In the realm of classics I really have not played that much, and coupling that with the fact that i'm slowly running out of internal hard-drive space and NES games are very very small files, I felt compelled to give this a shot. I definitely enjoyed myself, though i'm still not much of a platformer fellow (besides maybe being a bit of a fiend for Rayman Origins several years ago). I fully understand the huge influence and beloved nature of the game, considering a lot of what occurs here has been reused, reworked or referenced in other Mario or general platformer games ever since it was released, and I definitely appreciate it a lot but I feel that at least on my first playthrough it was great but didn't blow me away. That is perhaps because I don't platform very often, perhaps because I didn't grow up with it, and perhaps because I was just a little bit shit at it, but that's ok as I definitely enjoyed myself. Although I would like to say, Worlds 7 and 8 are a pain in the arse and kicked my teeth in multiple times, felt like a hell of a difficulty spike but perhaps I was just not very good and being quite lazy. Either way, I enjoyed it and I get why it's such a huge historic game.