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Super Mario Bros.

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Super Mario Bros.

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Also known as Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Bros. 1, SMB, SMB1, SMB 1, SMB., SMB. 1

1985 platform video game

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Super Mario Bros. is a video game developed by Nintendo R&D4 and published by Nintendo and Playtronic. Released in 1985, the title belongs to the Mario and Mario Bros. franchises. It is classified as a platformer, adventure, and action game, supporting both single player and multiplayer modes.

The game has been released on various platforms, including the NES, SNES, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Family Computer, Family Computer Disk System, and Arcade. It received a rating of 4.32 and a score of 84 from 1310 users. The work has 71,000 social media followers and is referenced by 627 other encyclopedia articles. Its public domain date is listed as 2080-09-13.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, RAWG, IGDB, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Game data

Released
1985-09-13
User rating
4.32 / 5
Genres
Platformer, Adventure, Action
Platforms
Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Wii, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, SNES, NES

via RAWG

Game details · IGDB

84User score · 1,310 ratings

A side scrolling 2D platformer and first entry in the Super Mario franchise, Super Mario Bros. follows Italian plumber Mario as he treks across many levels of platforming challenges featuring hostile enemies to rescue Princess Peach from the evil king Bowser.

Released
1985
Genres
Platform, Adventure
Platforms
Family Computer Disk System, Arcade, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Family Computer, Wii U, Nintendo Entertainment System
Game modes
Single player, Multiplayer
Franchise
Mario Bros., Mario
Developer
Nintendo R&D4, Nintendo R&D4
Publisher
Playtronic, Nintendo, Nintendo

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Encyclopedic overview

Super Mario Bros. is a 1985 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Directed and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, it is the successor to the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros. and the first game in the Super Mario series. Players control Mario, or his brother Luigi in the multiplayer mode, to traverse the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Toadstool from King Koopa (later named Bowser). They traverse side-scrolling stages while avoiding hazards such as enemies and pits and collecting power-ups such as the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Starman.

Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka designed Super Mario Bros. as a culmination of the team's experience working on Devil World and the side-scrollers Excitebike and Kung Fu. Miyamoto wanted to create a more colorful platform game with a scrolling screen and larger characters. The team designed the first level, World 1-1, as a tutorial for platform gameplay. Koji Kondo's soundtrack is one of the earliest in video games, making music a centerpiece of the design.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Super Mario Bros.” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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