Released on September 13th 1985 in Japan.
Interesting facts about Super Mario Bros
-According to How Long to Beat’s website the average play through takes about 2 hours to complete, however, this is offset based on the player’s familiarity with platforming games, and how games played on the NES. Players spent many more hours searching for secrets and the like in the later half of the 80s.
-According to VGChartz, Super Mario Bros for the NES and Famicom worldwide sold over 40.2 million units. This does not include the millions of ports and re-releases for this game.
-Super Mario Bros would remain Nintendo’s best selling video game until it was surpassed by Wii Sports.
-Currently, about 1-2 games are sold per day through retro portals.
-While Super Mario Bros is not the first time Mario or Luigi appeared in a video game, it is the first game of the most successful and considered longest running game franchise of all time.
-Not only is Super Mario Bros considered to be one of the most influential games of all time, it is credited as single handedly restarting the video game industry after the crash in 1983. Its new design, pivotal to the NES hardware, showed the promise of growth in the industry, coupled with Nintendo’s “mark of quality” stamped on the box. A lot of which targeted the many complaints leading up to the video game crash.
-The development teamed learned many tricks on how to save on space. Utilizing sprites of the bushes to be clouds by recoloring was one obvious way to save on space. Running out of space, Goombas had not yet been implemented. Shigeru Miyamoto decided to use a static image that is reversed back and forth to make a walking animation. After adding the game’s music, there were only 20 bytes of space remaining. Miyamoto then used this remaining space to put a crown next to the players life counter if they achieved over 10 lives in reserve.
Hard Mode
Upon completing the game, Princess Toadstool thanks you, and offers you a new quest. In this new quest, Goombas are replaced with Buzzy Beetles, enemies move faster, and elevator lifts are shorter in length.
Back of the Box Description
-“You’ll have to think fast and move even faster to complete this quest! The Mushroom Princess is being held captive by the evil Koopa tribe of turtles. It’s up to you to rescue her from the clutches of the Koopa King before time runs out. But it won’t be easy. To get to the Princess, you’ll have to climb mountains, cross seas, avoid bottomless pits, fight off turtle soldiers and a host of black magic traps that only a Koopa King can devise. It’s another non-stop adventure from the Super Mario Bros.!”
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Super Mario Bros on Wikipedia.
NewGame+ Content:
Gameplay by World of Longplays
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