never saw the game over screen. even when i was attempting to beat the crown stage without a tanooki suit. when you have access to the infinite lives trick as early as the second stage, if you run out of lives, you either didn't know the trick, or are just plain terrible.
I seriously don't think I've had a legitimate game over in a Mario game since Super Mario Sunshine. That's not to say that the newer games are easier, they just give you a helluva lot more lives.
Finish the last level by tapping the buttons with your nose..
I tried this, and I really would of got it but see I have a big nose so I kept hitting more then one button :'(
I have always felt there is Succeeding and Not Succeeding... the only way to fail at something is to not try at all. I wouldn't count dying as a failure, per say, but more as "an unsuccessful attempt". I think the topic created, however, was meaning more as a question for "Isn't this game too easy?" I think his point was that you would have to purposely repeatedly kill off all of your lives in order to see the Game Over screen. I know that I, for one, gained at least three to five lives every level I did. Even when I missed that one secret in a dungeon and kept jumping into the fire trying to see if there was a secret wall there... there were always enough coins and a 1-up mushroom on the way back to that spot So that I was gaining an additional life every 3 or so attempts rather than losing lives.