5 Must-See Super Mario Bros Clones!

[@itsgruz]

Wanted to shine light on some fan made Super Mario Bros creations! Hope you enjoy it! 😁👍

[@choonweichan4600]

Gotta comment

[@mauriceblackwell8539]

Download link

[@DanielMartins350]

Como que baixa

[@nimaiiikun]

had Mario crossover been released during the NES days, it would have sold like crazy! the Atari clone is really impressive.

[@blackmesacake5361]

Its crazy what people with no payment incentive can do on these consoles just for fun

[@MrVariant]

Yep dragon quest + is better than the lame switch remake that didn't even animate the monsters (let alone ff pixel remasters overhauled the ff games with boost, which improved ff2 vastly for ultima with double shield attacks and ff1 non white mage/fighter parties). At least with Mario, Nintendo does a good job in general, even if I'm a bit disappointed with odyssey (unsuitable power moon celebrations get repetitive let alone locked to worlds) and super mario rpg (too easy and then difficulty spike with special enemies I made a vid of). Then of course today with people using high resource games and have no idea why the switch version has performance problems lol. Vid shows these guys respected their systems' limitations, which some do today fortunately.

[@fuzzywzhe]

Lot easier to write these games today with modern tools. The constraints back then was limited memory, and limited sprites, as well as compute speed. What would take weeks or months to slog through in 1980 takes a day today. Artwork is what slows people down mostly, but you can rip that off at will if you're just duplicating or augmenting and earlier game.

[@lowfurts]

You want fun? They'll show you fun!

[@thefonzkiss]

Are these “clones” in the traditional sense? Clones are typically ripoffs that have been changed a little to try to escape copyright. Eg Great Giana Sisters for Amiga. These mostly aren’t clones they’re homebrews.

[@cappantwan2978]

“Classics from the 2010s” made my bones slowly crumble from age.

[@Walid-mk4jo]

Made me crumble even more 😭

[@rawtrout007]

Bro how are you still alive if you remember the 2010s💀

[@elijah44gd79]

@@rawtrout007 the 2010s are a time period between 2010-2019, and it ended with 2020. if you weren't alive in the 2010s then that means you are less than 4 years old.

[@bob-the-minion-da-real]

​@@rawtrout007"you stupid"

[@RosyTheRed]

I think calling these clones wouldn't be doing them justice.

[@iputsoapondabutter]

i really want a remake for mario crossover because it has so much potential with characters alone. Add my man yumetaro

[@Bro-cx2jc]

What if the whole Smash roster was in there lmao

[@pikajade]

and give him back his soundtrack from that demon prince dude. down with the monarchy up with the silly little plushie guy

[@aclstudios]

@@Bro-cx2jcThey did that already, it's called Melee's Adventure Mode.

[@Bro-cx2jc]

@@aclstudios Good God, has Scoop done a video on that?! If not, I hope he does!

[@ActualDavis]

I'm shocked you didn't even bring up Super Mario Bros. X, It came way before Mario Maker and is a much more robust level editor with years of level competitions to provide a near-endless amount of quality fan-made content. It's not as user friendly as Mario Maker but the custom graphics and programming you can do more than make up for it.

[@stick101x2]

Well this video seems to be exclusively focused on games based off of SMB1, and SMBX is more based off of SMB3

[@coach7304]

​@@stick101x2I subscribed to your KZbin channel

[@ActualDavis]

@@stick101x2Yeah that is true upon retrospect, I do hope that SMBX gets it's own video at some point since it's pretty much been erased from the public conscious at this point.

[@legoboy7107]

And it was made by the same guy who made Terraria.

[@boxthememeguy]

​@@legoboy7107this is true

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

I used to play Super Bros crossover alot And also full screen Mario And Mari0 too and there's lots of cool mods for the game

[@fudgiecatdx]

did you know that there's a more modern version of mari0 called alesan's entities that has much more features and an active community? you should check it out if you liked the original, and i think more light needs to be shown on it.

[@mintrananas]

it's pretty cool lol, i'm also porting the vvvvvv + portals mod to it aswell in the form of a mappack.

[@RodrySpaghetti]

They Aren't Clones, They Are Masterpieces

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

Agree

[@Mimic-thegamer]

@@Jelly_shy_guy_manI see you everywhere

[@midi_feline]

It's not a mistake, it's a masterpiece

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

@@midi_feline NOOO NOT AGAIN

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

@@Mimic-thegamer I’m not a bot I just watch a lot of KZbin this is no joke

[@Nbrother1607]

3:26 the score is negative because pico-8 uses signed 16-bit integers (-32768 to 32767) so the score went over 32767 and it overflowed

[@MotherKojiro]

You reminded me that I need to hop on Flashpoint and archive Super Mario Crossover; thanks! The rest of these look absolutely incredible, too; I can't believe the Atari game plays on actual hardware looking that good!

[@MohammedShabib-bv7oy]

3:59 I find it funny that Bowser just popped up when he said "Web Browser"

[@BalancedSpirit79]

The Intellivision port is phenomenal also.

[@Bro-cx2jc]

There was also a Windows XP compatible program called Super Mario Bros Game & Builder which ran on Java, and it was basically Super Mario Maker before that was ever even imagined.

[@themadscarecrow288]

i was obsessed with super mario crossover v3

[@istrasci]

Playing Super Mario Crossover with Bill from Contra and getting the spread gun was the ultimate destruction!!

[@MausAgain80]

To be fair, the Atari 2600 could show 128 colors, the NES had only 32. The advantage of the NES was tile-based graphics.

[@Riz2336]

That's amazing how creative people get with that old game

[@scrubsandwich1050]

Glad to see some pico8 representation!

[@zigazav1]

btw, level mods aren't the only mods for Mari0 (the Portal+SMB1 mashup fangames), there's mod characters to put into the game too, though mod characters tend to not really work with the effects of powerups in SMB1.

[@f.k.b.16]

I don't know why but you are hilarious! I crack up watching your stuff. I guess you maintained that childlike adventurous spirit many of us have lost.

[@robertpucovsky]

I played Mari0 and SMB Crossover years ago and oh man the nostalgia! It was mostly me trying to play the original SMB on a browser but finding these gems along the way

[@MarioFan171]

I used to play Mari0, since the early ages of my channel

[@zigazav1]

About Super Mario Crossover, it used to have more playable characters than shown here, like I think, the avatars of the Super Famicom Satellaview (Or however you spell it) for example, but I think they got axed. Now we have less characters to play as, for some reason. I could easily though just be spouting from false memories I have, as I make them sometimes, on accident

[@justtrolin]

was dissapointed to learn there is no bionic commando option.

[@cobrag0318]

The Atari 2600 may have lacked graphical resolution, and number of sprites, but it did not lack in pallet. It could display so many vivid colors on screen. Though with it's limited ram and resolution, you didn't get to see it's full pallet on screen much. The 2600 is a very colorful system.

[@lucashoffman]

Super Mario Bros Crossover deserves an official release by Nintendo

[@Patrick94GSR]

Mega Man in the SMB world is the crossover I didn't know I needed. Gotta check these out!

[@fidelrivera2887]

Mario x Portal is insanely awesome!

[@huillamdaverc3141]

Thank you for this video! I must check out the Pico-8 version! I really like the graphics. I wish someone would remake the SMB Crossover Game, so that it is easily accessible for everyone and maybe can be worked on. It is so well done and has still so much potential.

[@Smaxx]

Mario Crossover is one of the few of these I've played back then and it made me always wonder whether the Teams at Nintendo actually played and enjoyed it, because it always felt like it might have been the inspiration for the gameplay changing transformations in Mario Maker (like turning into Link).

[@bobmav5729]

Great vid. The pico-8 inclusion was neat.

[@imhexv]

Crossover unlocked a hidden memory

[@noveltyman6723]

There also are demakes for the Commodore 64 and Intellivision.

[@QuermisRaysOld]

Yeah!

[@jasminefrazier8624]

Mari0 is good

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

Obviously

[@jasminefrazier8624]

@@Jelly_shy_guy_man ok you have any Mappack???

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

@@jasminefrazier8624 yes that portal one as well as a sonic one

[@jasminefrazier8624]

@@Jelly_shy_guy_man theres a sonic one

[@inceptional]

4:06 I wish someone would take this game and actually make it for SNES (it would kinda have to be SNES rather than NES given if has both 8-bit and 16-bit modes, which I'd want), as that would just be awesome. I'm sure someone could ROM hack Super Mario All-Stars and achieve something just like this.

[@RealDoox]

the best way to play Mari0 is Alesan's Entities, which lets you use classic mode after beating the game (or entering the konami code) which can make it a pc port of SMB1

[@QuermisRaysOld]

8:25 This is cool!

[@Darkonius64]

You should probably check out fangames like Super Mario Bros X (version 2.0 specifically!) or Super Mario Flashback if you are interested in more fangames!

[@TiwazGoudsnor]

gonna play it 100%

[@spektred]

See, THIS is why i subscribed to this channel. Love the nostalgia 😃

[@CreeperJaxon]

I think he confused the term, “clone” with “fangame” a clone is when someone makes a knock off game like those in the App Store, while a fangame is where a fan of a series makes a game based off that game

[@Cuprite1024]

Glad someone else said this.

[@awsomebot1]

I think you're just young. "Clone" doesn't have to carry this negative connotation. A lot of "doom-clones" of the past were great games.

[@Cuprite1024]

@@awsomebot1 Whether it *should* or not, it *does* have that negative connotation, depending on where it's being used (So, while it's not so negative with Doom or similar games, something like monster tamers have been held down by the "Pokémon Clone" label for a long time and is only recently starting to escape it). I think the amount of negativity the term "clone" has mostly depends on the context.

[@albi2k88]

There was browser game Jelly Mario

[@geniusly_normal]

fan made not clone

[@KageMorghulis]

You’re awesome Gruz. As a fellow former Mac gamer, I found you and followed you years ago with my old KZbin account. So glad to see you’re getting the attention you deserve.

[@cold_warrior]

Looks like a lot of fun

[@milkgrapes6420]

SMB Crossover made my entire childhood since I had no way to play the original game back in the day. Many hours spent. Big respect.

[@nexboygaming]

Wow, thanks for the video!

[@jpvaldez4713]

Holy Smokes!!! Thats so cool. Thanks for another great video.

[@Jonqen]

Amazing video as usual

[@JamesR624]

Wait, so it's the "Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device (ASPQTD)? I've always heard it as the "Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device" (ASHPD).

[@GregoryLindsey1979]

I’m surprised Nintendo hasn’t already issued C&Ds and DMCA takedowns to every one of these games, your channel, and every one of us for watching this video.

[@ninjakanen]

Right on, cool mods. Reviews of some other free-to-play browser games?

[@jonothanthrace1530]

How does it feel playing Princess Rescue with an Atari stick?

[@3rdalbum]

Mari0 is great and its modding scene is amazing. But the physics are a little off, and you can only unlock mods once you've completed the original SMB in it. For someone like me who is rubbish at platformers, that's a significant downside.

[@fudgiecatdx]

alesan's entities has the option to turn on the original physics

[@kapifnfddr]

"honey wake up, new killgruz video dropped"

[@ChatookaMusic]

Oh man I remember playing mari0 as a kid, I'm surprised you didn't mention the level editor because I remember spending a lot of time trying to recreate the original portal levels in it

[@LukeManiac]

Mari0 has a better edition called Alesan99's entities. You should try that!

[@fudgiecatdx]

yeah yeah yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ZMAN_420]

Excellent Content as usual! 👍🏻🇺🇲

[@whiskeyfoxtrotnovember8888]

I couldn't imagine that there were so many versions of Mario Bros like that! 😮

[@mr.niyaoukitchen2397]

Damn !! I never knew that Sega genesis controllers could work on the Atari 2600! BTW, the Mario version on it is a great work.

[@3rdalbum]

That's not all - did you hear that if you drop Mentos into Coke, the Coke fizzes up explosively? 😛 (The Genesis controller compatibility is pretty well-known but I guess there's always somebody hearing about something for the first time, haha)

[@mr.niyaoukitchen2397]

@@3rdalbum 😅 good one for the Mentos ! Man, i had to wait more than 40yrs to know about the Gen controller. My whole life is changed ! 🤣

[@machieu]

You forgot Jelly Mario...

[@TeddyCream0]

Speaking of Mari0, there's a fanmade remake of the original game that remixes levels, adds cutscenes and new graphics

[@jonb-h2z]

I remember going to boardwalk in the 90s, and they had a skateboard mario

[@goncalorego4278]

I remember playing Mario Crossovers and I spent hours on the computer playing.

[@ТойХтоКоміксиМалює]

super mario crossover v3 this was my favorite game of flash games

[@Xani13]

OMG! I want to try these!

[@kingchris8255]

My main in Super Mario Bros. Crossover was Paladin Cecil.

[@mittensthecatfurry]

SMBC is a classic! i wasn't even an NES kid and i frequented the SMBC website for a good bit of flash's lifespan when i could! (i'm currently 17)

[@Jonqen]

Nes still holds up to this day for everyone. Amazing timeless library

[@8bitkeroro157]

We need Ninja Gaiden game genie codes

[@mattdag69]

❤ I love mario crossover ❤.

[@atmaweapon2803]

I used to have a copy of Super Mario Crossover 3, the actual .swf file on my computer back in the day. During a blizzard, when the Internet wasn't working, I mostly just played SMC nonstop on my laptop. You can even play as freaking Benjamin from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. 🤷🏻‍♀️🫠 My favorite Flash game of all time. I'm so happy these games are preserved somewhere.

[@cheezyfriez12]

I remember getting really into flash games during my last few years of high school, to the point where I made one of those unblocked games websites with Google sites. This was one of them, definitely my favorite.

[@ineophobe]

suoer mario crossover is literally part of my childhood

[@ian_5184]

Super Mario Bros Crossover was the first way I played through Super Mario Bros as a kid

[@LouiseDeacon-d9j]

I love the original super Mario Bros I don’t like clones of this game it’s just a masterpiece. My high school is 5-2

[@attackofthetheeyecreatures3472]

Could anyone take Super Mario Crossover and turn it into a hack to play as a ROM?

[@MotownBatman]

Super Princess Rescue is Crazy Fun I'd also Recommend Zippy the Porcupine

[@matthewrease2376]

In pretty sure the Atari has the same number of colors as the NES more or less...

[@alexrekzu4079]

k1llgruz is back!

[@matt92hun]

I vaguely remember playing Mario on Windows 95 or 98 a long time ago. Any idea what that could have been?

[@3rdalbum]

I vaguely remember it too, probably on school computers. There have been clones and remakes of SMB on computers for a VERY long time!

[@SplashMountainFan404]

This video was pretty good! I can’t wait for the next one! #retro 🕹️👾

[@MoneyHoneyBunny]

Interesting that theres a fantasy console called the pico 8 when Sega itself had a learning console called the Pico. At first thats what I thought it was an emulator for but, that Pico 8 Mario actually feels more like its Mario on Sega Game Gear! By the way if you guys think Super Mario Bros Crossover is interesting, Sonic Boll blows it away. Trust me, look it up. Its the OG SMB, with lost levels too, with mario and sonic characters, and some custom ones too

[@Zellio2011]

Im afraid your wrong gruz. The atari 2600 had a 128 color pallete, over twice the nes. You were only limited to 4 colors per scanline but all 128 could appear at once. With some tricks you could make 480 colors appear on screen at once!

[@AllenTheWanderer]

rom hacks, and de-makes are not clones. Come on man. Something like the original Giana Sisters could be considered a clone of sorts, since it's its own game, and pretty much copied the SMB formula.

[@nick6var]

Tiny Toon Adventures on the NES is another great one, with three alternate characters that can swap out with Buster Bunny, the protagonist. I loved it when I first bought it, and very reminiscent of Super Mario Land 2, at the time my only Super Mario game.

[@mememachine269]

With one of the games he said "this is not a clone, this is a remake"

[@safebox36]

As someone who has made both romhacks and a (terrible) demake, I would say it depends on the context. Like sometimes it's an attempt at seeing what can be done with other limitations (the PICO8 version of SMB). While sometimes it can just be to ride on the coat tails of another properly (the SEGA version of SMB).

[@U_MrPil]

Oh shut up, he’s showing off some cool shit

[@allenrb2]

​@_Big_Soup although it's true that a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. You still shouldn't call one a duck. Words have meanings. I clicked on the video, because of the title. The title was a lie. So it matters to me.

[@TheArchangel314]

Gruz, my man. Not sure what happened to your voice being so high all of a sudden. I loved the bass. But I think someone might have cloned that older raspy voice and are using it on their videos. You should copyright strike those. You might have been high, but your voice sounds really good. Good luck if you need help let me know

[@jerr0.]

I'm not sure if these would be considered clones (more like fan games/homebrew), but it's a great video anyway

[@lsb2623]

that atari game was 30 bucks... adjusted for inflation that's like $850.

[@Dravenick]

You didn't mention that mario can have a literal minecraft diamond pickaxe and minecraft-like inventory system in Mari0, but that's alright

[@Fygee]

I really hope someone converts Super Mario Crossover to a modern platform like HTML5. It's way, way too good to be buried in a Flash archive.

[@reid3524]

Ok

[@xenxander]

super mario 'x' was a fan game putting mario in the metroid world but I can't really find it anymore.

[@mercymallari1060]

There is however one more Mario clone and that is Jelly Mario Bros

[@motivational-dj2g]

Can you send me game link

[@BioFactory1]

SWF file flash games can still be played on some media players.

[@2006chame]

sega megadrive, kid chameleon and james pond 3

[@Klausify05]

Mario looks like he was made in 80’s

[@yackablejohnson1485]

Why are you calling ROM Hacks clones?

[@Clancydaenlightened]

0:35 no the graphics chip can do better

[@Clancydaenlightened]

For 1977 128 color palette with scanline raster graphics can do alot Atari 2600 doesn't use a video coprocessor, or else it's more like the Atari 8bit

[@illostr8]

I find it hard this originally came out in 1977 I'm an avid gamer

[@axtrifonov]

Atari 2600 actually has bigger color palette than NES.