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'''''All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.''''' is an officially-licensed ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' hack based on the Japanese radio program, [[wikipedia:All Night Nippon|''All Night Nippon'']], released in 1986 only in Japan. The gameplay is the same as ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'', but the Mushroom Retainers and some of the enemies are replaced with Japanese celebrities. The game was held as raffle prize from ''All Night Nippon'' itself, and was published by [[wikipedia:Fuji Television|Fuji Television]].
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{{game infobox
|image=[[File:All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros cover.jpg|250px]]<br>Box art
|developer=[[Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development|Nintendo EAD]]
|publisher={{wp|Nippon Broadcasting System}}
|platforms=[[Family Computer Disk System]]
|release='''Family Computer Disk System:'''<br>{{flag list|Japan|December 20, 1986<ref name = bigafrodogg>{{cite|url=bigafrodogg.hatenablog.com/entry/2022/03/29/190531|title=オールナイトニッポンスーパーマリオブラザーズのプレゼントはあったのか? 前編|language=ja|date=March 29, 2022|author=BAD君|publisher=Hatena Blog|accessdate=November 26, 2022}}</ref>}}
|languages={{languages|en_us=y}}
|genre=2D platformer
|modes=Single player
|ratings=
|format={{format|fds=1}}
|input={{input|fc=1}}
|serials=FMC-ANN
}}
'''''All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.''''' is an officially licensed retool of ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]''. The game was produced in 1986 for the [[Family Computer Disk System]]. As such, there is no 2 Player Game but rather the option to play as [[Luigi]] with his unique physics. This version is based on the Japanese radio program ''{{iw|wikipedia|All Night Nippon}}'', and it was sold through a lottery system on the show itself to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the program in the upcoming year. The game was published by {{iw|wikipedia|Nippon Broadcasting System}}, a subsidiary of {{iw|wikipedia|Fuji Television}} who would go on to publish ''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'', localized in the {{iw|wikipedia|Western world}} as ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''.
 
Only 3,040 copies were released. Due to high demand and limited supply, listeners were told from December 15 to December 19, 1986 to send a postcard which would be entered into a lottery for 2,000 of the copies. The card had to be postmarked by December 20, 1986 to qualify. Winners received a reply postcard to alert them to send a money order for their copy. 1,000 copies were sold directly at Nippon Broadcasting System's music center window on December 20, which lead to a long queue of prospective buyers in front of the building. In addition, ''Famicom Tsūshin'' (''[[Famitsu]]'') and ''Family Computer Magazine'' (''Famimaga'') each gave out 20 free copies to their readers in a lottery. The deadline for ''Famitsu'' was December 25, 1986 while ''Famimaga''{{'}}s was January 15, 1987. ''Famitsu'' received over 30,000 submissions.<ref name = bigafrodogg></ref><ref>{{cite|language=ja|url=bigafrodogg.hatenablog.com/entry/2022/07/04/065913|title=オールナイトニッポンスーパーマリオブラザーズのプレゼントはあったのか? 後編|date=July 4, 2022|publisher=Hatena Blog|author=BAD君|accessdate=November 26, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite|url=pony.velvet.jp/fcdisk/fdsidxmnlsealallst1.html|title=ディスクシステム - パッケージアート1|language=ja|publisher=箱のすみっこげーむ資料|accessdate=November 26, 2022}}</ref>
 
The game is a remix with most of the level designs adapted from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' along with the likenesses of the show's hosts as sprite swaps. It takes place in the ビバ{{ruby|王国|おうこく}}<ref name=monogatari/> (''Biba Ōkoku'', Viva Kingdom), which is named after "Viva Young", the slogan and subtitle of the ''All Night Nippon'' radio program. It is also the name of that show's newsletter. Likewise, the “{{ruby|幻|まぼろし}}の{{ruby|商売繁盛|しょうばいはんじょう}}”のコーナー<ref>{{cite|language=ja|date=1986|publisher=Nintendo|title=''All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.'' instruction booklet|page=6}}</ref> (''"Maboroshi no Shōbai Hanjō" no kōnā'', "Illusionary Business Prosperity" corner) that Bowser lures [[List of implied people#Sunplaza Nakano|Sunplaza Nakano]] in with is the name of a recurring segment in his show. He would perform a {{iw|wikipedia|guerilla gig}} at a small business, usually a restaurant, and overwhelm it with customers. Other games with a similar concept of Mario meeting Japanese celebrities were found on the [[Satellaview]], with spiritual successors such as ''[[BS Super Mario USA]]'', ''[[BS Super Mario Collection]]'', and a version of ''[[Wario's Woods (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)|Wario's Woods]]''. ''[[Mario Bros. Returns]]'' was another similar project.
==Story==
'''Translated from the instruction booklet'''<ref name=monogatari>{{cite|format=PDF|language=ja|publisher=Nintendo|date=1986|url=www.gamingalexandria.com/highquality/fds/All%20Night%20Nippon%20Super%20Mario%20Brothers/All%20Night%20Nippon%20Super%20Mario%20Brothers.pdf|title=''All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.'' instruction booklet|page=6 and 7}}</ref>
 
''One day, the peaceful {{wp|All Night Nippon}} dream land Viva Kingdom where [[Toad (species)|Mushroom]]s live was invaded by the tribe of the huge turtle [[Bowser|Koopa]], who possesses powerful magic. Said magical power was used to transform all the quiet Mushroom People into rocks, [[Brick Block|brick]]s and mikes among other forms. All Night Nippon personalities {{wp|Miyuki Nakajima}}, the Tunnels, {{wp|Kyōko Koizumi}}, {{wp|Takeshi Kitano|Beat Takeshi}}, and the AB Brothers were also captured. What became of Sunplaza Nakano? Pitiable Sunplaza was fooled by Koopa's letter to his “Illusionary Business Prosperity” corner into visiting him. And he was changed into [[Koopa (species)|Koopa Tribe]] minion “[[OkaP]]”.
 
''The only one who can undo this magic on the Mushrooms and revive All Night Nippon is the Viva Kingdom's own [[Princess Peach]]. She is presently in the hands of King Koopa.
 
''[[Mario]] has stood up to help the personalities trapped in each world, defeat the Koopa Tribe, rescue Princess Peach, and rebuild the peaceful All Night Nippon dream land Viva Kingdom.
 
''The Mario in the TV is an avid All Night Nippon listener like you. Only you can bring this adventure quest (expedition) to a conclusion.


==Differences==
==Differences==
*Goombas and Piranha Plants have been changed to big-headed caricatures of DJs [[wikipedia:Sunplaza Nakano|Sunplaza Nakano]] and [[wikipedia:Tamori|Tamori]], respectively.
===Graphics===
*Microphones replaced the mushrooms found in the background.
*[[World 1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1]] takes place at nighttime.
*The Fujisankei (the company that runs All Night Nippon) logo is found on the flag that is raised when Mario enters a [[fortress]].
*Most of the graphics are from ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels|The Lost Levels]]'', although bricks and mountains are drawn like those in ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' Bricks are not shaded, and mountains have smooth slopes instead of jagged slopes. Cloud platforms were replaced with the [[Mushroom Platform|Super Mushroom platforms]] but now with segmented stalks (which also replace the original Super Mushroom platform designs from the original ''Super Mario Bros.''). Additionally, microphones replace the mushrooms found in the background.
*The Fujisankei logo is also found as the [[ax]] that sits behind [[Bowser]].
*[[Goomba|Little Goomba]]s and [[Piranha Plant]]s were changed to big-headed caricatures of DJ [[List of implied people#Sunplaza Nakano|Sunplaza Nakano]], the Friday night host, and are respectively called [[OkaP]] and [[Pakkun OkaP]].
*The [[Mushroom Retainer]]s have been changed to Japanese celebrities, while [[Princess Peach]] gets a [[wikipedia:geisha|geisha]] outfit.
*The [[Super Star|Starman]] was changed into the [[Hiranya]], a symbol popularized by ''Yūji Miyake's Young Paradise'', the radio program that preceded ''All Night Nippon'' on the same station.
*As with ''[[Vs. Super Mario Bros.]]'', the locations of [[? Blocks]] and [[Brick Block]]s have changed around, though the changes are different from ''Vs''.
*The {{wp|Nippon Broadcasting System|Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc.}} (the radio station that runs ''All Night Nippon'') [[Mentama Mark]] logo is found on the flag that is raised when [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] enter a [[fortress]]. This logo is also found as the [[axe]].
*The [[Starman]] has been changed into a Hiranya, a symbol popularized by a Japanese radio show called ''Young Paradise''. The Hiranya also resembles the Star of David, a symbol of Judaism.
*The [[Toad (species)|mushroom retainer]]s were changed to show's hosts, while [[Princess Peach]] is dressed as a traditional Japanese princess. This marks the first time Princess Peach has ever done her hair up, predating ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' by 16 years, and is also the first media to depict her in a different outfit from her usual attire.
*Most of the graphical changes from ''The Lost Levels'' have been carried over, with the exception of the bricks (which have reverted to their original simplistic design from the first game).
 
*Mario and Luigi, when stopping after running, make the same noise as that in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''.
{| class="wikitable"
*World 1 was changed to night time.
! Sprite
*Windstorms were removed, affecting the difficulty of the courses they were found in (most noticeably World B-1).
! Location
*World A-3 had its cloud platforms replaced with the mushroom platforms from World 4. This was because the clouds occupied the same graphic space as the mushrooms in ''The Lost Levels''.
! Identity
*World 4-4 and World 7-4 have their maze solutions revised.
|-
| style="text-align: center; background: black;" | [[File:ANN Miyuki.png]]
| World 1
| みゆき<small>(中島みゆき)</small> / [[Miyuki]] <small>({{wp|Miyuki Nakajima}}), Monday host</small>
|-
| style="text-align: center; background: black;" | [[File:ANN Takaaki World 2.png]]
| World 2
| たかあき<small>(とんねるず・石橋貴明)</small> / [[Takaaki]] <small>(Tunnels' {{wp|Takaaki Ishibashi}}), Tuesday co-host</small>
|-
| style="text-align: center; background: black;" | [[File:ANN Noritake.png]]
| World 3
| のりたけ<small>(とんねるず・木梨憲武)</small> / [[Noritake]] <small>(Tunnels' {{wp|Noritake Kinashi}}), Tuesday co-host</small>
|-
| style="text-align: center; background: black;" | [[File:ANN KYON² World 4.png]]
| World 4
| KYON²<small>(小泉今日子)</small> / [[KYON²]] <small>({{wp|Kyōko Koizumi}}), Wednesday host</small>
|-
| style="text-align: center; background: black;" | [[File:ANN Takeshi World 5.png]]
| World 5
| たけし<small>(ビートたけし)</small> / [[Takeshi]] <small>({{wp|Takeshi Kitano|Beat Takeshi}}), Thursday host</small>
|-
| style="text-align: center; background: black;" | [[File:ANN Matchan World 6.png]]
| World 6
| まっちゃん<small>(ABブラザーズ・松野大介)</small> / [[Matchan]] <small>(AB Brothers' Daisuke Matsuno), Saturday co-host</small>
|-
| style="text-align: center; background: black;" | [[File:ANN Hidechan World 7.png]]
| World 7
| ひでちゃん<small>(ABブラザーズ・中山秀征)</small> / [[Hidechan]] <small>(AB Brothers' {{wp|Hideyuki Nakayama}}), Saturday co-host</small>
|-
| style="text-align: center; background: black;" | [[File:PeachANN.png]]
| Worlds 8 & D
| ピーチ{{ruby|姫|ひめ}} / [[Princess Peach]]
|-
| style="text-align: center; background: black;" | [[File:Unknown Host transparent.png]]
| Worlds A-C
| [[Worlds A-C human|Unknown]] (unlisted in the manual)
|}
{{br|left}}
 
===Level order===
Most of the levels of the first eight [[world]]s are from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', but some are from ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels|The Lost Levels]]'' as shown here:
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!''All Night Nippon'' levels!!Corresponding ''The Lost Levels''!!Notes
|-
|5-3||[[World 4-3 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|4-3]]||Originally 6-3 of ''[[VS. Super Mario Bros.]]''
|-
|5-4||[[World 2-4 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|2-4]]||
|-
|6-4||[[World 4-4 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|4-4]]||
|-
|7-2||[[World 6-2 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|6-2]]||Originally 7-2 of ''VS. Super Mario Bros.''
|-
|7-3||[[World 6-3 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|6-3]]||Originally 7-3 of ''VS. Super Mario Bros.''
|-
|8-4||[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|8-4]]||This is the only level ported from ''The Lost Levels'' that neither is played out of order nor has its design completely altered for this game.
|}
Much like ''[[VS. Super Mario Bros.]]'', with the sole exception of World 1-3/World 5-3 and World 8-4 (which, though reused from ''The Lost Levels'', is virtually left unchanged in terms of level order and design), all levels that are repeated, but in a much harder form later on, are replaced with levels from ''The Lost Levels'', with the original level being moved earlier in the game to make room for that new level.
 
The [[Hammer Bro]]thers in [[World 7-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|7-1]] and [[World 8-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|8-3]] pursue [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] like they do in those worlds in ''The Lost Levels''.


===Celebrities===
Beating 8-4 will add a star to the title screen (up to twenty) and reveal [[Hard Mode]] in which all OkaP are replaced with [[Buzzy Beetle]]s and all enemies move faster but players must start from [[World 1-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|1-1]] as there is no world select option. Hard Mode is not permanent as resetting returns the game to its normal difficulty. Like ''The Lost Levels'', after beating 8-4 eight times (does not matter if with [[Warp Zone]]s or not), the player gains access to edited versions of [[World A|Worlds A]], [[World B|B]], [[World C|C]], and [[World D|D]]. Some of the levels are replaced with those from the first eight worlds of that game as seen here:
The celebrities that Mario had to rescue at the end of every world are as follows:
{|class="wikitable"
*World 1: [[wikipedia:Miyuki Nakajima|Miyuki Nakajima]]
|-
*World 2: [[wikipedia:Takaaki Ishibashi|Takaaki Ishibashi]]
!''All Night Nippon'' levels!!Corresponding ''The Lost Levels''!!Notes
*World 3: Noritake Kinashi
|-
*World 4: [[wikipedia:Kyōko Koizumi|Kyōko Koizumi]]
|B-1||[[World 5-1 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|5-1]]||Without the Warp Zone and the [[wind]]
*World 5: [[wikipedia:Takeshi Kitano|Takeshi Kitano]]
|-
*World 6: Daisuke Matsuno
|B-3||[[World 3-3 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|3-3]]||
*World 7: Hideyuki Nakayama
|-
*Worlds A-C: Goro Itoi
|C-3||[[World 7-3 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|7-3]]||No wind
|-
|C-4||[[World 7-4 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|7-4]]||
|-
|D-1||[[World 8-1 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|8-1]]||This level had a major redesign with the Warp Zone and wind removed and parts of [[World D-2|D-2]] duplicated. There are two different [[Goal Pole|flagpole]]s, both leading to D-2.
|}
Like ''[[VS. Super Mario Bros.]]'', every level features edits, such as the appearance of more enemies in [[World 4-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|4-1]], different maze solutions in [[World 4-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|4-4]] and [[World 7-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|7-4]], and changed locations of [[? Block|?]]s and [[Brick Block|brick]]s. However, these changes are not the same as those found in ''VS.'' In addition, all Pakkun OkaP on the ground are green and all hanging ones, introduced in World A, are red but both behave like the red Piranha Plants in ''The Lost Levels''. Two features from ''The Lost Levels'' have been removed. [[Poison Mushroom]]s have been replaced with regular power-ups. The removal of [[wind]] affects the difficulty of the courses they were found in. [[Super Spring]]s, however, have been kept. [[World 9 (Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels)|World 9]] does not exist if the player clears the game without using a Warp Zone. Attempting the [[Minus World]] glitch will have an effect similar to ''The Lost Levels'', either sending the player to the pipe near the flagpole or back to 1-1. Due to World 8-4 in this game being reused from ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'', along with [[World D-4]] returning from that game, both [[Bowser's Brother]] and the [[Impostor Bowser|fake]] Bowser's Brother from the latter level return as well.


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<center><gallery>
{{main-gallery}}
File:ANNSMBTitle.png|The title screen.
<gallery>
File:ANNSMBStar.png|The Starman from the game.
Nipponbros.jpg|Instruction manual cover
File:MarioANNSMB.png|Mario's small form in the game.
ANNSMBTitle.png|The title screen
File:MushroomPlatformANNSMB.png|The Mushroom-type Platforms in World 1-2 as also seen in ''The Lost Levels''.
ANNSMB World 1-3 Screenshot.png|[[Fire Mario]] [[jump]]ing to a platform in [[World 1-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-3]]
File:World1-3ANNSMB.png|Mario jumping to a platform in World 1-3.
PeachANN.png|[[Princess Peach]] sprite
File:BowserANNSMB.png|Mario fighting Bowser.
ANN Goomba.png|[[OkaP]]
File:ANNSMBFlagpole.png|The end of a level.
</gallery>
File:AxANNSMB.png|The Ax from the game.
 
File:ANNSMBWorld2-1.png|The head by the pipe is [[wikipedia:Sunplaza Nakano|Sunplaza Nakano]], while the head in the pipe is [[wikipedia:Tamori|Tamori]], both respective replacements of [[Goomba]] and [[Piranha Plant]].
==Names in other languages==
File:PeachANNSMB.png|Mario saves Princess Peach
{{Foreign names
</gallery></center>
|Jpn=オールナイトニッポン スーパーマリオブラザーズ
|JpnR=Ōru Naito Nippon: Sūpā Mario Burazāzu
|JpnM=All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.
|JpnN=On the box art and on the disk's exterior.
|Jpn2=オールナイトニッポン Super Mario Bros.
|Jpn2R=Ōru Naito Nippon: Super Mario Bros.
|Jpn2M=All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.
|Jpn2N=On the title screen.
|Ita=''All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.''<ref>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=239}}</ref>
}}


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*Goro Itoi is unlisted in the game's instruction manual, likely to make his appearance in the game a surprise tribute to him, as he was one of the original DJs of ''All Night Nippon''.
*Luigi is shown to look exactly like Mario but with a cyan hat and overalls and a green shirt on the cover of this game. The cover is a modification of {{file link|Mario no Daibouken single cover.jpg|artwork}} for ''[[Mario no Daibōken]]'', a 1986 single by {{wp|Pony Canyon}}, a subsidiary of {{wp|Fujisankei Communications Group}} like Fuji TV.<ref>{{cite|url=vgmdb.net/album/7844|title=Mario's Big Adventure/GO GO Mario!!|language=en|publisher=VGMdb|accessdate=January 23, 2021}}</ref> Pony Canyon also released a ''Super Mario Bros.'' promotional video under the same title that featured the same cover.<ref>{{cite|language=ja|author=NES Tunes|date=January 8, 2021|url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_jU9fe6lYI|title=Nintendo VHS: Super Mario Bros.Promotion Tape: Mario's Adventure {{!}} All Night Nippon Famicom Warriors|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=January 23, 2021}}</ref> That video ends with "[[Ground Theme (Super Mario Bros.)#Mario no Daibōken|GO GO Mario!!]]", the side B song from that single which was the winner of ''All Night Nippon'''s nation-wide contest for lyrics to the Ground Theme. It was from this partnership that the idea for the game was born.
{{br}}
*Pakkun OkaP and Princess Peach are represented by a "?" in the manual.
 
==References==
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Latest revision as of 12:37, January 7, 2025

The title of this article is from the English Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia, which reportedly sourced some names from fan wikis. If a higher-priority source is found, then the article should be moved to the new title.

All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.
All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. game cover; altered from Mario no Daibōken promotional artwork.
Box art
For alternate box art, see the game's gallery.
Developer Nintendo EAD
Publisher Nippon Broadcasting System
Platform(s) Family Computer Disk System
Release date Family Computer Disk System:
Japan December 20, 1986[1]
Language(s) English (United States)
Genre 2D platformer
Mode(s) Single player
Format
FDS:
Disk Card
Input
Famicom:
Serial code(s) FMC-ANN

All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. is an officially licensed retool of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. The game was produced in 1986 for the Family Computer Disk System. As such, there is no 2 Player Game but rather the option to play as Luigi with his unique physics. This version is based on the Japanese radio program All Night Nippon, and it was sold through a lottery system on the show itself to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the program in the upcoming year. The game was published by Nippon Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of Fuji Television who would go on to publish Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, localized in the Western world as Super Mario Bros. 2.

Only 3,040 copies were released. Due to high demand and limited supply, listeners were told from December 15 to December 19, 1986 to send a postcard which would be entered into a lottery for 2,000 of the copies. The card had to be postmarked by December 20, 1986 to qualify. Winners received a reply postcard to alert them to send a money order for their copy. 1,000 copies were sold directly at Nippon Broadcasting System's music center window on December 20, which lead to a long queue of prospective buyers in front of the building. In addition, Famicom Tsūshin (Famitsu) and Family Computer Magazine (Famimaga) each gave out 20 free copies to their readers in a lottery. The deadline for Famitsu was December 25, 1986 while Famimaga's was January 15, 1987. Famitsu received over 30,000 submissions.[1][2][3]

The game is a remix with most of the level designs adapted from Super Mario Bros. along with the likenesses of the show's hosts as sprite swaps. It takes place in the ビバ王国おうこく[4] (Biba Ōkoku, Viva Kingdom), which is named after "Viva Young", the slogan and subtitle of the All Night Nippon radio program. It is also the name of that show's newsletter. Likewise, the “まぼろし商売繁盛しょうばいはんじょう”のコーナー[5] ("Maboroshi no Shōbai Hanjō" no kōnā, "Illusionary Business Prosperity" corner) that Bowser lures Sunplaza Nakano in with is the name of a recurring segment in his show. He would perform a guerilla gig at a small business, usually a restaurant, and overwhelm it with customers. Other games with a similar concept of Mario meeting Japanese celebrities were found on the Satellaview, with spiritual successors such as BS Super Mario USA, BS Super Mario Collection, and a version of Wario's Woods. Mario Bros. Returns was another similar project.

Story[edit]

Translated from the instruction booklet[4]

One day, the peaceful All Night Nippon dream land Viva Kingdom where Mushrooms live was invaded by the tribe of the huge turtle Koopa, who possesses powerful magic. Said magical power was used to transform all the quiet Mushroom People into rocks, bricks and mikes among other forms. All Night Nippon personalities Miyuki Nakajima, the Tunnels, Kyōko Koizumi, Beat Takeshi, and the AB Brothers were also captured. What became of Sunplaza Nakano? Pitiable Sunplaza was fooled by Koopa's letter to his “Illusionary Business Prosperity” corner into visiting him. And he was changed into Koopa Tribe minion “OkaP”.

The only one who can undo this magic on the Mushrooms and revive All Night Nippon is the Viva Kingdom's own Princess Peach. She is presently in the hands of King Koopa.

Mario has stood up to help the personalities trapped in each world, defeat the Koopa Tribe, rescue Princess Peach, and rebuild the peaceful All Night Nippon dream land Viva Kingdom.

The Mario in the TV is an avid All Night Nippon listener like you. Only you can bring this adventure quest (expedition) to a conclusion.

Differences[edit]

Graphics[edit]

  • World 1 takes place at nighttime.
  • Most of the graphics are from The Lost Levels, although bricks and mountains are drawn like those in Super Mario Bros. Bricks are not shaded, and mountains have smooth slopes instead of jagged slopes. Cloud platforms were replaced with the Super Mushroom platforms but now with segmented stalks (which also replace the original Super Mushroom platform designs from the original Super Mario Bros.). Additionally, microphones replace the mushrooms found in the background.
  • Little Goombas and Piranha Plants were changed to big-headed caricatures of DJ Sunplaza Nakano, the Friday night host, and are respectively called OkaP and Pakkun OkaP.
  • The Starman was changed into the Hiranya, a symbol popularized by Yūji Miyake's Young Paradise, the radio program that preceded All Night Nippon on the same station.
  • The Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc. (the radio station that runs All Night Nippon) Mentama Mark logo is found on the flag that is raised when Mario or Luigi enter a fortress. This logo is also found as the axe.
  • The mushroom retainers were changed to show's hosts, while Princess Peach is dressed as a traditional Japanese princess. This marks the first time Princess Peach has ever done her hair up, predating Super Mario Sunshine by 16 years, and is also the first media to depict her in a different outfit from her usual attire.
Sprite Location Identity
Sprite of Miyuki from All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. World 1 みゆき(中島みゆき) / Miyuki (Miyuki Nakajima), Monday host
Takaaki World 2 たかあき(とんねるず・石橋貴明) / Takaaki (Tunnels' Takaaki Ishibashi), Tuesday co-host
Sprite of Noritake from All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. World 3 のりたけ(とんねるず・木梨憲武) / Noritake (Tunnels' Noritake Kinashi), Tuesday co-host
KYON² World 4 KYON²(小泉今日子) / KYON² (Kyōko Koizumi), Wednesday host
Takeshi World 5 たけし(ビートたけし) / Takeshi (Beat Takeshi), Thursday host
Matchan World 6 まっちゃん(ABブラザーズ・松野大介) / Matchan (AB Brothers' Daisuke Matsuno), Saturday co-host
Hidechan World 7 sprite World 7 ひでちゃん(ABブラザーズ・中山秀征) / Hidechan (AB Brothers' Hideyuki Nakayama), Saturday co-host
Princess Peach Worlds 8 & D ピーチひめ / Princess Peach
All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. Worlds A-C celebrity. Worlds A-C Unknown (unlisted in the manual)

Level order[edit]

Most of the levels of the first eight worlds are from Super Mario Bros., but some are from The Lost Levels as shown here:

All Night Nippon levels Corresponding The Lost Levels Notes
5-3 4-3 Originally 6-3 of VS. Super Mario Bros.
5-4 2-4
6-4 4-4
7-2 6-2 Originally 7-2 of VS. Super Mario Bros.
7-3 6-3 Originally 7-3 of VS. Super Mario Bros.
8-4 8-4 This is the only level ported from The Lost Levels that neither is played out of order nor has its design completely altered for this game.

Much like VS. Super Mario Bros., with the sole exception of World 1-3/World 5-3 and World 8-4 (which, though reused from The Lost Levels, is virtually left unchanged in terms of level order and design), all levels that are repeated, but in a much harder form later on, are replaced with levels from The Lost Levels, with the original level being moved earlier in the game to make room for that new level.

The Hammer Brothers in 7-1 and 8-3 pursue Mario or Luigi like they do in those worlds in The Lost Levels.

Beating 8-4 will add a star to the title screen (up to twenty) and reveal Hard Mode in which all OkaP are replaced with Buzzy Beetles and all enemies move faster but players must start from 1-1 as there is no world select option. Hard Mode is not permanent as resetting returns the game to its normal difficulty. Like The Lost Levels, after beating 8-4 eight times (does not matter if with Warp Zones or not), the player gains access to edited versions of Worlds A, B, C, and D. Some of the levels are replaced with those from the first eight worlds of that game as seen here:

All Night Nippon levels Corresponding The Lost Levels Notes
B-1 5-1 Without the Warp Zone and the wind
B-3 3-3
C-3 7-3 No wind
C-4 7-4
D-1 8-1 This level had a major redesign with the Warp Zone and wind removed and parts of D-2 duplicated. There are two different flagpoles, both leading to D-2.

Like VS. Super Mario Bros., every level features edits, such as the appearance of more enemies in 4-1, different maze solutions in 4-4 and 7-4, and changed locations of ?s and bricks. However, these changes are not the same as those found in VS. In addition, all Pakkun OkaP on the ground are green and all hanging ones, introduced in World A, are red but both behave like the red Piranha Plants in The Lost Levels. Two features from The Lost Levels have been removed. Poison Mushrooms have been replaced with regular power-ups. The removal of wind affects the difficulty of the courses they were found in. Super Springs, however, have been kept. World 9 does not exist if the player clears the game without using a Warp Zone. Attempting the Minus World glitch will have an effect similar to The Lost Levels, either sending the player to the pipe near the flagpole or back to 1-1. Due to World 8-4 in this game being reused from Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, along with World D-4 returning from that game, both Bowser's Brother and the fake Bowser's Brother from the latter level return as well.

Gallery[edit]

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

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese オールナイトニッポン スーパーマリオブラザーズ[?]
Ōru Naito Nippon: Sūpā Mario Burazāzu
All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. On the box art and on the disk's exterior.
オールナイトニッポン Super Mario Bros.[?]
Ōru Naito Nippon: Super Mario Bros.
On the title screen.
Italian All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.[6] -

Trivia[edit]

  • Luigi is shown to look exactly like Mario but with a cyan hat and overalls and a green shirt on the cover of this game. The cover is a modification of artworkMedia:Mario no Daibouken single cover.jpg for Mario no Daibōken, a 1986 single by Pony Canyon, a subsidiary of Fujisankei Communications Group like Fuji TV.[7] Pony Canyon also released a Super Mario Bros. promotional video under the same title that featured the same cover.[8] That video ends with "GO GO Mario!!", the side B song from that single which was the winner of All Night Nippon's nation-wide contest for lyrics to the Ground Theme. It was from this partnership that the idea for the game was born.
  • Pakkun OkaP and Princess Peach are represented by a "?" in the manual.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b BAD君 (March 29, 2022). オールナイトニッポンスーパーマリオブラザーズのプレゼントはあったのか? 前編. Hatena Blog (Japanese). Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  2. ^ BAD君 (July 4, 2022). オールナイトニッポンスーパーマリオブラザーズのプレゼントはあったのか? 後編. Hatena Blog (Japanese). Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  3. ^ ディスクシステム - パッケージアート1. 箱のすみっこげーむ資料 (Japanese). Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  4. ^ a b 1986. All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. instruction booklet (PDF). Nintendo (Japanese). Page 6 and 7.
  5. ^ 1986. All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. instruction booklet. Nintendo (Japanese). Page 6.
  6. ^ November 15, 2018. Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 239.
  7. ^ Mario's Big Adventure/GO GO Mario!!. VGMdb (English). Retrieved January 23, 2021.
  8. ^ NES Tunes (January 8, 2021). Nintendo VHS: Super Mario Bros.Promotion Tape: Mario's Adventure | All Night Nippon Famicom Warriors. YouTube (Japanese). Retrieved January 23, 2021.