Poll: Can You Still Find Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. And Super Mario 3D All-Stars? - Nintendo Life

Finding out that Super Mario 3D All-Stars was going to have a limited production run and would only be sold digitally until 31st March 2021 provoked some strong reactions from many Nintendo fans.

Sure, there's an argument to be made that anyone who wanted a copy of this compilation game probably picked one up already, but the notion that access to an incredibly popular and important game like Super Mario 64 or Super Mario Galaxy (or Sunshine — yes, we love Sunshine!) was being arbitrarily restricted left a bad taste in the mouth of many gamers.

We bought the game — of course we did — but the feeling that we were being strong-armed into it didn't sit well, and neither did the idea that people who bought a Switch from April 2021 would find it increasingly difficult to track down some of the finest games ever made.

Of course, 3D All-Stars wasn't the only product that Nintendo put out to celebrate Super Mario's 35th anniversary — the Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.

However, we personally have seen both Super Mario 3D All-Stars and the Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.

Even now, nearly four months after the 'death' of Mario, we're able to visit our local department stores, electronics outlets and game-specific retailers and find both sitting on shelves available to buy.

One supermarket chain is selling the Game & Watch for just 39,90€, too, with European outlet Media Markt selling it for 40,99€.

We're wondering if this is just a local phenomenon, or if Nintendo really did go to town when producing this neat little throwback console and deciding print run numbers for 3D All-Stars.

So, let us know if you're able to still get your hands Super Mario 3D All-Stars and the Super Mario Game & Watch console by answering the polls below, and tell us the country you're in in the comments (if you like):.

I work to GameStop a week ago and saw plenty of sealed copies of Super Mario 3D All Stars, and a few MSRP-priced Game & Watches at major online retailers (i.e. Best Buy and Target).

There are still several sealed copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars in my neck of the woods.

As for the Game & Watch, I've seen one or two in the occasional store, but it's way less common.

I fell for that and bought a second copy before end of March.

Most walmarts near me have 50 plus copies of 3D All Stars.

Why do i feel like they're still at least publishing copies of 3D All Stars.

Best Buy still has Mario 3D All Stars available online and in stores.

I already have 2 sealed copies though so I'm good 👍.

There are quite a lot stocks of Mario 3D All Stars in Indonesia from Tokopedia.

There's still people that wanted to buy the game with a Switch that didn't get the opportunity to earlier.

Is still in stock so long as the Switch is still being sold.

To be honest, Nintendo could have saved themselves a lot of grief if they hadn’t announced 3D All Stars was only a 6-month physical print run because I think people wouldn’t have really noticed (besides it being taken off the eShop, which is unacceptable.).

Picked up a switch game yesterday and saw bunch of them in store.

Went to the MediaMarkt (big chain of tech stores, in case you don't know it) in Heerlen, The Netherlands last week and counted 7 copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars on shelves.

I can find multiple copies at every videogame store.

What if they made more copies exactly because of those complain.

@GoldenSunRM Lol, pretty sure they (like everyone else) manufacture responding to demand, not complaints...

Just googled it and I still could easily order copies of SM3D-All Stars for about 50-55€ (it was 60€ when it released) at many online shops.

It seems like stock for 3D All-Stars is starting to dry up in stores around me, but it's still pretty easy to find.

I see the Game & Watch all over the place, though.

Sorry for ppl who believed a game selling that many copies would poof n vanish, seemed obvious from very beginning it wouldn't.

Right before the 3D All Stars was "discontinued," I saw many people in stores buying up lots of copies!

Then within a couple weeks all the stores had a TON of copies.

And now they just sit there.

There's like, six or seven plastic things with these three comically large, Mario-engraved coins just hanging on a shelf.

My Best Buy always has preorder bonuses lining the shelves (they had the Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee steelbook available for the longest time, just to name one), so it's funny to see just how much demand there is for that kind of thing in my area!

A lot of shops in Finland sell the game and watch for 39.95€.

Collectively, the region I work has an estimate of 1,000+ Mario 3D All-Stars.

I bought 6 copies for $45 each, and stored 5 of them.

I bought the Mario one at slightly below the RRP but it dropped further near release and I could have had it really cheap.

I don't need the Zelda one at all and I'm being really sensible and if it drops like the Mario one I will jump, if not then I will survive.

Here in my city (one of the lesser important capitals of Mexico) I still see a couple of copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars and a few Game & Watch, the latter being sold cheaper than the MSRP.

Really hope the upcoming Zelda Game & Watch is as available as the Mario one.

Off-topic: It hurts me to see a Tomodachi Life copy available that I cannot get on a shelf of the third picture when none of the stores around my area have it, not even second-hand copies.

When the Switch is discontinued, the price will go up.

Edit: I also want to mention there was also never anything said about the game (outside of the eShop) just disappearing off of shelves after March 31st, just to clarify the statement over its availability.

I assume Nintendo only meant production of the game would cease after March.

I get the feeling that the number of 3D All-Stars copies still in circulation in retailers far outnumber that of certain current games that were never stated to be a limited release, such as Xenoblade 2.

Nintendo dubbing this as "This Disney Vault" of Mario is really funny in retrospect.

And looking online, I see that the nearby Target has the Game & Watch!

I need to get the Game & Watch!

Same for Game & Watch.

The people who tried to be amateur scalpers and bought one or a few of these, thinking they will sell in the future for a fortune, will probably fail, it's just like in the 1990s, when people thought that just because comics like Action Comics #1 became worth millions, it means I can buy comics with #1 on them as an investment and become rich, these comics are still worth nothing today.

It's supply and demand, for common items to become valuable items worth millions, they need to be rare, and things people want, with millions circulating on the market, this will take decades to work, and with people buying copies not to play, but to resell in the future, it means everyone doing this is sabotaging each other, plus, this collection was always terrible and it's the original versions of these games that are worth something to collectors.

They're in every place that sells Switch games.

We fell for the 'last date' ploy and bought a copy.

Nintendo held up their end, and made much in expectation of Mario market demand?

I hope all those scalpers got severely burnt lol, like when they bought hundreds of 3DS games in Argos' clearance sale, only to get lumbered with a giant stack of unsellable copies of Teddy Together.

Last time I went to my local WalMart, there were 3 copies left of All Stars?

I went to Walmart just yesterday and saw some copies of 3D All Stars.

This is a bit off-topic, but as a veteran of the console wars between Sega and Nintendo, I find it amusing to see an Alex Kidd game sitting right beside a Mario game on the shelf.

Yeah, I know Sonic games have been sold alongside Nintendo games for years, but Alex Kidd is the one who was inspired more by Mario and marketed as Sega's first mascot.

And super Mario 3d world was the number one selling game so far in Europe.

I think nintendo lied about them being limited run just to make people "panic buy" and cause the sales to spike?

I've seen no shortage of copies of 3D all stars or game and watch anywhere?

Not only that, but I work at Walmart and electronics shipments come in and more copies of 3d all stars for switch came in recently.

It's not limited run like they said.

Regardless, makes me laugh because you have scalpers trying to sell both for hundreds of dollars on eBay and Mercari just for it to be normal price at any store and still in stock.

Especially not discontinued products like these.

Also, we have tons of 3D All-Stars and mountains of the Game & Watch.

I actually bought one of the game and watches last week.

@UmbreonsPapa I mean I never said anything about the games just poofing after the set date, that's exactly why I said in my original comment "it's still too early" because I want to know how this looks say the upcoming christmas, so that's not the point being made for anyone who's trying to counter that for some reason.

@Paraka This doesn't really oversee anything just because Nintendo didn't go about it the usual way.

@victordamazio I believe video games are very different, any sealed first party Nintendo game will worth a lot of money at some point.

The local toy store here (Suburban Holland) had a Mario Game&Watch on the shelf, no idea about "3D all stars", carts with to-be-sorted stock were standing in front of the shelves for Switch games.

The las time I checked the big stores here in Puerto Rico, they still had plenty of Super Mario Game & Watch systems?

The Mario Game & Watch, though, there are literal stacks of them piled up behind the glass at my local Walmart.

It's like saying pumpkin spice flavor should be year-round cause it being a "seasonal" thing is illogical.

Nintendo just chose to consider selling SM3DAS in a limited print, and their course was intentionally to celebrate only the 35th anniversary

The argument is like demanding access to all anniversaries in Fortnite or other such multi-player games simply because you now bought the game, instead of when it was around

I mean, with that argument, we should be more upset that Nintendo shipped less of Xenoblade 2 and no copies can be found at MSRP

"Hurry and get a Game & Watch before scalpers catch them all!!!"

And as for Super Mario Bros

Eastern Europe, Marios are still in every store that sells Switch games, so far never gone up in price

Sony and Microsoft just released new consoles and all the games are there for as long as we want

I’d pay $20 for a Game and Watch, but short of that I’ll pass

I'd like to TRY and say outright that I am a Nintendo fan and I'm not here to just say negative things for the sake of it but again, I made the mistake of pointing out an anti-consumer practice on a fan site

And no, this doesn't excuse Nintendo's other stock shortages either, this one is just far more noticeable due to Mario being the bigger name, so yes I would say the exact same thing about Xenoblade, but I get that people on here have this idea that "Nintendo's done it before, so it's okay to do it again, and again"

I don't know who "everybody" is to you but my brother has yet to get a Switch

He wants a Switch and wants SM3DAS to go with it but for the moment it's not something he can focus on right now for multiple financial reasons

Ninja scalper, the thought of it just shocks me to the core

Mario Bros 1,2,3 and Super Mario World were my fav Mario games

The ones which came after it just didn't interest me in the slightest

I would say pretty much everybody who currently owns a console has had ample opportunity to buy this game, and as of this moment it looks like stock will be available for some time, can't promise everybody who buys a console in the future will be catered for, but that is just how it is, if I were in a similar position I would make buying the game my first priority, as getting a Switch will always be an option

Any emulator can play all three of these games and often better than how Nintendo released them on Switch

I played Super Mario 64 at 60 fps via my web browser using a PS5 controller on a 4k monitor..

until Nintendo can top that experience with their re-release of that game then I'm not spending a dime

Yes, I've still seen 3D All-Stars copies in stores

I've never seen a single Mario Game and Watch, even before they were discontinued

This isn't the first time Nintendo has done this, and quite often one doesn't celebrate 35 years of Mario for another 5 years

@B_Lindz the inability or unwillingness to tinker with emulators is most likely why anyone who is aware of those options still bought a copy

I have so little time to game anymore I'd rather just spend a little cash to get a copy of an old title that I know will work out of the gate

I remember a certain Nintendo website claiming that March 31 was the “day that Mario dies” and Nintendo is evil for making 3D All Stars a limited time release, preventing millions of future Switch owners a chance to purchase the game

“Preorder Mario Game and Watch because scalpers will hoard the tiny amount Nintendo produces!” Whoops

Same with the Game and Watch

I just saw Mario 3D all stars at Best Buy and almost tempted me to buy my 3rd copy but I resisted

I miss Super Mario Bros

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