If you find yourself needing to kill some time over this festive season - perhaps as you hide away upstairs to take a breather from that one annoying family member for a while - we've stumbled across the perfect thing to keep you occupied.
Gaming Historian has shared a brand new video on YouTube, taking a super deep dive into all things Super Mario Bros. 3. Fittingly called 'The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3', the video takes the form of an explorative documentary, and coming in at a whopping 50 minutes long, you're sure to learn a thing or two by taking it all in.
After a brief intro, we're treated to three separate parts: 'The Ultimate Mario', 'The Hype', and 'The Greatest'. The video's description promises that you'll learn about "the unparalleled hype surrounding its release, and why it's considered one of the greatest games of all time". We share that love for the game ourselves - recently ranking it just outside the top five in our list of the Best Super Mario games.
Fancy giving it a watch? Here you go:
We'd all happily take any opportunity to gush about our feelings towards this game, right? Well, go on then - the comment box below is waiting.
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Interesting. By the way, can anybody recommend me other gaming documentaries? I've already seen Atari Game Over and know about The King of Kong, but what else is there?
@Moroboshi876 YouTube has plenty split into parts - it's my go to place when I want to view the history of Sega, particularly popular are Dreamcast docs. Loved that system, the most Nintendo system ever made by a non-Nintendo company IMO.
Nice to see Gaming Historian getting some pub. I've been a big fan of his work for a while now. He's done similar stories on Tetris and Punch-Out that are fantastic.
@Lordplops The thing is I'd like some more specific recommendations, because of course there are a lot of videos made by people, but I kind of like the documentary style, something almost professional. I'm a Sega fan too, and when they stopped making systems the only company left with pedigree was Nintendo
@Moroboshi876 youtube has all the episodes of G4's Game Makers and Icons which are 20-40 min documentaries on game companies, games series, or industry legends.
I also highly recommend The Video Game Years which is a lot like VH1's I love the blank series where retro game youtubers go through almost everything that released that year 1977-1989.
There's also Once Upon Atari which has seemingly been removed from youtube, early 2000's doc about the Atari 2600 division at Atari with interviews with many of the workers.
@Moroboshi876 strafefox
I could never really get into SMB3 despite loving the original and Super Mario World. I should try again but even playing it on NSO, I just can’t be bothered with anything past the first world.
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Look for Kim Justice. Does a lot of long insights into the gaming industry, mainly focuses on British developers and publishers so covers a lot of stuff that isnt touched upon.
@Moroboshi876 just check YouTube put and then you can browse to your heart's content. Many of them have high quality/professional production values too.
Thanks, everyone! Certainly not keywords I would have searched, that's what I needed!
Smb3 outside the top 5 Mario Games. Blasphemy.
@Moroboshi876 I really liked Indie Game: The Movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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From Bedrooms to Billions
Man Vs Snake: The Long And Twisted Tale Of Nibbler
Indie Game The Movie
Ecstasy Of Order: The Tetris Masters
Naughty Dog 30th anniversary documentary (youtube)
Double Fine Adventure (youtube)
GameLoading: Rise of the Indies (youtube)
Grounded: The Making of The Last of Us (youtube)
God of War: Unearthing the Legend (youtube)
Very interesting documentary.
Easily the most defining game on the NES and one of the all time greatest games IMO.
The Gaming Historian has put out high quality content for years and this is one of his best pieces yet.
@Moroboshi876 These two channels post some great docs
Summoning Salt: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w (Amazing looks into the speedrunning community, recently posted a great one about Castlevania)
Strafefox: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtt_NEKZ4MoH4O7BT3SbXTA (Again, amazing work here, too, and they cover a lot of "making of" classic games)
@Moroboshi876 Amazon Prime has The Video Game Years series which is a decent watch. It's more just interviews with semi famous youtubers. But its worth your time.
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Watch the Gaming Historian's other long-form documentaries on Tetris and Punch-Out!!
@Moroboshi876 Look up more videos on Gaming Historian's channel. He goes in depth with a lot of different games. Also, I would highly recommend reading, or listening to the audiobook of, Console Wars. It's about the SEGA/Nintendo war in the 90s and shows the hubris of SEGA and why they kept failing after the success of the Genesis.
@DementedAvenger2 Yes, I started 2019 with Console Wars, loved that book. Looking forward to the promised documentary and movie about that story. Thanks.
@nessisonett Nice to know I'm not the only one who never really clicked with SMB3. I really enjoyed what I played of it, but it never made me want to consistently return to it day after day until I've beaten it like World did.
I think my main problem with it is that it's levels are way too short. They all feature interesting ideas, but just aren't long enough to fully explore those ideas like World was able to.
@Moroboshi876 If it's your bag, there's also "GET LAMP" the text adventure documentary — it's on YouTube, curiously in the GoogleTechTalks channel.
Gaming Historian's videos are always top-notch.
@Moroboshi876 I highly recommend The Video Game Years. If you havent seen that already.
Not surprised to see this article here after Norm thanked Nintendo Life in the credits. Still it's a great watch on one of the most famous video games of all time.
The Gaming Historian is by far one of the most professional videogame content creator on YouTube and all his documentary story videos on retro games and their history are astonishing as they are interesting. I really enjoy his documentary movies on the Sega 32X, Sega Saturn, Donkey Kong Country, and Tetris. He along with the Game Theorists are just a few of the many content creator channels on YT I still enjoy.
@Moroboshi876 Another good recommendation for an insight into games from several points of view and also about cancelled games, is Did You Know Gaming, and if you like and/or are interested in games from a more technical point of view, and especially in regards to older games, then I can highly recommend Digital Foundry's DF Retro series.
@Lordplops AHH I also loved my Dreamcast. To this day Chao raising on the VMU was so much fun, sonic adventure was such a good game and sega have never matched it IMHO since trying to break sonic into 3D.
@hadrian yeah the 4 hour reviews of final fantasy made me realize Kim needs to trim the fat. His speech impediment also gets on my nerves.
@Gwynbleidd World e is excellent. Get the GBA version for the Wii U virtual console if you haven't already.
If you're a Nintendo fan, the Video Game Historian has tons of videos that cover topics ranging from the history of the Famicom Disk System, Super Mario Bros 2, Nintendo's battle with Tengen, their fight with Blockbuster over game rentals, PC ports of Famicom games that were released by Hudson Soft, the Aladdin Deck Enhancer, and of course, the history of Tetris and Punch-Out.
Even the smaller videos are fun little tidbits of Nintendo history, such as a fish finder for Game Boy, a kid who sued Nintendo, MLB, and LJN over a Baseball game and other stuff.
Of course, he also has videos that cover Atari, Sega, Sony, and general gaming history videos such as the history of the ESRB.
His videos also have more of a documentary feel to them than many other video game videos on Youtube in the sense that they focus more on the history and avoid a lot of the overtop stuff like what's found on AVGN videos(although I love those videos as well)
@Moroboshi876 indie game the movie is very interesting. It follows Ed mcmillon(super meatboy), Phil Phish(fez). And the least interesting and arguably the most pretentious Jonathan blo(braid). They each lose thier minds about indie game development in thier own unique way. Sorry for spelling of people's names.
@Moroboshi876 noclip YouTube channel is Danny o dwyers short and long form gaming documentaries.
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