Play Super Mario Quest Demo 3on8 Online

Ever dug through old SNES ROMs and found something weirdly wonderful? That’s Super Mario Quest Demo 3on8—a fan-made love letter to Super Mario World, but with this off-kilter charm, like someone remixed your favorite song and snuck in a few surprise notes. The jumps feel familiar, but then you grab a power-up that absolutely shouldn’t exist, or land on a platform that wobbles just a little too much. It’s janky in the best way, like playing a prototype cartridge you found at a garage sale.

First ten minutes: You’ll recognize the physics, but the level design has this homemade energy—secret paths where they shouldn’t be, enemies that move just slightly wrong (or maybe right?). It’s short, but the kind of demo that makes you grin when you realize someone out there made this purely for the joy of tinkering with Mario’s world. Perfect for when you’ve 100%’d the original and need something that feels new yet weirdly nostalgic.