Super Mario Land is a platform video game developed by Nintendo for the Game Boy, released in 1989. In this installment, Mario embarks on a quest to rescue Princess Daisy from the alien Tatanga. The game maintains the traditional gameplay of jumping on enemies and collecting items, featuring distinctive elements such as two shoot-em-up levels where Mario navigates a submarine and an airplane.
Super Mario Land is the first Mario's outing on the Game Boy. It is a side-scrolling platformer much in the vein of the previous Super Mario Bros. This time, Mario must save Princess Daisy, rather than Princess Toadstool, from her kidnapper Tatanga, a mysterious spaceman. The game follows largely the same formula of its aforementioned predecessor, with Mario defeating enemies by jumping on them and collecting coins and power ups by hitting floating blocks, with each world leading up to a boss fight which is defeated using by collapsing the floor. A unique feature of this installment is two scrolling shoot-'em-up levels, the first of which Mario pilots a submarine, and the second an aeroplane.