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Super Mario World

Branching saved overworld with hidden exits turned 2D platform campaigns into explorable maps.

Released 1990 Developer Nintendo EAD Publisher Nintendo Platform SNES Genre Platformer Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Super Mario World inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Continuous Scrolling Playfield 1980Parallax Depth Layers 1982Momentum-Based Platform Control 1985Battery-Backed Save File 1986

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