Every time I always play the game normally (1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-1, etc.) I don't use pipes to skip worlds.
And every time I get to 8-3 and I lose about 5-6 lives there and then I go to 8-4 and I get to that hammer dude and I always die to him. Only 2 times, have I gotten past the Hammer dude and made it to bowser, (dying both times...)
So basically, you're not alone, my friend. You are not alone!
ya i pass it with ease, i just get fire power ( i practiced alot in that level) and kill the hammer bro and always get to normal mario when on bowser. i cant pass him without getting hit.
I beat the whole game like 15 times its easy all of the times except the first 8th and 13th times i had fireballs. but that hammer bro. is hard if you dont have fireballs. and ive beaten bowser with fireballs 9 out of the 12times i had fireballs to kill the hammer bro.
------------------- the man that ruined Sega Bernie Stolar
i can't get there going through the game(would've gotten to 6-4 if my bro wouldn't have restarted the game without continuing) OR using the warp pipes but my mom can and she hasn't played it in 25 years. i downloaded it for my Wii.
I can't say. The farthest I have ever gotten to my knowledge is world 7-4. However, I have seen level 8-4 in a let's play, and it somehow seemed...familiar. Either way though, it looks tough.
Using Warp Zones, the farthest I have gotten is World 8-1, I can't stand the longliness, though.
Not using Warp Zones, I made it to World 3-4, I eventually got a game over on that level, I tried so many times to beat the boss but he kept jumping when I was trying to jump over it.
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