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[A Black Falcon]

I thought level design was fine, Mario Land 1 may not be graphically all that nice but the gameplay's just as good (more important!), and IMO it just wasn't much less fun...

Were either of them (or the very similar Wario Land 1) as good as any of the NES or SNES games? No, I'd say probably not. But they are solid games...

Though I would say that Wario Land 1 is better than either of the previous SML games, for sure, the two SML games ARE good games. Sure SML doesn't match SMB and SML2 SMB3 or SMW... but given the limitations of the GB I'd say its quite successful.

Now if only those games had been as long as the NES/SNES games they'd be better... their shortness does really hurt. Wario Land was quite short too (over 40 levels but it sure didn't take long to get through...), but I spent a lot of time on that one trying to get all the treasures and max out the score at the end... added a lot of life to the game. And that last ending was worth it! :)

Look. Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is probably my favorite GB platformer. After that, though, would come Wario Land and Kirby's Dream Land 2...

The other best GB games, IMO, would be the three Zelda games, Bionic Commando: Elite Forces (I loved that game! I think I played it through 3 or 4 times... one after another...), Final Fantasy Adventure, and a few others... probably including Micro Machines.