I'm about 18 years late on this one, but I feel like writing a SMB 3 review since I pulled out Super Mario All-Stars for the super nintendo and kept it old school two nights ago. 

 

Like I said prior, Super Mario Brothers three is one of the best  of all Mario games and by far, the best Mario game to come out the the original NES. It's not just that it displayed the best graphics that NES had to offer, but was also the 1st game in which Racoon Mario made it's debut in Video Games which added so much to the game.

 

Racoon Mario is by far my favorite Mario suit, followed closely by frog suit Mario and flower power mario. Nothing beats putting on Racoon ears and a racoon tail and somehow making you able to fly when you get enough speed.  I remember running back and forth across the screen just so you can gain enough speed that you'd be able to fly across a certain ditch or fly over a pipe that had one of those plant monsters which always seemed to pop out just as you were jumping over it. But not only were you able to fly, you could also use the tail to whip people and knock them down. I'll call it the rapid racoon spin. This was great to take out those annoying walking turtle skeletons that would always come back to life if you were to merely jump on them. Sure all their bones would be crushed, but they always pulled themselves back together and sneak up behind you if you weren't careful. One rapid racoon spin took care of that as it would knock that pesky turtle skeleton off the screen.

 

But why else would I consider SMB 3 to be the best? Well, bosses were a lot more interesting to fight. No longer were we just supposed to run under a giant King Koopa and hit the switch that opened the bridge which made him fall into a pit of lava, or you jump on top of an egg that would shoot out of a dinosaurs mouth where you would have to pick it up and throw it back. Instead you would have a battle with the Koopa Kids where you would actually have to use some skill timing their jumps or avioding their magic wand attack. These boss battles were the best.