Super Mario Bros.

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Super Mario Bros.
For alternate box art, see the related gallery.
Developer	Nintendo R&D4
Publisher	Nintendo
Platforms	Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System Family Computer Disk System, Famicom Box, Nintendo PlayChoice-10, Game Boy Advance, Virtual Console (Wii / 3DS / Wii U), Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer, NES Classic Edition, Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Classics, Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.
Release dates	Family Computer: September 13, 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System: October 18, 1985 May 15, 1987 July 1987 1993 Family Computer Disk System: February 21, 1986 Nintendo PlayChoice-10: August 1986 Game Boy Advance: February 14, 2004 June 7, 2004 July 9, 2004 Virtual Console (Wii) December 2, 2006 December 25, 2006 January 5, 2007 January 5, 2007 April 26, 2008 Virtual Console (3DS) (Ambassador Program release): September 1, 2011 September 1, 2011 September 1, 2011 September 1, 2011 Virtual Console (3DS) (full release): January 5, 2012 February 16, 2012 March 1, 2012 March 1, 2012[?] February 3, 2016 Virtual Console (Wii U): June 5, 2013 September 12, 2013 September 12, 2013 September 19, 2013 Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer: November 10, 2016 NES Classic Edition: November 10, 2016 November 11, 2016 November 11, 2016 Nintendo Entertainment System / Family Computer - Nintendo Classics: September 18, 2018 September 19, 2018 September 19, 2018 September 19, 2018 April 23, 2019 April 23, 2019 September 9, 2025 November 18, 2025 November 18, 2025 November 18, 2025
Language	English
Genre	2D platformer
Ratings	ESRB: - Everyone CERO: - All ages PEGI: - Three years and older USK: - All ages RARS: - All ages ClassInd: - General audience GRAC: - All ages ACB: - General
Mode	1–2 players
Format	Famicom: Cartridge NES: Game Pak FDS: Disk Card Wii: Digital download Wii U: Digital download Nintendo Switch: Digital download Game Boy Advance: Game Pak Nintendo 3DS: Digital download NES Classic Edition: Built-in
Input	Famicom: Famicom Controller NES: NES Controller Wii: Wii Remote (horizontal) Classic Controller Nintendo GameCube Controller Wii U: Wii U GamePad Wii Remote (horizontal) Classic Controller Wii U Pro Controller Nintendo Switch: Joy-Con Joy-Con (horizontal) Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Famicom Controller (NSO) NES Controller (NSO) Super NES Controller (NSO) Game Boy Advance: Gamepad Nintendo 3DS: Gamepad NES Classic Edition: NES Classic Controller Classic Controller
Serial codes	Famicom: HVC-SM NES: NES-SM NES-P-SM NES-SM-AUS NES-SM-GPS FDS: FMC-SMA Game Boy Advance: PRE-AGB-FSMJ-JPN-1 (Hot Mario! Campaign) AGB-FSMJ-JPN (Retail version) AGB-FSMJ-JPN-1 (20th Anniversary) AGB-FSME-USA AGB-FSMP-EUR AGB-FSMP-AUS

“Do you have what it takes to save the Mushroom Princess?”

—Back of localized box art

Super Mario Bros. is a side-scrolling platformer video game released for the Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. It shifted the gameplay away from its single-screen arcade predecessor, Mario Bros., by featuring scrolling screens which allowed for longer levels. While not the first game of the Super Mario franchise (the first being Donkey Kong), Super Mario Bros. is the most iconic, and it introduced various series staples, including power-ups, classic enemies such as Goombas, and the basic premise of rescuing Princess Peach from Bowser. As well as kicking off an entire series of Super Mario platform games, the wild success of Super Mario Bros. popularized the side-scrolling genre as a whole, helped revive the North American gaming industry after the video game crash of 1983, and was largely responsible for the initial success of the NES, with which it was bundled as a launch title. Until it was eventually surpassed by Wii Sports, Super Mario Bros. was the best-selling video game of all time for nearly three decades, with over 40 million copies sold worldwide.

The exact day of the North American release of Super Mario Bros. is heavily disputed, with different sources giving different dates with no way to verify them. Regardless, Nintendo officially pinpoints the release date as October 18, 1985.

Super Mario Bros. has been ported to many consoles, to the point where the Guinness Book of World Records 2011: Gamer's Edition erroneously stated that this game was also remade on the Nintendo 64. It was one of the NES games that could be played on the Nintendo PlayChoice-10 and NES Classic Edition, and it was released on the Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console and on the Nintendo Switch's Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Classics.

A successor named Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan was released on June 3, 1986. Due to its difficulty, another game, Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, was reworked into Super Mario Bros. 2 for North America, released on October 9, 1988. The Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 would eventually be named Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels in the west. A separate game modeled off of Super Mario Bros. featuring elements from previous Super Mario games, known as Super Mario Bros. Special, was developed by Hudson Soft and licensed by Nintendo, and released on Japanese home computers in September 1986. A definitive third successor named Super Mario Bros. 3 was released on October 23, 1988.

Story

The following text is taken directly from the NES instruction booklet localization.

One day the kingdom of the peaceful mushroom people was invaded by the Koopa, a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into mere stones, bricks and even field horsehair plants, and the Mushroom Kingdom fell into ruin.

The only one who can undo the magic spell on the Mushroom People and return them to their normal selves is the Princess Toadstool, the daughter of the Mushroom King. Unfortunately, she is presently in the hands of the great Koopa turtle king.

Mario, the hero of the story (maybe) hears about the Mushroom People's plight and sets out on a quest to free the Mushroom Princess from the evil Koopa and restore the fallen kingdom of the Mushroom People.

You are Mario! It's up to you to save the Mushroom People from the black magic of the Koopa!

Mario must then travel through eight worlds in total. At the castle in each of the first seven, he battles Bowser, only to discover that he was a fake, and that only a Mushroom Retainer was being held there. At the end of the eighth castle, Bowser is finally defeated, and Princess Toadstool is saved.

Gameplay

Super Mario in World 1-1.

Super Mario Bros. is divided into eight worlds, each of them containing four levels. Mario has to get to the end of the level by clearing an obstacle course featuring blocks, pits, enemies of various types, and other obstacles and objects. Certain pipes and beanstalks along the way allow Mario to visit secret bonus rooms which hold coins, and can skip a portion of the level. Unlike most later Super Mario games, the screen can only be scrolled to the right, making Mario unable to go to previous parts of a level. Certain levels can be skipped through the use of Warp Zones.

Mario swimming in World 2-2.

If regular Mario takes a hit, falls down a pit, or if the Time Limit runs out, he loses a life and restarts the level. The point where Mario continues depends on how far he ran through the level before getting defeated; either from the beginning or at one of several invisible "checkpoints" throughout the level. After a Game Over, pressing while holding on the title screen allows the player to continue from the start of the world. In a 2-player game, if this is done by whoever got a Game Over second, both players will begin in the same world where the second player's game ended. Otherwise, levels can only be replayed if the game is beaten or the console is reset.

By hitting ? Blocks and bricks found throughout a level, Mario can find coins or special power-ups which grant him new abilities. Some of those blocks are initially hidden, and only become visible when Mario hits them from beneath. The power-ups that Mario can find are the Magic Mushroom, the Fire Flower, the Starman and the 1 up Mushroom.

At the end of each level, a castle stands with a flagpole nearby. When Mario reaches the flagpole, he takes down the enemy flag and enters the castle, completing the level. The higher the spot that Mario hits the flagpole, the more points he receives. If two players are playing the game, Luigi's turn comes whenever Mario loses a life. Luigi has no special abilities in the game that are different from Mario's.

The fourth level of each world plays inside a castle. They are usually filled with Fire-Bars and Podoboos. At the end of a castle level, Mario is confronted with a fake Bowser in Worlds 1 through 7 and the actual Bowser in World 8. Mario ordinarily has no way to hurt the fake Bowsers or the actual Bowser and has to either use the ax to destroy the bridge, causing either the false or real one to fall into the lava, or pelt him with many fireballs, which produces the same result and reveals the true forms of the fakes. After defeating an impostor, Mario frees one of the seven remaining mushroom retainers from the castle, at which point they say their iconic phrase: "Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another castle!" At the end of the castle in World 8, Mario frees Princess Toadstool and completes his adventure, unlocking a harder new quest.

Time clock

The game's levels have a Time Limit in the upper right, which counts down, with the background music speeding up when going below 100. If it reaches 0, the game declares "Time Up", and Mario loses a life. However, the in-game timer runs much faster than real seconds; 400 seconds on the timer, which is the default when starting most of the levels, is equal to 160 seconds in real time. The timer countdown speed is the same across NTSC and PAL versions.

The demo version of Super Mario Bros. from amiibo tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits starts with a real-time 180 second limit, which is sufficient to finish any level, presuming it is finished without losing any lives, and would have 32 timer seconds (15 real-time seconds) to spare for any follow-up levels. For its seventh scene, this is enough to see the game's ending.

Hard mode

Main section: Hard Mode § Super Mario Bros.

After beating the main game, the player is given the option to pick a world (by pressing on the title screen to change the world counter in the upper right) to play in "a new quest"—a harder mode where all Little Goombas are replaced by Buzzy Beetles, and all enemies walk faster. Elevator-style lifts that were originally in their wide forms (six holes wide) are now in their small forms (four holes wide), which are used from World 5-1 onwards in the main game. Mario gains no new powers in hard mode, and enemies still give the same amount of points as normal. Additionally, earlier levels in hard mode that had harder versions later on the in the main game, now have the harder version used for both levels; for instance, World 1-3, which is an easier version of World 5-3 in the normal game, is identical to World 5-3 in Hard Mode. If the player finishes the game on hard mode, nothing else is unlocked.

Controls

The controls can be customized on Wii U Virtual Console and in the Suspend Menu on Nintendo Classics.

Action(s)	NES Controller Famicom Controller	Wii Remote	Classic Controller	GameCube Controller	Game Boy Advance	Nintendo 3DS	Wii U GamePad Wii U Pro Controller	Dual Joy-Con (2) Pro Controller	Single Joy-Con (2)
Move	← →		/ ← →	/ ← →		/ ← →	/ ← →	() / ← →	← →
Crouch / Enter Warp Pipe	↓		/ ↓	/ ↓		/ ↓	/ ↓	() / ↓	↓
Climb Beanstalk	↕		/ ↕	/ ↕		/ ↕	/ ↕	() / ↕	↕
Jump / Swim
Run / Throw Fireball						/	/	/	/
Pause / Start Game									+
(Title screen) Select Game									+
Continue after Game Over	Hold + Press	Hold + Press	Hold + Press	Hold + Press	Hold + Press	Hold + Press	Hold + Press	Hold + Press	Hold + Press

Worlds and levels

There are five main types of levels: ground, underground, underwater, athletic, and castle. Ground levels make up the majority of the levels in the game, with thirteen levels in total. They consist of relatively flat areas with hills in the background and relatively few pits. Athletic levels take place in the sky, and feature very little ground. Most of the platforms take the form of trees, mushrooms or lifts, and as such there is a greater emphasis on precise jumps. There are seven athletic levels in the game.

Underground levels take place in tight inside spaces, with bricks covering most of the top of the screen and forming maze-like obstacles. They also feature hidden Warp Zones which can be used to skip worlds. Underwater levels take place in the sea, and Mario can freely swim around the level by pressing . Due to swimming, Mario cannot stomp enemies. At the start of every underground and underwater level is a cutscene showing Mario entering a pipe which leads to the level. Similarly, at their end is a pipe leading to the flagpole on regular ground. There are only two underground and two underwater levels in the game, but many levels have sub-areas in those themes. A few sub-areas also take place among the clouds.

The fourth level of each world is always a castle. It features even tighter hallways than underground levels, and some have maze-like mechanics which can loop rooms. At the bottom of castle stages, pits are covered in lava, although it serves no gameplay purpose. The goal of every castle level is to touch the axe and defeat the boss.

Certain worlds have different appearances to their levels. These changes are only aesthetic and do not affect gameplay. World 3 and World 6 take place at night, and World 3, World 5, and World 7 feature white plants and bushes, implying a snowy landscape. Additionally, ground levels in World 8 have castle-like structures in the background.

Worlds
World 1	Courses
Screenshot of World 1-1	World 1-1 (Ground)
	World 1-2 (Underground)
	World 1-3 (Athletic)
	World 1-4 (Castle)
World 2	Courses
Screenshot of World 2-2	World 2-1 (Ground)
	World 2-2 (Underwater)
	World 2-3 (Athletic)
	World 2-4 (Castle)
World 3	Courses
Screenshot of World 3-1	World 3-1 (Ground)
	World 3-2 (Ground)
	World 3-3 (Athletic)
	World 3-4 (Castle)
World 4	Courses
Screenshot of World 4-1	World 4-1 (Ground)
	World 4-2 (Underground)
	World 4-3 (Athletic)
	World 4-4 (Castle)
World 5	Courses
Screenshot of World 5-3	World 5-1 (Ground)
	World 5-2 (Ground)
	World 5-3 (Athletic)
	World 5-4 (Castle)
World 6	Courses
Screenshot of World 6-1	World 6-1 (Ground)
	World 6-2 (Ground)
	World 6-3 (Athletic)
	World 6-4 (Castle)
World 7	Courses
Screenshot of World 7-2	World 7-1 (Ground)
	World 7-2 (Underwater)
	World 7-3 (Athletic)
	World 7-4 (Castle)
World 8	Courses
Screenshot of World 8-4	World 8-1 (Ground)
	World 8-2 (Ground)
	World 8-3 (Ground)
	World 8-4 (Castle)

Characters

Playable characters

Image	Name	Description
	Mario	Mario serves as the main protagonist of the game. Luigi, Mario's brother, appears only as the second player and plays identically to Mario. While Luigi is differentiated by his colors, both Fiery Mario and Fiery Luigi have the same palette.
	Luigi

Non-playable characters

Image	Name	Description
	Princess Toadstool	The princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser kidnaps her to prevent her from reversing the magic the Koopa used on the Mushroom People. She appears in the final course, 8-4 where she thanks Mario for rescuing her and offers a "new quest" for him.
	Mushroom retainers	Seven Mushroom People that are servants of the princess and prisoners of the Koopa. They appear in every castle except for the final one. Mario can rescue a retainer by finishing a castle in World 1 to World 7. They'll say, "Thank you Mario/Luigi! But our princess is in another castle!"

Enemies and obstacles

Enemies

Enemies can be defeated by stomping them with a jump, hitting the block they are standing on, or hitting them with a fireball or kicked Koopa Shell, or running into them while invincible. Some enemies, such as Piranha Plants are immune to certain methods of attack. These immunities are listed in the table below. Enemies are generally listed in the order they appear in the instruction booklet. They are referred to as "bad guys" in-text.^:6

Image	Name	Description	Levels		Pts.
			First	Last
	Little Goomba	Mushroom creatures that walk back and forth. Little Goombas are the most common enemies and can be defeated with any attack.	World 1-1	World 8-4	100
	Koopa Troopa (green)	Foot soldiers of the Turtle Empire. Stomping on Koopa Troopas make them recede into their shells, which can be kicked to hit defeat enemies. Like Little Goombas, green-shelled Koopa Troopas walk off ledges. Fireballs and thrown shells instantly defeat them.	World 1-1	World 8-3	100
	Koopa Troopa (red)	Red-shelled Koopa Troopas turn around when they reach the corner of a ledge.	World 1-2	World 7-3	100
	Koopa Paratroopa (green)	Winged Koopa Troopas. The green ones bounce across the ground or fly back and forth in set paths. If Mario stomps on them, they lose their wings, fall, and become Koopa Troopas.	World 2-1	World 8-4	400
	Koopa Paratroopa (red)	Red Koopa Paratroopas fly up and down in set paths. If Mario stomps on them, they lose their wings, fall, and become Koopa Troopas.	World 1-3	World 5-3	400
	Buzzy Beetle	Small Koopas that retract into their shells when stomped, similar to Koopa Troopas. Buzzy Beetles are immune to fireballs and replace Little Goombas in Hard Mode.	World 4-2	World 8-4	100
	Hammer Brother	Helmeted Koopas that toss hammers. Hammer Brothers periodically hop between rows of blocks. They always occur in pairs.	World 3-1	World 8-4	1000
	Spiny	Squat, spiked Koopas which hatch from their eggs. Stomping one damages Mario, and they cannot be defeated by hitting the block they are standing on.	World 4-1	World 8-2	200
	Spiny's egg	The spiked eggs tossed by Lakitus. They hatch into Spinies when they make contact with the ground.	World 4-1	World 8-2	200
	Lakitu	Cloud-riding Koopas. Lakitus toss Spiny's eggs. They appear towards the top of the screen follow Mario's position.	World 4-1	World 8-2	200
	Piranha plant	Chomping plants that sit in pipes. Piranha plants emerge and retract from pipes in set intervals, and stomping one damages Mario. If Mario stands directly next to or on these pipes, the plants do not emerge. Piranha Plants can be commonly defeated by Fiery Mario's fireballs or thrown shells.	World 1-2	World 8-4	200
	Cheep-cheep (red)	Pudgy pufferfish enemies that swim through water. In some ground-themed courses, red Cheep-cheeps leap over bridges in large numbers.	World 2-2	World 8-4	200
	Cheep-cheep (gray)	Gray Cheep-cheeps only occur underwater. They swim slightly faster than the red ones.	World 2-2	World 8-4	200
	Bullet Bill	Missiles launched from Turtle Cannons. They fly in straight lines. Bullet Bills are unaffected by fireballs.	World 5-1	World 8-3	200
	Bloober	Underwater squid sentinels. They swim erratically to strike Mario.	World 2-2	World 8-4	200
	Podoboo	Balls of lava that guard Bowser's castles. They leap straight up from pools of lava to strike Mario.	World 2-4	World 8-4

Obstacles

Image	Name	Description	Levels
			First	Last
	Fire-Bar	Various fireballs stacked together moving either clockwise or counterclockwise. Their length may vary.	World 1-4	World 8-4
	Koopa's fire	Flames spewed by Bowser and his imposters. The fire travels horizontally and transcends walls.	World 1-4	World 8-4
	Lava	Pools of molten rock found within fortresses and castles. Lava functions like a pit, so falling into one causes Mario to lose a life. In later games, Mario and other playable characters lose a life if they touch lava.	World 1-4	World 8-4
	Turtle Cannon	Cannons that launch Bullet Bills. Like the pipes that contain Piranha plants, Turtle Cannons do not fire when Mario is next to or on them.	World 5-1	World 8-3

Bosses

Mario and Bowser in World 8-4.

A boss occurs in the fourth level of each world, specifically located within the final room of the castle. There are only two types of bosses in the game: Bowser and seven fake Bowsers. Each of the first seven worlds has a Fake Bowser at its end, while the final world has the real one. The baseline behavior of all bosses is the same: They are found on a bridge suspended above a pool of lava, moving back and forth, and jumping. By moving under or over the boss and touching the ax at the opposite corner of the bridge, it causes it to disappear and defeats the boss. Hitting the boss with five fireballs as Fiery Mario defeats it as well, awards the player with 5000 points, and reveals what minion the fake Bowser was. Attempting to stomp them damages Mario.

With each world, the layout of the room changes, sometimes featuring bricks and lifts. The boss's behavior also changes. In the first five worlds, the fake Bowsers launch flames at Mario. In the sixth and seventh worlds, they throw hammers instead. In the final world, the real Bowser launches flames and throws hammers simultaneously.

Items and objects

Items

Image	Name	Description
	1 up mushroom	Green mushrooms that give Mario an extra life when collected. 1 up mushrooms are found within invisible blocks near pits. When a block is struck, the mushroom which spawns from it travels across the ground in the opposite direction from Mario.
	Coin	Coins float in mid-air throughout levels and within blocks. Collecting one awards Mario 200 points. Collecting 100 awards him an extra life.
	Koopa shell	Stomping on a Koopa Troopa makes it recede into its shell. Its sent sliding when touched, defeating enemies on contact. Doing so causes the "bulldozer attack", where each enemy defeated grants Mario more points than the last. Launched shells ricochet off collided walls and can damage Mario on contact.
	Buzzy Beetle shell	Stomping on a Buzzy Beetle yields a shell that works like the Koopa ones, but it cannot be cleared away with tossed fireballs.

Power-ups

Items that transform Mario's appearance and give him unique abilities called "power boosts" in the instruction booklet.^:8 All of these items are held within ? blocks and some brick blocks, which must be hit in order to be released. It is not inherently apparent which block contain which power-ups and which don't. Mario must touch the power-ups directly once they are found in order to activate them. Touching any power-up also awards Mario 1000 points. Forms that share a column look the same for Mario and Luigi. With the exception of coins, only one item can appear on the screen, and when a new item appears, the previous one will disappear.

Power-up	Form		Description
	Mario	Luigi
N/A	Regular Mario	Regular Luigi	Mario is in this small-sized form when the player starts a new game. In his regular form, Mario is incapable of breaking bricks and loses a life when he makes contact with an enemy or obstacle. However, he can run across narrow passageways without having to crouch. Regardless of the form he was in before losing a life, Mario reappears in the level in his regular form.
Magic Mushroom	Super Mario	Super Luigi	The red Magic Mushrooms are within visible blocks and slide across the ground, similar to 1 up mushrooms. They bounce back in the opposite direction when they hit an obstruction. Touching one transforms Mario into Super Mario, a form twice as tall as his regular form and capable of breaking bricks. Subsequent encounters with blocks intended to contain Magic Mushrooms instead release Fire Flowers when struck in this form. Receiving damage in this form reverts Mario back into his regular-sized state. He retains this form across levels if he reaches flagpoles as Super Mario.
Fire Flower	Fiery Mario / Luigi		Making contact with a Fire Flower transforms Mario into Fiery Mario, regardless of being regular Mario or Super Mario. In this form, Mario can toss projectile fireballs with that bounce along the ground. Most enemies are defeated when hit. Fiery Mario also has all the benefits of Super Mario, and similarly retains this form if he completes the level in it. If hit as Fiery Mario, he reverts to his regular size instead of Super Mario.
Starman	Invincible Mario / Luigi		Starmen are rare power-ups often hidden in invisible blocks. When released, they bounce in the opposite direction from Mario. When grabbed, Mario is transformed into Invincible Mario for ten seconds. In this state, Mario is largely indestructible and defeats enemies on contact. Contact with the Starman does not wholly replace the form Mario was already in (i.e., Mario remains small if one is touched while in his regular form, and he can still toss fireballs if he is in his Fiery form.) Invincible Mario cannot be carried over to subsequent levels.

Objects

Objects are interactable elements of the environment that cannot be picked up or collected.

Image	Name	Description
Blocks
	? block	Floating blocks that contain items. One releases its contents when jumped underneath. Some ? blocks are multi-coin blocks that release a variable amount of coins if struck in rapid succession. Others are invisible. A struck ? block becomes an empty block that can be used as a platform.
	Brick	The most common blocks. Most bricks fall apart when struck, but some are secretly ? or multi-coin blocks. Regular Mario is incapable of breaking a brick block, but can still open one that contains a coin, multiple coins, or an item.
	Coral	Coral form varyingly sized columns in underwater levels that obstruct Mario.
	Small cloud	Cloud-like blocks make up the terrain in Bonus Stages high in the sky.
	Stairblock	Unbreakable blocks that appear on the ground. Some are stacked or laid next to each other to form climbable staircases or incomplete bridges.
Platforms
	Island	Terrain of varying heights and widths that occur in athletic courses. They are similar to super mushrooms, but often have wider bases made of earth.
	Jumping board	Jumping boards bounce Mario into the air. Pressing when the spring is fully contracted makes a jumping board launch Mario much higher than it would otherwise.
	Lift	Thin, moving platforms. They are most common in athletic levels, above bottomless pits. Lifts are of varying widths and movements. There is a paired type of Lifts called Balance Lifts that are a seesaw-like pulley system, where standing on one Lift makes it fall and the other rise. There are also types of Lifts that fall shortly after being stepped on.
	Pipe	Most pipes are columnar platforms of varying height, some of which contain Piranha plants. A few of them are Warp Pipes that bring Mario to a secret underground area by pressing down on .
	Super mushroom	Giant mushrooms that occur in athletic levels, high above bottomless pits.
Goals
	Ax	Touching an ax causes the bridge it is alongside to collapse. This defeats the boss that was on top of it and completes the level.
	Flagpole	Flagpoles are the goals at the end of most levels. When one is touched, Mario slides to the base and completes the level. Touching one also rewards him bonus points. The higher he is on the flagpole, the greater the number of points. Grabbing the top rewards Mario 5000 points.
Other objects
	Beanstalk	Beanstalks rapidly grow from struck vine blocks, ascending skyward. Climbing one brings Mario to a hidden Bonus Stage in the sky.
	Fireworks	Fireworks appear if Mario grabs a flagpole with 1, 3, or 6 as the last digit on the timer. The number of fireworks that go off correlates with this number, and each one rewards Mario 500 points.
	Horsehair plant	Field horsehair plants appear in the background of ground-themed levels. According to the instruction booklet, Bowser transformed some of the Mushroom Kingdom's inhabitants into these plants.

Soundtrack

Vinyl cover for the Super Mario Bros. Original Soundtrack

The soundtrack for Super Mario Bros. was first released on March 1986, as the Super Mario Bros. Original Soundtrack. It contains a selection of the game's tracks, some of them overlaid with instruments and sound effects. The full soundtrack was made available as the Game Sound Museum: Super Mario Bros. album in 2004. It is also available on Nintendo Music, releasing with the appplication's launch in 2024. Several cover albums and compilation albums have also been released.

Within the franchise, the soundtrack to Super Mario Bros. has since become iconic, with "Ground BGM" being rearranged or referenced in numerous games in the franchise. It has often been used to represent the franchise as a whole, or as Mario's theme. Similarly, "Ending" has often been associated with Princess Peach in later games. "Underground BGM" in particular has also become one of the most reoccurring themes in the franchise, being rearranged in every mainline Super Mario game with the exception of Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario World, as that game's underground theme. "Invincibility BGM" has also become a staple of the franchise, strongly associated with the Super Star power-up, as well as other similarly timed power-ups such as the Metal Cap in Super Mario 64, or the Fire Flower and Ice Flower in Super Mario Galaxy.

List of Super Mario Bros. albums

• Super Mario Bros. Original Soundtrack
• Super Mario Bros.: Mario Syndrome
• Game Sound Museum: Super Mario Bros.
• Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo Music)

List of other albums featuring Super Mario Bros. music

• Mario no Daibōken
• Sound Mario Bros.
• Super Mario Bros. 3 ~ Akihabara Electric Circus
• Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3, Hop! Step! Jump!
• Super Mario Bros. Special
• Super Mario World
• Super Mario Compact Disco
• Super Smash Bros. Melee: Smashing...Live!
• Mario & Zelda Big Band Live
• Famicom 20th Anniversary Original Sound Tracks Vol.1
• Famicom Sound History Series: Mario the Music
• Happy! Mario 20th - Super Mario Sound Collection
• Super Mario History 1985-2010
• SUPER MARIO BROS. 25th Anniversary Special Sound Track PRESS START Edition
• The 30th Anniversary Super Mario Bros. Music

Multimedia

For the complete list of media files for this subject, see Multimedia:Super Mario Bros.

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Castle BGM

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Invincibility BGM

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Glitches

Main article: List of Super Mario Bros. glitches

Minus World

Mario goes through the wall and enters World -1

Minus World in the Famicom and NES version

Main article: Minus World

The Minus World is an endless underwater level, identical to World 7-2, which is accessed through a programming glitch. The glitch is nicknamed after the glitched level counter displayed at the start and at the top of the screen. There is no way to complete the level, as entering the pipe at the end will simply return Mario or Luigi to the one at the beginning. To perform the glitch, Mario must go to World 1-2 and use glitches to reach the Warp Zone without scrolling it completely onto the screen, then entering the pipe that normally leads to World 4-1.

The glitch was removed in remakes of the game excluding the imports, the Virtual Console port, and Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. Due to how memory is loaded differently in the Family Computer Disk System, that version of the game has a different Minus World with three levels that can be beaten, and once -3 is complete, the player will return to the title screen as if they had beaten the game.

Over the flagpole

Over the Flagpole glitch in World 3-3

In some levels, it is possible to jump over the flagpole, by using exploits to gain enough height. This can be done in World 1-1, by glitching a Koopa Troopa under the level and then using it to gain height, or in World 3-3, by jumping off a lift at its apex.

Successfully jumping over the flagpole places the player in an unwinnable state, as they cannot return to the goal pole, and the rest of the level features only a flat ground. There is a hidden brick placed immediately after the fortress's or castle's first door, which normally stops Mario from going past it in the cutscene at the end of the levels.

In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, this is exploited to hide Warp Zones. In worlds 3-1 and A-3, there are warp zones placed beyond the goals. In other worlds, while it is possible to go over the flagpole, the edge of the world is a few steps past the fortress, and the player is not able to go far enough for the flagpole to scroll off the screen.

This glitch was fixed in the Super Mario All-Stars version.

Over the Flag Pole Glitch - Video showcasing the Mushroom jump glitch and the Over the flagpole glitch in World 1-1

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Staff

Photo of four of the five developers for the game, for an Iwata Asks interview

Main article: List of Super Mario Bros. staff

Super Mario Bros. was developed mainly by five people. The project was led by Shigeru Miyamoto, following his successes with previous games such as Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. He designed the game with assistance from Takashi Tezuka, who he had previously worked with to develop Devil World. Toshihiko Nakago, who worked together with Miyamoto on Excitebike, handled the programming alongside Kazuaki Morita, both of them from SRD, a company often contracted by Nintendo to assist in game development. Miyamoto also brought in composer Koji Kondo, who had previously also worked with him in Devil World, to create music and sound effects for the games.

Miyamoto, Tezuka and Nakago would go on to become known internally at Nintendo as the "Golden Triangle", or the "Kansai Manzai (comedy) Trio".

Development

Miyamoto's first specifications for the core gameplay of Super Mario Bros.

Development of Super Mario Bros. began shortly after the completion of Miyamoto's previous projects, Devil World and Excitebike. The game was created at the same time as The Legend of Zelda, with much of the staff working on both games. As a result, some aspects were shared between the two games, such as the Fire-Bars from Super Mario Bros., which were originally for The Legend of Zelda, but transferred to Super Mario Bros. under Miyamoto's suggestion. Bringing knowledge from their previous games, Miyamoto, Tezuka and Nakago combined the jumping gameplay of Mario Bros., the scrolling screens of Excitebike and the larger character sprites from Devil World, into one game that could stand out from other titles at the time. Miyamoto and Tezuka wanted to fit various technologies into the game, comparing it to a puzzle. Additionally, other developers from SRD who had worked on previous games brought more elements, such as the jumping boards from Donkey Kong Jr. The name "Super Mario Bros." also came from Mario's new Super form. According to Toru Iwatani, creator of PAC-MAN, Miyamoto told him personally that Super Mario Bros. was influenced by Pac-Land, one of the pioneers of action games with horizontally scrolling backgrounds.

The game was to be the last game made before the release of the Famicom Disk System, so Miyamoto set out to push the Famicom's cartridge capacities to their limits. The main goal of Super Mario Bros. was to create a dynamic game involving a character traveling through land, water, and the sky. The game's first prototypes were created at around December of 1984, which consisted of a placeholder playable character was a 16×32 pixel square which moved on a single screen, but could not jump. Tezuka suggested making Mario the playable character due to the popularity of Mario Bros., which Miyamoto accepted. The first concepts for the gameplay were drawn by Miyamoto on February 20, 1985, six months before the game's release on September 13, 1985. It was Nakago's idea to create the Small Mario form, in order to fit more objects on the screen. It was then decided that Mario would lose a life if hit while small, but would only turn small if hit while big. Players would also start as the small Mario, as having him grow bigger later would leave a better impression on them.

According to Nakago, the color of the background was made blue in order to create a striking image using the Famicom's vivid color palettes. This was unusual, because video games released during this time usually had black backgrounds to avoid eye strain. When setting the length of the levels, Miyamoto asked Nakago to make each of them be a minute long. Initially, Nakago expected the players to cross a single screen in one second, resulting in around sixty screens per level. However, Miyamoto took into account obstacles placed on the player's path and expected they would need around twenty screens per level. The final version of the game ended up having around twelve screens per level, with the longest one having thirty two, half of what Nakago had originally expected.

When designing the stages themselves, because a level creating tool was not available to them at the time, Miyamoto and Tezuka would draw the levels on graph paper, and then Nakago and his team would design and program it into the game; if edits were to be made to the original drawings, a sheet of clear paper was placed over the original drawings. Nakago has stated that a lot of documents were sent to his team every day to change some aspects of stages. Every day, the group would do all they could do of what was stated in the documents and would work until ten at night. The following day, Miyamoto and Tezuka would play through the levels created and make any changes, which would be passed on to Nakago and his team in a daily cycle. The level-creating process began with levels in the middle of the game, such as in World 3 or World 5, which were fun to play, but proved difficult to beginners. World 1-1, which acts as a tutorial to Mario's movements and the game's mechanics, was created towards the end of development.

Great effort was put into making the game's code compact and efficient, with blocks being counted individually in order to fit in the game's memory. To this end, several performance- and memory-saving adjustments were made, such as reusing the castle assets between the start and end of the level, recoloring the clouds to use as bushes, and making use of mirrored sprites for objects such as the Super Mushroom and Fire Flower. Every byte of memory saved by these measures then allowed the designers to add more blocks to the levels. The Goomba was only created at the end of the development cycle, due to players finding the Koopa Troopa to be too difficult as the first enemy in the game. Due to the low amount of bytes remaining in the cartridge, the enemy was designed as a single sprite, which could be flipped to simulate a walking animation.

Atypical for games of the time, the music for Super Mario Bros. was created alongside the game's development, rather than towards its end, due to worries over the music impacting the already demanding performance of the game. This allowed Koji Kondo to better match the music to the game's tone by playing its prototypes. The first track Kondo created for the game was "Underwater BGM", with "Ground BGM" following soon after. Similar to graphical limitations, the sound effect for entering pipes and for transforming back into the small Mario were shared, now known as "Pipe Travel / Power-Down". The sound effect of hitting Koopa Troopas was also reused when Mario's swims up. The "Ending" theme in the Famicom Disk System version of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels was first composed as the ending theme of Super Mario Bros., before being shortened due to storage limitations.

In two Japanese interviews promoting The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Miyamoto gave insight into the original background for the connection between the story of Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros., stating that, among the pipes in Mario Bros., one of them leads to the Mushroom Kingdom where Super Mario Bros. takes place.

After development ended on Super Mario Bros., the developers would immediately continue working on The Legend of Zelda. According to Nakago, Miyamoto told them they only had three hours to commemorate, before they returned to work.

The title "Mario's Adventure" was used in place of "Super Mario Bros." in an early flyer sent to United States arcades for VS. Super Mario Bros.

Regional differences

The European version of the game features various differences from the Japanese and US versions, which are identical:

• One pixel is added to the hitboxes of Little Goombas, Spinies, Piranha Plants, Bloobers, Cheep-cheeps and Bullet Bills.
• As with VS. Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, a ground block is placed directly above the exit pipe in all underwater areas, preventing Mario from performing a glitch in which he can get stuck inside the far right side of the wall.
• The starting positions of the first two Koopa Paratroopas in World 8-2 are changed: the first one starts one space to the left, and the second starts one space to the right.

Pre-release and unused content

Main article: List of Super Mario Bros. pre-release and unused content

Concept art of the dinosaur that would become Yoshi

Several ideas were considered for Super Mario Bros., but ultimately scrapped. These unused ideas often inspired the developers to continue creating more Super Mario games which included them. For example, the game was initially intended to have sky areas where Mario could ride a cloud and shoot a beam gun. The concept would go unused, the idea was reworked into the game's bonus areas. Another sketch for Super Mario Bros. shows Mario riding a dinosaur. While the idea was abandoned due to technical limitations, Miyamoto kept the sketch on his desk. Both rides would eventually return in Super Mario World, thanks to the increased capabilities of the Super Famicom.

Reception and legacy

The Super Mario Bros. Avenue in Zaragoza, Spain

Super Mario Bros. received critical acclaim and is considered one of the best games of all time. One of the most-praised aspects of the game is the precise controls, which allow players to control how far and high the characters jump and how fast they can run. The game popularized side-scrolling video games, and the game has since received several sequels and spin-offs, and many different ports and alternative versions. All characters, items, locations, and music have become core elements of the Super Mario franchise (with their pixel art frequently referenced and alluded to in later games or other media, especially Small Mario's sprite). The plot of Bowser's kidnapping the princess (or other characters, since Princess Peach would later play more active roles in saving Mushroom Kingdom or other lands) or otherwise causing chaos has continued to be used throughout the core Super Mario series. Its sequels, Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, a version of Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic that was reworked into Super Mario Bros. 2, and Super Mario Bros. 3, would further expand on the world and gameplay that Super Mario Bros. had established.

As of 2004, Super Mario Bros. sold 40.24 million units with its original release, being the second best-selling Mario game and among the best-selling video games of all time. Its massive success, coupled with the NES console it is released for, is credited with helping resurrect the video game industry in North America after the video game crash of 1983. Alongside spawning several sequels in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels It has received several adaptations in other media, such as The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and the Super Mario Bros. film.

The game was placed 14th in the 100th issue of Nintendo Power's "100 best Nintendo games of all time" in 1997. It ranked the first spot in Electronic Gaming Monthly's "Greatest 200 Games of Their Time", named in IGN's top 100 games of all time lists in 2005 and 2007, and declared the second-best Mario game of all time. IGN also placed it 3rd in its Top 100 NES Games list. In 2010, a street in Zaragoza, Aragón (Spain), was named after Super Mario Bros., with a ceremony being held in celebration. In 2015, it was among the first inductees to the World Video Game Hall of Fame.

Reviews
Release	Reviewer, Publication	Score	Comment
Wii	Mark Birnbaum, IGN	9/10	"Dozens if not hundreds of imitators have tried to improve or revolutionize the formula that Nintendo spawned back in 1985; some have failed, while others have come close. Even with the most successful of these attempts, coming back to play Super Mario Bros. is still just as much fun as ever, and truly makes you appreciate how games were designed in the past – and how they should always be made in the future. 500 Wii points is an absolute no-brainer. This adventure is an absolute must for any gamer’s Virtual Console collection."
Wii	Jeff Gerstmann, GameSpot	8.3/10	"Super Mario Bros. was the face that launched a million consoles back in the mid-’80s, and its amazingly memorable graphics and sound, along with its still-sharp gameplay, make it stand out among the rest of the Virtual Console releases. At a cost of five dollars, this is a great purchase if you’re feeling nostalgic, but even if you’re too young to remember the game’s first release, you’ll find that this is one of those rare classics whose gameplay is good enough to still be fun after all these years."
Nintendo 3DS	Philip J Reed, Nintendo Life	9/10	"Super Mario Bros. is one of those rare games that has never really gone away. It's been reissued and remastered so many times that we never really seem to be too far away from a chance to experience it all over again, yet it still hasn't worn out its welcome. There's always more to discover, and always one more reason to return to the Mushroom Kingdom."
Aggregators
Compiler		Score
GameRankings		85.50%
Metacritic		84 (Classic NES Series: Super Mario Bros.)

Anniversary celebrations

Commemorative pins celebrating the 35th anniversary of the series. Super Mario Bros. is represented at the center.

Nintendo celebrates the anniversary of the release date of Super Mario Bros., and the start of the Super Mario series, with special events every five years. While Donkey Kong is technically the first game to use the Super Mario family of characters, Super Mario Bros. carries considerably greater influence on the franchise by standardizing Mario and Luigi's designs, and introducing iconic elements of the franchise, such as power-ups, the Mushroom Kingdom and its recognizable characters, recurring musical tracks like "Ground BGM" and "Underground BGM" (the former of which becoming the franchise's main theme), and more. As a result, the anniversaries for Super Mario Bros. are treated as the celebration of the Mario franchise as a whole. During the promotional events, Nintendo often discounts their games, promotes events to attend, and releases new merchandise (some exclusive to the anniversary celebrations).

Super Mario Maker is a major new release as part of the Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary, with its date coinciding closely with the original release of Super Mario Bros.. Its major draw is being a level editor where the player can design levels in the traditional Super Mario Bros. art style.

• Happy! Mario 20th
• Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary
• Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary
• Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary
• Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary

References to other games

Donkey Kong

• The design for lifts resembles the girders seen in 100m.

Donkey Kong Jr.

• Trampolines return with a similar design.

Mario Bros.

• Pipes, coins and blocks, introduced in this game, return.
• Koopa Troopas are derived from this game's Shellcreepers.

References in other media

Donkey Kong / Mario Bros.

• For the NES re-release of these games, Mario's jumping sprite from Super Mario Bros. is used on the box art.

Super Mario Bros. 2

• Aside from being the non-Japanese sequel to Super Mario Bros., Mushrooms, Starmen, and Shells appear, serving similar uses as in the game's predecessor.

Super Mario Bros. 3

• When Princess Toadstool is saved, she says, "Thank you! But our Princess is in another castle!...Just kidding!" This is a reference to the mushroom retainer's line in Super Mario Bros.

Alleyway

• Several sprites from Super Mario Bros. appear in bonus levels.

Super Mario Land

• World 1-2 is similar to World 1-3 from Super Mario Bros., and the battle against King Totomesu in the next level is analogous to the ones against Bowser.
• The revelation that Princess Daisy is an enemy in disguise at the end of the first three worlds is reminiscent to fake Bowsers and the real princess not being held by those bosses.
• The music that plays in the Sky Pop and Marine Pop levels is similar to "Ground BGM", which is also arranged in the game's credits theme.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island / Yoshi's New Island

The shortened version of the Course Clear arrangement heard in Yoshi's New Island

• The "Course Clear" fanfare can be heard after Baby Mario and Baby Luigi return to their home.

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)

• If the player goes behind a curtain in Booster Tower, Mario briefly turns into his 8-bit sprite from Super Mario Bros., with "Ground BGM" playing during this.

Super Mario 64

• Outside the Warp Pipe that leads to the final boss, carved into pillars are what look like sprites of Mario and Bowser from Super Mario Bros.

Super Smash Bros.

One of Luigi's alternate colors from Super Smash Bros.

• The stage Mushroom Kingdom is a reference to the ground levels.
• When Mario performs his taunt, he mimics his standing pose in Super Mario Bros.
• Mario's and Luigi's victory fanfare is a version of the "Course Clear" theme.
• Mario and Luigi's helpless animations are based on the pose Mario and Luigi take upon defeat in Super Mario Bros.
• Many items from Super Mario Bros. are usable in this game.
• One of Luigi's alternate colors bears resemblance to his colors in Super Mario Bros.

Game & Watch Gallery 3 / Game & Watch Gallery 4

• Playing Star Mode for the Modern version of Donkey Kong Jr. replaces the Goomba enemies with Spinies, similar to the new quest mode in Super Mario Bros. replacing the Goombas with Buzzy Beetles.

Paper Mario

• Goombario references Super Mario Bros. in the Goomba's Tattle entry.
• If Mario jumps into a huge vase in a room on the first floor of the Boo's Mansion, he will become 8-bit. Unlike in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, his allies will not become an 8-bit form.

Luigi's Mansion

• Luigi's sprite from the 16-bit version of Super Mario Bros. appears as part of the Game Boy Horror's screens.
• Although not distinctly noted as such, the idea of King Boo using a Bowser decoy may be loosely based on the seven fake Bowsers in Super Mario Bros.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

• The first Adventure Mode stage is inspired by this game along with other Super Mario titles.

Super Mario Sunshine

• The end of a castle level is seen when Mario first met F.L.U.D.D., during its facial recognition procedure.
• Various 8-bit patterns are seen in the background of the secret levels of Ricco Harbor and Sirena Beach.

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

• Some of the available levels for World-e include reproductions of Super Mario Bros.'s Worlds 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, and 2-2 in Super Mario Bros. 3's style. Only World 1-1 was originally made available outside Japan.

Mario Party 5

• The background of the Panic Pinball minigame features the hills and fortresses from the Super Mario All-Stars remake of Super Mario Bros.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

• At the border between the Mushroom Kingdom and the Beanbean Kingdom, there is a minigame titled Border Jump that uses the goal of most levels in Super Mario Bros. (including the flagpole, fortress, and fireworks for success).
• There is a 2D obstacle room before Roy's room which ends with Mario getting the axe and burning the Bowser decoy above a lava bridge.
• A type of ? Block from Super Mario Bros. can be seen among other types.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

• If the player jumps up into a vent and then comes down into the changing room in the X-Naut Fortress, Mario and all his allies will become 8-bit and similar in style to the Super Mario Bros. sprites.

Mario Superstar Baseball

• The loading screen, which has Mario hitting a ? Block, uses sprites from this game.

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

• Toadsworth the Younger states when Baby Peach flies away "You will save her, won't you? I assure you she's NOT in another castle.", referencing the mushroom retainers' famous line "Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another castle!".

New Super Mario Bros.

• Many things from Super Mario Bros. return here, such as Goal Poles, Warp Zones (in the form of Warp Cannons), and the title screen's logo typeface.
• When connecting to a multiplayer game, Mario can be seen running through what looks like World 1-2.
• A close-up of Mario from Super Mario Bros. as well as a picture from said game are unlockable backgrounds.
• The sound effect that plays when Mario or Luigi slides down the Goal Pole is reused, albeit in reverse.
• The second level is an underground level with a secret path over the ceiling leading to a secret exit, similar to the secret path over this game's World 1-2.
• The main boss of World 1 is Bowser, who is defeated by breaking his bridge and dropping him into lava, and the first main boss of World 8 features Dry Bowser, who is defeated in the same way, and throws bones like how Bowser threw hammers in later levels of this game.
• One of the Mario Vs. Luigi stages is a truncated looping version of World 1-1.
• The secret Challenge mode disables backwards scrolling, making the side-scrolling identical to Super Mario Bros.
• If Mario clears a level with the last two digits being identical (except for 00), the original "Course Clear" fanfare will play.

Tetris DS

• The first two levels are based on World 1-1, 3 and 7 are underground-based, 8 and 9 are based on the cloud areas, and 10 is set in a castle level.

Mario Hoops 3-on-3

• In Mario Stadium, one can see an 8-bit Mario chasing two Goombas.
• The music for Bowser's Castle is a cover of "Castle BGM".

Super Paper Mario

• The sprites of Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser appear around said character when they collect the Pal Pills.
• When any character (including a Koopa Troopa) grabs a Mega Star, they turn into a huge version of their Super Mario Bros. sprites. (Mario and Luigi are their Small forms in both).
• Portions of Chapter 1-1, Chapter 3-1, and Chapter 5-3 are identical to Worlds 1-1, 1-2, and 2-1, respectively.

Super Mario Galaxy

• In Toy Time Galaxy, there is a huge 8-bit Mario or Luigi.
• In Flipswitch Galaxy, the background contains a ground scene and an underground scene from this game.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

• The stage Mushroomy Kingdom is based on Worlds 1-1 and 1-2 of this game.
• Lakitu and Spinies appear as Assist Trophies, retaining their original 8-bit looks.

WarioWare: D.I.Y.

The Crayon Epic microgame features a monster spitting fireballs using the Lava Bubble's sprite stamp.

• The microgames Spiny and Blooper are based on this game.
• Several features available in the Super MakerMatic 21 originate from this game:
  • The defeat sound effect as one of the instruments of the 8-Bit rhythm set;
  • The Mario Jump, Coin, Power Up, Power Down, Shell Kick and Cannon sound effects;
  • The ground and brick wall pre-made palette elements;
  • The Coin, ? Block, Hard Block, Lava Bubble, background bush, background hill, background cloud, Vine, Pipe, Platform, Lift, background fortress, Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, Small Mario, Super Mario, Princess Peach, Toad, Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Bullet Bill and Piranha Plant as pre-made stamps in the 8-Bit set.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

• The second level of Coin Courses is a modified variant of World 1-1.
• If Mario clears a level when the last two digits of the timer match, "Course Clear" will play.

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Mario Squared Galaxy

• In Twisty Trials Galaxy and the second area of the Grandmaster Galaxy, there is a backdrop showing moving sprites of items and an 8-bit Mario and Luigi from this game.
• Mario Squared Galaxy takes place on a modified 8-bit Mario, as well as an 8-bit Luigi during the mission "Luigi's Purple Coin Chaos".

Super Mario 3D Land

• Mario's sprite is used as the marker of where Mario is in a world.
• Tail Bowsers are tailed variants of fake Bowsers, and the first one is a disguised Goomba.
• The second level has a ledge just out of view that allows the player to walk over the level, and ends in a secret Pipe.

Mario Kart 7

• Piranha Plant Slide is heavily based on the underground levels of Super Mario Bros. The cloud and bushes in the race course are the same model in different colors, referencing how the clouds and bushes in Super Mario Bros. are the same sprite in different colors.

New Super Mario Bros. 2

• The first course in Coin Rush's Gold Classics Pack is based on Worlds 1-1 and 1-2, while the last course is based on World 1-4.
• If Mario clears a level when the last two digits of the timer match the world number multiplied by 11, "Course Clear" will play.

New Super Mario Bros. U

• Sprites from Super Mario Bros. are used in the game menus.
• The second level is an underground course with a secret path over the ceiling leading to a secret exit.
• The first phase of the final boss involves striking an axe to Bowser's bridge to drop him into the lava.
• If Mario clears a level when the last two digits of the timer match, "Course Clear" will play.

New Super Luigi U

A hidden Luigi sighting in Piranha Heights

• Various sprites of Luigi, including some from Super Mario Bros., are reused as hidden Luigis.
• After completing the level when the second and third digit of the timer are the same, this game's course clear song will play.

Super Mario 3D World

• Mario's sprite is seen on the saving screen. His sprite can also be seen in a bonus area of Bob-ombs Below.
• Luigi's sprite can be spotted in some levels and on the button to enter the Luigi Bros. game.

NES Remix

• Super Mario Bros. is one of the games remixed in this game.

NES Remix 2

• A port of the game titled Super Luigi Bros. appears, where the player controls Luigi and all of the levels are mirrored horizontally.

Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

• Various sprites of enemies and scenery can be seen on pots in Bone-Dry Dunes.
• Super Bell Subway has graffiti representing World 1-2.

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

• The Mushroomy Kingdom stage returns from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, albeit without World 1-2.

Ultimate NES Remix

• A port of the game titled Speed Mario Bros. appears, in which the game runs twice as fast.

Yoshi's Woolly World

• The Shell Patch enemy greatly resembles a Red Shell's sprite in this game.

Super Mario Maker / Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS

• Super Mario Bros. is used as one of the four game styles.

Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam

• In battles, Hammer Bros. charge at the players after a certain amount of time, like in Super Mario Bros.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo 3DS)

• A structure in the shape of a Castle from Super Mario Bros. made of Brick Blocks and character wall obstacles of Mario, Bowser, Lakitu, Spinies and Goombas using their sprites from Super Mario Bros. appear as obstacles in Golf Plus.

NES Classic Edition

• The game selection music of this console incorporates some sound effects from this game and Mario Bros., including the "1-Up" sound effect and the "Pipe Travel / Power-Down" sound.

Super Mario Run

• Several statues based on sprites from this game can be unlocked and used in the Kingdom Builder mode.

Super Mario Odyssey

"Up on the Big Screen"

• In some parts of the game, Mario can walk within walls from a 2D perspective that uses sprites and sound effects from Super Mario Bros., as well as altering the music to an 8-bit variation.
  • Additionally, a replica of World 1-1 can be played in a theater in New Donk City in order to obtain the "Up on the Big Screen" and "Down Inside the Big Screen" Power Moons.
• A scene of Mario confronting Bowser in Super Mario Bros. can be seen when Mario captures Bowser in this game.

Super Mario Party

• Mario, Goomba, Spiny, Cheep Cheep, and Bowser's sprites appear in Puzzle Hustle.
• Dart Gallery's background features neon lights resembling Super Mario Bros.'s overworld levels.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

• The Mushroom Kingdom stage from Super Smash Bros. returns in this game, along with Mushroomy Kingdom from Brawl.

Super Mario Maker 2

• Super Mario Bros. returns as the first of the five game styles.
• The loading icon in the Wireless Play menus features an 8-bit Mario running in a circle. If the loading animation plays for long enough, the sped up variant of "Ground BGM" will fade in.

Mario Kart Tour

• The 8-Bit Jumping Mario, 8-Bit Jumping Luigi, 8-Bit Star, 8-Bit Bullet Bill, 8-Bit Fire Flower, 8-Bit Super Mushroom, 8-Bit Block Glider, and 8-Bit Goomba are re-creations of their sprites in Super Mario Bros.
• The Super 1 uses the Japanese logo.

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

• The sprites for Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser, Goombas, Koopa Troopas, Hammer Bros, Lakitus, and Toads are reused in the 2D Events. In these events, differently colored Toads appear which have sprites that are based on the sprite used for red Toads, the only color of Toad present in Super Mario Bros.

Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit

• The race course World 1-1 and the Retro theme it uses are heavily based on the level of the same name.

Mario Party Superstars

• The tiles from Squared Away have been changed to look like Small Mario's sprite.

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope

• Whenever Rabbid Mario retrieves a Purified Darkmess Energy Crystal, he plays the "Course Clear" theme on his mandolin.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Main section: List of references in The Super Mario Bros. Movie § Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

• Mario's jumping animation closely resembles the poseMedia:Mario and mushroom SMB1 artwork.png he makes on the Japanese box art of Super Mario Bros.
• Several notes from the ending fanfare are played at the beginning of the intro cutscene.
• The secret exit in Piranha Plants on Parade, the second level of the game, shows a pipe configuration identical to the one in World 1-2 shortly after the end-of-level fortress.
• Shining Falls Special Triple Threat Deluge's first section remakes the beginning of World 1-1 and the lift section of World 1-2.
• In The Sharp Trial: Launch to Victory, during the Wonder Flower's effect, there is a block formation referencing the Fire Flower sprite.

The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

• The arrangement of the regular battle theme now begins by quoting the "Ground Theme" motif.

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

• The game features fourteen challenges and 45 player icons based on Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Party Jamboree

• The block designs in the Brick Breaker minigame are based on the sprites of Mario, a Goomba, and a Koopa Troopa.

Mario Kart World

• The game features five arrangements of Super Mario Bros. tracks, consisting of two of "Ground BGM", two of "Underground BGM" and one of "Underwater BGM".
• Pipe Cannons take the appearance of pipe junctions similar to the ones entered to access underground levels.
• Generic trampolines take the red and yellow coloration of trampolines from this game.

Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour

• The Super Mario Bros. 4K 1-1 demo allows players to play through World 1-1, with each in-game pixel being the size of a screen pixel and the entire level being visible at once in a 4k screen.
• The coin and "1-Up" sound effects can be heard in the HD Rumble 2 Sound demo.
• The Nintendo and Rumble (2) insight features images of a Super Mario Bros. cartridge.
• The Ray Tracing insight and the Main Computer Insights Quiz 2 quiz feature stylized depictions of World 1-1.

Hello, Mario! / Hello, Yoshi!

• "Ground BGM" and "Underwater BGM" appear as background tracks.
• Mario or Yoshi can whistle several tunes from Super Mario Bros., those being:
  • The first five notes of "Ground BGM".
  • "Player Down".
  • The sound for sliding down a flagpole.
  • The "1-Up" sound effect.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Main section: List of references in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie § Super Mario Bros.

Alternate versions and re-releases

The 3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet cartridge.

The playable demo in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

25th Anniversary SUPER MARIO BROS., with all the question marks on the ? Blocks changed to number 25's.

• 1985 - Original Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System release (Japan and North America)
• 1986 - Re-released on the Family Computer Disk System in Japan as one of the launch titles.
• 1986 - Released for the arcade VS. System as VS. Super Mario Bros.
• 1986 - A Game & Watch titled Super Mario Bros. is released, but it is a completely different game.
• 1986 - Ported into the arcade machine Nintendo PlayChoice-10.
• 1986 - Released on the Family Computer Disk System as All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. Most of the levels have been reused but the physics engine is from Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
• 1987 - Original Nintendo Entertainment System release (Europe/Australia)
• 1988 - Re-released on the NES in North America as part of the 2-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt compilation, packaged with the NES Action Set.
• 1988 - Re-released on the NES in North America as part of the 3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet compilation, packaged with the NES Power Set.
• 1989 - A Nelsonic Game Watch titled Super Mario Bros. is released, but it is a completely different game.
• 1990 - Re-released on the NES as part of Nintendo World Championships 1990.
• 1990 - Re-released on the NES in Australia and Europe as part of the 3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Tetris/Nintendo World Cup compilation, sold alone or with the Top Loader.
• 1993 - Remake available on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as part of the Super Mario All-Stars compilation. Graphics and sound were updated, and many glitches were removed.
• 1994 - Remake available on the SNES in North America as part of the Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World compilation, packaged with the SNES Mario Set.
• 1997 - A special version is released as a Satellaview broadcast titled BS Super Mario Collection - Dai-1-Shuu, which is based on the Super Mario All-Stars version.
• 1999 - Remake released on the Game Boy Color as Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. The game featured the original game's graphics but loads of additional content.
• 2001 - The original game is available as an unlockable NES game in Doubutsu no Mori+. In Japan, it is obtainable only through the thirty Nintendo GameCube Memory Cards that were distributed as part of a sweepstakes in Famitsu magazine. In the international release, it can only be unlocked by using a cheating device. It was likely going to be released as an e-Reader card (as were Ice Climber and Mario Bros.), but a Super Mario Bros. card was never released. In the Japan-only re-release, Doubutsu no Mori e+, the game is removed altogether.
• 2003 - In celebrating 20 years of the Famicom in Japan, Nintendo ran a "Hot Mario! Campaign" from November 7, 2003 to January 15, 2004, in which the prize was a special edition of Super Mario Bros. alongside a Famicom-themed Game Boy Advance SP.
• 2004 - The original game was re-released on the Game Boy Advance as part of the Classic NES Series / Famicom Mini collection, celebrating 20 years of the Famicom in Japan. It was also re-released on September 13, 2005, in Japan to celebrate 20 years of the original NES game.
• 2006 - Available on the Wii as part of the Virtual Console. It requires 23 blocks (2.9 MB) to be installed.
• 2008 - Available as a playable demo in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
• 2010 - SNES version re-released with Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition.
• 2010 - Virtual Console port titled 25th Anniversary SUPER MARIO BROS. with the question marks on the ? Blocks replaced with "25", exclusively bundled with a special, red Wii.
• 2011 - Released on the 3DS as part of the Virtual Console. It is a free download for those who purchased a 3DS before the August 12th price drop. The full release version was released on January 5, 2012, in Japan, on February 16, 2012, in North America, and on March 1, 2012, in Europe and Australia.
• 2013 - Released on the Wii U as part of the Virtual Console service via the Wii U eShop in Japan on June 5 and in Europe, Australia, and North America in September. It requires 15 MB to be installed. The game was also featured in NES Remix.
• 2014 - Re-released in NES Remix 2 as Super Luigi Bros. The game was also featured in Ultimate NES Remix along with the port of Super Mario Bros., Speed Mario Bros.
• 2014 - Available as a playable demo in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
• 2015 - Available as a "highlight" in amiibo tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits.
• 2016 - Released as one of the 30 games included in the Classic Edition Series.
• 2018 - Available as one of the 20 NES titles at the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service's launch in September 2018, and for the first time can be played with other players online.
• 2020 - Released as Super Mario Bros. 35, using the physics of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels and the "Taking damage as Fire Mario becomes Super Mario" system that was standardized in the Western Super Mario Bros. 3 versions onwards.
• 2020 - Released as Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.

Adaptations

Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!

Movie poster of Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!

One year after the Japanese release of the game, the first film adaptation of a video game, Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!, was released by Grouper Studios. It roughly follows the game's events, with the addition of a quest for Mario to find the three power-ups in order to use their powers to defeat Bowser.

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

The main cast in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, elements from the game are fused with Super Mario Bros. 2's. The plotline is the presumed follow-up to the game's events, with Mario and Luigi escorting Princess Toadstool and Toad back to the capital, all the while King Koopa is trying to stop them, kidnap the princess, and take over her kingdom through various methods.

A retelling of the first episode, along with two more original adventures, are included in the German children's book Zur Fernseh-Serie Super Mario Bros. - Spiele und Geschichten.

Manga

The same plotline, but only starring Mario and Peach, is reused in the Super Mario-kun 2 manga series by Yukio Sawada (which incorporates elements from Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels), the potential sequel to his one-shot story based after the game that introduced him to the franchise. The one-shot would be later reprinted in Volume 40 of Super Mario-kun. In the latter series, a 4-koma strip in the last chapter of Volume 2 is based on Super Mario Bros., with the fake Bowsers as the focus. Another Super Mario Bros. manga made by Sawada was Famicom Manga: Super Mario-kun, more focused on illustrating the game mechanics.

The Super Mario-kun series by Daisuke Shigoto published in Shōgaku Ninensei is instead set after the events of the game, where Mario and Peach attempt to reform Bowser.

The very first game covered in Hisshō Technique Kan Peki-ban was Super Mario Bros. The artwork depicted was drawn by Masaru Kobayashi, who would also do The Lost Levels.

Super Mario Bros. is also the basis for various stories in the Super Mario 4koma Manga Theater books (apart from books 9 and 11).

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  Cover of Yukio Sawada's first Super Mario work: Super Mario Bros.

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  Famicom Manga: Super Mario-kun

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  First chapter of Super Mario-kun 2

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  The 4-koma section in Super Mario-kun (stage 14 of Volume 2), based on the confusion caused by the fake Bowsers

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  The reprinting of the original one-shot in Super Mario-kun (special stage of Volume 40)

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  The first chapter of Super Mario-kun from Shōgaku Ninensei

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  First issue of Hisshō Technique Kan Peki-ban

Super Mario Bros. Valiant Comics

In the first story of the Valiant Comics series, "The Legend", the main plot of the game is illustrated. It uses some designs and elements from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

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  First page of "The Legend"

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  Second page

Profiles and statistics

• Wii Shop Channel: "One day, the Mushroom Kingdom was invaded by the Koopas, a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into stones, bricks, and even plants, and the kingdom fell into ruin. The only one who can undo the magic spell on the Mushroom People and return them to their normal selves is Princess Toadstool, the daughter of the Mushroom King. Unfortunately, she is in the hands of evil King Bowser. Mario, the famous plumber, learns of the Mushroom People's plight and sets out to free the Mushroom Princess from the Koopas and restore the fallen kingdom of the Mushroom People. Jump, kick shells, and throw fireballs through eight action-packed worlds in this iconic NES classic!"
• Nintendo eShop: "Rediscover Mario & Luigi's first great adventure! One day, the Mushroom Kingdom was invaded by the Koopas, a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into stones, bricks, and even plants, and the kingdom fell into ruin. The only one who can undo the magic spell is Princess Toadstool, the daughter of the Mushroom King. Unfortunately, she is in the hands of evil king Bowser™. Mario™ learns of the Mushroom People's plight and sets out to free the Mushroom Princess from the Koopas and restore the fallen kingdom. Jump, kick shells, and throw fireballs through eight action-packed worlds in this iconic NES classic!"

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Sticker Super Mario Bros.
	Artwork from: Super Mario Bros.
	Effects in The Subspace Emissary: [Arm, Leg] - Attack +15
	Usable by: Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Peach, Bowser

Nintendo official website

Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary

• The History of Super Mario Bros.:
  • English:
    The game that started it all! Mario and Luigi ran and jumped through caves and castles, down pipes and across platforms to face off against Bowser and rescue Princess Peach.
  • Other languages:
    • Dutch:
      De game waar het allemaal mee begon! Mario en Luigi renden en sprongen door grotten en kastelen, door buizen en over platformen om het op te nemen tegen Bowser en prinses Peach te redden.
    • French:
      Le grand début de la saga ! Mario et Luigi courent à travers grottes et châteaux, se faufilent dans des tuyaux, sautent sur des plateformes et affrontent Bowser pour secourir la princesse Peach !
    • German:
      Mit diesem Spiel hat alles begonnen! Hier rannten und sprangen Mario und Luigi erstmals durch Höhlen, Schlösser, Röhren und über Plattformen, um Prinzessin Peach aus Bowsers Klauen zu retten.
    • Italian:
      Il gioco con cui tutto ha avuto inizio! Correndo e saltando, Mario e Luigi hanno superato caverne, castelli, tubi e piattaforme per salvare la principessa Peach dalle grinfie di Bowser.
    • Portuguese:
      Este é o jogo que deu início a tudo! O Mario e o Luigi correm e saltam sobre grutas e castelos, entram em canos e atravessam plataformas para enfrentarem o Bowser e resgatarem a Peach.
    • Spanish:
      ¡El juego con el que empezó todo! Mario y Luigi corrieron y saltaron por cuevas y castillos, se colaron por un montón de tuberías y se subieron a todo tipo de plataformas para derrotar a Bowser y rescatar a la princesa Peach.

Nintendo Today!

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Collectible Cards

• Featured Game Title:
  • English:
    The first game in the Super Mario Bros. series! A 2D side-scrolling adventure following Mario's journey to rescue Princess Toadstool from Bowser. Its 32 courses are spread across eight worlds and feature environments ranging from deep below the ground to the clouds high above it.
  • Other languages:
    • Japanese:
      「スーパーマリオ」シリーズの最初のタイトル。クッパにさらわれたピーチ姫を救うマリオの冒険を描く横スクロールアクションゲーム。地上、地下、雲の上などバリエーション豊かな8ワールド32コースが舞台。
    • Chinese (Traditional):
      「超級瑪利歐」系列的第一部作品。瑪利歐為了拯救被庫巴擄走的碧姬公主，而進行冒險的橫向捲軸動作遊戲。舞台包括地面、地底、雲上等一共8個世界（32個關卡），種類豐富。
    • Dutch:
      De eerste game in de Super Mario Bros.-serie! Een zijwaartsscrollend 2D-avontuur waarin Mario op pad gaat om prinses Paddenstoel uit de klauwen van Bowser te redden. Er zijn 32 levels die over acht werelden zijn verdeeld, met uiteenlopende gebieden, van diep onder de grond tot hoog in de wolken.
    • French (Europe):
      Le premier titre de la série Super Mario Bros. ! Dans cette aventure en 2D à défilement horizontal, Mario doit sauver la princesse Toadstool des griffes de Bowser au fil de 32 niveaux répartis dans huit mondes aux environnements variés allant des profondeurs de la terre aux nuages célestes.
    • German:
      Das erste Spiel der Super Mario Bros.-Reihe! In diesem Jump-'n'-Run-Abenteuer in 2D reist Mario durch 32 Level in acht Welten, um Prinzessin Toadstool (damals auch bekannt als Prinzessin Fliegenpilz) aus Bowsers Klauen zu retten. Jede Welt bietet vielfältige Umgebungen, von Gebieten tief unter der Erde bis zu Bereichen hoch über den Wolken.
    • Italian:
      Il primo gioco della serie Super Mario Bros.! Questa avventura a scorrimento orizzontale in 2D segue Mario nel suo viaggio per salvare la Principessa Toadstool da Bowser. I suoi 32 livelli sono distribuiti in otto mondi e includono ambientazioni che vanno dal sottosuolo al cielo.
    • Korean:
      「슈퍼 마리오」 시리즈의 첫 번째 타이틀. 쿠파에게 납치된 피치공주를 구하기 위한 마리오의 모험을 그린 횡스크롤 액션 게임. 지상, 지하, 구름 위 등 다양한 배경으로 이루어진 8개의 월드와 32개의 코스가 무대가 된다.
    • Portuguese (Brazil):
      O primeiro jogo da franquia Super Mario Bros.! Uma aventura 2D de deslocamento lateral seguindo a jornada de Mario para resgatar a princesa Toadstool do Bowser. As 32 fases são espalhadas por oito mundos e trazem cenários desde debaixo da terra até alto nas nuvens do céu.
    • Spanish (Latin America):
      ¡El primer juego de la serie Super Mario Bros.! Una aventura de desplazamiento lateral en 2D donde Mario deberá rescatar a la Princesa Toadstool quien fue secuestrada por Bowser. Sus 32 niveles están divididos en ocho mundos y ofrecen entornos que van desde el subsuelo hasta lugares más allá de las nubes.
    • Spanish (Europe):
      ¡Fue el primer juego de la serie Super Mario Bros.! En esta aventura de desplazamiento lateral en 2D, Mario se embarca en un periplo para rescatar a la Princesa Toadstool de las garras de Bowser. Se compone de 32 niveles repartidos a lo largo de 8 mundos, y sus entornos van desde las profundidades subterráneas hasta las mismísimas nubes.

Gallery

For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Super Mario Bros.

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  Japanese box art

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  Mario

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  Princess Toadstool

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  Mushroom Retainer

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  Little Goomba

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  Bowser

Quotes

• "To make Mario jump extra high, hold the B button down while you run and jump." — Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!, Card no. 7
• "Even if it says "Game Over" you can hold A and press Start. You'll continue on Level 1 of the last world you were on." — Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!, Card no. 13
• "In every world, within invisible blocks, on extra life is concealed (possibly more). Keep your eyes peeled!" — Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!, Card no. 19
• "You'll gain more points the higher you jump on a flagpole. Try accelerating first, the jump for all you're worth!" — Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!, Card no. 31
• "We wanted to make a big Mario running around beneath a blue sky. We squeezed as much as we could out of the NES technology." — Shigeru Miyamoto, Super Mario History 1985-2010 booklet
• "Developing this game was fun because it felt like we were solving a puzzle as we were making it." — Takashi Tezuka, Super Mario History 1985-2010 booklet
• "There was so much enthusiasm on this project because we were trying to create something that had never been done before." — Koji Kondo, Super Mario History 1985-2010 booklet
• "Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!" — Mushroom Retainer, Super Mario Bros.
• "Thank you Mario! Your quest is over. We present you a new quest." — Princess Toadstool, Super Mario Bros.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	スーパーマリオブラザーズ Sūpā Mario Burazāzu	Super Mario Bros.
	スーパーマリオブラザーズ1 Sūpā Mario Burazāzu Wan	Super Mario Bros. 1
Chinese (Simplified)	超级马力欧兄弟 Chāojí Mǎlì'ōu Xiōngdì (Mandarin) Chīukāp Máhlihk'āu Hīngdaih (Cantonese)	Super Mario Bros.
Chinese (Traditional)	超級瑪利歐兄弟 Chāojí Mǎlì'ōu Xiōngdì (Mandarin) Chīukāp Máhleih'āu Hīngdaih (Cantonese)	Super Mario Bros.
Korean	슈퍼 마리오브라더스 Syupeo Mario Beuradeoseu	Super Mario Bros.

Notes

The original story of Super Mario Bros. (with early character designs) as seen on a board game based on the game. An alternate set of pictures depicting the same events is in How to win at Super Mario Bros.

A comparison of the Super Mario Bros. and Mario Pikachu artwork

• Despite being unmentioned in the Japanese manual, the Mushroom King appears in Asian-drawn strategy guide illustrations.
• The South African release of Super Mario Bros. in 1993 reuses the European version's packaging, the only NES game to do so in the region; all other South African NES games feature a red "South African Version" banner on the box art and cartridge label.
• In a 2011 United States Supreme Court case, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (which overturned a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children without parental supervision), the Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted an amicus brief citing social research that declared Super Mario Bros. to be a violent video game. In the brief, it was stated that the game contained cartoon violence similar to that found in various Saturday morning television shows, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons, and the Mighty Mouse series, which garnered little negative reaction from the public in their own times.
• A piece of promotional artwork for the "Mario Pikachu" line of merchandise, based on the artwork for the Famicom release of Super Mario Bros., replaces the game's characters and objects with Pokémon and other objects from the Pokémon franchise. The changes are the following:
  • Mario is replaced by Pikachu.
  • Bowser is replaced by Blastoise.
  • Princess Peach is replaced by Diancie.
  • The Toads are replaced by two Foongus.
  • The Koopa Paratroopa is replaced by Wartortle.
  • The castle is replaced by the Bell Tower.
  • A flower is replaced by Flabébé.
  • The Goomba is replaced by Shroomish.
  • The Bullet Bill is replaced by Beldum.
  • The Super Mushroom is replaced by a Big Mushroom.
  • The Blooper is replaced by Inkay.
  • The hill is orange instead of green.
  • The Warp Pipe is replaced by the Slowpoke Well.
  • The Koopa Troopa is replaced by Squirtle.
  • The Cheep Cheep is replaced by Qwilfish.
  • The Hammer Bro is replaced by Psyduck.
  • The cliff is a cave.
  • The Spiny is replaced by Ferroseed.
  • The Lakitu is replaced by Landorus.

External links

• Mario Portal Game Archive (EN)
• Mario Portal Game Archive (JP)
• Famicom 40th Anniversary site
• Nintendo UK Game Boy Advance site
• Japanese Famicom manual
• North American NES manual