Play Super Mario 3 Expert Online

Super Mario 3 Expert takes the original and cranks up the punishment—hidden blocks ambush you, Lakitu won’t leave you alone, and every jump could be your last. It feels familiar until you realize the game’s quietly rewriting all your muscle memory.

Developer: Nintendo

Genre: Platform

Released: 1990

File size: 953.78 KB

Game Overview

Super Mario 3 Expert is what happens when someone takes an already great game and decides, "You know what? Let’s make it hurt a little." It’s still the same colorful, tight-platforming Mario 3 you remember, but now every jump feels like a gamble—hidden blocks might save you or send you straight into a pit, and Lakitu’s basically your personal nemesis. The levels are remixed just enough to keep you guessing, but not so much that it loses that classic Mario feel.

I thought I was decent at the original until I tried this. The first world lulls you into thinking, "Okay, this isn’t so bad," and then suddenly you’re dodging fireballs in ways the NES never asked you to. It’s brutal but fair—mostly. If you’ve ever wanted to yell at Mario again like it’s 1990, this is the hack for you.