Super Bowl XXIV coaches; rookie head coach George Seifert took over after Bill Walsh retired following the previous season's Super Bowl. The 49ers finished the 1989 regular season with a league best 14–2 record. The Broncos, who posted an 11–5 regular season record, entered the Super Bowl looking to avoid tying the Minnesota Vikings with four Super Bowl losses as well as the Vikings record of losing three Super Bowls in four years. This game remains the most lopsided game in Super Bowl history. San Francisco's 55 points were the most ever scored by one team, and their 45-point margin of victory was
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels felt that the game was an unoriginal, boring retread, and apart from its "pointlessly cruel" difficulty, not worthy of the player's time. "GamesRadar" and "IGN" agreed with Nintendo of America's choice against releasing the harder game in the 1980s, though "Eurogamer" thought that "The Lost Levels" was "technically a much better game" than the "Doki Doki Panic"-based "Super Mario Bros. 2" the American market received instead. "The Lost Levels" is remembered among the most difficult games by Nintendo and in the video game medium. Three decades after the game's release, "Kotaku" wrote that the demanding player precision required in "The