Top 5 Worlds in Super Mario Bros 3

I’m taking it back to the early 90s, to one of the great video games of all time. After the radically different Super Mario 2, the third game was more like the first but on a grander scale. The 8 worlds had their own themes, which makes for convenient ranking.

5. Ice Land – World 6

It was slippery, I think.

4. Pipe Land - World 7

This one had the level where you could get extra lives until the power went out by turning the huge castle of blocks into a coin machine. Quite handy given the difficulties ahead.

3. Big Island - World 4

A brilliant idea. Those goombas weren’t so little.

2. Sky Land - World 5

I was always a sucker for the “platform” type levels where you had to jump form place to place.

1. Dark Land - World 8

Arguably the greatest “level” in the history of video games. It had 3 stand-out stages: the flying ship that forced you to make a series of difficult jumps without hesitation or mistake, the mini-fortress where you could use the doors to switch “dimensions”, and the final castle. Just a fantastic pay-off after hours of gameplay.