Super Mario Bros.: the really, *really* lost levels

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Most people who know about Super Mario Bros. know about the infamous Minus World glitch. Basically, you slide through a wall, you go down a pipe, you end up in a world that doesn’t really exist; hence, instead of displaying 1-1 or 2-1, it displays -1. (Incidentally, here’s an explanation of why the Minus World works - or rather, doesn’t.)

However, for a while in Japan, the game was re-released on the Famicom Disk System. The FDS was a Japanese-only Nintendo-proprietary floppy-disk game system. And, you might think, surely re-releasing Super Mario Bros. onto a different format entirely might change the way the Minus World works, right?

Well, you’d be right. Watch this video to see how right you are:

Fascinating. The FDS version of the Minus World kind of works!

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