Super Mario Land 1 + 2 - Portable Evolution

[@ThatTravGuy]

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[@crazycubedude]

I have a legit question. Are you able to use raycons individually? Leave one in the case and one in the proper ear? I hardly use any functions other than the microphone. This has been the one thing keeping me from buying raycons. If you could give me an answer I would be grateful.

[@Gulliblepikmin]

"Ventriloquism, it's f**king Ventriloquism." --Scott Wozniak

[@aguywithadog1663]

@@crazycubedude Yes you can use at a time and leave the other in the case turned off

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

12:51 yep that's a highlight

[@lincolnlaw4469]

the earbuds SUCK there worse the the old wired ipods.

[@BinkusTheThird]

"Thats also how i learned about por-" Truly a classic Travis guy quote

[@oscarsulaka4867]

@BloodyMary nah

[@sasaki999pro]

Newgrounds desensitized me to r34 at such an early age that the only way I can find any excitement now is by delving into truly horrifying eldritch lovecraftian smut. The kind of stuff that makes furry and tentacle hentai look as vanilla as your grandpa's hidden stash of 1960's playboy magazines.

[@BinkusTheThird]

@@sasaki999pro that was uh... Waaaay to specific.

[@sasaki999pro]

@@BinkusTheThird Okay so I may have been exaggerating with the grandpa thing, mine died before I was even born, so I can neither confirm nor deny that he had a playboy magazine stash, but given my family's personal track record for degeneracy, I'm going to assume he atleast had SOME skeletons in his closet.

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

MY LORD THE BRIDGE IS OUT. WHAT- *explodes*

[@amajesticzombie]

You hooked 'em with with bunny girl Mario, now reel them in with bunny girl WARIO

[@LeoYoshi54321]

Then sucker punch them with bunny girl PEPPINO

[@TheGreatVoicemancer]

​@@LeoYoshi54321 nah Wario is better.

[@beauwalker9820]

Would bunny girl Wario be thicc? lol

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

... _gas_ excuse me

[@HyperrealisticNoise1111]

@@TheGreatVoicemancer it all depends if you like cheese or money

[@Jabungothemungo]

11:35 i love how the coin sounds were in sync with the music for a while

[@kingbash6466]

It's insane how 2 of the most prominent Mario characters, Daisy and Wario, came from the Mario Land series.

[@INFERNO95]

They are last surviving characters from the series. Nintendo is wrong for that.

[@cybercop0083]

Not to mention timeless King Tatanga!!

[@machineaphex]

The thumb art got me acting up

[@voltron77]

Yeah the rabbit lady is cute

[@funnyguy-qs4ho]

Ayo?🤨📸📸📸

[@kingbash6466]

Need that Furry Trav bussy.

[@legtendgav556]

NO TRAV DON'T HEART THAT

[@IgnobleAmanuensis]

END THY BLOODLINE!!!!!?

[@maddieS117]

"My lord, the bridge is out!" "WHAT-" *BOOM* (12:51 for anyone curious) I burst out laughing

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

Top moments of... 2023 goddamn time flies

[@Wolfkaosaun]

I have a lot of fond memories with Mario Land 1 and 2. Now, Mario Land 2 is my favorite of the two, but I feel like they're some of the most underrated games when it comes to Mario games

[@michaeldunn8972]

Mario Land 2 is actually my favorite 2d Mario game.

[@ProfesorWillem]

I played these games a little bit as a child, but I feel very nostalgic when I fully played them as an adult, I don't know how, is kinda magical

[@mrdreamy1747]

"I can't leave without my buddy, Superball." -John Daikatana

[@funnyspeedrun84]

And now, a brief selection of funny phrases/edits MARIO LAND 1 2:22 “Its also how I learned about Por-“ 6:25 “Serrasassa Land” and following Explanation of why that mistake was made 7:56 “Has it Really Been 4 Decades?” 11:44 “Bald Guy hunts down Internet Rabbit” 12:00 “Fuck it, CanCan” 12:41 “He went Nuclear!” 13:48 “Why Did we enter the level from a UFO?” 14:52 “He Cracked that Shit.” 15:16 “The Vine Booms are Hostile!” 15:42 “--atOMIC PENETRATION RAPID FIre throu--“ 16:50 “He WAS a wimp, so whatever.” MARIO LAND 2 21:39 “Garlic Scented Gremlin” 22:17 “Lore? Toda- Lore Feels like the wrong word” 22:40 “(Wandering around in an Honest to God Graveyard) Hello?” 22:51 “Tiny Mario is just-What is wrong with him?” 23:27 “I almost said Wario World. Thats a VERY different game.” 24:34 “I have just texted my Thumbnail Artist to draw Mario as a Bunny Girl.” 25:18 “You can slam that poor Turtle like its a Goddamn WWE Cage Match!” 26:58 “The New Invincibility Beet” 27:06 “I Guess Worlds are called Zones Now?” And the Revelation that this game is LITERALLY JUST SONIC ADVENTURE 2 28:06 “Give me Back my Fursuit Please.” 28:38 “I am Sober RN” 29:30 THE MARIO LAND 2 NON-CANNON SUPER BOSS (its easy) 30:18 “Shovels are Very Cool.” 30:30 “I’ve been watching Jerma” 30:52 “Shut Up Jerard” (is that how you spell that? IDK) 31:12 “Get me out of The Tongue cave.” 31:22 “Mario’s Balls don’t have a secret in them.” 31:37 “Oh god, the Rabbit Season music is back” 31:43 “This Pumpkins got Parasites in it, Man” 32:22 “The Bouncy Ball Level in Marios Crotch” 32:44 “Ill take any opportunity I Can to Step on some Pigs” 33:04 “Years of Being Pedantic on the Playground” 34:34 “Take the Dirty Wario Challenge” 35:28 “The Rabbit Wario, First off, Is NOT Sexy” 35:40 “Pacing Left and Right like a MegaMan X 3 Boss” 35:52 “Oh he’s Bald Now.”

[@frds_skce]

You're a godsend. Truly worthy of your name (funny% speedrun)

[@polk1203]

You forgot the best one at the end 37:13 "Now put on goddamn the bunny costume." XD

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

My lord the bridge is out

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

​@@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32 WHAT?! (Explosion)

[@weeforeverett5852]

Weirdly enough, I'd like to compliment you on the sponsor section. I have the same problem with my ear canals so knowing that you tested them and they do work even with that condition makes me want to buy some. Thanks man.

[@mkRazor]

24:12 I would like to mention some more details about both the cape and the carrot (or at least from what I learned playing both Mario Land 2 and Mario World): with the carrot you easily have full control of your horizontal movement, and if you keep spamming the jump button fast enough, you will never lose altitude, but once you lose it, it's gone and you have to land somewhere to take off again. With the cape you can actually gain altitude while in the air, but you're mostly going in one direction horizontally, unless you manage to lose enough horizontal speed that the value goes in the negatives (or in the positives if you were flying left), thus facing the opposite direction. The romhack Kaizo Kindergarten explains this wayyy better than I can

[@vhproductions]

Can't wait for the Pizza Tower video. Hopefully the Wario Land retrospective doesn't delay it for too long!

[@supercamborg4218]

Personally I think the Wario Land retrospective will make the wait worth it

[@TheGreatVoicemancer]

Nah lets saver some Wario land.

[@karuma6635]

15:44 the doppler effect there was like the most genius idea i've ever seen

[@alex_-yz9to]

i did not expect to see the trav bun as a thumbnail ... well time to sit down and hear trav talking at lenght about something, he already hooked in with the bun!

[@italomango]

You know, upon rewatching this video, thinking about 12:00 made me realize something: This actually isn't too out-of-left-field for Nintendo. Classic arcade games such as Mario Bros Arcade or Donkey Kong Jr. used snippets of classical music in their soundtrack (for as small and minimalistic as it was). Mario Bros used Mozart's Serenade n. 13 and DK Jr used both Bach's Toccata and Fugue and the almost exact same bit of the Can Can used in Mario Land. Just a little something i found kind of interesting.

[@SpiderKnife1]

Super Mario Land 2 holds alot of sentimental value with me - was my very first video game. Solid entertaining review dude! Liked the pacing of your commentary here too.

[@linkdk59]

Same! And at the time, I didn't know a game could have an ending. Seeing the credits at the end blew my mind!

[@KamiJoJo]

Quite impressed to see people remember Super Mario Land IV, it reminds me of the countless amounts of time that I spent watching Super Mario Bros. 3 Bloopers, The Golden Mushroom, Rise of Mushroom Kingdom and so many other flash animations.

[@ianoliver2224]

"My lord, the bridge is out!" "WHAT?!" *violently explodes*

[@Adam-xd9tr]

I first learned about these games via a gaming magazine celebrating one of Mario's Anniversaries (30 or 35th, I can't remember). I knew they were weird and introduced characters like Daisy and Wario, but I still wasn't expecting half of what I saw in this video. It's interesting to see which elements of these games Nintendo would use in the future and which ones ideas remain with these two odd titles. They certainly deserve more attention. Also, thank you for mentioning the soundtracks. The music of Super Mario Land and Donkey Kong '94 is seriously underrated.

[@JarJarBinks4ever]

Super Mario Land might be my favourite Mario game tbh. I love that it's set entirely in a different world than the one we've seen in all the other games. And I'm glad someone else remembers the Super Mario Land flash animations with Queen music lol

[@Igronavt360]

Hello, a russian speaking Ukrainian here. At 6:36 Trav mentioned a russian code name that translates to "Prison". That is not true, prison in russian is "тюрьма" (tyur'ma) and what he actually said is complete gibberish and not even a real russian word

[@ducksoup80]

At 22:25 in the Mario land 2 manga comics princess daisy replaced the six golden coins with cookies but then they replace them with the real golden coins.

[@ScorchtheHawk]

15:43 thinkin back to that RUST video with the bears

[@g.u.959]

Funnily enough, the Koopas in SML1 aren’t Koopas at all! They’re called Nokobons! SML1 kept all the Japanese enemy names in localization, and Koopas are called Nokonokos in Japan. So essentially, Koopa bomb, without being called that at all! (and goombas, kuribo in Japan, are called chibibo since they’re tiny!)

[@INFERNO95]

So nokobons is the prototype for blue shell .

[@rainlion10]

Aren't they also called Bombshell Koopas?

[@oofley8346]

One of my favorite mario enemy names has to be that random cloud guy you fight before tatanga in mario land 1. Its name is biokinton.

[@themask6603]

Mario and Wario actually have a backstory together, which only exists in the form of Nintendo Power Comics. These were released before the game came out as a kind of an advertisment. The story is actually quite intersting (for a Mario-Story at least): Wario and Mario were friends in their childhood, but it was in Warios opinion very one-sided. And after 20 years all these memories of an unbalanced friendship get back to Wario. He vows revenge against Mario and starts overtaking Marios Island. These comics are probably not even canon anymore, but I prefer them much more than: "Evil-Mario just randomly stole Mario's castle"

[@INFERNO95]

That is not the backstop. That comic is not Canon and it was made two months after the game was released. The comic is a sequel to the super Mario adventure comic that was made in 1992. I know this cause I was own the comic when I was apart of Nintendo power. Nobody knows why Wario hate Mario. Stop repeating crap off the net.

[@themask6603]

@@INFERNO95 xD

[@EvilMike349]

Oh man, I'm so happy I found this video! Super Mario Land 2 and the original Wario Land are my two favorite GB games, and I had never heard of Pizza Tower before so I'm excited to hear you talk about all of them!

[@Chconroy]

Don't ever joke about Bunny Mario, people are committed.

[@teaoftraffic]

34:37 the dirty wario challenge

[@sehtuk3953]

"The Rabbit Wario, first off, is not sexy." literally 1984

[@theenemy333]

Man, it would be so cool to see the bosses of Mario land 2 appear in future Wario games as friends of Wario.

[@PhantomOfficial07]

Bro imagine if they appear in WarioWare as Wario's friends

[@neptunemacaw3354]

In a Nintendo power magazine (I think it was issue 21 but if it’s not, it’s the one with fantashia Mickey on the cover) it covered Mario and wario’s background when they were kids. They use to be friends but wario always hated how Mario always had to have the spotlight.

[@S3OTCHM0]

Even if your pizza tower analysis was 10 hours long I would listen to every second, need that so bad!!!!

[@SQGReviewShow]

15:00 Someone let The Deep write this portion of the script, LMAO

[@linkdk59]

I loved Super Mario Land 2. That game is my whole childhood. I love all the bosses. I played Super Mario Bros 1 after SML2, and I found SMB less creative by comparison. SML1 is essentially inferior to SML2 in every way. I still like it, but it sometimes felt like a Mario clone more than an actual Mario game. But the Easton Kingdom theme is great!!

[@otacon6566]

Super Mario Land's end credit is my alarm clock. That is how awesome mornings are.

[@CommanderBroShep]

12:46 Saving this here since this was my favorite moment for the video.

[@warrior_aa]

the thumbnail art is great but it sure was unexpected in the notifications for me

[@SorcererLance]

Fun fact with that second level of Mario Land 1... Apparently it's supposedly the Lost Continent of Mu, basically the Pacific Ocean's version of Atlantis

[@awesome19ssbb]

24:35 that explains the bunny girl art for the thumb nail

[@Abykitty06]

absolutely lovely video, the pizza tower shout out got me actin up

[@MultiDudeman]

Super Mario Land was the first video game i ever owned, on my gameboy pocket, loved it, started me into playing video games. And that stiff control everyone talks about is what felt right to me since it was my first, after that every other mario game felt too loose to me because of this game.

[@machineaphex]

You could talk about Superman 64 and I’d be down for it.

[@Anarchnid]

Whenever you get to the Wario Land games, please include the Virtual Boy game. That's a hidden gem on that failure of a console.

[@cubeflinger]

I recently finished the first mario land. It gets a lot of criticism for not being mario enough. I hadn't played it since I was a kid at school where we would share Gameboy games at lunch. Impossible to get very far in ten minutes but it's a great little game. Mario land 2 felt like a proper mario game and is very impressive.

[@DARS_04]

bnnuuy in thumbnail

[@docbaker3333]

Oh I Remember those animations I remember one such sketch I don't remember it much but I do remember it had something like "Brothers don't shake hand's they chase each other"

[@italomango]

MY LORD, THE BRIDGE IS OUT Great video btw. Hope you enjoy the Wario Land series as a whole! Can't wait!

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

WHAT?! (Explosion)

[@ja-nathen]

I love how everyone (including me) started playing the Wario Land games after Pizza Tower came out

[@koolaidmanextra2840]

I had the wii one

[@MatthewCobalt]

3:08 Additional info on Mr. Yokoi: He actually intended the concept of the GameBoy to be closer to his Game&Watch series than a portable Famicom. There was an internal conflict in RND 1 for a while, until Mr. Yokoi relented.

[@49gamer51]

28:07 I can't believe you just said that and I almost spit out my water when you said fursuit that actually caught me off-guard

[@49gamer51]

Especially the Mario but as a bunny girl when you mentioned that on the and it also being on the thumbnail

[@polk1203]

Gotta say, ending the review with "Now put on the goddamn bunny costume" was oddly threatning So.....Props for fear factor i guess? Either way, great review. XD

[@codexstudios]

15:43 ...ok, just casually drop Takyon into there, why not

[@jakobthe]

it scared me dude i thought ride was speaking in my head

[@keybladeoverlord]

These two games were literally the first two games I got for my original Game Boy and to this day along with Pokemon Yellow, are the ONLY GAMES I have physically for the original Gray Brick.

[@SafetyServbot]

The Death Grips song completely sidelined me, thank you

[@KayX291]

I don't think Pizza Tower is entirely inspired by Warioland, just the part of it. Some of em were from 90s cartoons and games, one of the games i can mention is pretty much Jazz Jackrabbit and that can be seen in the menu, intro cutscene and even some of the music.

[@ArnieMcStranglehold]

I love these games. I grew up in this era. I am as old as Mario Land 1, and thanks for reminding me exactly how old i am. Mario Land 1 used to creep me out because the enemy design is unlike anything else in the Mario franchise. I spent a lot more time in Mario Land 2 because it had a lot of secrets and was very fun. However, it too was super creepy. The skeleton bees in the tree zone? NOPENOPENOPE! The big stack of jars in that one level in pumpkin zone? I had a couple nightmares about going through there and the jars breaking open.

[@unorthibox]

Where’s the pizza tower video, I fucking need it

[@pious83]

Returning to it after all these years, via Switch Online. I appreciate that SML2 largely saved all of it's difficulty for the last level...

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen8674]

...trav why is there a hot bunny girl in the thumbnail?

[@emulsion_]

Homsar snake is gonna be my Halloween costume for this year and I EXPECT to be featured in their slideshow

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

Funny enough; Super Mario Land 1 was made by people who didn't even know who Mario was as a character; but still in the end made a really solid game, the funny thing why the shells explode is due to the limitations of the GameBoy and it'd have been too much for the handheld with all those koopa shells going which way on the screen.

[@INFERNO95]

Exploding Koopa shells? I wonder will it ever lead to anything big in a Mario spinoff game?

[@thrillsekr2606]

15:42 Yoooo, shoutout to Takyon and Death Grips

[@CalysisOfficial]

Funny how the bunny might end up prophetic soon, huh

[@ThatTravGuy]

oh no

[@deshawnwilliams503]

2:06 WOAH! That takes me back!!

[@DragonTriangle]

I recently got Super Mario Land 2 for my GBC. I can't wait to see what you have in store for us next!

[@M64bros]

For me, I absolutely love Super Mario Land 2, Basically it's like a handheld version of Super Mario World, but in a more different personality design. I also have the DX version where you can play as Luigi as well and in color

[@deliqene3191]

Christ i remember this game. I couldn't get past the first stage cause i was too stupid to play anything, but looking back it felt like a fever dream

[@Ronin11111111]

You unearthed some primal f*cking memories in me with mentioning that Bohemian Rhapsody Mario Land animation.

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

IS THIS THE REAL LIFE? IS THIS JUST FANTASY?

[@Ronin11111111]

@@s.p.d.magentaranger1822 Caught in a landslide...

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

@@Ronin11111111 No escape from reality.

[@ScorchtheHawk]

@@s.p.d.magentaranger1822 open your eyes

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

@@ScorchtheHawk Look up to the skies and seeeeeeee

[@Anarchnid]

Kinda funny that you made this a double feature, in preparation for the Wario Land games. It's funny because I did the exact same thing with my streams. Played both of these games in one stream, and then each Wario Land games gets it's own stream.

[@supercamborg4218]

A Mario Land video to lead up to Wario Land videos to lead up to Pizza Tower? Oh this is just too good!

[@sarasaland4709]

15:26 But Trav, Yoshi no like Meatballs!

[@konversion]

12:23 well, you just earned your subscription from me. I've been trying to figure out/remember the title and artist behind The Entertainer for a while now. Thanks, bud 🙃

[@Ribbons0121R121]

“Give me back my fursuit please” -that trav guy 2023

[@LillyP-xs5qe]

I didn't know that newgrounds had gay por

[@Shritistrang]

Super Mario Land was the very first platforming game I played in my entire life. And since my little child brain loved it so much, I was determined to play to the end. Which resulted in a lot of death. But also a lot of replays. And because I replayed this game again and again and again, I got very good at it. And that was my starting point for all the other future platforming games that would follow in the future, Mario games included. I think it was a pretty good start. Also, there are no Koopas in that game. Those enemies are called Nokobon.

[@lavenzavantas]

I've played the first Super Mario Land a dozen of times on the 3DS virtual console because it was so short but also strangely addicting? the game isn't even that good but I still kept playing

[@saphcal]

nice background behind your profile pic. same here.

[@alexfischer7876]

I would love to see your opinion on the entire _Wario Land_ sub-series sometime in the future.

[@Fatih_M177]

the mario land series is kinda a confusing series when it comes to Mario, a lot of strange things came out from those games, but i will forever be thankful for Wario's existence and for inspiring Pizza Tower and AntonBlast. also it is kinda unrelated but i just wanted to say there is a comic where kid versions of Wario and Mario are friends and it's shown as a flash back, interesting...

[@imkindadumb5351]

I love wario’s face on the Gameboy

[@pokepress]

While I know folks usually give the traditional “Bluto” analogy for Wario, it’s worth noting that Wario debuted a year or two after Odlaw, the evil twin of the Where’s Waldo franchise.

[@revolverocelot423]

Hehe... I messed up your brain with the nanomachines injected by the handyboy

[@yuzuboy]

DAMN this made me so nostalgic! I grew up on a ranch and always had a pretty long bus ride to and from school. I'd always try to speedrun Mario Land 1 on the way to school, always trying to beat my old times Ahh the good ol days

[@timelesscatastrophe]

I can’t wait until that pizza tower video comes out! But I will and can, take your time :)

[@mspeter97]

that newgrounds short is legendary

[@CaptViewtiful98]

Something I noticed that looks off in this video is that games we’re not properly scaled so there’s noticeable shimmering

[@Smellbringer]

Ah yes, Mario Land, the game that introduced Daisy, the best princess.

[@saphcal]

thats not how you spell Rosalina :O

[@INFERNO95]

@@saphcal That princess is from another galaxy.

[@saphcal]

@@INFERNO95 unfortunately.

[@spartanwarrior9755]

Man, you've seen that newgrounds animation too? God, that takes me back.

[@PowerUpT]

22:41 This is simultaneously the most funny and most sad joke I've seen today, and I'm in an improv class. If this isn't just a bit and you actually lost your grandma, hope it's going alright despite that. :)

[@saltystick_99]

Me: My sense of humor is very convoluted and hard to figure out. Travis: 12:51 Me: *Funniest thing I've ever seen.*

[@FirionLeFleur]

Shovels are very cool. Shovel Knight would agree

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

So would the Dino Charge Rangers. Seriously, a lot of unmorphed fights in Dino Charge feature shovels as makeshift melee weapons.

[@jakdagr8]

“My lord the Bridge is out” “WHAT!!!” *BOOM!!!* Me:🤣 12:51

[@hy-longcat]

32:42 oh, also, first two pigs make cartoon computer beeping noises when killed???

[@voltron77]

I mean the ball flower was brought back in Mario maker SOO.

[@zak1306]

no one escapes the ever-growing flatbread structure

[@marcoantoniodominguezcid1936]

I could swear the Mario Zone had a secret in its ear, someone PLEASE tell me I’m not going crazy!!!😣😳😫

[@52344]

Can't wait for the pizza tower video!

[@Kittenfox_55]

I want them to bring back the Bunny power up.