People who struggle with the original Super Mario Bros. can now easily finish the game, as an old game over trick has been blowing people's minds on the Internet. Super Mario Bros. is one of the best-selling video games of all time and Nintendo has made sure to keep the game in the hands of fans through services like the Nintendo Switch Online app or the Virtual Console.
Nintendo has been producing popular games since the '80s, but many of them had secrets that went undiscovered for decades. It took thirty years for a secret in Punch-Out!! to be revealed, as a bearded man in the audience moves at the exact right time that the player needs to punch, in order to knock out Piston Honda or Bald Bull. The Super Mario Bros. series is no stranger to secrets, as it was recently discovered that the fire animation in Super Mario 64 is glitched and it took fans twenty years to notice.
There is a little-known trick in the original Super Mario Bros. that lets players resume from the same world that they died in, which many fans are only hearing about now for the first time. Nintendo Life reported on the trick, which led to shocked reactions from gamers around the world, who were unaware that it was possible to cheat death in Super Mario Bros.
In order to perform the trick, the player needs to die on any world after the first one in Super Mario Bros. If the player dies, they can restart at the first stage of the world they died on by inputting a button combination. Once the game over screen ends and the player returns to the main title, they can press A and Start together to return to the world they died on with three lives. The easiest way to try this trick out is by firing up Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Switch Online NES app, even though it's not needed there, as the game has save states. The trick doesn't work in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, but it's unnecessary, as the game has infinite continues, which is about as merciful as it gets.
There are still many people playing Super Mario Bros. to this day, as it's one of the most significant titles in the history of video games. The speedrun record for Super Mario Bros. keeps being broken by players who have mastered every element of the game, with people fighting to carve another tenth of a second off the record. Super Mario Bros. may have been surpassed by its superior sequels in terms of quality, but people adore for the game for its historical value, as well as the fact that it's still fun to play after all of these years.
Source: Nintendo Life