Super Mario World Two-Player Playthrough (Actual SNES Capture) - Yoshi's Island

This is part 1 of my capture of me and a friend playing through Super Mario World on the SNES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Super Mario World cartridge. I'm player one (Mario) and Drew is player two (Luigi).

I felt like redoing Super Mario World in higher quality, so here it is in 60 fps. This time Drew helped me out, and he did a great job. I had forgotten that Drew used to play this game all the time as a kid (he had a Super Nintendo as well in the '90s), and that he's pretty skilled at it. In fact, he has probably played the game more times than me.

My brother and I received our Super Nintendo for Christmas of 1992, and since Nintendo hadn't changed the system bundle from its launch the prior year, it still included Super Mario World as the pack-in game. We also received The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Street Fighter II, so we were able to play all three games that holiday. That was one hell of a Christmas.

Even though my family had owned an NES since around 1988, I actually did not become aware of the Super Nintendo until after it was released in 1991. I may have seen TV commercials for the system in late 1991, but I only saw the SNES in person at a friend-of-a-friend's house sometime in 1992 (I think). While I was there I managed to play Super Mario World and instantly got addicted to the game (Yoshi was awesome).

This is an excellent game to say the least, and I never get tired of it, but my all-time favorite Mario game is still Super Mario Bros. 3. However, you can never go wrong with Super Mario World.

This is basically the launch version of Super Mario World, so Mario and Luigi use the same sprite, but with different color schemes. I only found out a few years ago that Nintendo changed Luigi's sprite with the later releases of this game. That was quite surprising.

If you want to see a couple of old school gamers once again playing through this game on the actual hardware, you've come to the right place!

In this first part Drew and I completed Yoshi's Island.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

We're using standard SNES controllers.