Released in 1989, Super Mario Land was one of the first games released for Game Boy (the good old fat one). This game is an anomaly in the Mario series. Instead of rescuing Princess Peach, you rescue Princess Daisy; and for some reason the main villain isn't Bowser, it's some random alien named Tatanga. These bizarre changes make the game look more like a fever dream than an actual Mario game.
Best time: 0:14:25 by Martin Hauer on 2006-06-02.
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Author's comments:
History of the run: I decided to run this game, cause it was one of my very favourites in my childhood and still is. When first visiting SDA I could not believe this run was missing...so I tried myself ;)
Time spent: I began training in November 2005. It took me 2 weekends of practice. Afterwards I did 2 weekends of recording, without success. In late December I had to give up due to lack of time. In May 2006 I finally tried again and succeeded on the second day of recording. Summed up I trained and planned for 2 weekends and recorded for 3 weekends resulting in little more then 10 hours of recorded material :)
Comments on the run:
I don't think there are any mistakes worth mentioning in these stages.
One or two seconds to save in 2-1. I failed the first jump out of the "blockcage" at the end.
Second stage went just fine. Funnily enough I get hit in the submarine-stage... OUCH!
In 3-1 you could run over one of the spike-pits when SuperMario. I didn't do so in fear of 3-2, the hardest stage of all in my opinion. The spidercave itslef went quite well. Some seconds to save by running over the spikes again though. In 3-3 the worst mistakes off all occured: when jumping from one of the moving platforms to another my finger slipped and I nearly crashed. Therefore I had to wait two or three second for the platform to come back. This made me that nervous that I missed the hidden box right afterwards. The rest of the stage went quite decent.
In 4-1 I get hit once due to stupidly bouncing of an enemy. All in all I'm a little too cautious.
The first half of 4-2 is really smooth while the second half could be several seconds faster. I acted far too cautious again. In 4-3 I get hit again because I forgot to shoot the box with the star in it and get nervous again... (funny to watch though ;) )
In the boss fight I get hit another time because I picked the wrong distance to the enemey which forces me to fight him from a distance... four or five seconds to save here.
All in all I'm quite pleased with this run though it's far from being free of mistakes. Maybe I'll try again if someone beats my time ;)
-Haui