Super Mario Advance retrospective: Blighted by voices | Game Boy Works Advance

[@TheLandofObscusion]

"Will I ever finish any of these Works? No." Wow, it hasn't even been half a year, & already Jeremy forgot that he covered the entire Virtual Boy catalog.

[@JeremyParish]

Still haven't done the homebrew episode I promised.

[@magus2342]

@@JeremyParish Bah, you covered the official releases, and mentioned some key in-development games. Anything after that, like homebrew, is just gravy.

[@lamontyaboy718]

Well atleast he's being straight with us lol.

[@BanditTheCatRIP]

@@JeremyParish how many vb Homebrew games exist

[@gaminghistory101]

The realization that the stage lighting at the beginning was to crop the screen to compare screen resolutions just blew my mind. I’ve been playing this game since I was 5 years old and I never made the connection.

[@Slenderquil]

Toad's "JUST WHAT I NEEDED" is the dumbest sound clip I've heard in a game but i love it

[@Pika025]

Just what I needed.

[@blankname3816]

This is as far as you go

[@evilredflame]

Admiral Hyouta Curtiss I’m ready for you THIS TIME...

[@SN64YT]

I'll remember this!

[@HungryHungryDude]

HAHAHA

[@archiemisc]

One cool tidbit you missed about why they included the same Mario Bros game over and over. They were all intercompatible with each other, meaning you didn't need 4 copies of the exact same game to play together with friends.

[@Tirgo69]

"They absolutely will not shut up" is one of my favorite individual Works lines. It's so blunt

[@Foxxy999]

Fun fact: the first time I played this, I got to Wart and began laughing so hard when he said "I AM THE GREAT WART!" that I died

[@brux357]

Y’all know the rules. Drink an entire bottle of gin every time Jeremy mentions Heiankyo Alien.

[@bastardjokemen8518]

Brooks Cannon done

[@yudosai]

Done

[@ryanh9262]

nope

[@akeminakajima449]

Done

[@sammyshehole]

Take a drink every time Toad’s annoying voice says something. While playing the game. RIP.

[@Unquestionable]

GBA was one of my favorite systems of all time, nostalgia playing a big part, so I'm happy to see you tackling it. I really appreciate you turning your passion into something informative and entertaining, every video gives me this warm feeling inside akin to catching up with an old friend.

[@Encyclopedia_Brown97]

I just discovered this channel a few days ago. This video in particular hit me with an incredible wave of nostalgia. A This was the very first game I ever owned for a portable system, as I finally got a Game Boy Advance SP (the model with the frontilit screen RIP) on my ninth birthday after months of begging. I played Super Mario Advance for months and never got close to completing it - I later discovered that Super Mario Advance 2-4 were much more my speed - but it didn’t even matter. The fact that I could be so enraptured with such a simple, gimmickless platformer almost twenty years after its initial release shows how truly timeless Nintendo properties can be at their best.

[@cinnamonnoir2487]

Wow. I wasn't expecting this, but I'm real glad it's a thing. The Game Boy Advance is _basically_ my entire gaming childhood, with a little bit of N64 and Gamecube thrown in. This makes me even _more_ excited for WonderSwan Works.

[@cinnamonnoir2487]

@@grodycoyote *_*Thank You*_* I can't believe I haven't found this before. Christmas is totally coming early for me this year. This basically _is_ WonderSwan Works. I'm just totally taken aback here.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

I can't express how overjoyed I'm that you are covering GBA library. One of my most cherished game system and library.

[@SamuelMcConnell]

Game Boy Works Advance: A Chronological Survey of the NES Library in America?

[@TobyDeshane]

HAHA. Didn't even notice. ;)

[@PepsiGolem]

Funny enough it works as a joke for this episode since it’s a remaster of an NES game.

[@feitclub]

*sees start of brand-new WORKS series* *video immediately mentions Heiankyo Alien I never doubted you would deliver.

[@IceDelight]

Where? I didn't hear it.

[@BenCol]

Brendle 0:33

[@IceDelight]

@@BenCol Oh yeah!

[@brumbogetbrum2714]

I’ve never minded the voices at all. After playing all the Advance Series remakes, playing the originals and/or All-Star versions felt a little lonelier to me. I’ve always really adored the Mario cast’s voices, so that may contribute to why I’m overly blind to the compression in these games.

[@wariolandgoldpiramid]

I never had problems with them either

[@eviltables8510]

Same here

[@crypticbeast1013]

Same

[@zscout1288]

Me either

[@tjh6678]

The voices never even registered as a distraction for me. Though that'll happen if this was the only version of SMB2 you played/owned as a kid...

[@macklinjanice7526]

I had no idea there was all this extra work put into the advance ports! This whole time I genuinely thought they were just Super Mario Allstars ports with a facelift here and there. Neat!

[@duffman18]

Well this was the only one which really upgraded it. SMB 3 they just added new levels if you had the e-reader, and added a few extra slot machine games but that's about it really. Super Mario World is identical to the SNES version from what I can see (decided to play it and beat it recently cos I'm used to the SNES version). But SMB 2 advance? Yeah they added a ton of stuff to this, and I regard it as the best version despite screen crunch.

[@FloatingSunfish]

@@duffman18 I think one of the biggest differences for Super Mario World on the GBA is that they gave Luigi the hover jump like the one he had in SMB2.

[@duffman18]

@@FloatingSunfish I remember in SMB 3 advance as well I absolutely hated Luigi as a kid, cos he was so much more slippery. He could jump higher but it was harder to do precise platforming with him. So yeah making the different characters unique in the games other than SMB 2 which had it anyway, that's a definite difference

[@KuraIthys]

GBA Super Mario world added Yoshi coins. It's not a major change, but it gives you something extra to do...

[@duffman18]

@@KuraIthys yoshi coins were in the SNES super mario world. Or do you mean the thing where if you collect them all, the title screen changes and you see a massive pile of coins?

[@expendableindigo9639]

"I can't exactly make a living doing this." It's a shame, you put more work into these than many KZbinrs who do!

[@4040bsc]

Bless you for including that quick snippet of Heiankyo Alien. Somewhere, the retronauts east crew are smiling.

[@randmiller88]

Thanks for digging into this! "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!" "Ee-yah!"

[@M0rshu64]

ReviewTechUSA Sent me. He told me what you do and your videos seem like the kind I can listen to while I work in the back ground. You're perfect, I just subscribed to you.

[@DeepWeeb]

Can't wait next month to see the first episode of "DS Works".

[@Poever]

I’m still waiting

[@Metalwario64]

The ability to control your jumps in Mario Bros. was first added to the FDS version called Kaettekita Mario Bros., and later the European version of Mario Bros on NES from 1993.

[@Specter227]

Color TV Game 6 Works is coming any second now (feel free to use that idea for an April Fools video or something).

[@SlyBeast]

I love this version of the game, scratchy voices & all!

[@SonofMrPeanut]

As someone who was 12 at the time and hadn't played 2 before then, Advance served as a great introduction to the game. I did have to turn the volume down when my parents were around (the voices).

[@keaton5101]

played this game as a kid and the voices was awrsome. i feel like feelings about the gba's sound system are extremely subjective because personally i love the crunch and i love the compressed instruments

[@mariowario5945]

I thought I was the only one who noticed the resolution bragging in the beginning of the game. Awesome video!

[@Sly88Frye]

It's actually quite interesting to see a retrospective on this game. Also your narration is really top-notch

[@WaddleDee105]

Cool to see a new series! I owned a Gameboy Advance and it was my first handheld but only got it in early 2005. By the end of 2005, I got a DS so I never used the GBA much outside of the Sonic Advance Trilogy and a few Mario and Kirby games.

[@grodycoyote]

Nice, these gameboy advance ports were my first introduction to the 8 and 16 bit nintendo games. Looking forward to the super Mario advance 4 video, I remember enjoying those e-reader levels and being baffled as a kid when I couldn't find any new cards

[@MAYOFORCE]

Was excited to see this, the GBA is one of my favorite systems but I didn't think you'd start it so quickly. I didn't think the voices were that bad when I played SMA at the time, but I could see how others can hate it now.

[@TeruteruBozusama]

And they aren't that frequent in SMW, right?

[@grodycoyote]

I don't remember caring too much because I was a kid

[@kasahimawari7881]

@@TeruteruBozusama Yeah

[@TeruteruBozusama]

@@kasahimawari7881 thought so, some on a forum I was at when I was younger said the sound clips in the GBA versions were "Soo annoying" but I remember them being quite cheesy but not outright annoying..!

[@arekusu.]

I personally loved the voices. To me they made the characters seem more lively...but then again I mained Luigi who had the least annoying voice!

[@megamaniscoolrightguys2749]

I unfortunately never got to play the game, but I LOVE the voices!! 😂 Probably one of my favorite aspects of this game; the other being how unique and whimsical is looks & plays like compared to almost every single Mario game.

[@ethanlaborde]

As someone who grew up playing the GBA, I'm really looking forward to the rest of this series.

[@rooty]

Cannot wait for Circle of the Moon, one of the best launch games ever.

[@michaeljdolan8050]

Circle of the Moon got a lot of shade, especially in retrospect once Aria and Harmony were out, but it's my favourite one.

[@bland9876]

@@michaeljdolan8050 harmony ewwww

[@fissilewhistle]

First Name Last Name Harmony was a perfectly okay game.

[@bland9876]

@@fissilewhistle I played both circle of the Moon and the of Sorrow games before I played Harmony and I had more fun playing the other 3

[@fissilewhistle]

First Name Last Name Good for you. I never said Harmony of Dissonance was the best, or even that it was great. I just said it was a fine game.

[@obsidianchao]

Oh boy oh boy, GBA WORKS?! Woo! I had no idea there was a Satellaview version of SMB2 that they based what looks like most of the graphics off of - I always thought Advance was completely rebuilt. Super interesting video!

[@chriskingsborough4879]

I'm an oddball but I love the voices as it adds a feel of excitement. I'm working on a modded dr mario arcade 1up cabinet only for emulation and this is definitely on my list.. just the color restoration mod is being added

[@corvettez06usa]

They had a hard on for putting voices in remakes on the GBA. To this day I get really worked up thinking about them putting in Link's voice from Ocarina into the Link to the Past port. No idea why.

[@GameOnRadio1]

YES!!!!! My very first handheld system (even though I was a big gamer and in college at the time) handhelds never appealed to me until my then girl friend brought this for me on my bday the year the Gsmeboy Advance was released. I love this system!!!

[@ajm2748]

Fantastic work as always! Been a huge fan since the 1up days and been listening to the retronauts podcast hope you make it thru all the works series 💯

[@lucasm.thomas5976]

GBA Works? “Yippee! Woohoo! Let’s-a go!”

[@justinkeena6617]

Really glad to see the GBA get the Works treatment! Love the insightful, critical, even scholarly commentary.

[@meowth900]

Was linked here from another KZbin video. You have a nice voice and good editing or production values (idk what to call it lol) so I’m gonna stick around and hope u complete this big GBA backlog. The GBA was my childhood Nintendo console even if it was a handheld 😂

[@gallowaygaming75]

Love the mario handheld line up on all Gameboy systems think I have most of them now so this was a great video for me

[@randomdude4769]

Came here from ReviewTechUSA, wasn't disappointed. Nice video, I hope to see more great content in the future

[@MyBenjamin73]

I loved the added voices in Super Mario World, and DKC

[@rowtow13]

I'm glad these Works series are the work you enjoy doing most, because I definitely enjoy watching them. I can't think of anyone I'd trust more to do a Chrongaming series. Or, like, half a dozen Chrongaming series'.

[@JeremyParish]

Thanks! You should still listen to Retronauts, though! I also love creating that.

[@starsroof_1633]

great video! insane production value.

[@CactusJack]

I have faith you can finish! NEVER GIVE UP MISTER PARISH!!!!

[@FloatingSunfish]

I remember being in 5th grade and looking at the GBA thinking, "Oh, it's just a GBC, but *_wider._* " I didn't know how Advanced it actually was. 😂

[@TeruteruBozusama]

I thought I didn't need it as the original model hurts my hands, so when I saw SP a wonderful day I begged my mother for it..!

[@briankiser3227]

Jeremy I want say you are the best to ever do this. Your video editing ( chef's kiss) , you in depth details on the minutia where often missed by my while playing these games every day after school, your delivery , all is second to noon. I would love to these turned into an Amazon series.

[@ELSTINKO.]

This channel rocks, definitely staying tuned for future videos.

[@paulojoffily7444]

Love the GBA (especially Micro) and its amazing library. Keep those videos coming!

[@jasonblalock4429]

The Micro was an amazing little system; it's a shame more people didn't like it. One kept me sane for years at a call center job.

[@FloatingSunfish]

Can't wait for Wario Land 4! I *_think_* that was released early in the GBA's life cycle... Anyway, it's the closest we'll get to a Wario Land restrospective for now and I'm so looking forward to it!

[@hinodedl]

Did you miss the Wario Land 2 episode of GBC Works?

[@FloatingSunfish]

@@hinodedl Oh yeah, he did make that one recently! Sorry, my memory isn't what it used to be. 😅

[@Poever]

He’ll have to slog through a number of other games first

[@djhabibi04]

Here from ReviewTech USA! Although, your voice is familiar, sure I musta seen your vids/colaba you have done before. Liking this so far, looking forward to going thru ur backlog!

[@kemy6775]

Now I finally know why it had a square at the intro screen 😂 you learn something new every day.

[@cracked5826]

Rich sent me here and I regret nothing. You're just as good as he said you are keep up the great work

[@MrMegaManFan]

“Blighted” is the right word. This was the first GBA game I bought after my Advance and I was like ugh MARIO SHUT UP. Hearing his voice added to this game was JUST WHAT I (NEVER) NEEDED.

[@cinnamonnoir2487]

Not to mention Toad's voice sounds like a crow screeching directly into your eardrum.

[@as534u]

Sent by Rich at ReviewTech. Staying for the amazing content.

[@TateS26]

Me too!

[@RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS77]

If you're truly doing every handheld I'm excited to hear about Game Gear

[@turron83]

Nice, already looking up for the next chapter

[@aman1632]

You finished Virtuoboy! Keep at it dude. I hope making these is better than an office gig. I've been recommending your channel to whoever will listen.

[@7thangelad586]

Being the unmovable elder that I am, I still remain adamant that the GBA is my favorite handheld and won’t be convinced otherwise. Even the confusingly endearingly ambiguous renaming of the Mario titles won’t deter me: now I’m waiting for you to cover New Super Wario Bros Advance 3 Deluxe Yoshi’s Island 2 -X- -Or Minish Cap.

[@AlessandroCussino]

I LOVE this series "Game Boy Works Advance" ! Please keep going on (^_^) P.S. If you also talk about some TRUE 3D GBA games (among the other arguments) i think i could potentially die of joy !

[@TravisPilgrim]

Another great video. Really digging the love for handheld consoles

[@HybridAngelZero]

I'm actually surprised and pretty excited for this, I wasn't expecting you to cover GBA! And Circle of the Moon is next! Awesome :D

[@littleterr0r]

Toad is TOADally my favorite character as well. What? It's no worse a pun than the one at the end of Gaming Historian's latest video.

[@NickBurnham1]

Great episode! I remember playing the crap out of this game as a kid. I even played a lot of the Mario Bros. multiplayer mode with my brother and my cousin. The graphics and sounds were so impressive to me at the time. Looking at it now though, a lot of the "additions" to the gameplay do seem pretty superficial. I like that way of framing the GBA as a weird mix of old and new. So many games were ports or sequels, maybe Golden Sun was the only unique experience I had on the system.

[@tinyguy9398]

Prince Peach, (née / nay) Toadstool. It would not be a Jeremy Parish video without a clever disguised pun. Also, you have a pretty chill / relaxing voice. Love listening to your videos at the end of a hectic day!

[@physicskid]

LOL. Around 9:08 when you said "Oh gawd the voices" I too said the EXACT same statement at that same moment. Around this time when I played this game it dawned upon me that game companies like to re-hash their old products whether that's for nostalgia or whatever reason. Either way the experience I take is to pick and choose what I spend my money on.

[@MissAshley42]

One day I should sit down and play all of the enhanced Mario remakes. I skipped out on all of them because I didn't realize just how much extra stuff was added.

[@chanceaaronblack2792]

Thank you for makin' and puttin' this out there, it is a buncha fun to watch!

[@OldmanJables]

Happy to see you trying your hand at GBA works! The system is a heck of a handheld that means a lot to me and I'm sure many others.

[@Kevinfreddo]

Super Mario advance was the first Mario game I ever owned, and I hold it very dear to my heart. The voices are pretty funny imo and I wouldn’t change it, but I can see why some people would think it’s stupid.

[@nidoqueenadvance6798]

I am glad to see that you are gonna start covering gba games. While I do agree that it is quite debatable if this is the best version of smb 2. I do think that of the super mario advance ports, this is the one that is really worth playing because of all the unique changes. The other advance ports for better or for worse stick closer to the original snes versions.

[@ElliotGindiVO]

The voices were the best part though!!

[@robhulson]

Would sure love a review of Golden Sun. I never got SMA, I thought it was just the All Stars release with voices. Thanks for showing the differences. Also, Toad sounded best in the first Mario Party.

[@JeremyParish]

I'm not going to lie... fans of Golden Sun will not enjoy my retrospective.

[@robhulson]

But...but... the _music_ ... I only played the first one. Found the Djinn system to be counterintuitive to make it effective (always disabling them on the map screen to enable a summon right off the bat). Found some of the necessary Psy abilities (like Grow) to be inadequately explained. Hated the FFI style of “If a character is set to attack an enemy that is killed by another character with higher agility, _their turn is wasted.”_ But I still found it charming.

[@RobinZeg]

This version of SMB 2 is very nostalgic for me.

[@ganggreen1983]

I really like this version. So much fun.

[@SlackerKite]

I guess this game was...just what I needed today.

[@drmayday0015]

This game reminds me of my brother. He was also blighted by voices! lol

[@PKSandman]

Now we're getting into something that I'm very familiar with. I bought my Game Boy Advance in July 2001 since I had enough money left over after a massive religious gathering in Atlanta. The day I got it, I bought the see-through purple GBA (Glacier) along with the next game coming up for GBA Works (Circle of the Moon), Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2, and Rayman Advance. That time brings back good memories.

[@Reoko77]

A new Jeremy Parish Vid? AND its a new segment?? *JUS WHATAH NEEDED!!*

[@apanapane]

I had just assumed that it was a 16-bit port. Didn't know they'd added gameplay elements.

[@cmurder89]

Unfortunately can't forget Kohler's Toad impression when this game was brought up on Retronauts years ago

[@Left-Earth]

Another Excellent Video 👌 Keep up the great work! 😄🎮

[@Caolan114]

"Lucky!" "Just what i needed!"

[@strumdynasty3050]

“Will I ever finish any of these works?” “THIS IS A FAR AS YOU GO!” DATDATDAT DATDATDAT DATDAT DATDATDAT...

[@BenCol]

Love these videos - Wednesday’s fast becoming my favourite day of the working week. Even better when it’s a week when the new ‘Private Eye’ is delivered.

[@doomstalk]

A friend of mine used to insist that Mario was screaming "F*** me, ninja!" rather than "Mama mia!"

[@travezripley]

JEREMY!!! I love you man! You did it again!

[@youtubed3951]

the first advance game I bought. I played the holy hell out of it too, despite already have played SMAS years prior. The minor additions and changes were nice, though.

[@niespeludo]

Love this series man. Nice to see you cover the GBA, I did get to live all of it as a geek and I have quite an amount of knowledge on it. Will love this new series and will love the next episode, that game was important for so many reasons...

[@williammcguire130]

"the early days are the most interesting anyway" Except with the Super Nintendo whose life was a legit three act play with an epilogue.

[@Ollision]

Great game, but it still baffles me how the GBA didn't see one original Mario platformer, just ports/remakes left and right.

[@Poever]

They had forgotten how to make a proper 2D Mario at EAD, and R&D1 had taken the mantle with the Wario Land series, so it took these ports for them to relearn from their past

[@SpinyPuffs]

@@Poever Are you sure that's true

[@Poever]

Kenny M. It’s plausible. With EAD, they hadn’t made a side-scrolling platformer since Yoshi’s Island. The Mario Advance series was co-developed by Tose

[@SatoshiMatrix1]

I have a huge amount of nostalgia for the GBA. It was the very first platform I ever bought directly on launch day, not several months later after I had saved up enough. I poured over the launch titles, thinking hard about which title I would get day 1 with it...and Mario Advance was _not_ a title I went with. I already owned Mario 2 on NES, and again on SNES via Super Mario All-Stars. Spending my limited income as a teenager on Mario 2 seemed like an utter waste. So instead, my day one GBA purchase along with the system itself was F-Zero Maximum Velocity. I loved F-Zero on SNES and felt right at home with this new one. No racing game had ever ran so smoothly and fast on a handheld. It was truly impressive stuff for the time.

[@JeremyParish]

GBA was where I really got my proper start as a professional games writer, so a lot of love will be going into this series.

[@spark7620]

Super Mario advanced was my first gba video game. Such great memories

[@maxchasemusic2787]

Thanks Jeremy, looking forward to more GBA Works videos, and thank you for your all your hard work!

[@kingraisin]

was sooooo stoked when i saw this video pop up, and as always, i was NOT disappointed! 🏆

[@tamboyistheman]

Thank you for doing this!