The Most Hidden Powerup in Super Mario Bros.

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[Kosmicd]

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[SummoningSalt]

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[TofuRabbit]

Oh my god i KNEW i was not crazy, i found some of these hidden one ups locations and it would confuse the heck out of me when sometimes they just, weren't there. This is some decade year old mystery solved for me, thank you for making this video lmao

[MrCheeze]

Wow, I had no idea that there was such a little known mechanic in such well understood game. I guess part of the reason for the obscurity is that most people know about all the warp zones long before they start paying much attention to hidden 1-ups other than the first one.

"All 1ups" seems like a mildly interesting speedrun idea, if only for having to actually pay attention to coins for once in the "Pod Worlds".

[corrineholman]

I actually knew this one! I think it’s because as a kid I was obsessed with NES and noticed that sometimes I’d get the hidden 1-ups and sometimes not. Then I’d keep track of what I did differently and narrowed it down to -3 coins. I never looked for exact values, but I just kinda collected them all to test my theories.

Great vid! Reminded me of a lot of old memories and it’s definitely something I think most people would never connect.

[wton]

Finally I get why sometimes I couldnt grab de 1UP on the 3-1 bridge! It drove me crazy when I was a kid. Nearly 30 years after I find peace of mind. Thanks Kosmic!

[BB-tetc]

As a kid, I knew about these 1UPs and the fact that they weren't always there, but I wrongly assumed it had something to do with whether you used warp zones or not. Very cool!

[Arioksu]

It's funny to mention that, according to the Super Mario Bros. set in RetroAchievements, the 1-up on stage 7-1 is the least collected hidden 1-up in the game (with 3.81%). Followed by 6-1, 8-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 2-1, 8-2, 1-2, and obviously 1-1.

[Eight-Bytes]

HOLY SHIT SO I'M NOT CRAZY FOR THINKING SOMETIMES THEY'RE NOT THERE. I would always pass by the one bridge in the night level and remembered the hidden 1-Up, but sometimes it wouldn't show up so sometimes I felt like I was remembering it wrong, or it was a different level entirely. Super informational video, now I know how the mechanics work.

[LordBarros]

Accurate. I played the game at 6 years old when it first came out. I knew about every hidden 1-up except for 7-1. Mind blown.

[Pixelcraftian]

Can’t believe I learnt something new about the OG Super Mario Bros. in 2022, amazing stuff :D

[TheMAZZTer]

The great thing about the Mario 35 limited time game was that it encouraged you to find all the hidden powerups as they gave you an advantage.

[nonamelegend_vapor]

The 1UP mushrooms in 2-1 and 4-1 (and sometimes 3-1) haunted me forever. Sometimes they were there, sometimes not. Now I know why. Thanks for the closure, my man

[MegAmi]

3:22 I'm gonna be real, for years I thought it was impossible to do this and the screen always seemed to scroll just far enough for me to be unable to enter the pipe every time I've tried, seeing you casually pulling it off blew my mind

[KCzz]

Reminds me of the 7 hidden powerups in Super Mario Bros 3.

In that game once per world there's a stage with a lot of coins that are very hard to collect, and if you collect enough of them from those worlds in spawns a toad house with one of the rarest powerups in the game in it. One of the two types of powerup spawns exclusively there and is mentioned in the manual, when I was much younger I could never figure out the mystery of how to spawn that one powerup and nobody I knew figured it out either.

[Mallory]

That was indeed the last 1-up mushroom I found in the game, after realizing that one must exist in the level.

[MaximRecoil]

I first started playing this game in 1986 when I was 11 at my cousin Mike's house, who was also 11. There was no common knowledge about SMB at the time because the NES had only been available nationwide in the US for a week or two when Mike got one, and we didn't know anyone else who had one yet. For example, Mike hadn't even tried going down a pipe, climbing a vine, or jumping up on top of the ceiling before I suggested those things, the latter of which led to us discovering the warp zone in world 1-2. Once we discovered warp zones we only played 1-1, 1-2, 4-1, 4-2, and 8-1 through 8-4.

Once I got my own Nintendo in '88 or '89, I continued playing like that. So for decades I only knew about the invisible block 1UP mushrooms in 1-1 and 4-1 (I never knew about the one in 8-1 until just now, from watching this video). Then, about 10 years ago I decided I should beat the game without using any warp zones, and to my surprise, the one in 4-1 wasn't there. I asked about it on a forum, and was told that I have to collect all the coins in 3-3 in order for the 4-1 1UP to be there. So I tried that and it worked.

[grunkleg.]

I love when games include these seemingly useless mechanics that serve mostly as knowledge checks. I think my favorite of these is the Cat-Eye Circlet in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, an item you find in the Catacombs that claims to have benefit of healing you when you get hit with a "cat" attack. Some of the item descriptions in SotN flat out get things wrong, so perhaps this could be a mistranslation. It actually isn't a mistranslation, but it may as well be. Functionally, you heal from two decently easy to dodge attacks from one type of witch enemy which spawns in a single area in the entire game that's very out of the way (literal opposite end of the map) and isn't even required to beat the game

[Nick-ymgh]

my dad tought i was crazy when i told him that this 1 up is not there all the time in 3-1; i tried different things and thought it has something to do with entering the pipe in the same stage; thanks for clearing that up!

[zaku]

I got so curious about this when you mentioned a 1-up that only appears after getting all the coins in a level, I'm glad you covered this in more detail!