aimlessly wandering my way through wikipedia, i stumbled upon this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._Special

WTF?!?  i know, this is probably old news to a lot of you, but its new to me.  has anyone played it?  i'm sure its probably bad or something, but it just amazes me.

Yeah! I remember that from a long time ago. I was just searching for random crap, too. It seems it's pretty hard to come by, but since it's not NES/Famicom, I never bothered trying to track it down. It's supposed to suck a lot, because of the way the screen scrolls, instead of continuous scrolling, it flips to the next screen once you reach the end of the one you're on.

I found it interesting that Nintendo licensed it to Hudson. :o

This game is horrible, horrible, horrible.  I've played it.  The flip-screen is disasterous and Mario's movement drags badly.

PM me if you want to find out just how bad.

I have the roms for this one as well.  It is bad, but not that bad. :)
~~NGD

I played games that were much worse, but it's bad indeed.