Poll of the Day > If you had Super Mario Bros on NES, did you have a cart combo or stand alone?

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Those are the only three versions of which I am aware. Growing up, I had a stand alone cartridge, but I never knew of anyone else to have that version. We had a deluxe system that came with R.O.B., the zapper, Gyromite & Duck Hunt, so we got SMB by itself a while later. Nearly everyone I knew had a SMB/Duck Hunt combo. Just curious what everyone had.
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I had both but I had no idea they had a 3 combo.
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I had Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet. It came with a roll-out pad like DDR.

That thing got hard at the end too. The only one of us who could beat it was my mom.
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We had the triple combo. Wctm was fun to mess around with - wed jump off the pad to max out the long jump. Hurdles were kind of a bitch if I remember correctly.
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Retail standalone.
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Duck Hunt combo, I think.
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Standalone retail until much later on, when I had a copy with Duck Hunt included.
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yutterh posted...

I had both but I had no idea they had a 3 combo.

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SMB/Duck Hunt

I remember years later seeing solo SMB in a thrift store and thinking wtf is this madness
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Mead posted...

SMB/Duck Hunt

I remember years later seeing solo SMB in a thrift store and thinking wtf is this madness

This except I saw the standalone one in an online video.

Both the standalone and the Super Mario Bros/Tetris/Nintendo World Cup combo.
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SMB/Duck Hunt

Never beat SMB since I didn't know the trick to world 8-3 at the time
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Foppe posted...

Both the standalone and the Super Mario Bros/Tetris/Nintendo World Cup combo.

I was curious as to what people had when voting with other. Guess this would be one of them.
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Standalone and SMB/Tetris/NWC combo.
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Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt if I recall.
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Christmas of 1987 (still my best Xmas ever) we got the regular NES bundle that just came with the console deck, two control pads, and the packed-in, STAND ALONE Super Mario 1. Additionally that Xmas, we got Legend of Kage, Kung-Fu, Rush 'N Attack, and the biggie, Zelda 1.

We didn't get a Zapper until a few months later, I think, for my brother's birthday, as I remember having our dad take us to Target and pulling the "pull ticket" for the Zapper, along with Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley, and Gumshoe, I believe.

Much later on, after we wore our original deck down, it broke down, and instead of getting it fixed, my dad bought us the PowerPad pack and then I had the three-way combo that is mentioned above.
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that damn dog...
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The Duckhunt combo.
My cousins had the standalone and I thought it was a bootleg or something.
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I still have the Duck Hunt combo, safe and sound.
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Holy crap... thanks for this thread. A rush of nostalgia just hit me.

I got the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet combo as a kid. It even came with a pad for me to stomp on for the Track Meet thing and of course the guns for Duck Hunt.

Come to think of it, I wonder how much that bundle cost my dad back in the days...
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Kigalas posted...

We had the triple combo. Wctm was fun to mess around with - wed jump off the pad to max out the long jump. Hurdles were kind of a bitch if I remember correctly.

Lol I remember doing that same trick for long jump at a friend's house.

Multiples of all of those with label and screw variants (I collect)

I've never actually seen the stand-alone cart in person before. I was surprised when I first found out such a thing even existed.
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All of the above.

Although the first one I owned was the World class track meet cart.

Personally, I have never seen one of those combination cartridges before.
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Golden Road posted...

I've never actually seen the stand-alone cart in person before. I was surprised when I first found out such a thing even existed.

That's funny, as I mentioned above that the stand-alone was my initial copy, and I think, vice versa, I didn't know the combo carts existed until I got that replacement NES with the Power Pad!
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We had the combo cart. I remember being surprised that a stand-alone SMB existed as a kid. I damn near pooped myself when I saw the 3-way cart. Even the standalone game was pretty uncommon back in the day.

Up until a couple years ago I had assumed that SMB was always paired with Duck Hunt
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Mine was weird. We got the NES from my cousin and it came in gold and only allowed you to play Mario for like five minutes before it would shut off. It had other games on there too, some racing game and Tetris. I eventually traded it with a slow kid at my school for his multicard with Duck Hunt. lol fucking idiot at school thought it was good because the cart was gold, what a moron.

wah_wah_wah posted...

Mine was weird. We got the NES from my cousin and it came in gold and only allowed you to play Mario for like five minutes before it would shut off. It had other games on there too, some racing game and Tetris. I eventually traded it with a slow kid at my school for his multicard with Duck Hunt. lol fucking idiot at school thought it was good because the cart was gold, what a moron.

This has to be a joke post

https://www.polygon.com/2014/2/5/5380924/nintendo-world-championships-cartridge-sells-for-100k-on-ebay

A few years after I got my Nintendo I finally got the first Super Mario Bros. (standalone version), same as everyone else had at the time, it's by far the most common version, I didn't know even there were multi-carts until I was in my 20s when I found the Mario+Tetris+Football multi-cart in a second hand shop and bought it for Tetris, strangely seeing as that is the second most common version for some reason it's still not featured in this poll, lul wut? Even weirder is that instead you have some weird Duck Hunt multi-carts listed as options? Never even seen that combo before, I mean Duck Hunt requires a lightgun, why would you even have that and Mario on the same cart? It makes no sense unless it at least came with a lightgun, which sounds very expensive and odd as a thing to sell with a lightgun, I guess they realized how awful it is and so they packed it in with Mario to sell more copies? No wonder I've never seen it, that doesn't sound like a good deal when you can instead buy mario separately or the triple pack with Tetris and crap without the extra lightgun, which was really expensive and rare back in the day, I saw some adverts for it and in Captain N but I never saw one in real life, virtually nobody owned one of those, same with that weird robot thing AVGN had in a video a long time ago, I wonder if that was more of a japanese or amerikan thing because I never even saw adverts for that thing even once.
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I think the Super Mario Bros/Tetris/Nintendo World Cup cart was PAL exclusive and the other two were NTSC exclusives.
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If I remember correctly, I had the NES bundle that included the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartridge, two regular controllers, and the Zapper light gun controller.
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Newave posted...

A few years after I got my Nintendo I finally got the first Super Mario Bros. (standalone version), same as everyone else had at the time, it's by far the most common version, I didn't know even there were multi-carts until I was in my 20s when I found the Mario+Tetris+Football multi-cart in a second hand shop and bought it for Tetris, strangely seeing as that is the second most common version for some reason it's still not featured in this poll, lul wut?

I have literally never seen a standalone Super Mario Bros. before (and I shop in used game stores all the time) and for a long time I never knew they existed. Conversely, I've never heard of the Mario/Tetris/Football combo.
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Newave posted...

I didn't know even there were multi-carts until I was in my 20s when I found the Mario+Tetris+Football multi-cart in a second hand shop and bought it for Tetris, strangely seeing as that is the second most common version for some reason it's still not featured in this poll, lul wut?

Its a PAL version that I didnt even know existed until you posted about it. Seeing as only 7 outta 131 people have even selected other, Im gonna guess that most people on this board didnt have that one.
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SumerNivek posted...

Christmas of 1987 (still my best Xmas ever) we got the regular NES bundle that just came with the console deck, two control pads, and the packed-in, STAND ALONE Super Mario 1. Additionally that Xmas, we got Legend of Kage, Kung-Fu, Rush 'N Attack, and the biggie, Zelda 1.

We didn't get a Zapper until a few months later, I think, for my brother's birthday, as I remember having our dad take us to Target and pulling the "pull ticket" for the Zapper, along with Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley, and Gumshoe, I believe.

Much later on, after we wore our original deck down, it broke down, and instead of getting it fixed, my dad bought us the PowerPad pack and then I had the three-way combo that is mentioned above.

Same year me and my brother got ours!

We too had the standalone pack in version and a copy of Kung Fu (wanted Karate Champ really as I wasted so many 10p pieces on that in the arcades). Great times.
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keyblader1985 posted...

Newave posted...

A few years after I got my Nintendo I finally got the first Super Mario Bros. (standalone version), same as everyone else had at the time, it's by far the most common version, I didn't know even there were multi-carts until I was in my 20s when I found the Mario+Tetris+Football multi-cart in a second hand shop and bought it for Tetris, strangely seeing as that is the second most common version for some reason it's still not featured in this poll, lul wut?

I have literally never seen a standalone Super Mario Bros. before (and I shop in used game stores all the time) and for a long time I never knew they existed. Conversely, I've never heard of the Mario/Tetris/Football combo.

The stand-alone is far and away the most common. They used to sell them for $0.09 at Funcoland in the 90's / early 00's they were so common.

The SMB/Duck Hunt combo is the one I've always seen for a dime a dozen.
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I had both carts. Didn't know there was a third cart.
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Were the combo cartridges available for purchase apart from being bundled with the NES console?
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Deganawidah posted...

Were the combo cartridges available for purchase apart from being bundled with the NES console?

As far as I know, they were pack ins only.

Garethc78 posted...

SumerNivek posted...

Christmas of 1987 (still my best Xmas ever) we got the regular NES bundle that just came with the console deck, two control pads, and the packed-in, STAND ALONE Super Mario 1. Additionally that Xmas, we got Legend of Kage, Kung-Fu, Rush 'N Attack, and the biggie, Zelda 1.

We didn't get a Zapper until a few months later, I think, for my brother's birthday, as I remember having our dad take us to Target and pulling the "pull ticket" for the Zapper, along with Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley, and Gumshoe, I believe.

Much later on, after we wore our original deck down, it broke down, and instead of getting it fixed, my dad bought us the PowerPad pack and then I had the three-way combo that is mentioned above.

Same year me and my brother got ours!

We too had the standalone pack in version and a copy of Kung Fu (wanted Karate Champ really as I wasted so many 10p pieces on that in the arcades). Great times.

I think the Xmas of 1987 was when Nintendo saw the huge influx of new customers/sales. Zelda 1 had those two awesome (at the time, now kinda silly) commercials and the word-of-mouth on Zelda was definitely circulating around the playgrounds of 1987.

Years later, we got a SNES the first Christmas it was available (1991?). And even though the SNES release was such a big deal to my brother and I at the time, it didn't quite match the Christmas of 1987 and the attachment we had for the NES. Love that system, and I am now raising my kids on my old 8-bit carts now too (along with Atari 2600).
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