Mario Bros.

1984 video game

Original description from the source, not translated.

YEAR 1984

GENRE Platformer

PLATFORM ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy Advance, arcade video game machine, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit family, Amstrad CPC, Atari 7800, NEC PC-8800 series, FM-7, Atari 520 ST

ABOUT THE GAME

Mario Bros. is a 1983 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for arcades. It was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo's chief engineer. Players control Italian twin brother plumbers Mario and Luigi as they exterminate turtle-like creatures, giant flies, and crabs emerging from the sewers of New York City by knocking them upside-down and kicking them away. The Famicom/NES version was the first game to be developed by Intelligent Systems. It is part of the Mario franchise and the first spin-off of the Donkey Kong series. The arcade and Famicom/NES versions were received positively by critics. Elements introduced in Mario Bros., such as floating coins, enemy turtles, and Luigi, were carried over to Super Mario Bros. (1985) and became staples of the Mario series. An updated version, titled Mario Bros. Classic, is included as a minigame in all of the Super Mario Advance series and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (2003). The NES version of Mario Bros. was re-released through the Wii and Wii U's Virtual Console, as well as the Nintendo Classics service for the Nintendo Switch. The original arcade version was released by Hamster Corporation as part of the Arcade Archives series for the Switch in 2017.

Source: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 — Mario Bros. · retrieved October 19, 2026

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