Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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Here's a bit of trivia: Did you know Hudson Soft had originally pitched the PC engine to Nintendo as the successor to the Famicom? Nintendo obviously rejected it, preferring instead to make their own 16 bit console when they felt the time was right, and let's be honest here, they made the right choice, as their Super Famicom went on to become the most capable and successful console of that generation!
But in an alternate reality where they might have accepted Hudson's offer and the PC engine was the Super Nintendo, their absolute masterpiece Super Mario Bros. 3 could have sounded more or less like this! (Maybe)
As for how it could have looked like, well, the way it already looks on the SNES remake isn't far off from what it could have looked like on the PC engine, minus all the parallax scrolling of course, I don't really see Nintendo going out of their way to add parallax to a game on a system with only 1 BG layer, they barely did it on the NES or the GB/GBC so they most likely wouldn't have done it here either...
I've been wanting to cover Mario music for an eternity, and I've done a couple from his Game Boy games, but now I FINALLY got around to one of the main-line games! Here's hoping Nintendo doesn't drop the ban-hammer on this one xD
Enjoy!
Check out my bandcamp: michirin9801.bandcamp.com
Support my music!
Here's a bit of trivia: Did you know Hudson Soft had originally pitched the PC engine to Nintendo as the successor to the Famicom? Nintendo obviously rejected it, preferring instead to make their own 16 bit console when they felt the time was right, and let's be honest here, they made the right choice, as their Super Famicom went on to become the most capable and successful console of that generation!
But in an alternate reality where they might have accepted Hudson's offer and the PC engine was the Super Nintendo, their absolute masterpiece Super Mario Bros. 3 could have sounded more or less like this! (Maybe)
As for how it could have looked like, well, the way it already looks on the SNES remake isn't far off from what it could have looked like on the PC engine, minus all the parallax scrolling of course, I don't really see Nintendo going out of their way to add parallax to a game on a system with only 1 BG layer, they barely did it on the NES or the GB/GBC so they most likely wouldn't have done it here either...
I've been wanting to cover Mario music for an eternity, and I've done a couple from his Game Boy games, but now I FINALLY got around to one of the main-line games! Here's hoping Nintendo doesn't drop the ban-hammer on this one xD
Enjoy!
