Wow, Super Mario Bros Special looks terrible. Very strong evidence that the main reason the NES was so successful was its easy to use hardware scrolling. Just one write to a memory mapped register and you were set (sort of).
I'm missing the significance of quoting the screenshot captions. The parent post was suggesting that the NES provided a platform that made it easy to create sidescrolling games. From the article, one of the major failures of this game is the lack of decent side-scroll.
DanBC|11 years ago
The article says "Super Mario Bros. Special - PC-88, Sharp X1, Samsung SPC-1500 (1986)"
Here's the caption for the first screenshot "Super Mario Bros. Special (PC-88)"
For the second "Super Mario Bros. Special (PC-88)"
And for the third "Super Mario Bros. Special (PC-88)"
Maybe one of the reasons the NES was so popular was that games were very good?
pyre|11 years ago