New Super Mario Bros.

aka: NSMB, New Chāojí Mǎlìōu Xiōngdì

Released

May 15th, 2006 on Nintendo DS

Releases by Date (by platform)

2006 (Nintendo DS)
2015 (Wii U)

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Moby Score

8.4

#460 of 158K

Critics

88% (107)

Players

(109)

Ranking

#15 on Nintendo DS

Collected By

388 players

Genre: Action
Perspective: Side view
Visual: 2D scrolling
Gameplay: Arcade
Mini-games
Platform
Interface: Direct control
Setting: Fantasy

Buy (updated 6/3 4:00 AM)

Nintendo DS
$29.85 used, $98.91 new at Amazon $12.04 used, $74.50 new at eBay
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Description official descriptions

In an all new 2D side-scrolling adventure, Mario and Luigi return after nearly fifteen years. The first traditional Mario Bros. game since Super Mario World.

The character models are rendered in real time 3D, allowing for a far greater number of moves ever before seen in a Mario Bros. title. Also as the game is on DS, the touch screen allows players to store an additional power-up and view the distance still to go in a level.

Bowser and Bowser Jr. has kidnapped Princess Peach, and of course, it is up to Mario and Luigi to rescue her and take down the troublemakers. There are eight new worlds to explore, much like in Mario 3: they are Plains, Desert, Tropical Island, Forest, Ice, Mountains, Sky, and Bowser's Lair.

The eight worlds have eighty distinct levels as well as many secrets that will only be found on careful examination. There are also many new power-ups (the mega mushroom and Koopa shell, for instance) for the brothers to collect.

Spellings

New 超级马力欧兄弟 - Chinese spelling (Simplified)
ニュー・スーパーマリオブラザーズ - Japanese spelling
뉴 슈퍼 마리오브라더스 - Korean spelling

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Credits (Nintendo DS version)

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General Producer	Takashi Tezuka
Producer	Hiroyuki Kimura
Director	Shigeyuki Asuke
Assistant Directors	Masahiro Imaizumi Taku Matoba
Map & Level Design	Masataka Takemoto Yasuhisa Yamamura Kosono Okina Haruka Kakinuma Shinya Hiratake
Design Director	Masanao Arimoto
Character Design	Daisuke Kageyama Akiko Hirono Hirohito Shinoda Ryūji Kobayashi
Field Design	Yasuyo Iwawaki Miki Watanabe
World Map Design	Taeko Sugawara Hirotake Ōtsubo
UI Design	Hidekazu Ota Takahiro Hamaguchi
Effects Design	Keijiro Inoue Motoaki Fukuda Sayaka Nishimura
Design Assistance	Mariko Sanefuji
[ full credits ]

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Discussion

Subject	User	Date
So far, I've got mixed feelings...	DarkBubble (375)	2007-09-28 16:39:22

Trivia

Competition

To celebrate Mario's 20th anniversary, Nintendo Australia ran a competition that anyone who purchased an Australian copy of New Super Mario Bros. could enter. The major prize was a trip for 4 to America to visit the Nintendo World Store with $1000 spending money. There were also twenty runner-up prizes of limited edition "Happy! Mario 20th" T-shirts.

Packaging

The Japanese version of the game was packaged in a special Nintendo DS case - instead of the plastic being black, it was bright yellow.

Sales

In December 2010, New Super Mario Bros. became the first Nintendo DS game to sell over six million copies in Japan. It accomplished this after being on the market for almost five years. It's also the best selling game worldwide for the system, with 30.79 million copies sold in total.

Awards

4Players
- 2006 – Best DS Game of the Year
- 2006 – Best Dexterity Game of the Year
GamePro (Germany)
- February 01, 2007 - Best Handheld Game in 2006 (Readers' Vote)
GameSpy
- 2006 – #2 Handheld Game of the Year
- 2006 – Nintendo DS Game of the Year
- 2006 – Nintendo DS Game of the Year (Gamers' Vote)
- 2006 – Nintendo DS Platformer of the Year
Golden Joystick Awards
- 2006 - The Official Nintendo Magazine Nintendo Game of the Year