Super Mario All-Stars

1993 video game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development

Original description from the source, not translated.

YEAR 1993

GENRE Platformer

PLATFORM Wii, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo Switch

ABOUT THE GAME

Super Mario All-Stars is a 1993 platform game compilation developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It contains remakes of four Super Mario games released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and the Famicom Disk System: Super Mario Bros. (1985), Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (1986; released as Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan), Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988), and Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988). As in the original games, players control the Italian plumber Mario and his brother Luigi through themed worlds, collecting power-ups, avoiding obstacles, and finding secrets. The remakes feature updated graphics—including the addition of parallax scrolling—and music, modified game physics, a save feature, and bug fixes. Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development developed the compilation after completing Super Mario Kart (1992), at the suggestion of the Mario creator, Shigeru Miyamoto. No longer restricted by the limitations of the 8-bit NES, Nintendo remade them for the 16-bit SNES. The developers based the updated designs on those from Super Mario World (1990) and strove to retain the feel of the original games. Nintendo released Super Mario All-Stars worldwide in late 1993 and rereleased it in 1994 with Super Mario World included. It was The Lost Levels' first release outside Japan; it was not released on the NES in Western territories because Nintendo deemed it too difficult at the time. Super Mario All-Stars is one of the best-selling Super Mario games, with 10.55 million copies sold by 2015. Critics considered it one of the best SNES games and praised the updated graphics and music, but criticized its lack of innovation. All-Stars served as a basis for later Super Mario rereleases and was described by Famitsu as a model for video game remakes.

Source: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 — Super Mario All-Stars · retrieved October 19, 2026

Text is shortened from the original article; the full version is linked.

PROVENANCE

Fields on this page come from the catalog record and recorded sources. No popularity or rating claims are added.