If you’re a fan of games, especially those from Nintendo, you no doubt know the famous plumber Mario. Even if you’re not a fan, there’s also a huge possibility that you’ve already seen the character in the red jumpsuit somewhere.
For decades, Mario has been Nintendo’s poster child. That’s because, in addition to his huge success in the East, the character was responsible for opening Nintendo’s market in the West.
All its fame comes from the first game, the glorious “Super Mario Bros.”, initially released for the Nintendo Entertainment System – the popular “NES”.
The Italian plumber game hit western markets in 1985, along with the NES console, in the United States. For Europe, the console arrived a year later, and Super Mario Bros., two years later, that is, in 1986 and 1987, respectively.
More recently, “Super Mario Bros.” was “re-released” for Switch Online, but there are still many people who enjoy old games and prefer to play them on their original consoles.
Some of these people even use the device as a hobby to create videos for the internet with the contents of these games. So one of those people is TikTok user @RetroGamingOnline.
Internet user discovers ‘trick’ from Super Mario Bros.
This user’s profile has several retro games from the 1980s and 1990s, according to the description provided by the user. In these videos, you can see the user playing on original consoles.
Despite having interesting and enjoyable content for many, the user does not have many views and subscribers. However, everything changed when one of his videos caught the attention of netizens.
In the video in question, the user shows how it is possible to return to the “savepoint” in Super Mario Bros. That is, to go back to where you left off before losing all your “lives”.
It is at this moment that older players ask themselves: but how? Everyone who has played this game knows that as soon as you lose all your lives, you have to go back to zero. So if you’re in world 4-3, for example, you’ll need to start over from world 1-1.
What the player discovered is that by pressing the “A” button and pressing start, you will actually return to the last world you started! So, if he died in 4-3, he will return in 4-1.
Logically, this information shocked many people who played the game, while some others stated that they were already aware of this trick.
The information that this is legitimately possible was not present in any game manual, but it is possible that it was informed through trivia in gaming magazines, as was common at the time.
One way or another, for fans of the game who don’t want to lose all their progress, this is great information. Check out the video posted by user @RetroGamingOnline demonstrating the trick:
video/7154407535921876266" data-video-id="7154407535921876266" data-embed-from="oembed" style="max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;">@retrogamingonline How did I not know this??! #retrogaming #retrogamer #retrogamingontiktok #videogames #nintendo #90skids #nostalgia #retrogames #80p #mario #mariobros #nes
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