Super Mario Bros.

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Description

The Princess has been kidnapped by the evil Bowser, and it is up to Mario and brother Luigi to save the day.

The first ever platform adventure for the Mario Brothers has the player exploring level after level, with Bowser to contend with as the end of level boss. Power-ups include the Super Mushroom, which increases Mario's size and power, the fire flower, allowing him to shoot fireballs at enemies, and the ever important starman for a short burst of invincibility.

Each level includes a bonus section filled with coins plus a shortcut through the level, plenty of bad buys and obstacles to get past, and an end of level flag, in which the higher the player grabs it, the more points are awarded to them. Certain levels also include warp points, which takes the player to higher levels.

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Alternate Titles

• "Super Mario Brothers" -- Informal title
• "Super Irmãos" -- Brazilian Gradiente title
• "SMB" -- Abbreviated title
• "Mario 1" -- Informal title
• "スーパーマリオブラザーズ" -- Japanese spelling
• "슈퍼 마리오브라더스" -- Korean spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Classic NES / Famicom Mini / NES Classics releases
• Game Center CX challenge games
• Games made into books
• Games made into comics
• Games made into movies
• Games made into stage productions
• Games made into TV series
• Mario games
• Nintendo's Action series
• Super Mario series
• Video games turned into board / card games

User Reviews

The first game I played and beat.	NES	CaptainN (26)
Hmmmm.... Mushrooms!!	NES	Zovni (9305)
Behold…the game that saved an industry!	NES	PCGamer77 (3001)
Your princess is in another castle	NES	Christina Nordlander (26)
Surprisingly addictive, yet not without its flaws.	NES	BigJKO (68)
The first jump heard around the world.	NES	STU2 (72)
the great-grandfather of all platform games, and still a blast to play today	NES	Ryu (50)
The Best	NES	Matt Neuteboom (941)
Number 1 reason to visit friends	NES	vedder (21594)
Friday 18 October 1985: the Messiah of the console industry is born!	NES	Stsung (53)

Critic Reviews

Just Games Retro	NES	Jan 28, 2007		100
Virtual Console Reviews	Wii	Dec 25, 2006		100
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	NES	Jul 03, 2005	10 out of 10	100
Thunderbolt Games	Game Boy Advance	Jul 24, 2004	10 out of 10	100
Good Game	NES	Oct 06, 2008	10 out of 10	100
Power Play	NES	Sep, 1988	92 out of 100	92
GamePro (US)	Game Boy Advance	Jun 04, 2004	4.5 out of 5	90
neXGam	NES	2002	8.4 out of 10	84
64 Power / big.N / N Games	Game Boy Advance	Aug, 2004	80 out of 100	80
GamesAreFun.com (GAF)	NES	Apr 21, 2003	4 out of 10	40

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
It seemed like a weird idea for Star Wars also...	4	Steely Gaze (188) Jan 31, 2008

Trivia

1001 Video Games

The NES version of Super Mario Bros. appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Cereal

Super Mario Bros. was popular enough to have a breakfast cereal based on the game called the "Nintendo Cereal System", and was co-packaged with Legend of Zelda cereal. The sweetened corn bits were in the shape of Mario, Koopa Troopa, Goomba, Bowser, and a Super Mushroom.

NES supplement

For a time, Super Mario Brothers was the game packaged with a new NES system, along with the Zapper Light Gun and the game Duck Hunt.

Parody

Joe Dixon released a spoof version of Super Mario Bros. in late 2002. It replaces Mario, Toadstool, and the enemies with characters from South Park.

Sales

According to the Guiness Book Of Records, as of 2003 Super Mario Bros. is the best-selling video game of all time, with a total of 40.23 million units sold worldwide, as of 1999. The whole Mario Bros. series has 26 games and sold over 152 million copies since 1983, according to Guiness.

It is widely believed that the billionth game unit sold by Nintendo was Super Mario Bros..

TV series

Super Mario Bros. was popular enough to have a TV cartoon based on it in the late 1980's-early 1990's. It starred "Captain" Lou Albano as Mario, and Danny Wells as Luigi in the live-action segments, and animated Mario cartoons Monday-Thursday (Friday was for cartoons based on Legend of Zelda).

Awards

• EGM
  • February 2006 - #1 out of 200 Games of their Time
• FLUX
  • Issue #4 - #66 in the "Top 100 Video Games of All-Time" list
• Game Informer
  • August 2001 (Issue 100) - #2 in the "Top 100 Video Games of All-Time list"
  • October 2005 (Issue 138) - one of the "Top 25 Most Influential Games of All Time"
• IGN
  • #1 Game of All Time (or revolutionary graphics and gameplay at the time of its release)
• Official Nintendo Magazine
  • Greatest Nintendo Game
• Power Play
  • 1987 - Best NES Game '87
• Retro Gamer
  • October 2004 (Issue #9) – #24 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)
  • Issue 37 - #23 in the "Top 25 Platformers of All Time" poll

Information also contributed by Big John WV, Guy Chapman, Mat Neuteboom, Maw, Mumm-Ra, PCGamer77 and sgtcook

Related Web Sites

• Beat Super Mario Bros in 5 minutes!!! (YouTube video on completing the whole game in 5 minutes on the NES.)
• Classic NES Series for the Game Boy Advance (Covers the line-up of the new Game Boy Advance series of NES Classics.)
• Mario Mania (Nintendoland's shrine to Mario including his history and many interesting facts and files)
• Mario's World (Has info on most of Mario's games.)
• OC ReMix Game Profile (Fan remixes of music from Super Mario Bros.)
• Super Mario Bros. (A great article about the history of this classic. Includes information on how to get through World 1.)
• The Mushroom Kingdom (Everything you'd ever want to know about all of the Super Mario Brothers Games)
• Video review of NES accessories (WARNING: Laguage) (The Angry Video Game Nerd, James Rolfe, reviews some NES accessories and some associated games, including the U-Force and Super Mario Bros. on NES.)