game that's never been possible before. Today...here's his answer...-"* "-with my peni-" *"-New Super Mario Brothers for Wii"* "Yeah close enough"

3d land gets so much hate from big nintendo youtube fans, such an underrrated game

Incredibly great and funny episode, I really like your style :)

When I saw you were making this video I replayed New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe on my switch so I could get a refresher of the gameplay. That game is actually the first game I could get my mom to play with me. She wasn't very good, but I was great either way.

It's like the New Scooby Doo Movies all over again

Nintendo's biggest mistake was not packaging all 4 games together, with all modes and DLC in one game on the Switch, and adding multiplayer for NSMB1 and 2, and instead doing a lazy and inferior port of the Wii U entry.

Awesome Video, Thanks Slope, you're doing a fantastic job with all this!👍🕹🎮

You got my name right, and this was another great doc by you. Glad to be a supporter of your art.

I think the Wii installment was my first taste of that series? it was fun to see mario back in 2D, I mean I liked the 3D games but having started with the original the 2D stuff was more my jam. I'll definitely concede that the sequels didn't do too much to mix up the formula, so I'm definitely happy that they're mixing it up a little more with SMB Wonder coming this year, it really looks to shake up the NSMB formula and add a lot more new stuff. another fantastic entry in the 'complete history' series!!

Enjoyed most of the 'new' series, but I found the Wii and Wii U physics very floaty and the controllers couldn't control properly. The DS versions were a lot better.

First, thank you for making this fantastic retrospective video. As someone around the same age as yourself, I am incredibly happy to hear an opinion being voiced that doesn't criticize the "New Super Mario Bros." series into the ground. 99% of people I hear talk about the series have nothing but disparaging things to say about it and I find it endlessly tiresome. I am a 2D Mario addict with over 4,250 hours (you read that correctly. NOT a typo) in Mario Maker 2. Easily, my favourite mode in that game is "New Super Mario Bros. U". I play those levels before any of the other modes. It is about the physics. Simply put, the movement physics of Mario in the "New Super Mario Bros. U" game mode are the most perfect in the entire series. I like them much better than even the beloved "Super Mario World" physics or the "Super Mario 3" physics. For me, it is gaming perfection. As for the series of 5 games brandished with the "New" moniker, I 100% agree with you that "New Super Luigi Bros. U" is the best of the best. Luigi's physics are even better than Mario's and the game is sheer bliss in my eyes. I will disagree on one point however... I personally find "New Super Luigi Bros. U" to be EASIER than "New Super Mario Bros. U" or actually all of the other games in the series, including the Golden Coin one. Maybe it is because I 100% every game I play. I find getting all the Star Coins and Secret Exits in "New Super Luigi Bros. U" easier than the other games, because the levels are short enough that I can often just power through and take damage using my 2 hit points from the squirrel suit and still get to the flag. It is wonderful, honestly. I also disagree about the Acorn Power-Up. I LOVE it! It is easily my favourite power-up in any Mario game. It is so useful when trying to get up to a high ledge or fly over annoying enemies. I am a squirrel suit expert and it makes the levels a lot of fun. I like it a lot more than the propeller because of the gliding. While the propeller can help you reach high ledges, it is useless for flying distances and avoiding enemies. I also like it better than the Tanooki suit, which is more similar to the acorn, but I find less useful. I know you'll disagree, but for me the "New Super Mario Bros." series got BETTER with every entry. "New Super Mario Bros. U" is my second favourite and "New Super Mario Bros. 2" is my third. I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I see each game as a refinement on the previous entry. That doesn't mean I don't love the first game or the Wii entry, but I do feel like the games just kept getting better and better as they further refined the physics and game play. Where other people see the same game over and over again, I see the superb little adjustments each game had over its predecessor. I am excited for "Super Mario Bros. Wonder", but I have to admit I am more than a little disappointed to never get another "New Super Mario Bros." game. For me the physics and art-style were perfection. I am sure Wonder will be a great Mario game, but I don't see it beating out "New Super Luigi Bros. U" or "New Super Mario Bros. U" in terms of sheer awesomeness for me. It is just like how I feel about the 2D 3D World mode in "Super Mario Maker 2". It is good. It is fun. It doesn't touch how great the "New Super Mario Bros. U" physics and art style are. Also, just a small correction about the description of "New Super Luigi Bros. U": The Boss Fights and Over-world Map are identical to "New Super Mario Bros. U", but all of the levels are completely new. They do incorporate the same themes as the "New Super Mario Bros. U" levels in the same map locations, but the levels aren't just redesigns, they are built from the ground up NEW levels that incorporate the same assets. They are brilliant, in my opinion. Thanks again and I am sorry for writing such a long reply. Keep up the great work!

a Mario fan/player since the NES, all the Mario series is awesome in my opinion!

Thanks for the awesome content as usual! Love ya fam 💪💪

Always look forward to your videos!

The first New game for the DS was a great game, and felt somewhat fresh at the time. But the rest just felt so unimaginative in my opinion.

super mario wonder had me a bit worried as they had stated they had mixed it up it but they did it in top fashion actually... i just can't seem to get into super mario odessy, so i'm glad wonder exists

New Soup outsold Galaxy 3 to 1?!?!?!? 😮😮😮

Nice video as usual mate

I love the puns. You’re amazing!

I still have this game to this day! Great video👍

32:01 I'll never understand people who say "Nintendo did everything they could do with Mario maker 2!!" I honestly believe people who say this have never seen a single rom hack from the kaizo community or never heard of smw central. Nintendo didn't even scratch the surface of what's possible with 2D Mario in Mario Maker 2

19:54 To date I still think SMG2 is the best super mario game so far. Surpassing even Super Mario Bros 3. I did enjoy Odyssey a lot, though. And yes, I loved the first New Super Mario Bros. the best. Even today, without the "finally! we're playing a brand new Mario platformer" hype; the amazing music, the fun mechanics like rotating rooms and mini mushroom puzzles, and the cool, original bosses are still engraved in my mind and I look back at it with a smile. 31:10 Ring Fit did THAT well? LET'S GOOOO! I'm sad I just finished Story mode and its two Extra modes. 32:15 I loved that gesture you did, pretty much what I feel using those terms. Really, we should use the word new only when referring to the real meaning of the word - while "new", in quotations, when talking about the Mario series named that. I know this is for the funny content, but I mean for normal conversations... or just call it Old or Newish. =P Thanks for another magnificent episode! I love that even in a series I know just well, I still learned about a new game: That slot machine one. Seriously, thanks a lot for making this series.

17:45 super guide was added to help out babies and also IGN journalists that at the time called NSMBWii ,quote , "tough, old school tough" in their video review

another really great work

Being a kid in Canada I always got confused at seeing Gameboy “Color” in stores

Great video Daniel! It was very well researched :)

Lived through this

The reason I've never gotten into the Mario series is difficulty. I used to think it's me, but New Super Mario on Wii? NO ONE of the four players could get past the second world. It's just too hard. I'm stuck on the second world of Mario 3 as well. These Mario games are just too hard.

just learning that bumping other characters was to add a competitive element, though we only play cooperatively at my childrens age; i really wish they carried over the ability to pick up and throw players from Wii to Switch. ironically, my kids always ask of 4 player games: will we bump into each other, though?

The first new super Mario Bros game looks fine. It probably just looks bad on emulation because old school games aren't meant to be played on high definition TVs. And that's the only reason why I still keep my giant CRT TV around

I don't exactly get the ignorance that New Super Mario Bros. as a series was ever seen as bad, I thought it was just going to be a throwaway thing in your video but I do feel like it gets brought up so many times in too short of a time and even telling the viewers "stop hating this game" when I don't ever think hate was ever a useful word to describe why this series had so much distaste. It's also just ignorant and confusing to be already using these words with the original DS game, the one that was always referred to as a well-beloved and well respected Mario platformer at the time and even to this day I think it still holds a place in everyone who grew up playing it. TL;DR There wasn't really hate so much as tiredness over the "New" games becoming too mainstay in the series and not enough innovation for each entry. Keep in mind this is NINTENDO we're talking about here so it just feels really weird how future entries in the "New" series harkened back so much to past titles and reiterating on what already exists without so much as changing the art style or adding new playable characters or giving Mario new wacky abilities. It made each future entry really hard to stand out and you notice this even more when you look at U and 2 which not only released on the same exact year but were borderline the same as their prior game console entries with ham-fisted new mechanics and ideas that feel like would've been cooler had they had a higher presence. Mario as a franchise was always about innovation, and making each new experience and game feel totally new and fresh. No two games played too alike one another. So it wasn't common to see Nintendo do this to their star franchise, and again it just didn't *feel* like them at all. It created a rather stagnant and unmoving series for a few years given the 3D entries weren't exactly being released on a regular basis either (over the lifespan of the New series existing we go from Galaxy to Galaxy 2 more or less before getting new 3D entries and as well with Super Mario Maker on top of the soon-to-be Super Mario Bros. Wonder). Still, New Super Mario Bros. was an outstanding entry and was always a game I think was worth going back to as I feel like it also just had the most vibrant and charming aesthetic to it. Something that, again, felt rather stagnant in future entries as they repeated level aesthetics and creating music compositions that felt weaker and less extravagant (or, once again, too derivative of previous entries).

I miss classic wario land though. Puzzle platformers like that are hard to find. It had a good story and a deep system. Especially wario land 3 which really steped it up with a hub world and a metriod esk type of progression. You would gain upgrades that allowed you entry to hard to find locations in game

Added to my watch later list! Looking forward to watching while I do my weekly Sunday paperwork 🤓🤣

We spell color instead of colour because back in the 1700's we charged by the letter in print shops and The UK charged by the word.

I loved all the new series, Im too old fashion, yes the name new is not a well title

Another great complete history. Cheers!

Golf is the best Mario title

Enjoyable video

no bull big guy you got me think about the games line up and it almost made throw up it hurt so bad thinking about it lol

Wow the timing of this upload is impeccable because I just started playing the first one again for the first time on hardware in a good decade. I do agree that all the entries are **technically** good but I'm still pretty firm on my stance that the first two are really all you need. There's no entry before NSMBDS that was like NSMBDS and NSMBWII added absolute loads to the first game's formula as well as having introducing incredibly fun controls my simply just waggling and tilting the Wiimote. The other 2 are paid DLC at best, so I can't blame anyone for talking shit after Wonder shows up and shows actual effort put in compared to previous 2d entries.

I enjoy the New series, but really really hate the control scheme of the Wii and the "BWOMP" sound effect they push into the game.

5:49 but GBC had Super Mario Bros DX

Pokemon is higher profiting than pokemon if you count merchandise and licensing

This video is so superrrr!!!

New Super Mario Bros 2 is really fun i like the coin gimmick 🐢 BAH BAH

Americans spelling colour as color are Brits' canon event

What was up with the McDonalds DS cart inbetween all the Mario carts lol.i had to remind to make sure i saw what i saw😆

I really wish they still made a Super Mario Advance 5, based on Super Mario Bros. 1 and The Lost Levels.

The Gameboy colour had Super Mario Bros Deluxe, which I guess could be considered the precursor to the Super Mario advance series! :)

Color is spelt properly where it matters in the world

Just to give you some perspective Mr DJ Slope (by the way, I love your channel and watch/replay a lot of your content as well as your buddy Larry Bundy Jr... wish he'd come back and make content again...) while the "New" in "New Super Mario Bros" does sound odd to us in the West, there's a logical explanation to why Hiroyuki Kimura ran with it as the title. In Japanese, you always put the "most important parts" or "focus" of the sentence at the beginning. As you stated here 9:08 he felt it was the perfect time, with a new system to introduce the "New" entry. Announcing to their largest install base (Japan) NEW Super Mario Bros is essentially using a catch phase informing the consumer "This is new, you should buy it" in Japan. And hey, even 17 years later, the "stupidness" of the name still makes people talk about it so... you can't say it didn't work lol.

21:00 more 3X population of Portugal

Spandau Ballet !??!?!

If you're reading this you are hotter than the summer heatwave outside.

I remember seeing the commercial for new super Mario Bros 2 when it was new. And when I saw it was all about collecting coins I immediately decided not to buy it. And to this day I have still never played it and hope never to play it

I can tell if it's AI-voiced crap so you rocked it out even if you DID USE AI.

The first DS game was fantastic but the rest were just nothing. Not terrible games, better than wha Sony could muster (indie devs though, woah they could do some great stuff) but still they just lacked the love, care and attention to what we would expect from proper Mario platformer.

The Gameboy Color is not incorrectly spelled, they spelled the word like that because it was aimed at the USA market above the UK. Also the 'u' doesn't make any sense to squish in, neither does the letter c belong, words in English would be more logical if they used correct sounds of letters, for example you wouldn't spell letters as 'leccers' so why not spell color as 'kolor'? English spelling and grammar could have been much more accurate than it is, like the word spelling should be replaced by 'wording'.

Can you look at The History of Sonic The Hedgehog🦔🤖💎

I do like all 4 NSMB games. U being my favorite but I’m glad we’re moving on from the series. The art direction was always weak and generic as far as Mario games go.

2D Mario games are the Best

Quentin Reviews?

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hehe Charlie tuna

The "New" mario games are far worse than the "3D Land/World" and 3D games (64, sunshine, galaxy 1&2, odyssey) the only mario game I've ever hated was NSMBU Deluxe

Ugh, that woman who clearly has never played a video game in her life presenting Mario Bros Wii is so cringey. What was Nintendo thinking???

What is this guy's deal with names?

Oooo

I would like to share something I think is very exciting and interesting if anyone gladly and respectfully accepts. Sorry, but thinking about Mario like this also has me thinking about one of my biggest wishes.

I'm first to love bro. Hahaha! ❤

People complaon but the games sell well

7:11 The original name for Super Mario 64DS was Super Mario 64x4

First, maybe

first

First to like

Americans conquered japan, hence why japan spells color as color aka the correct way.

As a Canadian colour is spelled correctly.