Editing Super Mario Land (section)

=== Contemporary reviews ===
{{Video game reviews
| title = Contemporary reception
| CVG = 93%<ref name=CVG />
| EGM = 31/40<ref name="EGM review" />
| PO = 98%<ref name="Player One" />
| TGM = 94%<ref name="Games Machine" />
| rev1 = ''[[Mean Machines]]''
| rev1Score = 90%<ref name=MM />
}}

Many critics saw ''Super Mario Land'' as a "smaller" and shorter version of ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''<ref name="IGN review" /><ref name=CVG /><ref name="EGM review" /><ref name="Eurogamer: eStore" /><ref name=MM /> At the time of its release in 1989, reviewers were excited to have a portable ''Mario'' game.<ref name="Eurogamer: eStore" /> Paul Rand of ''[[Computer and Video Games]]'' called the game "an [[arcade machine]] in your pocket" and the graphics "remarkable" for their size.<ref name=CVG /> French games magazine ''[[:fr:Player One|Player One]]'' said that ''Super Mario Land'' adequately compromised where necessary to bring Mario to a portable device.<ref name="Player One" /> [[Electronic Gaming Monthly|''Electronic Gaming Monthly''{{'}}s]] Steve Harris considered the game "fantastic" and "very fun to play", though short.<ref name="EGM review" /> Ed Semrad and Donn Nauert of the same outlet both declared ''Super Mario Land'' "easily the best Game Boy cart" of the time.<ref name="EGM review" />

Tony Mott of ''Superplay'' said the game proved that Nintendo's Game Boy "had playability to match" its competitors.<ref name=Superplay /> Matt Regan of ''Mean Machines'' agreed: "Playability to the nth degree!".<ref name=MM /> British magazines ''Mean Machines'' and ''[[The Games Machine]]'' both commented on the many secrets to find.<ref name=MM /><ref name="Games Machine" /> ''Player One'' too complimented the music.<ref name="Player One" /> ''Player One'' further pronounced ''Super Mario Land'' a "masterpiece", "the pinnacle of portable video gaming".<ref name="Player One" />