History WMG / SuperMarioBros3

* The title screen is a more proper opening reminiscient of a movie opening or (in more recent times) a DVD's main menu, complete with more developed backgrounds and even music![[note]]Even though the Super NES versions of SMB1, and The Lost Levels also play music during their attract modes.[[/note]]

** By the time you've reached this level, you've gotten a taste of success from beating the first world. You're more confident. This feeling is to SMB3 as "growing up" is to real life. However, at the same time, puberty, getting into the higher grades in school, and going to middle school and high school, are often considered tiring and overwhelming, not unlike going through a... desert. We could say that the Angry Sun represents puberty or something, or perhaps that level is like getting your driver's license. Also, in this part of life, you get less "shortcuts," and this is also where they run out. The frog suit you can get at the end of this world represents getting a part-time job: you make a little extra money and it makes the next part of your life a little easier.

[[WMG: The themes of the different Worlds represent different phases of a human lifetime, presented as separate decades.]]

[[WMG: The game isn't really just a stage play as Miyamoto "confims"]]

--> If you're familiar with things like Popeye and some of the old comic characters, you would oftentimes see this cast of characters that takes on different roles depending on the comic or cartoon. They might be businessman in one [cartoon] or a pirate in another. Depending on the story that was being told, they would change roles. So, to a certain degree, I look at our characters in a similar way and feel that they can take on different roles in different games. It's more like they're one big family, or maybe a troupe of actors.

[[WMG: There is a reference to Metroid in Mario 3]]
Similar to the Warp Whistle being a reference to the Legend of Zelda, the fact that Super Mario flips when he jumps while invincible, could be a reference to the Screw Attack from Metroid 1.

* [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOO!]] [[TVTropesRuinedYourLife This damned place just ruined my childhood!]]

--> If you're familiar with things like Popeye and some of the old comic characters, you would oftentimes see this cast of characters that takes on different roles depending on the comic or cartoon. They might be businessman in one [cartoon] or a pirate in another. Depending on the story that was being told, they would change roles. So, to a certain degree, I look at our characters in a similar way and feel that they can take on different roles in different games. It's more like they're one big family, or maybe a troupe of actors.

* The backdrops project shadows [[YouFailPhysicsForever on what is supposed to be thin air!!!]]

** Other Mario games represent reincarnation. The first two Mario games are past lives. The levels and situations are different, but if you remember enough from these past lives the forgotten skills may help you in this one. Later Mario games become more complex and vivid as your soul develops over time. After having lived through enough lives you become smarter and more GenreSavvy, but that doesn't mean there aren't still challenges along the way.

If Miyamoto had intended this idea since the beginning, he would have gone more in-depth about it. Sounds like he was simply trying to please fans over an obnoxiously popular theory/meme (rather than alienating them). The actual idea is that the Mario universe is quite expansive, fueled by the vast imagination of the creator. There are still much bigger mysteries in the franchise, rather than reducing one of the biggest series-defining adventures (that even tied-in with Film/TheWizard) to mere lie: a ficticious stage play.

** Other Mario games represent reincarnation. The first two Mario games are past lives. The levels and situations are different, but if you remember enough from these past lives the forgotten skills may help you in this one. Later Mario games become more complex and vivid as your soul develops over time. After having lived through enough lives you become smarter and more GenreSavvy, but that doesn't mean there aren't still challenges along the way.

* And when "Bowser" is finally "killed", the rescue sequence at the end, as well as the credits, all reek of the producers saying [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Screw this five ways with a lead pipe, we're going home!"]] Pay especially close attention to World 4: Boss Bass is shown in the credits despite not being seen once in that world!

Now let's look at the Super NES version's changes:

* The title screen is a more proper opening reminiscient of a movie opening or DVD's main menu, complete with more developed backgrounds and even music!

Conclusion? The Super NES version actually came before the original NES.

* And when "Bowser" is finally "killed", the rescue sequence at the end, as well as the credits, all reek of the producers saying "fuck this shit five ways with a lead pipe; we're going home!" Pay especially close attention to World 4: Boss Bass is shown in the credits despite not being seen once in that world!
* Another dead giveaway: when he gets a Fire Flower, "Mario" turns orange. The producers apparently blew through so much of their budget that they couldn't afford the trademark red shirt on white overalls.

** Now you're ''really'' old. You're going to have to go back and beat Bowser. The use of this in the game as a Warp Zone doesn't really represent anything, but the idea of it as a "World 9" that contains nothing but gateways to other worlds suggests the idea that when you get this old, you're going to spend quite a bit of time just remembering the old days, whatever memories they may hold, or "revisiting" them if you will. Telling stories to your grandchildren and such.

** It happens. [[http://tinypic.com?ref=qn928i Behold.]]

** This is, of course, the easiest world, the one you start on, and the one everybody's been to. Turning on the NES is conception, the title screen is pregnancy, and pressing start is birth. You go out on you're own even though you're in essentially no danger, but it can still be a challenge for new players. That said, this will often be the only World young children see. Lucky children will have chances at shortcuts in life (whistles).

** Hopefully you got that part-time job. I mean, frog suit. This world could represent going to college or starting a career: you're on your own and it's the first level that takes more than like five minutes to get to, because World 2 isn't as easy as World 1. You're also getting some suits for the first time, which represent adult responsibilities (like the "part-time job" frog suit). The level is "Water Land" because even though only two or three levels there are underwater, they're the parts of your young adult life that go more "swimmingly" and what you want to remember the most. The bridges in the later part of the level could represent one's desire to be done with college. And the boat that takes you to a few islands with Toad houses and minigames could represent you going out and indulging in whatever pleasures you want since you're going out without any supervision and aren't a kid/teenager anymore. Also, that big fish Big Bertha could represent some annoying bitch that you have as a boss or college professor who screws you over all the time.

** By the time you've reached this level, you've gotten a taste of success from beating the first world. You're more confident. This feeling is to SMB3 as "growing up" is to real life. However, at the same time, puberty, getting into the higher grades in school, and going to middle school and high school and college, are often considered tiring and overwhelming, not unlike going through a... desert. We could say that the Angry Sun represents puberty or something. Also, in this part of life, you get less "shortcuts," and this is also where they run out. The frog suit you can get at the end of this world represents getting a part-time job: you make a little extra money and it makes the next part of your life a little easier.

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* World 9: Warp Zone (ages 80+)

* [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOO!]] [[TVTropesRuinedYourLife This damned place just ruined my childhood!]]

*Was this by the same company that did ''PaperMario''?