Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels – World C-3
Between Mario’s always jubilant good mood and the fact that he symbolizes Nintendo’s family-fun mantra, it’s often easy to forget that there have been some immensely difficult Mario levels over the years. Some of those were apparently so brutal that they were locked in a small box and hidden away, but years later somebody found the key, and The Lost Levels introduces us to some of those nightmarishly hard stages.
World C-3 is one such stage that probably should have stayed lost. It’s a quite ridiculous level that has Mario springing between platforms, but each spring launches him so high into the air that he goes off-screen for about ten seconds each time. You’ll have to guess where he is going to come down and tee up the screen so that he not only lands on a platform but avoids enemies, too — one of which constantly chases you throwing red turtles whenever you land. But it gets worse, the wind speed constantly changes, which pushes you along on the ground and changes how far you’ll glide in the air.
