The ones that leap out of water to get you on world 3 were already quite stressful.
That fish didn’t terrify me near as much as the angry sun though. Back then I often did “almost complete” runs where I’d just kept a lakitu cloud to skip the sun level from world 8.
SMB3 4-1, blinking at the screen, hands frozen, muttering “It… it ate me.”
The ones that leap out of water to get you on world 3 were already quite stressful.
That fish didn’t terrify me near as much as the angry sun though. Back then I often did “almost complete” runs where I’d just kept a lakitu cloud to skip the sun level from world 8.