Super Mario Land
"Super Mario Land" is remembered for its miniaturized "Super Mario" elements and "twist on just about every Mario mainstay imaginable". Many of its new elements do not recur later in the series, making "Super Mario Land" strange compared to the rest of the series, or what IGN's Thomas described as a "singular oddball". IGN's Marc Nix said retrospectively that "Super Mario Land" was the only uninspired "Mario" game, with "funky voids of white" and UFOs instead of the "strikingly original" Mushroom Kingdom. "Mean Machines" was also put off by the alien theme, easy difficulty, and dot matrix screen blur. IGN's Travis Fahs wrote that the game was comparatively not as "ambitious" as "Super Mario Bros. 3". "Mean Machines" said it was not "a true "Mario" game", not worth its originally high review score, and "in retrospect, not really a classic". Glen Fox of "Nintendo Life" agreed, writing that it was an impressive achievement at the time but did not age as well as other "Mario" games.