@@MelissasArtSame exact feeling here! I loved Mario until after the GC. I think the last great mario game was Sunshine, but it went down hill after that and they have made their games too kiddy. But Mario Maker 1&2 have both been great since you can essentially play the old SMW style.
@jpphilosopher I was such a Nintendo fan girl back in the 90s and early 2000s. I loved Sunshine and even Mario Galaxy. But ever since the Wii day, my interest in Nintendo has waned. I know most love Breath of the Wild, but for me, it isn't Zelda. I'm now a PC gamer. Finally got around to enjoying the Elden Ring DLC. So much fun! And challenging too, I love a challenge. 🙂
I remember when my father and older brother brought home a SNES the day it released. It came with Super Mario World. We stayed up so late playing it that night. Such a great memory.
Showing the different possible ways to get to these exits is a really good touch. My favorite secret exit is the one you have as #7; just such elegant level design to have that so easy to reach but not what most would choose to do intuitively. Nice memories of "simpler times" come up with #3, particularly.
Number 8 is the ultimate reward. The stage with the blue Yoshi. For those not in the know, the blue Yoshi has the ability to fly, regardless of the color of the shell in it's mouth. Number 1 is the exit that started the meme. The sacrificial yoshis
@@ableite It'll give you access to Starworld (2?) where you can get a blue baby Yoshi at the very start, have him eat the freebee superstar to instantly grow up, mount the blue dude and exit the level (pause, then select - only after completing the full level first) to then take your blue Yoshi to the level you're having trouble with. It will help. Tons.
I remember as kids, alot of my friends had a super nintendo and we all were hunting these secret exits. We spend hundrets of hours exploring every single level. After one of us found an exit, we all met in school the next day and told everyone we found another one. After school we immediately rush to our bikes and went to that friends home to show us where it is! Damn man, those were the days! The Internet kids today will never understand
@@Timbo_1 that is a fantastic story and relic of the times! You’re totally right, talking to friends in school, at recess, or on the bus was the main way to figure something out if you were stuck! Absolutely love the camaraderie between you and your friends 🤘
Fantastic list! Back in the day I was missing two secret exits, top secret area and soda lake. My friend had a gaming magazine that has the world map of the game shown and I could see these two levels I did not know existed. I didn’t see how to find them but played explored the levels until I found them.
Really happy to see this list at last! I very much enjoyed how detailed you were with it as always, but also going as far as to show the many different ways one could access these secret exits is such a nice touch. It highlights just how much thought and care the developers put into making all of these levels. I sincerely appreciate the kind of attention to detail and sheer effort that you always put into your videos too. I also think your choices for the list are all spot on. It was so much fun to watch. It gets me in the mood for more Mario World too. Awesome video, dude!
Number 5! When I was a kid and found these secret levels on my own, I knew I'd stumbled across something greater than "just gaming." Like, it was still just a game, but games as a whole became more.
Forest of Illusion 3's Secret Exit was like a huge "A Ha!" moment for me and my. brother. Couldn't for the life of me figure out how to break out of the loop. Then, my brother and I found out the trick on the map that yellow dot levels have 1 exit, and red dot levels have 2+ exits. So, seeing that FOI 3 was a red dot level, we knew there had to be a secret exit somewhere in the level. So, we scoured every pipe, and that second to last one? Roy's Castle, here we come!
Fantastic video, man. Great idea and examinations of why the bonus exits are ranked. I think for those that think the top secret area should be higher is more based on its utility of benefit vs how well hidden the exit is. This is one heck of a classic game and makes me want to play it again
The last secret exit for me was the one that leads to soda lake. But I would always skip the normal exits in Star road because I thought they were useless. It took me a while to figure out they also added to the exit score when you select a file
Me and my buddy were obsessed with fully completing this game. I think he had Nintendo power or something but I remember it took us all summer to find and beat every level. I still play this game every couple years and I forget stuff.
Another piece of advice, this one for valley ghost house. You can actually start the coins moving, then hit the p-switch and ride the blocks. The allows you to steer the blocks while being able to see where they're going. I'd recommend being small so you dont have to run and crouch-slide. Takes some practice to get used to, but might be a little easier than trying to guess where the coins are going off screen
@@Kenyonchowmein I appreciate that so much! Soda Lake was elusive, the credits with Torpedo Ted confused so many kids! The next video is Top 10 Hardest Levels as Small Mario (no yoshi, no power ups, no block palaces, no checkpoints) I already have all the footage, it should be done in about a week! 🙌
@@yadiraflores9415 thank you so much! I’m glad you found this channel, this was the 131st video I’ve made; there’s a lot more top 10s and other unique challenges, I hope you find more that you enjoy! Thanks for watching!
Awesome vid! For Valley Ghost House, I never bothered with the tricky P switch steps but just flew up in a crouch. It would take several tries to time it so it wasn't just a regular takeoff, but you can go up in a crouch and then just zip thru the crack. I also like one of the forest of illusion water levels where there's a piece of wall you can swim through that looks like any ordinary wall.
I obsessed over this game back in the day and it haunted me when the end credits pulled in and there was that bullet character with the long arms and I could never find it , despite thinking I completed everything . I had no idea about that cheese bridge secret exit till today , nearly 30 years after playing this game 😢
I just watched this whole video. I'm surprised I haven't seen a video like this before. Looking back at it now that you made it it seems so obvious but it's so cool that you made this. I remember as a kid in the 90s and eating Super Mario world how annoying it was to see Torpedo Ted show up on the enemy cast, but it was oh so satisfying when I did find that secret at Cheese Bridge Area to get to Soda Lake and even more satisfying that after beating Soda Lake to find that Star Road that's on that tiny isle in the middle you can actually access from the world map and not just have it just be some dead zone
I greatly appreciate your kind words and all of your comments, I enjoyed reading them and hearing your perspective & thoughts on many of the secret exits. The Torpedo Ted credits thing did that to so many of us as kids! It sounds like I should do some more of these with other Mario games, especially with the reception of this one so far. Super Mario World is so awesome though, just had to find a fun format to talk about it that could get some attention! And yes I remember warping to that island before seeing how it connected to Soda Lake… good times!
Man I really gotta hand it to ya, awesome video! Super Mario world was truly a masterpiece of its time, I really loved it. It’s been so long since I’ve played it I really need to revisit it. Watching these ten exits brought back so many memories. The one you put at number 1 drove me crazy trying to get as a kid, but it was so satisfying once I finally did!
Top Secret Area. This game and DKC 1 were the first two games I ever played. It is worth noting that, once I found that level, I went there everytime before I played a new stage (and when I had to repeat castles). Having access to this level made the game a lot more manageable for a 7-8 y/o like myself and really made me apprecite in-game secrets. This is often overlooked, but it really helps child newcomers to be able to pass the game and aleviates a lot of the difficulty of the game, without being intrusive to more experience users. Even without having played this game for over 2 decades (I really should replay it), I still remembered exactly the power ups in the stage and in which block each one was. That is how much I did that action, haha.
Fun fact! In 2 player mode, Top Secret Area won't take away your turn (switch players) like other levels do. It's also good in 2p mode because if you run low on lives, you can grab a yoshi, revisit 3 or 4 times (yoshi becomes lives if you enter with yoshi), and get back into the action. Super useful when there's a big skill gap between 2 players. You can also start+L+R out of the level, and it WILL switch players if you exit it that way, good if 1 player is out of the room for a minute.
Definitely spending most of tomorrow playing this one again, but will hook up the old SNES instead of the classic mini to see if I ever found the Top Secret stage; quite sure I never even did though it doesn't sound that unfamiliar. Still kinda proud that I definitely found all the other secret stages myself (including Soda Lake!), yet still only for knowing from a magazine that the red levels contain a secret exit. My favourite secret exit was the Vanilla Dome level going to the Starworld as it was the first secret I ever found and had me looking out for more. SMW had me grinding for a year at least before I got another game and definitely made me a completionist gamer. SMW couldn't possible expire, ever. Great video dude
No game has ever really organically made me feel like this game did as a single-digit year old in the early 90s. Also your #1 was my favourite to find.
I think a friend of mine showed me how to unlock top secret area. I know the first time playing I had no idea about it. Hell I didn't even realize that red levels meant they had two exits until I was playing the Advance version on GBA.
Really? It's actually really easy to find. Just a Cape feather in the donut ghost house that's it. I've gotten all the secret exits in the game. It is hard to say what the trickiest is, but I personally think soda lake is kind of annoying because you're not really supposed to take Yoshi through cheese bridge area but you have to and then you have to actually literally sacrifice him in order to get under the stage exit so you can get to the right
I found it out of exploration as a kid in the early 90's I remember being able to skip part of the level in the original super mario bros by running on top of blocks so I thought maybe it would work here too
I personally think that the hardest secret is it is keeping Yoshi to the very, very very end of valley space last level before Larry we had to keep Yoshi till he hit that stone wall and have to tell the key out of it to get to the key. That’s the hardest what I think you with so many enemy that could not Yoshi off that it’s just almost impossible unless you’ve got really good man 18:54
@@feliciavale4279 found it i'm sure, but tbh most the special exits i just cheezed them with a blue yoshi. And iirc there is one koopa just close enough to the end that you can eat it and fly under with the blue yosh
For the Valley Ghost house secret exit, there's an easier way to get in. With the cape, if you duck JUST before taking off, you will take off crouched and it makes it really easy to fit through that hole.
Didn't know about the coin direction thing with number two. When I was a kid, I solved it by flying while crouched with the cape. If you build up flight speed, you can slide crouch and then jump. This let's you soar while being small enough to fit in that gap.
The weirdest glitch in chocolate level 3 where it changes the entire game map into different colors and thank you rock keep on playing these epic games
Great list. My 3 favorites are the secret donut plain ghost house secret, fighting a secret miniboss for the first warp star was pretty cool. The second is the chocolate island 2 secret because the level in general had a cool concept with the different ways to be the level. And my personal favorite is the Forrest of illusion water level secret, it was the only one I found by complete accident. I got hit by one of those crazy fishes and my yoshi ran right through the wall, lol.
I always loved getting to star world asap and finishing all of the special levels first so i could play the rest of the game in the alt colors. I have WAY too many memories with this game. My all time favorite
Yeah, the cheese bridge exit I got to by dive bombing and getting it just right. I never really got the hang of flying when I was young until 25 years later so you can guess all the trial and error I had to do. But I was so proud I found top secret area on my own just by messing about. I was the cool kid at school the next day I can tell you haha
Man, I discovered all of these by myself when I was a kid. I don't even know how many hours I spent replaying the levels looking everywhere and trying different things to find secret exits. The ones I struggle the most was finding the exit to the Blue Swith Palace and Soda Lake. I knew something was extremely hidden in the game because the credits will show every enemy you can encounter in the adventure and I had never encountered that one underwater you only find in Soda Lake. Such a great memories.
The top secret area I remember figuring out by mistake when I was a kid. I think I figured out all of the secret doors tbh I played this game so much on the snes
For me, Chocolate Island 2 deserves an honorable mention. Love the way that stage is designed to change depending on certain factors in every area. Getting the key isnt difficult but I do recall you need to have alot of time to reach that area.
@@DoomedDragonz in hindsight, I wish I gave it an honorable mention for its unique time & coin mechanic with the pipe. For me it wasn’t a favorite design bc I like when they’re hidden within the level, and it’s a bit too cryptic to be super fun, I remember waiting around at a pipe just to get a different screen bc I’d always run fast.. kinda makes me wish there was a more obvious indicator, but it IS interesting and unique! Nice profile pic btw, Charmander is great. His original Pokémon card will always be burned into my brain!
@@CurbAppealLLC nice! Welcome back, glad you’re home safe & sound… get yourself hydrated and enjoy some content! Btw, I see you run a lawn service? That’s cool! I’ve done a fair bit of lawns, one of my favorite summers was working on a tree crew. Those wood chippers are so loud!
Watching this makes me want to get the Switch 2 because it's supposed to be backwards compatible, so that means I can have access to these SNES games I grew to love. I have found all of these secret levels. As a kid I found it frustrating to get to some of them, but now when I have chances to play this game I'm able to get them all with relative ease. Plus, it's fun to get to those secret accesses.
8:35 yes every time I do this secret exit I always do it before actually getting all the switches and just fly up there. From what I recall there should actually be a blue Cooper nearby that allows you to fly up there because I've ever eaten one with the yellow Yoshi that you could have to level or maybe I just played it again with the masked couples already since red turns blue and green turns yellow at least for the ones on the ground
@@b-rare it’s never too late, my friend! At least it’s a very common game, it’s inexpensive whether you play it on virtual console or on original hardware. Have fun going back and getting that vengeance 🤘!
@@MarMaxGaming I bought the old consol and everything . I remember selling mine at eb games when a kid for like 10 bucks for all the games and everything lol
One important additional piece of info about secret area is that if you enter with a yoshi, you get a one up from the centre block instead. You can then exit and re-enter, getting as many lives as you need. Helps when trying to complete certain other difficult secrets (cheese bridge flying)
11:06 I didn't even realize there were so many ways to get to that. I mean I've played this game since I was a kid in the 90s and I know where all the secret exits are and even know some other secrets that people never point out such as just flying through tubular with cape and blue Yoshi by eating the flying paratroopers and just having wings. It seems everybody call that tubular level way too difficult because of having to use the balloon, but yeah you can totally cheese it with a cape and blue Yoshi
I actually dreamed about how to access the Cheese Bridge secret area - up to that point, I've never been able to realize how to access it. It literally was revealed to me in a dream.
In Valley Ghost House, all these years and I had NO idea you can control the coins. The way I always got to the keyhole was run and fly, but if you crouch just before jumping, you’ll fly while crouching, so that way I was able to get through the small hole
Man... i didnt find the Cheese Bridge secret exit until well after the N64 came out lol. That star warp on that tiny island always confused me why it was there. I didnt know red blinking levels meant there was alternate exits either, until afterwards. Also, the Torpedo enemy in the credits always confused tf out of me xD
Honestly man, thank you so much for this video! Super Mario World has by far become my favorite Mario game! I just beat it today and it was really fun! This video started making me look places and now I’m finding all kinds of secret exits! Keep up the great work man!
@@AlphaCraftMC-m5m I appreciate your super nice comment and support, I’m glad it was helpful! And I love to hear you’re enjoying those excellent Mario classics
@@MarMaxGaming no problem man, you should upload more of these secret exit videos in other classic Mario games because this was genuinely fun to watch!
I knew them all. Took me a long time as a kid to get them and ill be honest the first few i knew were from my sisters playing it before me because i was younger then them when we got the SNES but once i started playing i was funding them all the time. Even the secret world inside the star road
20+ years and I never found the exit for cheese bridge until now, everything I knew about but never cheese bridge, I used to think that the extra characters in the credits were accidentally left in until today, definitely gonna go back and replay cheese bridge
The exit I never got when I was a wee lad was the one in Chocolate Plains, or whatever, where the block tells you that the coins you get, enemies you fight, and time you spend changes things. Surprised that one wasn't anywhere on this list. I legitimately think it was the last one I ever got.
#1 for sure. I thought I had 100% my copy from childhood. On my first computer, I downloaded the world map as my background and saw the vine hanging off the bridge and thought it was fake. Also, I owe this game getting my first gf. I always played this game with her younger brother when I came over and she adored that.
For #2 you can do it in a way where you first step on the P-switch, start the coin/block chain,m jump on it and build the stairs while you are on there, as once you are there, you only really need to press up and right, which you can do while climbing the stairs. It's way easier to line up the top, but you have less time, as the clock is ticking already.
@@movzhepok3997 that is a very cool and unique bonus of a secret exit, it’s just that it doesn’t take you to an alternate path which is what I was focusing on.. but you’re right, that would’ve been a very cool one to show! I appreciate you watching and commenting!
For #2, you can fly into the gap using spin jump flying then hitting down when you get to the gap & crouch jumping forwarding into the space. Spin jump flying can also get you into a small edge of the gap for an additional jump so you can duck on the 2nd jump & then repeatedly crouch jump forward into the space.
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This game still holds up as one of the best mario games ever.
I hope you have checked out Mario Wonder. It was a pleasure to play!
I agree. I don't really care that much for modern Nintendo. I feel they lost their way after the Game Cube. But each to their own. 🙂
Maybe one of the best games ever!
@@MelissasArtSame exact feeling here! I loved Mario until after the GC. I think the last great mario game was Sunshine, but it went down hill after that and they have made their games too kiddy. But Mario Maker 1&2 have both been great since you can essentially play the old SMW style.
@jpphilosopher I was such a Nintendo fan girl back in the 90s and early 2000s. I loved Sunshine and even Mario Galaxy. But ever since the Wii day, my interest in Nintendo has waned. I know most love Breath of the Wild, but for me, it isn't Zelda. I'm now a PC gamer. Finally got around to enjoying the Elden Ring DLC. So much fun! And challenging too, I love a challenge. 🙂
I remember when my father and older brother brought home a SNES the day it released. It came with Super Mario World. We stayed up so late playing it that night. Such a great memory.
Sounds fantastic! Those were the best of times right there!
Showing the different possible ways to get to these exits is a really good touch. My favorite secret exit is the one you have as #7; just such elegant level design to have that so easy to reach but not what most would choose to do intuitively. Nice memories of "simpler times" come up with #3, particularly.
I remember racking my brain as a kid seeing torpedo Ted in the credits and not knowing where to find him! Absolutely my favorite Mario game!
@@lucascecil6287 so relatable! I also remember that feeling too!
I remember that same feeling plus why is there a star warp in the middle of the water with seemingly no way to get to it
Same here! That was the ONLY hidden exit I never found on my own.
Are you me? I got so confused at the credits.
Exactly!
I remember searching EVERY nook and cranny of that game for secrets. Found all 96 organically as a kid. Man that was a great game.
Number 8 is the ultimate reward. The stage with the blue Yoshi. For those not in the know, the blue Yoshi has the ability to fly, regardless of the color of the shell in it's mouth.
Number 1 is the exit that started the meme. The sacrificial yoshis
For those who dont know? Wtf..
@@ableite It'll give you access to Starworld (2?) where you can get a blue baby Yoshi at the very start, have him eat the freebee superstar to instantly grow up, mount the blue dude and exit the level (pause, then select - only after completing the full level first) to then take your blue Yoshi to the level you're having trouble with. It will help. Tons.
@@awvanroon everybody from the 90's knows that.
I cant wait to get to blue yoshi
@@ableite i didnt
This brings back so many memories ❤️
I remember finding Top Secret Area cause there was a pamphlet about it in my original Mario World SNES telling you about it.
I remember as kids, alot of my friends had a super nintendo and we all were hunting these secret exits. We spend hundrets of hours exploring every single level. After one of us found an exit, we all met in school the next day and told everyone we found another one. After school we immediately rush to our bikes and went to that friends home to show us where it is! Damn man, those were the days! The Internet kids today will never understand
@@Timbo_1 that is a fantastic story and relic of the times! You’re totally right, talking to friends in school, at recess, or on the bus was the main way to figure something out if you were stuck! Absolutely love the camaraderie between you and your friends 🤘
Super Mario World has so many cool bonus areas and secret exits that really stick out. It's why it's still my favorite Mario game to this date.
Fantastic list! Back in the day I was missing two secret exits, top secret area and soda lake. My friend had a gaming magazine that has the world map of the game shown and I could see these two levels I did not know existed. I didn’t see how to find them but played explored the levels until I found them.
Really happy to see this list at last! I very much enjoyed how detailed you were with it as always, but also going as far as to show the many different ways one could access these secret exits is such a nice touch. It highlights just how much thought and care the developers put into making all of these levels. I sincerely appreciate the kind of attention to detail and sheer effort that you always put into your videos too. I also think your choices for the list are all spot on. It was so much fun to watch. It gets me in the mood for more Mario World too. Awesome video, dude!
Number 5! When I was a kid and found these secret levels on my own, I knew I'd stumbled across something greater than "just gaming." Like, it was still just a game, but games as a whole became more.
I would've been upset if that wasn't number 1. A worthy winner.
I feel you bro.
This game was already good - the secret exits made it more fun! I always come back to this game every now and then.
Cheese bridge, it took me ages to figure that one out but I was very happy when I did.
Forest of Illusion 3's Secret Exit was like a huge "A Ha!" moment for me and my. brother. Couldn't for the life of me figure out how to break out of the loop. Then, my brother and I found out the trick on the map that yellow dot levels have 1 exit, and red dot levels have 2+ exits. So, seeing that FOI 3 was a red dot level, we knew there had to be a secret exit somewhere in the level. So, we scoured every pipe, and that second to last one? Roy's Castle, here we come!
Fantastic video, man. Great idea and examinations of why the bonus exits are ranked. I think for those that think the top secret area should be higher is more based on its utility of benefit vs how well hidden the exit is.
This is one heck of a classic game and makes me want to play it again
Solid list.... took me back and definitely made me appreciate my grays. Thanks for this
Nice video idea. SMW is one of the most charming and awesome games from my youth.
The last secret exit for me was the one that leads to soda lake. But I would always skip the normal exits in Star road because I thought they were useless. It took me a while to figure out they also added to the exit score when you select a file
Your #1 on the list took me over 20 years to finally achieve. I did a speed run with Yoshi and Viola! 💯 completion!
Loved Super Mario World, and I love your breakdowns of the secret exits. Great video!
All this sounds took me back .. thanks man
Totally agree with #1. It was the last one I ever discovered and will never forget figuring out you can bring Yoshi through the stage.
Me and my buddy were obsessed with fully completing this game. I think he had Nintendo power or something but I remember it took us all summer to find and beat every level. I still play this game every couple years and I forget stuff.
Another piece of advice, this one for valley ghost house. You can actually start the coins moving, then hit the p-switch and ride the blocks. The allows you to steer the blocks while being able to see where they're going. I'd recommend being small so you dont have to run and crouch-slide. Takes some practice to get used to, but might be a little easier than trying to guess where the coins are going off screen
Love love loved this 🙌
I remember Soda Lake blowing my mind as a kid. No internet or guides back then!
@@Kenyonchowmein I appreciate that so much! Soda Lake was elusive, the credits with Torpedo Ted confused so many kids! The next video is Top 10 Hardest Levels as Small Mario (no yoshi, no power ups, no block palaces, no checkpoints) I already have all the footage, it should be done in about a week! 🙌
@@MarMaxGaming oh sweet! Looking forward to that 🙌
13:00 I never realized that the coin trail followed Mario's direction :O
Doing all this stuff as a young'un was magical.
Awesome content! Really enjoyed this. The amount of gaming videos out there your really felt unique and informative. Love to see more of these.
@@yadiraflores9415 thank you so much! I’m glad you found this channel, this was the 131st video I’ve made; there’s a lot more top 10s and other unique challenges, I hope you find more that you enjoy! Thanks for watching!
Instant classic. Hey btw congrats for your new family, best wishes bruh, game on!
Loved all of these. Nostalgia us beautiful.
Some of these exits took me years to find on my own. Great vid.
Awesome vid! For Valley Ghost House, I never bothered with the tricky P switch steps but just flew up in a crouch. It would take several tries to time it so it wasn't just a regular takeoff, but you can go up in a crouch and then just zip thru the crack.
I also like one of the forest of illusion water levels where there's a piece of wall you can swim through that looks like any ordinary wall.
loved 2 player Super Mario World!
I obsessed over this game back in the day and it haunted me when the end credits pulled in and there was that bullet character with the long arms and I could never find it , despite thinking I completed everything . I had no idea about that cheese bridge secret exit till today , nearly 30 years after playing this game 😢
I just watched this whole video. I'm surprised I haven't seen a video like this before. Looking back at it now that you made it it seems so obvious but it's so cool that you made this. I remember as a kid in the 90s and eating Super Mario world how annoying it was to see Torpedo Ted show up on the enemy cast, but it was oh so satisfying when I did find that secret at Cheese Bridge Area to get to Soda Lake and even more satisfying that after beating Soda Lake to find that Star Road that's on that tiny isle in the middle you can actually access from the world map and not just have it just be some dead zone
I greatly appreciate your kind words and all of your comments, I enjoyed reading them and hearing your perspective & thoughts on many of the secret exits. The Torpedo Ted credits thing did that to so many of us as kids! It sounds like I should do some more of these with other Mario games, especially with the reception of this one so far. Super Mario World is so awesome though, just had to find a fun format to talk about it that could get some attention! And yes I remember warping to that island before seeing how it connected to Soda Lake… good times!
Man I really gotta hand it to ya, awesome video! Super Mario world was truly a masterpiece of its time, I really loved it. It’s been so long since I’ve played it I really need to revisit it. Watching these ten exits brought back so many memories. The one you put at number 1 drove me crazy trying to get as a kid, but it was so satisfying once I finally did!
Top Secret Area. This game and DKC 1 were the first two games I ever played. It is worth noting that, once I found that level, I went there everytime before I played a new stage (and when I had to repeat castles). Having access to this level made the game a lot more manageable for a 7-8 y/o like myself and really made me apprecite in-game secrets. This is often overlooked, but it really helps child newcomers to be able to pass the game and aleviates a lot of the difficulty of the game, without being intrusive to more experience users. Even without having played this game for over 2 decades (I really should replay it), I still remembered exactly the power ups in the stage and in which block each one was. That is how much I did that action, haha.
Fun fact! In 2 player mode, Top Secret Area won't take away your turn (switch players) like other levels do. It's also good in 2p mode because if you run low on lives, you can grab a yoshi, revisit 3 or 4 times (yoshi becomes lives if you enter with yoshi), and get back into the action. Super useful when there's a big skill gap between 2 players.
You can also start+L+R out of the level, and it WILL switch players if you exit it that way, good if 1 player is out of the room for a minute.
@jarrod752 that’s fascinating!! Thank you for including that trivia… very interesting indeed.
I like to hit the Ghost House for the free one ups on the way to the Top Secret area. Great for saves, one ups and gear.
Definitely spending most of tomorrow playing this one again, but will hook up the old SNES instead of the classic mini to see if I ever found the Top Secret stage; quite sure I never even did though it doesn't sound that unfamiliar. Still kinda proud that I definitely found all the other secret stages myself (including Soda Lake!), yet still only for knowing from a magazine that the red levels contain a secret exit. My favourite secret exit was the Vanilla Dome level going to the Starworld as it was the first secret I ever found and had me looking out for more. SMW had me grinding for a year at least before I got another game and definitely made me a completionist gamer. SMW couldn't possible expire, ever. Great video dude
YES, Cheese Bridge's secret exit is definitely my favorite in the game! It's just genius!
No game has ever really organically made me feel like this game did as a single-digit year old in the early 90s. Also your #1 was my favourite to find.
Top Secret Area is the only secret exit I didn't know existed back in the day. As a kid I found everything except that one.
I think a friend of mine showed me how to unlock top secret area. I know the first time playing I had no idea about it. Hell I didn't even realize that red levels meant they had two exits until I was playing the Advance version on GBA.
Really? It's actually really easy to find. Just a Cape feather in the donut ghost house that's it.
I've gotten all the secret exits in the game. It is hard to say what the trickiest is, but I personally think soda lake is kind of annoying because you're not really supposed to take Yoshi through cheese bridge area but you have to and then you have to actually literally sacrifice him in order to get under the stage exit so you can get to the right
@Sly88Frye you can actually fly up there with the cape but it's really difficult. The Yoshi sacrifice makes it a lot easier though.
Someone showed me that one as a kid
I found it out of exploration as a kid in the early 90's
I remember being able to skip part of the level in the original super mario bros by running on top of blocks so I thought maybe it would work here too
Crazy how I found all of these as a teenager with no resources.. Now, replaying it in my 40s, I've had to look up how to find several secret exits
@@illmannered1 it’s important to keep our brain’s “novel play” wheels turning! Glad to hear you’re enjoying and searching in this classic once again!
I feel you man. My brother and I managed to achieved the 96* ranking as kids, as an adult I can never for the life of me get more than 94 🤷🏽♂️
I personally think that the hardest secret is it is keeping Yoshi to the very, very very end of valley space last level before Larry we had to keep Yoshi till he hit that stone wall and have to tell the key out of it to get to the key. That’s the hardest what I think you with so many enemy that could not Yoshi off that it’s just almost impossible unless you’ve got really good man 18:54
That’s a really solid one too :) ! Nice choice!
Man that cheese bridge drove me nuts as a kid
@@Redneck353 Same bro. I searched for like a month when I was a kid for the exit. I don't think I ever found it tbh
@@feliciavale4279 found it i'm sure, but tbh most the special exits i just cheezed them with a blue yoshi. And iirc there is one koopa just close enough to the end that you can eat it and fly under with the blue yosh
That level was tough AF.
@@Redneck353 Blue yoshi is indeed best yoshi
For the Valley Ghost house secret exit, there's an easier way to get in. With the cape, if you duck JUST before taking off, you will take off crouched and it makes it really easy to fit through that hole.
Didn't know about the coin direction thing with number two. When I was a kid, I solved it by flying while crouched with the cape. If you build up flight speed, you can slide crouch and then jump. This let's you soar while being small enough to fit in that gap.
Thanks, I need to play it again. The last one drove me crazy. The signs teased me, but I never figured out how to reach the second goal.
The weirdest glitch in chocolate level 3 where it changes the entire game map into different colors and thank you rock keep on playing these epic games
Great list. My 3 favorites are the secret donut plain ghost house secret, fighting a secret miniboss for the first warp star was pretty cool. The second is the chocolate island 2 secret because the level in general had a cool concept with the different ways to be the level. And my personal favorite is the Forrest of illusion water level secret, it was the only one I found by complete accident. I got hit by one of those crazy fishes and my yoshi ran right through the wall, lol.
Didn't even know number 1 existed 😅 I like number 7 best
I always loved getting to star world asap and finishing all of the special levels first so i could play the rest of the game in the alt colors. I have WAY too many memories with this game. My all time favorite
Super Mario World is a real GEM. The hidden secret exits elevated it to becoming a masterpiece.
the last secret drove me crazy when I was kid. I agree with this list
Yeah, the cheese bridge exit I got to by dive bombing and getting it just right. I never really got the hang of flying when I was young until 25 years later so you can guess all the trial and error I had to do. But I was so proud I found top secret area on my own just by messing about. I was the cool kid at school the next day I can tell you haha
Man, I discovered all of these by myself when I was a kid. I don't even know how many hours I spent replaying the levels looking everywhere and trying different things to find secret exits.
The ones I struggle the most was finding the exit to the Blue Swith Palace and Soda Lake. I knew something was extremely hidden in the game because the credits will show every enemy you can encounter in the adventure and I had never encountered that one underwater you only find in Soda Lake.
Such a great memories.
Damn, 30 years later and I still hadn't found all the secret exits. I didn't know about #2
i never knew about number 3 ! that is cool. learn something new everyday ! thank you good sir
Interesting top 10 topic, I subbed because it seems like you have a lot of different interesting video game videos that other people haven’t made
Very nice retro feelings coming up here! :)
@@dustinbachstein3729 enjoy, my friend! I hope the channel fills you with euphoria and nostalgia ☺️
Great video, so many memories and finding these as a kid
This is a really, really great and useful video. This is why I love UA-cam.
Currently doing a walkthrough of this game and this is the best video I’ve watched so far.
Cheese bridge exit was the last and hardest for me to find. Which made it the most satisfying and memorable.
The top secret area I remember figuring out by mistake when I was a kid. I think I figured out all of the secret doors tbh I played this game so much on the snes
For me, Chocolate Island 2 deserves an honorable mention.
Love the way that stage is designed to change depending on certain factors in every area. Getting the key isnt difficult but I do recall you need to have alot of time to reach that area.
@@DoomedDragonz in hindsight, I wish I gave it an honorable mention for its unique time & coin mechanic with the pipe. For me it wasn’t a favorite design bc I like when they’re hidden within the level, and it’s a bit too cryptic to be super fun, I remember waiting around at a pipe just to get a different screen bc I’d always run fast.. kinda makes me wish there was a more obvious indicator, but it IS interesting and unique!
Nice profile pic btw, Charmander is great. His original Pokémon card will always be burned into my brain!
Im drunk, went out, left the group and now i home. This is so much more fun! Liked and subbed!
@@CurbAppealLLC nice! Welcome back, glad you’re home safe & sound… get yourself hydrated and enjoy some content! Btw, I see you run a lawn service? That’s cool! I’ve done a fair bit of lawns, one of my favorite summers was working on a tree crew. Those wood chippers are so loud!
Watching this makes me want to get the Switch 2 because it's supposed to be backwards compatible, so that means I can have access to these SNES games I grew to love.
I have found all of these secret levels. As a kid I found it frustrating to get to some of them, but now when I have chances to play this game I'm able to get them all with relative ease. Plus, it's fun to get to those secret accesses.
I'm impressed. As a kid I found all but #2.
@@jjj7262 nice job! They get pretty darn tricky to find!
8:35 yes every time I do this secret exit I always do it before actually getting all the switches and just fly up there. From what I recall there should actually be a blue Cooper nearby that allows you to fly up there because I've ever eaten one with the yellow Yoshi that you could have to level or maybe I just played it again with the masked couples already since red turns blue and green turns yellow at least for the ones on the ground
I’ve never fully beat this game as a kid and some of these exits I never found. Glad I can go back now as an adult and finish what I started years ago
@@b-rare it’s never too late, my friend! At least it’s a very common game, it’s inexpensive whether you play it on virtual console or on original hardware. Have fun going back and getting that vengeance 🤘!
@@MarMaxGaming I bought the old consol and everything . I remember selling mine at eb games when a kid for like 10 bucks for all the games and everything lol
@@b-rare moments we wish we could do over again! It’s crazy how expensive a lot of games have gotten, only if we knew back then when the N64 came out!
Great video, awesome list 👍
Beautiful oldskool mario never dies
@@thomaspeters1994 factual statement! And that’s a big ass fish in your picture, congratulations!!
Man this game was so much fun
One important additional piece of info about secret area is that if you enter with a yoshi, you get a one up from the centre block instead. You can then exit and re-enter, getting as many lives as you need. Helps when trying to complete certain other difficult secrets (cheese bridge flying)
11:06 I didn't even realize there were so many ways to get to that. I mean I've played this game since I was a kid in the 90s and I know where all the secret exits are and even know some other secrets that people never point out such as just flying through tubular with cape and blue Yoshi by eating the flying paratroopers and just having wings. It seems everybody call that tubular level way too difficult because of having to use the balloon, but yeah you can totally cheese it with a cape and blue Yoshi
Like soda lake I’ve never seen in my life thanks for sharing
I actually dreamed about how to access the Cheese Bridge secret area - up to that point, I've never been able to realize how to access it. It literally was revealed to me in a dream.
great list
Great video! Handsome guy…secret recipe for sure. Keep cooking on these videos 👍
In Valley Ghost House, all these years and I had NO idea you can control the coins. The way I always got to the keyhole was run and fly, but if you crouch just before jumping, you’ll fly while crouching, so that way I was able to get through the small hole
I knew about all the other secret areas except the last one, soda lake! I thought as a kid I had 100% the entire game! 🤯
Man... i didnt find the Cheese Bridge secret exit until well after the N64 came out lol. That star warp on that tiny island always confused me why it was there. I didnt know red blinking levels meant there was alternate exits either, until afterwards. Also, the Torpedo enemy in the credits always confused tf out of me xD
I found everything! So cool
Honestly man, thank you so much for this video! Super Mario World has by far become my favorite Mario game! I just beat it today and it was really fun! This video started making me look places and now I’m finding all kinds of secret exits! Keep up the great work man!
I meant 2D Mario game mb, super Mario 64 is actually my favorite Mario game of all time
@@AlphaCraftMC-m5m I appreciate your super nice comment and support, I’m glad it was helpful! And I love to hear you’re enjoying those excellent Mario classics
@@MarMaxGaming no problem man, you should upload more of these secret exit videos in other classic Mario games because this was genuinely fun to watch!
I remember playin this after playin the first mario boy what an upgrade 🤯
I knew them all. Took me a long time as a kid to get them and ill be honest the first few i knew were from my sisters playing it before me because i was younger then them when we got the SNES but once i started playing i was funding them all the time. Even the secret world inside the star road
20+ years and I never found the exit for cheese bridge until now, everything I knew about but never cheese bridge, I used to think that the extra characters in the credits were accidentally left in until today, definitely gonna go back and replay cheese bridge
Gotta love that music. Solid edit 👌🏻
Everything you've done I already did with instinct playing this everyday as kid since it came out during the good old block busters days 17:44
@@chris6476 it’s easy to have good instinct when there’s good game design! And yes Block Buster was excellent 👌
The exit I never got when I was a wee lad was the one in Chocolate Plains, or whatever, where the block tells you that the coins you get, enemies you fight, and time you spend changes things. Surprised that one wasn't anywhere on this list. I legitimately think it was the last one I ever got.
@@josephk.8728 it’s a tricky and strange one, I should’ve given it an honorable mention but for the reasons you mentioned it isn’t a favorite of mine!
#1 for sure. I thought I had 100% my copy from childhood. On my first computer, I downloaded the world map as my background and saw the vine hanging off the bridge and thought it was fake. Also, I owe this game getting my first gf. I always played this game with her younger brother when I came over and she adored that.
For #2 you can do it in a way where you first step on the P-switch, start the coin/block chain,m jump on it and build the stairs while you are on there, as once you are there, you only really need to press up and right, which you can do while climbing the stairs. It's way easier to line up the top, but you have less time, as the clock is ticking already.
I was expecting to see the secret exit in the Forest Fortress secret area ! But you made me discover the top secret area @ 3:17. Nice video, thanks !
@@movzhepok3997 that is a very cool and unique bonus of a secret exit, it’s just that it doesn’t take you to an alternate path which is what I was focusing on.. but you’re right, that would’ve been a very cool one to show! I appreciate you watching and commenting!
Ah, before rampant internet use. Found everything in this game through exploration. I didn’t have access to Nintendo Power, too. So fun!
For #2, you can fly into the gap using spin jump flying then hitting down when you get to the gap & crouch jumping forwarding into the space. Spin jump flying can also get you into a small edge of the gap for an additional jump so you can duck on the 2nd jump & then repeatedly crouch jump forward into the space.
I played smw a 100 times and even I learned something from the video
Number 7 was the one I could never find on my own. When someone showed it to me, I was flabbergasted.
You definitely earned a subscription on this video!
@@xXspringsXx that means a lot, thank you and welcome!