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'''''Mario Bros.''''' is a title for the [[Game & Watch]]. Despite its name, it has no similarity to the [[Mario Bros. (game)|arcade game of the same name]]. Instead of plumbing, [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] are working at a bottling plant and must prepare packages of bottles to load onto a delivery truck. This game, played on the Multi Screen model of the Game & Watch, was released on March 14, 1983<ref>[http://www.intheattic.co.uk/mario_bros_.htm ''Mario Bros.'' info page on In The Attic, a website dedicated to classic videogames] Retrieved 13 November 2010</ref>—three months before the much more popular arcade title, making this the first game to feature Luigi. | '''''Mario Bros.''''' is a title for the [[Game & Watch]]. Despite its name, it has no similarity to the [[Mario Bros. (game)|arcade game of the same name]]. Instead of plumbing, [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] are working at a bottling plant and must prepare packages of bottles to load onto a delivery truck. This game, played on the Multi Screen model of the Game & Watch, was released on March 14, 1983<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20221128001046/http://www.intheattic.co.uk/mario_bros_.htm ''Mario Bros.'' info page on In The Attic, a website dedicated to classic videogames] (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine). Retrieved 13 November 2010</ref>—three months before the much more popular arcade title, making this the first game to feature Luigi. | ||
The model opened like a book and could allow for simultaneous two-player action, with one player controlling Luigi on the left half of the game and the other playing as Mario on the right, making it the very first ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' game to have two-player mode. | The model opened like a book and could allow for simultaneous two-player action, with one player controlling Luigi on the left half of the game and the other playing as Mario on the right, making it the very first ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' game to have two-player mode. | ||
