Bowser is back, and along with the Bowser kids, he's out to spoil Mario's day once again.

This time, along with nabbing the Princess, the Bowser crew have also taken the magic wands from the Kings of each land and turned them into creatures. It's up to Mario and Luigi to get back the magic wands, defeat Bowser, and save the Princess all before the day is done.

Old and new power-ups abound in each level for the Mario Brothers, including the return of the Super Mushroom and Fire Flower, plus the new power-ups including the frog suit, the warp flute, and the most important of all, the leaf, which allows you to fly and attack enemies with your tail.

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Alternate Titles

"Super Mario Brothers 3" -- alternate spelling
"Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3-e" -- e-Reader Title
"Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3" -- GBA Title
"SMB 3" -- Informal title
"スーパーマリオブラザーズ３" -- Japanese spelling
"スーパーマリオアドバンス４" -- Japanese GBA spelling

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Super Mario Bros. 3
	Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3	Game Boy Advance	$29.99
	Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros.3-e (Series 2)	Game Boy Advance	$40.00
	Classic Nintendo Game Bundle: Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3 for Nintendo	NES	$24.95
	Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros.3-e (Series 1)	Game Boy Advance	$9.36
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User Reviews

I remember the original commercial for this game...	NES	STU2 (72)
Simply Flawless 10/10!	NES	Alex Mills (3)
A must-have for all fans of Mario!	NES	Dark Cloud (35)
MAMA MIA!!! What a game this is! Just the perfect Gameboy game.	Game Boy Advance	Rensch (157)
A masterpiece among Mario's.	NES	MegaMegaMan (301)
Strangely... This scroller is completely perfect.	NES	The Imperial Darkhorse (131)

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The Press Says

GamesAreFun.com (GAF)	Game Boy Advance	Oct 20, 2003	10 out of 10	100
VideoGame	NES	Mar, 1991		100
Video Games	NES	Jun, 1991	95 out of 100	95
GameZone	Game Boy Advance	Oct 19, 2003	9.5 out of 10	95
Game Freaks 365	NES	2006	9.5 out of 10	95
Deeko	Game Boy Advance	Oct 20, 2003	9.5 out of 10	95
IGN	Game Boy Advance	Oct 14, 2003	9.5 out of 10	95
Lawrence	Game Boy Advance	Oct 16, 2003	91 out of 100	91
GameSpy	Game Boy Advance	Oct 21, 2003		90
Jeuxvideo.com	Game Boy Advance	Oct 24, 2003	17 out of 20	85

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Trivia

At some point, Nintendo re-released Super Mario Bros. 3 with a couple of text changes.

If you picked up a copy of SMB3 close to its release date, you may have noticed that Toad ends his N-Spade game instructions with "Miss twice and your out!", which is incorrect, as "your" should have been "you're". However, you also may have noticed that there was no more room in the text box to include an apostrophe. In the new version, Toad says "You can only miss twice!" instead of "Miss twice and your out!". Instead of resizing the text box so they could include an apostrophe, they just rewrote the last sentence using the same amount of characters.

Another change was to Princess Toadstool's letter to Mario after beating World 2. Instead of "Kuribo's shoe," she now says "Goomba's shoe." Kuribo is the Japanese name for Goomba.

As for the credits, the level names were changed to less-creative titles in the new version. Basically, all the names were changed to "Something Land". The changed names are in parenthesis: Grass Land (Grass Land), Desert Hill (Desert Land), Ocean Side (Water Land), Big Island (Giant Land), The Sky (Sky Land), Iced Land (Ice Land), Pipe Maze (Pipe Land), Castle of Koopa (Dark Land).

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