[furyofantares]

Interesting, it never felt like an arcade game to me. When I'd go to the arcade I avoided Super Mario Bros. It didn't feel like an arcade game like Rampage.

I played it on the NES first (and it was released there before arcades, though I don't think I played until 1989 personally). But I didn't own an NES at the time, so it wasn't that I could play it for free at home.

SMB is a much better game than Rampage. I would also play Excitebike at the arcade, also not nearly as good as SMB.

I guess in an arcade I was looking for simple high score games, I wanted to dream of putting my initials on, but I also wanted to be able to walk away when I died (where in SMB if I got to 8-2 then died I'd wanna go again/continue).

[KerrAvon]

I found Rampage more fun as a concept than SMB, but it doesn’t have the replay value or progression that you really want in a home video game, where SMB does.

I could never get into Excitebike. Controls always felt so awkward.

[johnwalkr]

Rampage is a great game but it’s slow no matter how good you are. With most 2D mario games they nailed the level design such that you can play faster with practice and it’s fun in the same way skiing a familier run faster than last time is fun. The warp zones help replayability too.