5 minutes
Super Mario Bros 3
Across two sessions on March 5 and March 9, 2013, Nick and I ran through Super Mario Bros 3. What was done differently this time is we wanted to rate the difficulty of each stage (1 easiest -> 10 hardest).
Overall the average diffulty on the 90 levels was 3.6 / 10. (I hope there are 90 levels total, i didn’t count).
Here are the summaries:
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| | Nick | Tom |
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| avg diff w/ zeroes | 2.37 | 1.23 |
| total diff points beaten | 213 | 111 |
| levels beaten | 54 | 36 |
| avg diff per level beaten | 3.94 | 3.08 |
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Here are the full level logs:
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| name | level | difficulty | notes/deaths |
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| nick | 1-1 | 1 | |
| tom | 1-2 | 1 | |
| nick | 1-4 | 2 | white mushroom |
| tom | 1-3 | 1 | |
| nick | fort | 1 | |
| tom | 1-5 | 1 | |
| nick | 1-6 | 1 | |
| tom | airship | 2 | |
| nick | 2-1 | 1 | |
| tom | 2-2 | 1 | |
| nick | fort | 1 | |
| tom | 2-3 | 1 | |
| nick | sun | 3 | nick 1, tom 1 |
| tom | 2-4 | 1 | |
| nick | pyramid | 2 | |
| tom | 2-5 | 2 | |
| nick | airship | 3 | |
| tom | 3-1 | 2 | |
| nick | 3-2 | 2 | |
| nick | 3-3 | 3 | tom 1 |
| tom | fort | 2 | tom 1, nick 1 |
| nick | 3-4 | 3 | |
| tom | 3-5 | 2 | |
| nick | 3-6 | 2 | |
| tom | 3-7 | 2 | |
| nick | 3-8 | 4 | |
| tom | 3-9 | 3 | |
| nick | fort 2 | 3 | |
| tom | airship | 4 | tom 2, nick 2 |
| nick | 4-1 | 2 | |
| tom | 4-2 | 2 | |
| nick | 4-3 | 3 | nick 1, tom 1 |
| tom | fort | 3 | tom 1 |
| tom | 4-4 | 2 | |
| nick | 4-5 | 3 | |
| tom | 4-6 | 3 | nick 1 |
| nick | 4-7 | 3 | |
| nick | airship | 5 | |
| tom | 5-1 | 3 | |
| nick | 5-2 | 3 | |
| tom | fort | 4 | |
| nick | 5-3 | 2 | |
| tom | fort | 3 | |
| nick | 5-4 | 3 | |
| tom | 5-5 | 2 | |
| nick | 5-7 | 3 | |
| nick | 5-6 | 4 | tom 1 |
| tom | fort | 3 | |
| nick | 5-8 | 4 | |
| nick | 5-9 | 5 | tom 3, nick 2 |
| nick | airship | 5 | tom 2, nick 1 |
| tom | 6-1 | 4 | |
| nick | 6-2 | 4 | |
| nick | 6-3 | 4 | |
| tom | fort | 5 | tom 1, nick 1 |
| tom | 6-4 | 3 | nick 1 |
| nick | 6-6 | 3 | |
| nick | 6-5 | 5 | |
| nick | 6-6 | 7 | |
| tom | fort | 4 | |
| nick | 6-8 | 4 | |
| nick | 6-9 | 4 | tom 1 |
| nick | 6-10 | 4 | tom 1 |
| tom | fort | 5 | tom 1, nick 1 |
| nick | airship | 5 | |
| tom | 7-1 | 3 | |
| nick | 7-2 | 4 | |
| nick | 7-3 | 4 | tom 2, nick 1 |
| tom | 7-4 | 5 | |
| nick | 7-5 | 4 | |
| nick | fort | 5 | tom 1 |
| nick | 7-6 | 6 | tom 1 |
| tom | pirahna | 7 | tom 3, nick 3 - (p-wing) |
| nick | 7-7 | 7 | |
| tom | 7-9 | 5 | |
| nick | 7-8 | 6 | |
| nick | fort | 6 | tom 1 |
| nick | pirahna 2 | 5 | tom 1 |
| tom | airship | 8 | tom 2, nick 2 - (p-wing) |
| nick | 8-tank | 6 | tom 1, nick 1 |
| nick | 8-water | 6 | tom 2, nick 1 |
| tom | hand 1 | 3 | |
| nick | hand 2 | 3 | |
| tom | hand 3 | 3 | |
| nick | 8-air | 9 | nick 2, tom 2 - (p-wing) |
| nick | 8-1 | 6 | tom 1 |
| nick | 8-2 | 5 | tom 1 |
| nick | fort | 8 | we both died lots |
| tom | tank | 6 | |
| nick | bowser | 6 | tom 1, nick 1 |
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