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'''''Super Mario Bros.''''' (known as ''Super Mario'' in ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]'', Japanese スーパーマリオブラザーズ ''Super Mario Brothers'') is the semi-sequel to ''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]'', a game which was released for the [[Famicom]] on September 13, 1985, and on the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] in North America in late 1985 or 1986. This is the first game to be set explicitly in the [[Mushroom Kingdom]], marking the first appearances of [[Bowser]] and [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], as well as [[Koopa Troopa]]s, [[Goomba]]s and many other [[Mario (series)|''Mario'' series]] enemies.  ''Super Mario Bros.'' is the best selling video game of all time until recently when it was surpassed by [[wikipedia:Wii Sports|Wii Sports]], and was largely responsible for the initial success of the Nintendo Entertainment System.  As of 2003, the game has sold more than 40.23 million copies worldwide, making it the second best selling video game of all time.
'''''Super Mario Bros.''''' is a video game released for the [[Family Computer]] and [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] in [[List of games by date#1985|1985]]. It shifted the gameplay away from its single-screen arcade predecessor, ''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]'', and instead featured side-scrolling platformer [[level]]s. While not the first game of the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] (the first being ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]''), ''Super Mario Bros.'' is the most iconic, and it introduced various series staples, including power-ups, classic enemies such as [[Goomba]]s, and the basic premise of rescuing [[Princess Peach]] from [[Bowser]].


As well as kicking off an entire series of ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' platform games, the wild success of ''Super Mario Bros.'' popularized the genre as a whole, helped revive the North American gaming industry after the {{wp|video game crash of 1983}}, and was largely responsible for the initial success of the NES, with which it was bundled as a launch title. Until it was eventually surpassed by ''[[miiwiki:Wii Sports|Wii Sports]]'', ''Super Mario Bros.'' was the best-selling video game of all time for nearly three decades, with over 40 million copies sold worldwide.
The exact day of the North American release of ''Super Mario Bros.'' is heavily disputed, with different sources giving different dates with no way to verify them. Regardless, Nintendo officially pinpoints the release date as October 18, 1985.<ref name=narelease/>
A successor named ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' in Japan (later renamed ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'' in North America) was released on June 3, 1986. Another successor [[Super Mario Bros. 2|sharing its English name with its predecessor's Japanese name]] was released on October 9, 1988. A third successor named ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' was released on October 23, 1988.
''Super Mario Bros.'' has been [[#Alternate versions and re-releases|ported]] to many consoles. It was one of the NES games that could be played on the [[Nintendo PlayChoice-10]] and [[Classics#NES Classic Edition|NES Classic Edition]], and it was released on the [[Wii]], [[Wii U]], and [[Nintendo 3DS]] [[Virtual Console]] and on [[Nintendo Switch]]'s [[Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online]].
==Story==
==Story==
One day, [[King Bowser Koopa]], the great and powerful leader of the militaristic [[Koopa Troop]], invades the peaceful [[Mushroom Kingdom]]. He and his Koopa Troop were jealous of the beautiful kingdom, and King Bowser decided to take it for himself. To do this, Bowser casts an evil spell upon the kingdom and transforms all of its [[Toad (species)|inhabitants]] into [[block]]s, weeds, and other odd objects. It is foretold that only the [[King Toadstool|Mushroom King's]] daughter [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] can undo the spell, so Bowser kidnaps her. Fortunately, the heroic Mario Bros. get wind of the Mushroom Kingdom's plight and race to its rescue.
The following text is taken directly from the NES instruction booklet localization.
<blockquote>
One day the kingdom of the peaceful [[Toad (species)|mushroom people]] was invaded by the [[Koopa (species)|Koopa]], a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into mere stones, [[Brick Block|brick]]s and even [[Horsetail|field horsehair plant]]s, and the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] fell into ruin.


The player takes the role of [[Mario]], or in the case of a second player, Mario's brother [[Luigi]]. The ultimate objective is to race through the worlds of the [[Mushroom Kingdom]], evade or eliminate [[Bowser|Bowser's]] forces, and save the Princess.<ref>''Super Mario Bros.'' game manual, page 2</ref>.
The only one who can undo the magic spell on the Mushroom People and return them to their normal selves is the [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], the daughter of the [[Mushroom King]]. Unfortunately, she is presently in the hands of the [[Bowser|great Koopa turtle king]].


==Gameplay==
[[Mario]], the hero of the story (maybe) hears about the Mushroom People's plight and sets out on a quest to free the Mushroom Princess from the evil Koopa and restore the fallen kingdom of the Mushroom People.
[[Image:Smbtitle.gif|frame|left|'''''Super Mario Bros.''''' Title Screen.]]
''Super Mario Bros.'' is divided into eight worlds, which each have four levels. Mario has to get to the end of the level by jumping over various gaps and avoiding the enemies on his way. Mario can use several platforms, (which sometimes fall down when Mario hits them), stairs in the level, as well as [[Trampoline|Jumping Boards]].  There are also pipes along the way, some of which Mario can enter to visit various coin rooms before returning to the level, a bit further ahead than when he left.


Enemies include [[Goomba]]s, [[Koopa Troopa]]s, [[Buzzy Beetle]]s, [[Koopa Paratroopa]]s, [[Bullet Bill]]s, [[Hammer Bro.|Hammer Bro]]s., and jumping [[Cheep-Cheep]]s. All these enemies can be defeated when Mario jumps on them. Koopa Troopas and Buzzy Beetles will leave their shell on the ground, which Mario can kick to hit other enemies with. Koopa Paratroopas lose their wings and fall to the ground when Mario jumps on them. Other enemies include [[Piranha Plant]]s, the [[Spiny]]-throwing [[Lakitu]]s and the [[Hammer Bro.|Hammer Bros.]] These enemies are hard to defeat, and Mario has to avoid them. There are a few levels which are underwater. Underwater, Mario can swim freely from the top to the bottom of the screen. The enemies in underwater levels are [[Blooper|Bloobers]] and [[Cheep-Cheep]]s, and Mario can defeat them by jumping on them carefully or with [[fireball]]s.
You are Mario! It's up to you to save the Mushroom People from the black magic of the Koopa!
</blockquote>
One day, the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] was invaded by the [[Koopa (species)|Turtle Tribe]], whose king was capable of using powerful magic. This magic was used to transform all the [[Toad (species)|Mushroom People]] into inanimate objects such as rocks, [[Brick Block|brick]]s, and even [[horsetail]]s, thus spelling the kingdom's downfall. Only [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] can undo the spell and restore her people to life, but she is being held captive by [[Bowser|King Koopa]] himself. [[Mario]] hears of the princess's plight, and sets out on a quest through 32 stages to topple the Turtle Tribe and save the once-peaceful kingdom.<ref name=MushStory>{{cite|url=legendsoflocalization.com/comparisons/super-mario-bros/manuals/|author=Mandelin, Clyde|title=Super Mario Bros. Translation Comparison: Manuals|date=6 Feb. 2013|publisher=Legends of Localization|accessdate=31 May 2024}}</ref>


If Mario takes a hit, falls down a pit, or if the [[time limit]] runs out, he loses a life, and starts the level again. The point where Mario continues depends on how far he ran through the level before dying; either from the very beginning, or at one of several invisible "checkpoints" throughout the level.
==Gameplay==
[[File:SMBLevel.png|thumb|left|[[Super Mario (form)|Super Mario]] in World 1-1.]]
''Super Mario Bros.'' is divided into eight worlds, each of them containing four levels. Mario<ref name=luigi group=note>Unless explicitly specified otherwise, any mentioning of Mario is equally applicable to Luigi during his playthrough.</ref> has to get to the end of the level by jumping over various gaps and avoiding the enemies on his way. He can use several platforms (some of them collapse when Mario lands on them), stairs in the level, as well as [[Trampoline|jumping board]]s. There are also pipes along the way, some of which Mario can enter to visit various secret coin rooms before returning to the level, a bit further ahead than when he left.


[[image:Smblevel.jpg|thumb|[[Super Mario]] in World 1-1.]]
Enemies include [[Goomba|Little Goomba]]s, [[Koopa Troopa]]s, [[Buzzy Beetle]]s, [[Koopa Paratroopa]]s, [[Bullet Bill]]s, [[Hammer Bro]]thers, and leaping [[Cheep Cheep|Cheep-cheep]]s. All these enemies can be defeated when Mario jumps on them. Koopa Troopas and Buzzy Beetles cower in their shell when jumped on, which Mario can kick to defeat other enemies with. Koopa Paratroopas lose their wings and fall to the ground when Mario jumps on them. Other enemies include [[Piranha Plant]]s, and the [[Spiny]]-throwing [[Lakitu]]s, and Mario has to either shoot fireballs at them or just avoid them. Two levels take place underwater. In the water, Mario can swim freely from the top to the bottom of the screen. The enemies in underwater levels are [[Blooper|Bloober]]s and [[Cheep Cheep|Cheep-cheep]]s. Mario can only defeat these creatures by shooting them with [[fireball]]s.
Mario can get special power-ups out of [[? Block]]s or, uncommonly, [[Brick Block]]s. Most of the ? Blocks in which Mario can find these items are visible, but some are hidden and only become visible when Mario hits them from beneath. With the [[Super Mushroom]], he turns into [[Super Mario]]. As Super Mario, he can survive the hit of an enemy one time, at the cost of turning back to [[Small Mario]]. Additionally, he can now get the [[Fire Flower]]. With the Fire Flower, Super Mario turns into [[Fire Mario]], which allows him to shoot fireballs at enemies to defeat them from a distance. With the [[1-Up Mushroom]], he gets an additional life; he can also get an extra life if he collects 100 [[coin]]s. With the [[Star]]man, which can only be found in Brick Blocks, Mario turns invincible for a short amount of time, and can defeat enemies by simply touching them.


At the end of each level, there is a castle with a [[flagpole]] nearby. When Mario his the flagpole, he takes down Bowser's flag and enters the castle, completing the level. The higher the spot is where Mario hits the flagpole, the more points he gets. If there are two players playing the game, Luigi's turn comes whenever Mario dies. Luigi has no special abilities in the game that are different from Mario's.
[[File:SMB NES World 2-2 Screenshot.png|thumb|left|Mario swimming in World 2-2.]]
If [[Small Mario|regular Mario]] takes a hit, falls down a pit, or if the [[Time Limit]] runs out, he loses a life and restarts the level. The point where Mario continues depends on how far he ran through the level before getting defeated; either from the beginning or at one of several invisible "checkpoints" throughout the level. After a Game Over, pressing {{button|nes|START}} while holding {{button|nes|A}} on the title screen allows the player to continue from the start of the world.<ref>{{cite|author=Ed Acosta|date=January 25, 2015|url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOp84p-LJTs|title=Super Mario Bros a+start level restart|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref> In a 2-player game, if this is done by whoever got a Game Over second, both players will begin in the same world where the second player's game ended.


The fourth level of each world plays inside a castle. They are usually filled with [[Firebar]]s, and [[Podoboo]]s may appear. At the end of a castle level, Mario is confronted with a [[False Bowser]] in Worlds 1 - 7 and the real Bowser in World 8. Mario ordinarily has no way to hurt Bowser, and has to either use the [[Ax]] to destroy the ground, causing the false Bowser or Bowser to fall into the [[lava]], or pelt Bowser with a number of fireballs, which produces the same result and reveals the true forms of the fakes. After defeating a false Bowser, Mario frees several [[Toad (species)|Toads]] from the castle. In World 8, Mario frees Princess Toadstool. If Mario frees Toads, they will say their signature sentence "Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another castle...".
Mario can get special power-ups out of [[? Block|?]] blocks or, uncommonly, [[Brick Block|brick]]s. Most of the ?s in which Mario can find these items are visible, but some are hidden and only become visible when Mario hits them from beneath. With the [[Super Mushroom|Magic Mushroom]], he turns into [[Super Mario (form)|Super Mario]]. As Super Mario, he can survive the hit of an enemy one time, at the cost of turning back to [[Small Mario|regular Mario]]. He may also destroy empty bricks by jumping beneath them. Additionally, he can also get the [[Fire Flower]]. With the Fire Flower, Super Mario turns into [[Fire Mario|Fiery Mario]], which allows him to shoot fireballs at enemies to defeat them from a distance. With the [[1-Up Mushroom|1 up Mushroom]], he gains an additional life; he can also get an extra life if he collects a hundred [[coin]]s. With the [[Super Star|Starman]], which can only be found in bricks, Mario turns invincible for a short amount of time and can defeat enemies by simply touching them. With the exception of coins, only one item can appear on the screen, and when a new item appears, the previous one will disappear.


==Modes==
At the end of each level, a castle stands with a [[Goal Pole|flagpole]] nearby. When Mario reaches the flagpole, he takes down the enemy flag and enters the castle, completing the level. The higher the spot that Mario hits the flagpole, the more points he receives. If two players are playing the game, [[Luigi]]'s turn comes whenever Mario loses a life. Luigi has no special abilities in the game that are different from Mario's.
After beating the game, the player is given the option to start the game again in '''Hard Mode''', where all Goombas are replaced by Buzzy Beetles, and all enemies walk faster; all of the elevator-style lifts are about sixty-percent of their original size, while [[firebar]]s appear in all possible locations. However, the player still has the same amount of time to complete each level. The Mario Bros. gain no special powers in '''Hard Mode''', and they receive no extra points when they defeat an enemy. The story remains exactly the same, as each of the first seven castles contain a Mushroom Retainer that needs rescuing, while the eighth castle has Princess Toadstool. If the player finishes the game on hard mode, he or she will unlock nothing new from the previous time the game was finished.


==Items==
The fourth level of each world plays inside a castle. They are usually filled with [[Fire Bar|Fire-Bar]]s and [[Lava Bubble|Podoboo]]s. At the end of a castle level, Mario is confronted with a [[Impostor Bowser|fake Bowser]] in Worlds 1 through 7 and the actual Bowser in World 8. Mario ordinarily has no way to hurt the fake Bowsers or the actual Bowser and has to either use the [[axe|ax]] to destroy the bridge, causing either the false or real one to fall into the [[lava]], or pelt him with many fireballs, which produces the same result and reveals the true forms of the fakes. After defeating an impostor, Mario frees one of the seven remaining [[Toad (species)|mushroom retainer]]s from the castle, at which point they say their iconic phrase: "Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another castle!" At the end of the castle in World 8, Mario frees the grateful Princess Toadstool and completes his adventure, having the choice to continue playing in a "new quest." In this second quest, the player gets to choose a world, and replay some levels. However, all [[Goomba|Little Goomba]]s are replaced by [[Buzzy Beetle]]s, all ground enemies are also considerably faster, some platforms and [[elevator]]-style lifts are shortened in length, and the level design is slightly changed for some levels (see below at "Hard mode").
''Super Mario Bros.'' introduced some elements that made subsequent appearances in later Mario games:


[[Image:SMBCoin.gif|left]]
===Time clock===
[[Coin]]: If Mario or Luigi manage to collect 100 of them, they will receive an extra life (1-Up).
The game's levels have a [[Time Limit]] in the upper right, which counts down, with the background music speeding up when going below 100. If it reaches 0, the game declares "Time Up", and Mario loses a life. However, the in-game timer runs much faster than in real life; 400 seconds on the timer, which is the default when starting most of the levels, is 160 seconds in real time. The timer countdown speed is the same across NTSC and PAL versions.


[[Image:Super Mushroom.gif|left]]
''[[amiibo tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits]]'' starts with a real-time 180 second limit, which is sufficient to finish any level, presuming it is finished without losing any lives, and would have 32 timer seconds (15 real-time seconds) to spare for any follow-up levels. For [[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|its seventh scene]], this is sufficient to see the game's ending.
[[Super Mushroom]]: When the Mario Bros. eat one of these, they will turn into their [[Super Mario|Super]] form.


[[Image:Fire Flower.gif|left]]
===Hard mode===
[[Fire Flower]]: These flower grants the Mario Bros. the ability to shoot [[fireball]]s.
{{main|Hard Mode#Super Mario Bros.}}
After beating the main game, the player is given the option to pick a world (by pressing {{button|nes|B}} on the title screen to change the world counter in the upper right) to play in "[[Hard Mode|a new quest]]"—a harder mode where all Little Goombas are replaced by Buzzy Beetles, and all enemies walk faster. Elevator-style lifts that were originally in their wide forms (Six holes wide) are now in their small forms (Four holes wide) that were used from World 5-1 onwards in the main game. Mario<ref name=luigi group=note></ref> gains no special powers in hard mode, and he receives no extra points when he defeats an enemy.


[[Image:Starman.gif|left]]
The story remains the same, as each of the first seven castles contains a mushroom retainer that needs rescuing, while the eighth castle has Princess Toadstool. If the player finishes the game on hard mode, they will not unlock anything new from the previous time the game was finished. However, points can be gained faster by jumping on a Buzzy Beetle and then running with the shell as it hits other Buzzy Beetles and Koopa Troopas. Earlier levels in hard mode that had harder versions later on the in the main game, now have the harder version used for both levels; for instance, 1-3, which is an easier version of 5-3 in the normal game, is identical to 5-3 in Hard Mode.
[[Starman]]: Makes the Mario Bros. invincible for a short amount of time.


[[Image:1UpMushroomSMB.png|left]]
===Controls===
[[1-Up Mushroom]]: A rare item; once collected, it grants the Mario Bros. an extra life.
The controls can be customized on Wii U Virtual Console and to some extent in Nintendo Switch's system settings.
 
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==Power-Ups==
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|[[Small Mario]]||<center>[[Image:Small Mario.gif]]</center>||Mario's regular and weak form, while in this state, if Mario takes damage once, he will lose a life.
!NES Controller / NES Classic Controller / Nintendo Switch Online NES Controller
!Wii Remote
!Wii Classic Controller
!Nintendo GameCube Controller
!Game Boy Advance
!Nintendo 3DS
!Wii U GamePad / Wii U Pro Controller (default)
!Joy-Con (dual) / Nintendo Switch Pro Controller
!Joy-Con (sideways)
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|Move; change position on a [[beanstalk]]
|{{button|nes|Pad}} (left/right)
|{{button|wii|Padleftright}}
|{{button|wii|CCStickL}} (left/right) or {{button|wii|Padleftright}}
|{{button|gcn|Stick}} (left/right) or {{button|gcn|Padleftright}}
|{{button|gba|Padleftright}}
|{{button|3ds|Stick}} (left/right) or {{button|3ds|Padleftright}}
|{{button|wiiu|Stick}} (left/right) or {{button|wiiu|Padleftright}}
|{{button|switch|Stick}} (left/right) or {{button|switch|leftright}}
|{{button|switch|Stick}} (left/right)
|-
|Duck; enter [[Warp Pipe]]
|{{button|nes|Pad}} (down)
|{{button|wii|Paddown}}
|{{button|wii|CCStickL}} (down) or {{button|wii|Paddown}}
|{{button|gcn|Stick}} (down) or {{button|gcn|Paddown}}
|{{button|gba|Paddown}}
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|{{button|wiiu|Stick}} (down) or {{button|wiiu|Paddown}}
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|{{button|switch|Stick}} (down)
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|Climb beanstalk
|{{button|nes|Pad}} (up/down)
|{{button|wii|Padupdown}}
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|{{button|gcn|Stick}} (up/down) or {{button|gcn|Padupdown}}
|{{button|gba|Padupdown}}
|{{button|3ds|Stick}} (up/down) or {{button|3ds|Padupdown}}
|{{button|wiiu|Stick}} (up/down) or {{button|wiiu|Padupdown}}
|{{button|switch|Stick}} (up/down) or {{button|switch|updown}}
|{{button|switch|Stick}} (up/down)
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|Jump; swim upwards
|{{button|nes|A}}
|{{Button|wii|2}}
|{{button|wii|cca}}
|{{button|gcn|A}}
|{{button|gba|A}}
|{{button|3ds|A}}
|{{button|wiiu|A}}
|{{button|switch|A}}
|{{button|switch|Jc-right}}
|-
|Dash; throw [[fireball]]; restart the game at the end; select a world
|{{button|nes|B}}
|{{Button|wii|1}}
|{{button|wii|ccb}}
|{{button|gcn|B}}
|{{button|gba|B}}
|{{button|3ds|B}}
|{{button|wiiu|B}}
|{{button|switch|B}}
|{{button|switch|Jc-bottom}}
|-
|-
|[[Super Mario]]||<center>[[Image:Super Mario.gif]]</center>||Mario in his full size after using a Super Mushroom. Mario gains the ability to break [[Brick Block]]s in this state (which he will not lose even if upgraded further), and additionally he can take one extra hit before losing a life.
|Pause; confirm selected option on title screen
|{{button|nes|start}}
|colspan=2|{{Button|wii|+}}
|{{button|gcn|Start}}
|{{button|gba|Start}}
|{{button|3ds|Start}}
|{{button|wiiu|Plus}}
|{{button|switch|Plus}}
|rowspan=2|{{button|switch|PlusMinus}}
|-
|-
|[[Fire Mario]]||<center>[[Image:Fire Mario.gif]]</center>||After utilizing a Fire Flower, Mario will turn into Fire Mario, giving him the ability to throw fireballs at enemies. He will turn back into Small Mario if he takes any damage.
|Select number of players on title screen
|{{button|nes|select}}
|colspan=2|{{button|wii|-}}
|{{button|gcn|z}}<ref group=note>Only applicable by default on Wii Virtual Console. On Nintendo Switch Online the {{button|gcn|Z}}, {{button|gcn|X}} and/or {{button|gcn|Y}} buttons must be remapped in the system settings to {{button|switch|minus}} for this function to work.</ref>
|{{button|gba|select}}
|{{button|3ds|select}}
|{{button|wiiu|minus}}
|{{button|switch|minus}}
|-
|-
|[[Invincible Mario]]||<center>[[Image:Invincible Mario.gif]]</center>||After getting a Starman, Mario will become invincible, being unable to be harmed by any enemies and most obstacles, with the exception of [[abyss]]es.
|Continue in the same world after the [[Game Over]] screen
|Hold {{button|nes|A}} + press {{button|nes|start}}
|Hold {{Button|wii|2}} + press {{Button|wii|+}}
|Hold {{Button|wii|cca}} + press {{Button|wii|+}}
|Hold {{Button|gcn|A}} + press {{Button|gcn|Start}}
|Hold {{Button|gba|A}} + press {{Button|gba|Start}}
|Hold {{Button|3ds|A}} + press {{Button|3ds|Start}}
|Hold {{Button|wiiu|A}} + press {{Button|wiiu|Plus}}
|Hold {{Button|switch|A}} + press {{Button|switch|Plus}}
|Hold {{Button|switch|JC-right}} + press {{Button|switch|PlusMinus}}
|}
|}
<br clear="all">


==Characters==
==Characters==
===Playable===
===Playable characters===
*[[Mario]]
{|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;text-align:center"
*[[Luigi]]
|-style="color:white;background:#FF2400"
!width=5%|Image
!width=8%|Name
!Description
|-
|align=center style="background:#f4a9ae"|[[File:SMB Super Mario Sprite.png]]
|[[Mario]]
|align=left rowspan=2|Mario serves as the main protagonist of the game. Luigi, Mario's brother, appears only as the second player and plays identically to Mario. While Luigi is differentiated by his colors, both [[Fire Mario|Fiery Mario]] and Fiery Luigi have the same palette.
|-
|align=center style="background:#69EA00"|[[File:SMB Super Luigi Sprite.png]]
|[[Luigi]]
|}


===Non-Playable===
===Non-playable characters===
*[[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]]
{|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;text-align:center"
*[[Mushroom Retainer]]
|-style="color:white;background:#FF2400"
!width=5%|Image
!width=8%|Name
!Description
|-
|style="background:#000000"|[[File:SMB Princess Toadstool Sprite.png]]
|[[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]]
|align=left|The princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser kidnaps her to prevent her from reversing the magic the Koopa used on the Mushroom People. She appears in the final course, [[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|8-4]] where she thanks Mario<ref name=luigi group=note/> for rescusing her and offers a "[[#Hard mode|new quest]]" for him.
|-
|align=center style="background:#000000"|[[File:SMB Mushroom Retainer Sprite.png]]
|[[Toad (species)|Mushroom retainers]]
|align=left|Seven Mushroom People that are servants of the princess and prisoners of the Koopa. They appear in every castle except for the final one. Mario can rescue a retainer by finishing a castle in World 1 to World 7. They'll say, "Thank you Mario/Luigi! But our princess is in another castle!"
|}


==Enemies and obstacles==
===Enemies===
===Enemies===
*[[Blooper]]
Enemies are generally listed in the order they appear in the instruction booklet. They are referred to as "bad guys" in-text.
*[[Bowser]]
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;text-align:center"
*[[Bill Blaster]]
|-style="color:white;background:#FF2400"
*[[Bullet Bill]]
!class="unsortable" width=5% rowspan=2|Image
*[[Buzzy Beetle]]
!width=8% rowspan=2|Name
*[[Cheep Cheep]]
!class="unsortable" rowspan=2|Description
*[[Firebar]]
!class="unsortable" colspan=2|Levels
*[[Goomba]]
!rowspan=2|Pts.
*[[Hammer Bro.]]
|-style="color:white;background:#FF2400"
*[[Koopa Paratroopa]]
!width=8%|First
*[[Koopa Troopa]]
!width=8%|Last
*[[Lakitu]]
|-
*[[Piranha Plant]]
|[[File:Goomba SMB.png]]
*[[Podoboo]]
|[[Goomba|Little Goomba]]
*[[Spiny]]
|align=left|Mushroom creatures that walk back and forth. Little Goombas are the most common enemies and can be defeated with any attack.
*[[Spiny Egg]]
|[[World 1-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-1]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|100
|-
|[[File:SMB Green Koopa Troopa Sprite.png]]
|[[Koopa Troopa]] (green)
|align=left|Foot soldiers of the [[Bowser's Minions|Turtle Empire]]. [[Stomp]]ing on Koopa Troopas make them recede into their shells, which can be kicked to hit defeat enemies. Like Little Goombas, green-shelled Koopa Troopas walk off ledges.
|[[World 1-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-1]]
|[[World 8-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-3]]
|100
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Koopa Troopa (Red).png]]
|Koopa Troopa (red)
|align=left|Red-shelled Koopa Troopas turn around when the reach the corner of a ledge.
|[[World 1-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-2]]
|[[World 7-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 7-3]]
|100
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Koopa Paratroopa (Green).png]]
|[[Koopa Paratroopa]] (green)
|align=left|Winged Koopa Troopas. The green ones bounce across the ground or fly back and forth in set paths.
|[[World 2-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 2-1]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|400
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Koopa Paratroopa (Red).png]]
|Koopa Paratroopa (red)
|align=left|Red Koopa Paratroopas fly up and down in set paths.
|[[World 1-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-3]]
|[[World 5-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 5-3]]
|400
|-
|[[File:Buzzy Beetle SMB.png]]
|[[Buzzy Beetle]]
|align=left|Small [[Koopa (species)|Koopa]]s that retract into their shells when stomped. Buzzy Beetles are immune to fireballs and replace Little Goombas in Hard Mode.
|[[World 4-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 4-2]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|100
|-
|[[File:SMB Hammer Bro Sprite.png]]
|[[Hammer Bro|Hammer Brother]]
|align=left|Helmeted Koopas that toss [[hammer]]s. Hammer Brothers periodically hop between rows of [[block]]s. They always occur in pairs.
|[[World 3-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 3-1]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|1000
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Spiny.png]]
|[[Spiny]]
|align=left|Squat, spiked Koopas. Stomping one damages Mario.
|[[World 4-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 4-1]]
|[[World 8-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-2]]
|200
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Spiny Egg.png]]
|[[Spiny Egg|Spiny's egg]]
|align=left|The spiked eggs tossed by Lakitus. They hatch into Spinies when they make contact with the ground.
|[[World 4-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 4-1]]
|[[World 8-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-2]]
|200
|-
|[[File:SMB Lakitu Sprite.png]]
|[[Lakitu]]
|align=left|[[Lakitu's Cloud|Cloud]]-riding Koopas. Lakitus toss Spiny's eggs. They appear towards the top of the screen follow Mario's position.
|[[World 4-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 4-1]]
|[[World 8-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-2]]
|200
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Piranha Plant.png]]
|[[Piranha Plant|Piranha plant]]
|align=left|Carnivorous plants that sit in [[Warp Pipe|pipe]]s. Piranha plants emerge and retract from pipes in set internals. If Mario stands directly next to or on these pipes, the plants do not emerge.
|[[World 1-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-2]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|200
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Cheep Cheep (Red).png]]
|[[Cheep Cheep|Cheep-cheep]] (red)
|align=left|Pudgy {{wp|pufferfish}} enemies that swim through water. In some ground-themed courses, red Cheep-cheeps leap over bridges in large numbers.
|[[World 2-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 2-2]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|200
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Cheep Cheep (Gray).png]]
|Cheep-cheep (grey)
|align=left|Grey Cheep-cheeps only occur underwater. They swim slightly faster than the red ones.
|[[World 2-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 2-2]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|200
|-
|[[File:Bullet Bill Super Mario Bros.png]]
|[[Bullet Bill]]
|align=left|Missiles launched from Turtle Cannons. They fly in straight lines. Bullet Bills are unaffected by fireballs.
|[[World 5-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 5-1]]
|[[World 8-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-3]]
|200
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Blooper.png]]
|[[Blooper|Bloober]]
|align=left|Underwater squid sentinels. They swim erratically to strike Mario.
|[[World 2-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 2-2]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|200
|-
|[[File:Podoboo Sprite SMB.png]]
|[[Lava Bubble|Podoboo]]
|align=left|Balls of lava that guard Bowser's castles. They leap straight up from pools of lava to strike Mario.
|[[World 2-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 2-4]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|data-sort-value=2000|{{icon|cross}}
|}
 
===Obstacles===
{|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;text-align:center"
|-style="color:white;background:#FF2400"
!width=5% rowspan=2|Image
!width=8% rowspan=2|Name
!class="unsortable" rowspan=2|Description
!class="unsortable" colspan=2|Levels
|-style="color:white;background:#FF2400"
!width=8%|First
!width=8%|Last
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Fire Bar.png]]
|[[Fire Bar|Fire-Bar]]
|align=left|Various fireballs stacked together moving either clockwise or counterclockwise. Their length may vary.
|[[World 1-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-4]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Bowser's Flame.png]]
|[[Bowser's Flame|Koopa's fire]]
|align=left|Flames spewed by Bowser and his imposters. The fire travels horizontally and transcends walls.
|[[World 1-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-4]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Lava.png]]
|[[Lava]]
|align=left|Pools of molten rock found within [[fortress]]es and [[castle]]s. Direct contact makes Mario lose a life.
|[[World 1-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-4]]
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|-
|[[File:Bill Blaster Sprite SMB.png]]
|[[Bill Blaster|Turtle Cannon]]
|align=left|Cannons that launch Bullet Bills. Like the pipes that contain Piranha plants, Turtle Cannons do not fire when Mario is next to or on them.
|[[World 5-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 5-1]]
|[[World 8-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-3]]
|}


===Bosses===
===Bosses===
*[[False Bowser]]
[[File:SMB NES Bowser Screenshot.png|thumb|Mario and Bowser in World 8-4.]]
*[[Bowser]]
A [[boss]] occurs in the fourth level of each world, specifically located within the final room of the [[castle]]. The boss is on a bridge suspended above a pool of lava. Touching the [[Axe|ax]] at the opposite corner of the bridge makes it fall away and defeats the boss, but striking one with five [[fireball]]s as [[Fire Mario|Fiery Mario]] defeats it as well. Defeating it this way awards the player with 5000 points. Once defeated, Mario transitions to a narrow corridor where captive is held. In the first seven [[world]]s, this captive is a [[Toad (species)|mushroom retainer]] that directs Mario further along his journey. In [[World 8 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8]], [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] is the one rescued, completing the game. As Mario progresses through the worlds, [[Brick Block|brick]]s and lifts appear in the boss rooms as well.
 
Intrinsically, the only boss in the game is [[Bowser]], the fire-breathing King of [[Koopa (species)|Koopa]]s who kidnapped the princess and turned her subjects into [[horsetail|horsehair]]s and bricks. However, Bowser himself only appears at the boss of [[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]. All of the proceeding "Bowsers" are his [[Impostor Bowser|minions in disguise]]. They all exhibit the same behavior: the large Koopa shuffles back and forth along the bridge, facing Mario, and jumping in small arches. These arches are just high enough that Mario can move underneath Bowser if the opportunity presents itself.
 
In the first five worlds, the fake Bowsers spew Koopa's fire. In the sixth and seventh worlds, they toss [[hammer]]s like Hammer Brothers. The real Bowser is the only boss that actively does both. Like Spinies, Bowser and fake Bowsers have spiked shells. Attempting to [[stomp]] them damages Mario.
 
==Items and objects==
===Items===
{|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;text-align:center"
|-style="color:white;background:#FF2400"
!width=5%|Image
!width=8%|Name
!Description
|-
|[[File:SMB 1-up Mushroom Sprite.png]]
|[[1-Up Mushroom|1 up mushroom]]
|align=left|Green mushrooms that give Mario an [[extra life]] when collected. 1 up mushrooms are within [[Hidden Block|invisible block]]s near [[pit]]s. When one is struck, the mushroom travels across the ground in the opposite direction from Mario.
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Coin.png]]
|[[Coin]]
|align=left|Coins float in mid-air throughout levels and within blocks. Collecting one awards Mario 200 points. Collecting 100 awards him an extra life.
|-
|[[File:SMB Greenshell.png]] [[File:SMB Redshell.png]]
|[[Koopa Shell|Koopa shell]]
|align=left|Stomping on a [[Koopa Troopa]] makes it recede into its shell. Its sent sliding when touched, defeating enemies on contact. Doing so causes the "bulldozer attack", where each enemy defeated grants Mario more points than the last. Launched shells ricochet off collided walls and can damage Mario on contact.
|-
|[[File:SMB Buzzy Shell.png]]
|[[Buzzy Shell|Buzzy shell]]
|align=left|Stomping on a [[Buzzy Beetle]] yields a shell that works like the Koopa ones, but it cannot be cleared away with tossed fireballs.
|}
 
===Power-ups===
Items that transform Mario's appearance and give him unique abilities called "power boosts" in the instruction booklet. All of these items are held within blocks and must be jumped under to be released. It is not inherently apparent which block contain which power-ups, and breaking them does not grant Mario their abilities. He must touch the power-ups directly once they are expelled. Touching any power-up also awards Mario 1000 points. Forms that share a column look the same for Mario and Luigi.
{|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;text-align:center"
|-style="color:white;background:#FF2400"
!width=5% rowspan=2|Power-up
!colspan=2|Form
!rowspan=2|Description
|-style="color:white;background:#FF2400"
!width=8%|Mario
!width=8%|Luigi
|-
|N/A
|[[File:SMB Smallmario.png]]<br>[[Small Mario|Regular Mario]]
|[[File:SMB Luigi Death Sprite.png]]<br>[[Small Mario|Regular Luigi]]
|align=left|Mario is in this small-sized form when the player starts a new game. Regular Mario is incapable of breaking bricks and loses a life when he makes contact with an enemy or obstacle. However, he can run across narrow passageways without having to [[crouch]]. Regardless of the form he was in before losing a life, Mario reappears in the level in his regular form.
|-
|[[File:SMB Supermushroom.png]]<br>[[Super Mushroom|Magic Mushroom]]
|[[File:SMB Super Mario Jumping.png]]<br>[[Super Mario]]
|[[File:SMB Super Luigi Sprite.png]]<br>[[Super Mario|Super Luigi]]
|align=left|The red Magic Mushrooms are within visible blocks and slide across the ground, similar to 1 up mushrooms. They bounce back in the opposite direction when they hit an obstruction. Touching one transforms Mario into Super Mario, a form twice as tall as his regular form and capable of breaking bricks. Subsequent encounters with blocks intended to contain Magic Mushrooms instead release Fire Flowers when struck in this form. Receiving damaging in this form reverts Mario back into his regular-sized state. He retains this form across levels if he reaches flagpoles as Super Mario.
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Fire Flower.png]]<br>[[Fire Flower]]
|colspan=2|[[File:SMB Fire Mario Sprite.png]]<br>[[Fire Mario|Fiery Mario / Luigi]]
|align=left|Making contact with a Fire Flower transforms Mario into Fiery Mario. In this form, Mario can toss projectile fireballs with {{button|nes|a}} that bounce along the ground. Most enemies are defeated when hit. Fiery Mario also has all the benefits of Super Mario, and similarly retains this form if he completes the level in it. Mario reverts to his regular size if hit as Fiery Mario.
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Super Star.png]]<br>[[Super Star|Starman]]
|colspan=2|[[File:Invincible Mario.gif]]<br>[[Invincible Mario|Invincible Mario / Luigi]]
|align=left|Starmen are rare power-ups often hidden in invisible blocks. When released, they bounce in the opposite direction from Mario. When grabbed, Mario is transformed into Invincible Mario for thirty seconds. In this state, Mario is largely indestructible and defeats enemies on contact. Contact with the Starman does not wholly replace the form Mario was already in (i.e., Mario remains small if one is touched while in his regular form, and he can still toss fireballs if he is in his Fiery form.) Invincible Mario cannot be carried over to subsequent levels.
|}
 
===Objects===
Objects are interactable elements of the environment that cannot be picked up or collected.
{|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;text-align:center"
|-style="color:white;background:#FF2400"
!width=5%|Image
!width=8%|Name
!Description
|-
!colspan=3 style="background:#FF7733;"|Blocks
|-
|[[File:SMB QuestionBlockOverworld.png]]
|[[? Block|? block]]
|align=left|Floating [[block]]s that contain items. One releases its contents when jumped underneath. Some ? blocks are [[Coin Block|ten-coin blocks]] that release up to 10 coins if struck in rapid succession. Others are [[Hidden Block|invisible]]. A struck ? block becomes an [[Empty Block|empty block]] that can be used as platforms. These are the only type of strikable blocks that [[Small Mario|regular Mario]] can open.
|-
|[[File:SMB Brick Block Sprite.png]]
|[[Brick Block|Brick]]
|align=left|The most common blocks. Most bricks fall apart when struck, but some are secretly ? or ten-coin blocks. Regular Mario is incapable of directly breaking a brick block, but he can still use a shell if available.
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Coral.png]]
|[[Coral]]
|align=left|Coral form varyingly sized columns in underwater levels that obstruct Mario.
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Cloud Block.png]]
|[[Cloud Block|Small cloud]]
|align=left|Cloud-like blocks make up the terrain in [[Coin Heaven|Bonus Stages]] high in the sky.
|-
|[[File:SMB Hard Block Sprite.png]]
|[[Hard Block|Stairblock]]
|align=left|Unbreakable blocks that appear on the ground. Some are stacked or laid next to each other to form climbable staircases or incomplete bridges.
|-
!colspan=3 style="background:#FF7733;"|Platforms
|-
|[[File:SMB Trampoline Sprite.png]]
|[[Trampoline|Jumping board]]
|align=left|Jumping boards bounce Mario into the air. Pressing {{button|nes|a}} when the the spring is fully contracted makes a jumping board launch Mario much higher than it would otherwise.
|-
|[[File:SMBPlatform.png]]
|[[Lift]]
|align=left|Thin, moving platforms. They are most common in athletic levels, above bottomless pits. Lifts are of varying widths and movements. There is a paired type of Lifts called [[Scale Lift|Balance Lift]]s that are a seesaw-like pulley system, where standing on one Lift makes it fall and the other rise. There are also [[Flimsy Lift|types of Lifts]] that fall shortly after being stepped on.
|-
|[[File:Warp Pipe SMB.png]]
|[[Warp Pipe|Pipe]]
|align=left|Most pipes are columnar platforms of varying height, some of which contain [[Piranha Plant|Piranha plant]]s. A few of them are [[Warp Pipe]]s that bring Mario to a secret underground area by pressing down on {{button|nes|Pad}}.
|-
|[[File:SMB Mushroom Platform.png]]
|[[Mushroom Platform|Super mushroom]]
|align=left|Giant mushrooms that occur in athletic levels, high above bottomless pits.
|-
!colspan=3 style="background:#FF7733;"|Goals
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Axe.png]]
|[[Axe|Ax]]
|align=left|Touching an ax causes the bridge it is alongside to collapse. This defeats the boss that was on top of it and completes the level.
|-
|[[File:SMB Goal Pole.png|x80px]]
|[[Goal Pole|Flagpole]]
|align=left|Flagpoles are the [[goal]]s at the end of most levels. When one is touched, Mario slides to the base and completes the level. Touching one also rewards him bonus points. The higher he is on the flagpole, the greater the number of points. Grabbing the top rewards Mario 5000 points.
|-
!colspan=3 style="background:#FF7733;"|Other objects
|-
|[[File:VineTop.png|x80px]]
|[[Vine|Beanstalk]]
|align=left|Beanstalks rapidly grow from struck [[? Block|vine block]]s, ascending skyward. Climbing one brings Mario to a hidden Bonus Stage in the sky.
|-
|[[File:SMB Sprite Firework.gif]]
|[[Firework]]
|align=left|Fireworks appear if Mario grabs a flagpole with 1, 3, or 6 as the last digit on the [[Time Limit|timer]]. The number of fireworks that go off correlates with this number, and each one rewards Mario 500 points.
|-
|[[File:SMB Green Horsetail Tall.png]]
|[[Horsetail|Horsehair plant]]
|align=left|Field horsehair plants appear in the background of ground-themed levels. According to the instruction booklet, Bowser transformed some of the [[Mushroom Kingdom]]'s inhabitants into these plants.
|}


==List of Levels==
==List of levels==
{|border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 style="vertical-align:top"
{|class="wikitable"style="width:100%"
|-
|-
!World
!World
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!Enemies found
!Enemies found
|-
|-
|rowspan=4 | [[World 1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1]]
|rowspan=4 align=center|[[File:SMB Super Mushroom Screenshot.png]]<br>'''[[World 1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1]]'''
|1
|[[World 1-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-1]]
|Ground
|Overworld
|[[Goomba]], [[Koopa Troopa]]
|[[Goomba|Little Goomba]], [[Koopa Troopa]]
|-
|-
|2
|[[World 1-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-2]]
|Underground
|Underground
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa, [[Piranha Plant]]
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, [[Piranha Plant]]
|-
|-
|3
|[[World 1-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-3]]
|Heights
|Athletic
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa, [[Koopa Paratroopa]]
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, [[Koopa Paratroopa]]  
|-
|-
|4
|[[World 1-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-4]]
|Castle
|Castle
|[[Firebar]], [[False Bowser]](Goomba)
|[[Fire Bar|Fire-Bar]], [[Impostor Bowser|fake Bowser]] (Little Goomba)
|-
|-
|rowspan=4|[[World 2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 2]]
|rowspan=4 align=center|[[File:SMB NES World 2-3 Screenshot.png]]<br>'''[[World 2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 2]]'''
|1
|[[World 2-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 2-1]]
|Ground
|Overworld
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant
|-
|-
|2
|[[World 2-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 2-2]]
|Underwater
|Underwater
|[[Blooper|Bloober]], [[Cheep-Cheep]], Piranha Plant
|[[Blooper|Bloober]], [[Cheep Cheep|Cheep-cheep]], Piranha Plant
|-
|-
|3
|[[World 2-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 2-3]]
|Seaside
|Athletic
|Jumping Cheep-Cheep
|Cheep-cheep
|-
|-
|4
|[[World 2-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 2-4]]
|Castle
|Castle
|Firebar, [[Podoboo]], False Bowser(Koopa Troopa)
|Fire-Bar, [[Lava Bubble|Podoboo]], fake Bowser (Koopa Troopa)
|-
|-
|rowspan=4|[[World 3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 3]]
|rowspan=4 align=center|[[File:SMB NES World 3-1 Screenshot.png]]<br>'''[[World 3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 3]]'''
|1
|[[World 3-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 3-1]]
|Ground
|Overworld
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, [[Hammer Bro.]]
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, [[Hammer Bro]]ther
|-
|-
|2
|[[World 3-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 3-2]]
|Ground
|Overworld
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant
|-
|-
|3
|[[World 3-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 3-3]]
|Heights
|Athletic
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa
|-
|-
|4
|[[World 3-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 3-4]]
|Castle
|Castle
|Firebar, Podoboo, False Bowser (Buzzy Beetle)
|Fire-Bar, Podoboo, fake Bowser (Buzzy Beetle)
|-
|-
|rowspan=4|[[World 4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 4]]
|rowspan=4 align=center|[[File:Lakitu throwing Spiny SMB1.png]]<br>'''[[World 4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 4]]'''
|1
|[[World 4-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 4-1]]
|Ground
|Overworld
|Piranha Plant, [[Lakitu]], [[Spiny]]
|Piranha Plant, [[Lakitu]], [[Spiny]]
|-
|-
|2
|[[World 4-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 4-2]]
|Underground
|Underground
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Piranha Plant, [[Buzzy Beetle]]
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Piranha Plant, [[Buzzy Beetle]]
|-
|-
|3
|[[World 4-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 4-3]]
|Heights
|Athletic
|Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa
|Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa
|-
|-
|4
|[[World 4-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 4-4]]
|Castle
|Castle
|Piranha Plant, Podoboo, Firebar, False Bowser (Spiny)
|Piranha Plant, Podoboo, Fire-Bar, fake Bowser (Spiny)
|-
|-
|rowspan=4|[[World 5 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 5]]
|rowspan=4 align=center|[[File:SMB NES World 5-1 Screenshot.png]]<br>'''[[World 5 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 5]]'''
|1
|[[World 5-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 5-1]]
|Ground
|Overworld
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, [[Bullet Bill]]
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, [[Bullet Bill]]
|-
|-
|2
|[[World 5-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 5-2]]
|Ground/Underwater (secret)
|Overworld
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle, Bullet Bill, Hammer Bro. (Bloober, Cheep-Cheep)
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle, Bullet Bill, Hammer Brother (Bloober, Cheep-cheep)
|-  
|-  
|3
|[[World 5-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 5-3]]
|Heights
|Athletic
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Bullet Bill
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Bullet Bill
|-
|-
|4
|[[World 5-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 5-4]]
|Castle
|Castle
|Podoboo, Firebar, False Bowser (Lakitu)
|Podoboo, Fire-Bar, fake Bowser (Lakitu)
|-
|-
|rowspan=4|[[World 6 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 6]]
|rowspan=4 align=center|[[File:SMB NES World 6-3 Screenshot.png]]<br>'''[[World 6 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 6]]'''
|1
|[[World 6-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 6-1]]
|Ground
|Overworld
|Piranha Plant, Lakitu, Spiny
|Piranha Plant, Lakitu, Spiny
|-
|-
|2
|[[World 6-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 6-2]]
|Ground/Underwater (secret)
|Overworld
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa,Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle (Bloober, Cheep-Cheep)
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle (Bloober, Cheep-cheep)
|-
|-
|3
|[[World 6-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 6-3]]
|Heights
|Athletic
|Bullet Bill
|Bullet Bill
|-
|-
|4
|[[World 6-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 6-4]]
|Castle
|Castle
|Podoboo, Firebar, False Bowser (Hammer Bro)
|Podoboo, Fire-Bar, fake Bowser (Bloober)
|-
|-
|rowspan=4|[[World 7 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 7]]
|rowspan=4 align=center|[[File:SMB NES World 7-1 Screenshot.png]]<br>'''[[World 7 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 7]]'''
|1
|[[World 7-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 7-1]]
|Ground
|Overworld
|Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle, Hammer Bro., Bullet Bill
|Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle, Hammer Brother, Bullet Bill
|-
|-
|2  
|[[World 7-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 7-2]]
|Underwater
|Underwater
|Bloober, Cheep-Cheep, Piranha Plant
|Bloober, Cheep-cheep, Piranha Plant
|-
|-
|3
|[[World 7-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 7-3]]
|Seaside
|Athletic
|Jumping Cheep-Cheep, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa
|Cheep-cheep, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa
|-
|-
|4
|[[World 7-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 7-4]]
|Castle
|Castle
|Podoboo, Firebar, False Bowser
|Podoboo, Fire-Bar, fake Bowser (Hammer Brother)
|-
|-
|rowspan=4|[[World 8 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8]]
|rowspan=4 align=center|[[File:SMB World 8-3 Screenshot.png]]<br>'''[[World 8 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8]]'''
|1
|[[World 8-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-1]]
|Ground
|Overworld
|Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle
|Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle
|-
|-
|2
|[[World 8-2 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-2]]
|Ground
|Overworld
|Goomba, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle, Lakitu, Spiny, Bullet Bill
|Little Goomba, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle, Lakitu, Spiny, Bullet Bill
|-
|-
|3
|[[World 8-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-3]]
|Near the castle
|Overworld
|Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Bullet Bill, Hammer Bro.
|Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Bullet Bill, Hammer Brother
|-
|-
|4
|[[World 8-4 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-4]]
|Castle/Underwater
|Castle
|Goomba, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Firebar, Podoboo, Buzzy Beetle, Hammer Bro., Bloober, Cheep-Cheep, [[Bowser]]
|Little Goomba, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Fire-Bar, Podoboo, Buzzy Beetle, Hammer Brother, Bloober, Cheep-cheep, [[Bowser]]
|}
|}


==Glitches==
==Glitches==
{{main|Super Mario Bros./Glitches}}
{{main|List of Super Mario Bros. glitches}}
===Minus World===
[[File:SMB Minus World Intro Card.png|thumb|left|The Minus World entrance screen]]
[[File:SMB Minus World.png|thumb|Minus World in the NES version]]
{{main|Minus World}}
The Minus World is an endless underwater level, identical to World 7-2, which is accessed through a programming glitch. There is no way to complete the level, as entering the pipe at the end will simply return Mario or Luigi to the one at the beginning. While there is no strategic advantage in performing this glitch, many find it intriguing. The glitch was removed in some remakes of the game, excluding the imports, the [[Virtual Console]] port, and ''[[Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.]]'' The [[Family Computer Disk System]] release has a different Minus World with three levels that can be beaten, and once -3 is complete, the player will return to the title screen as if they had beaten the game.
 
[[File:SMB How to Get to Minus World.gif|thumb|left|Mario goes through the wall and enters World -1]]
To perform the glitch, Mario must go to World 1-2 and stand on top of the pipe that leads to the above-ground flag, without going in the pipe. Then he must break the second and third block from the pipe, but leave the one on the far right. Then he must stand on the left edge of the pipe (facing left) and duck. He then has to jump while in a ducking position and move right in mid-air (while still facing left). If done correctly, Mario will go through the block on the far right and the wall to the Warp Zone. Mario must then go through the pipe that would normally lead to World 2-1 or World 4-1, and Mario will enter the Minus World.
 
If World 2-2 or 7-2 is edited in a ROM editor so that it is possible to beat it during the underwater segment, there is a World -2, an underwater version of 3-4. If World 3-4 is edited in a ROM editor, then there is a World -3. It is also a version of 3-4, but with overworld graphics; beating World -3 takes the player to World -4, a level which is just a blank screen.
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===Over the flagpole===
{{media table
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|title1=Over the Flag Pole Glitch
|description1=Video describing Over the Flagpole glitch in World 1-1, as well as some other glitches
}}
[[File:SMB W3-3 Glitch1.gif|thumb|Over the Flagpole glitch in World 3-3]]
In some levels, it is possible to jump over the [[Goal Pole|flagpole]]. Beyond the flag pole is nothing but an endless path. There is nothing to do; all that can be done is wait for the timer to get to zero. To do this glitch in [[World 1-1 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-1]], right after the second pit, Mario needs to wait for the Koopa Troopa to about to fall into the pit and simultaneously jump at the top of the level right above the Koopa. After that, the Koopa will be stuck underneath the level, but the player will still be able to see it. When the Koopa starts to walk under the level, Mario should follow it to the end. Along the way, it is required to grab a Magic Mushroom. When the Koopa is halfway between the staircase and the flagpole, the player must do the glitch again and Mario will jump above the flagpole.
 
To do this glitch in [[World 3-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 3-3]], at the end of the level the player must stand on the last lift until another one has completely lifted, before falling off. After that, the player must accelerate as fast as possible and jump from the far edge of the lift. The lift should not lower while doing so.<ref>{{cite|url=www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm154709|title=神業(?)やり込み・マリオ裏技動画|publisher=Nicovideo|language=ja|date=April 15, 2007|author=おにくてゃん|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>
 
There is a brick right after the [[fortress]]'s or [[castle]]'s first door, which stops Mario from going past the Fortress at the end of the levels.
 
In ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'', this is exploited to hide [[Warp Zone]]s. In worlds 3-1 and A-3, there are warp zones placed beyond the goals. In other worlds, while it is possible to go over the flagpole, the edge of the world is a few steps past the fortress, and the player is not able to go far enough for the flagpole to scroll off the screen.
 
This glitch was fixed in the ''Super Mario All-Stars'' version.
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==Staff==
{{main|List of Super Mario Bros. staff}}
;Director
*[[Shigeru Miyamoto]]
 
;Original Music
*[[Koji Kondo]]
 
;Designers
*Shigeru Miyamoto
*[[Takashi Tezuka]]
 
;Programmers
*Kazuaki Morita
*Toshihiko Nakago
 
;Producer
*Shigeru Miyamoto
 
;Executive Producer
*[[Hiroshi Yamauchi]]
 
==Development==
Development for ''Super Mario Bros.'' began after [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] and [[Takashi Tezuka]] finished two other games together beforehand: ''{{wp|Excitebike}}'' and ''{{wp|Devil World}}''. When designing ''Super Mario Bros.'', they wanted to use the scrolling screens of ''Excitebike'' and the large character sprites from ''Devil World'', to make ''Super Mario Bros.'' stand out from other titles. Miyamoto and Tezuka wanted to fit various technologies into the game, comparing it to a puzzle. The name "''Super Mario Bros.''" also came from [[Super Mario (form)|Mario's new Super form]].<ref>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20161111054427/http://www.nintendo.com/nes-classic/super-mario-bros-and-super-mario-bros-3-developer-interview|title=Developer Interview: Super Mario Bros. – Nintendo Entertainment System|publisher=NES Classic Edition – Official Site|language=en-us|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>
 
''Super Mario Bros.'' was developed at the same time as ''[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda (Game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'', and both shared numerous staff members: Miyamoto, Tezuka, Toshihiko Nakago, [[Koji Kondo]], Kazuaki Morita, Yasunari Nishida, and [[Hiroshi Yamauchi]]. According to the developers, some aspects of ''Super Mario Bros.'' were taken from ''The Legend of Zelda''; Fire-Bars were one example, as they were present in the dungeons in ''The Legend of Zelda''. Miyamoto implemented Fire-Bars into ''Super Mario Bros.'' as an obstacle.
 
The main goal of ''Super Mario Bros.'' was to have a character travel through many lands with all different themes to each other and it would feature a diverse terrain, such as land, water, and sky. They also intended for the main character to be twice the size of the final one. At the beginning of developing the game, the placeholder playable character was a 16×32 pixel square.<ref>{{cite|author=rawmeatcowboy|url=gonintendo.com/?p=107550|title=Super Mario Bros. main character originally started out as...a huge square|date=December 11, 2009|publisher=Go Nintendo|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref> The square could not even jump and as a result, Tezuka suggested making Mario the playable character instead of the square due to the popularity of ''Mario Bros.'', which Miyamoto accepted.<ref name="Super Mario Square">{{cite|url=iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/wii/nsmb/1/3|title=It Started With A Square Object Moving|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>
 
Nakago and his team, Systems Research and Development (SRD), colored the background blue in some levels.<ref>{{cite|url=iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/wii/nsmb/0/3|title=Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros Wii|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref> This was unusual, because video games released during this time usually had a black background, to avoid eye-strain and to avoid getting distracted by the bright colors. After coloring the background blue in some levels, Nakago then started designing maps for this game. Miyamoto wanted the levels to be around a minute long and he told SRD to do so. He then realized that it usually takes about a second to travel across a screen and that numerous screens would have been implemented in one stage. SRD first thought that Miyamoto had requested them to make 60 screens per stage, but Miyamoto then explained that obstacles in each screen would slow down the player's progress, which resulted in an average of about 12 screens per level. The stage with the most screens has only 32, which is about half of what SRD had originally expected.


==Alternate Versions==
When designing the stages themselves, because a level creating tool was not available to them at the time, Miyamoto and Tezuka would draw the levels on graph paper, and then Nakago and his team would design and program it into the game; if edits were to be made to the original drawings, a sheet of clear paper was placed over the original drawings.<ref>{{cite|author=Nintendo of America|date=June 16, 2015|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20150616195218/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPDPSezEkcY|title=Nintendo Digital Event @ E3 2015|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref> Nakago has stated that a lot of documents were sent to his team every day to change some aspects of stages. Every day, the group would do all they could do of what was stated in the documents and would work until 10 at night.
[[Image:Marioduckhunttrack.jpg|right|thumb|''3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet''.]]
[[Image:Various23 080125a-l.jpg|thumb|right|In ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''.]]
*1985 - Original release (US/Japan)
*(Year Unknown) - Ported into the American arcade machine, the [[Nintendo Playchoice-10]].
*1986 - Re-released on the Famicom Disk System in Japan.
*1986 - Game & Watch title.
*1986 - Released in arcades as VS Super Mario Bros.
*1988 - Re-released on the NES in the US as part of the ''2-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt'' compilation, packaged with the NES Action Set.
*1990 - Re-released on the NES in the US as part of the ''3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet'' compilation, packaged with the NES Power Set.
*1993 - Remake available on the SNES as part of the ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]'' compilation (known as Super Mario Collection in Japan). Graphics and sound were updated, and many glitches were removed.
*1994 - Remake available on the SNES in the US as part of the ''[[Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World]]'' compilation, packaged with the SNES Mario Set.
*1998 - Remake released on the Game Boy Color as ''[[Super Mario Bros. Deluxe]]''. The game featured the original game's graphics but loads of additional content.
*2001 - The original game is available as an unlockable NES game in ''Animal Crossing''.  Unfortunately, it can currently only be unlocked using an Action Replay cheat.
*2004 - The original game was re-released on the Game Boy Advance as part of the NES Classics / Famicom Mini collection, celebrating 20 years of the Famicom in Japan.
*2006 - Available on the [[Wii]] as part of the [[Virtual Console]].
*2008 - Available in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' as a playable demo.
<br clear=all>


==Official Artwork==
In two Japanese interviews promoting ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', Miyamoto gave insight into the original background for the connection between the story of ''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]'' and ''Super Mario Bros.'', stating that the among the pipes in ''Mario Bros.'', one of them leads to the Mushroom Kingdom where ''Super Mario Bros.'' takes place.<ref>{{cite|url=www.ndw.jp/mario-interview-230425/2|title=インタビュー  マリオ映画公開記念!宮本茂さんインタビュー 制作の始まりから驚きの設定まで|language=ja|date=April 25, 2023|publisher=Nintendo Dream Web|accessdate=April 25, 2023|quote='''Shigeru Miyamoto:''' もともと『マリオブラザーズ』は、土管がいっぱいあるニューヨークの地下で活躍する兄弟、ニューヨークのなかでもたぶんブルックリン、というところまで勝手に決めていて。『ドンキーコング』は舞台がニューヨークですし。その土管が不思議な森(キノコ王国)につながったのが、『スーパーマリオブラザーズ』なんです。 ("Originally, I arbitrarily decided that ''Mario Bros.'' has the brothers being active in the underground of New York, which is full of [[Warp Pipe|pipes]], probably in Brooklyn in New York. ''Donkey Kong'' is also set in New York. In ''Super Mario Bros.'', those pipes lead to the mysterious forest (Mushroom Kingdom).")}}</ref><ref>{{cite|url=news.denfaminicogamer.jp/interview/230428w|title=宮本茂はどうやって「ゲームの映画化は面白くない」に立ち向かったのか――『ザ・スーパーマリオブラザーズ・ムービー』がちょっと面白すぎたので、宮本さんに直接訊いてみた|language=ja|date=April 28, 2023|publisher=Den-Faminicogamer|accessdate=May 31, 2024|quote='''Shigeru Miyamoto:''' これは映画化とかは一旦別にして、影の設定として決めていたんですよ。実は大昔にライセンスで作られたマリオの映画も、そういうストーリーになってるんです。元々ゲームのストーリーでも「土管がいっぱいある、ニューヨークの地下で活躍する1作目マリオブラザーズ」から、「その土管が不思議な世界に繋がっていく2作目スーパーマリオブラザーズ」に繋いでいました。『ドンキーコング』も舞台はニューヨークですし、そこから「舞台は、ニューヨークの中でもブルックリンやろうな」と決めて行ったり……その辺りの舞台設定やストーリーはすんなり決まっていましたね。 ("I had decided on that as a shadow setting, putting aside the film adaptation for a moment. In fact, the Mario movie that was made a long time ago under license also had such a story. Originally, the stories of the games were connected via 'The first ''Mario Bros.'', which takes place underground in New York City, full of pipes', to 'the second ''Super Mario Bros.'', in which the pipes lead to a mysterious world'. ''Donkey Kong'' was also set in New York, and from there we decided, 'Let's make the setting Brooklyn in New York'... A setting around that area and a story were decided easily.")}}</ref>
<center><gallery>
Image:Mario SMB.png|<center>[[Mario]]
Image:Super Mario Running Artwork.jpg|<center>Mario running
Image:PrincessSML.png|<center>[[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]]
Image:ToadSMB.jpg|<center>[[Toad]]
Image:BowserSMB1.PNG|<center>[[Bowser|King Koopa]]
Image:SMB_Goomba.jpg|<center>[[Goomba]]
Image:SMB_KoopaParatroopa.jpg|<center>[[Koopa Paratroopa]]
Image:SMB_BuzzyBeetle.jpg|<center>[[Buzzy Beetle]]
Image:SMBSpiny.jpg|<center>[[Spiny]]
Image:SMB_Lakitu.jpg|<center>[[Lakitu]]
Image:OriginalPiranha.jpg|<center>[[Piranha Plant]]
Image:SMB BulletBill.jpg|<center>[[Bullet Bill]]
Image:CheepCheepSMB.jpg|<center>[[Cheep-Cheep]]
Image:SMB FireFlower.jpg|<center>[[Fire Flower]]
Image:SMB Star.jpg|<center>[[Starman]]
Image:SMBlogo.gif|The game logo.
</gallery></center>


==References to Other Games ==
According to {{wp|Toru Iwatani}}, creator of [[Pac-Man]], Miyamoto told him personally that ''Super Mario Bros.'' was influenced by ''{{wp|Pac-Land}}'', the pioneer of action games with horizontally running background.<ref>{{cite|author=HSALS|date=May 22, 2015|url=geekculture.co/interview-with-toru-iwatani-creator-of-pac-man|title=EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Toru Iwatani, creator of Pac-Man|publisher=Geek Culture|language=en|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>
*''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]''- [[Koopa Troopas]] seem to be based on [[Shellcreepers]] from the previous game. [[Luigi]] also returns, yet to see his trademark abilities.


==References in Later Games==
The "[[Ending (Super Mario Bros.)|Ending]]" theme in the Famicom Disk System version of ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'' was first composed as the ending theme of ''Super Mario Bros.'', before being shortened due to storage limitations.<ref>{{cite|url=shmuplations.com/kojikondo|title=Koji Kondo – 2001 Composer Interview|publisher=shmuplations|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>
*''[[Super Mario Bros. Special]]''- A sequel created by [[Hudson]].
 
*''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]''- A direct sequel to ''Super Mario Bros.'' using many of the same sounds and sprites.
==Regional differences==
*''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''- [[Bowser]] returns along with the rest of the [[Koopa Troop]].
The European version of the game adds one pixel to the hitboxes of Little Goombas, Spinies, Piranha Plants, Bloobers, Cheep-cheeps and Bullet Bills.<ref>{{cite|author=Supper Mario Broth|date=November 19, 2020|url=x.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1329515061476532224|title=The European version of Super Mario Bros. is almost imperceptibly more difficult than the US/Japanese versions due to adding an extra pixel to the hitboxes of various enemies. Details in image.|publisher=X|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>
*''[[All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.]]''- Many levels from ''Super Mario Bros. return.
 
*''[[Vs. Super Mario Bros.]]''- This is a harder version of ''Super Mario Bros.'' for arcades.
==Pre-release and unused content==
*''[[2-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt]]''- A re-release of the game which was bundled with the NES console in the NES Action Set. As the name suggests, the game was in a cartridge that also includes the Zapper Light Gun game, [[wikipedia:Duck Hunt|Duck Hunt]].
{{main|List of Super Mario Bros. pre-release and unused content}}
*''[[3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet]]''- Same as ''2-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt'', but as the title suggests, the cartridge also includes the game, ''World Class Track Meet''.  This bundle also includes the NES Power Pad that World Class Track Meet utilizes.
The game was far more focused on action than platforming. The game was split between ground and sky segments, which had Mario shooting enemies. Mario could use weapons and the control scheme was different as a result, such as having the up arrow of the {{button|nes|Pad}} used as the jump button.
*''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''- The American sequel to this game. Mushrooms, Starmen, and Koopa Shells appear
 
*''[[Super Mario Land]]''- Mario's sprite in this game is near identical as in ''Super Mario Bros.'' and gameplay is also near identical.
==Reception and legacy==
*''Alleyway''- Several sprites from ''Super Mario Bros'' appear in bonus levels.
[[File:SMBStreet.jpg|thumb|The ''Super Mario Bros.'' Avenue in Zaragoza, Spain]]
*''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]''- Many things from ''Super Mario Bros.'' return here, such as- [[Flagpole]]s, [[Warp Zone]]s (in the form of cannons) and also a picture from ''Super Mario Bros.'' is an unlockable background.
''Super Mario Bros.'' received critical acclaim and is considered one of the best games of all time. One of the most-praised aspects of the game is the precise controls, which allow players to control how far and high the characters jump and how fast they can run. The game popularized side-scrolling video games, and the game has since received several sequels and spin-offs, and many different ports and alternative versions. All characters, enemies, and items found in the game have become core elements of the ''Super Mario'' franchise and the plot of Bowser kidnapping the princess has continued to be used throughout the core ''Super Mario'' series.
*''[[Super Mario 64]]''- Outside the [[Warp Pipe]] which leads to the final boss, carved into pillars are what look like sprites of Mario and Bowser from this game.
 
*''The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time''- The owners of Lon Lon Ranch Talon and Ingo are based off Mario and Luigi and wear clothes near identical to which Mario and Luigi wore in ''Super Mario Bros.''.
The game was placed 14th in the 100th issue of [[Nintendo Power]]'s "100 best Nintendo games of all time" in 1997.{{page needed}} It ranked the first spot in Electronic Gaming Monthly's ''"Greatest 200 Games of Their Time"'', named in IGN's top 100 games of all time lists in 2005 and 2007, and declared the second-best Mario game of all time. IGN also placed it 3rd in their Top 100 NES Games list.<ref>{{cite|url=www.ign.com/top-100-nes-games/3.html|title=3. Super Mario Bros. - Top 100 NES Games|publisher=IGN|language=en|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>
*''Pokemon Stadium 2''- The title screen of ''Super Mario Bros.'' appears on the TV screen when the NES was selected.
 
*''1080° Avalanche''- Ricky's bio says he likes to play ''Super Mario Bros.'' and a [[NES]] controller based board makes soud effects from this game.
''Super Mario Bros.'' sold 40.24 million units with its original release,<ref>{{cite|url=www.vgchartz.com/game/6455/super-mario-bros/?region=All|title=Super Mario Sales Data: Historical Units Sold Numbers for NES, SNES, N64...|publisher=VG Chartz|accessdate=May 31, 2024|language=en}}</ref> being the second best-selling ''Super Mario'' game and among the best-selling video games of all time. It has received several other works such as ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' and the [[Super Mario Bros. (film)|''Super Mario Bros.'' film]].
*''Animal Crossing''- ''Super Mario Bros.'' is an unlockable playable game, several items from ''Super Mario Bros.'' also are collectable.
 
*''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' - A castle level is seen when Mario first met F.L.U.D.D.
The game's impact on popular culture was so big that in 2010, a street in {{wp|Zaragoza|Zaragoza, Aragón (Spain)}}, was named after it, with a ceremony being held in celebration.<ref>{{cite|author=Gigazine|date=November 9, 2019|url=gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20101109_mario_avenue|title="Super Mario Brothers Street" is born in Spain, pictures of Mario pleased at the commemoration ceremony|publisher=Gigazine|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>
*''Viewtiful Joe''- Joe whistles the ''Super Mario Bros.'' theme.
 
*''Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!''- In the Syllable Count game the quote "Thank you, Mario, but our princess is in another castle."  appears.
==References to other games==
*''Tetris DS'' - The first 6 levels was Stage 1-1 and 1-2 and 10 was a Bowser Castle fight.
*''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'': The design for [[lift]]s resembles the girders seen in [[100m]].
*''Nintendogs'' (All versions)- A [[? Block]] and [[Mushroom]] as they appear in ''Super Mario Bros.'' are obtainable.
*[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|''Donkey Kong Jr.'']]: Trampolines return with a similar design.
*''Wii Shop Channel''- While downloading a game sprites from ''Super Mario Bros.'' of either [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Fire Mario]] or [[Fire Luigi]] run past.
*''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]'':
*''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''- The stage [[Mushroomy Kingdom]] is based on worlds 1-1 and 1-2 of this game.
**Green pipes, coins and blocks, introduced to the Mario universe in this game, return.
*''[[wikipedia:Wii Fit|Wii Fit]]''- Sprites from ''Super Mario Bros.'' appear on Wuhu Island.
**Koopa Troopas are derived from this game's [[Shellcreeper]]s.
*''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' - The sprites of Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser appear around said character when they collect the Pill Pals, plus, when any character (including a Koopa Troopa) grabs a [[Mega Star]], they turn into a huge version of their SMB1 Sprites.  (Mario and Luigi are their small forms in both.)
 
*''[[wikipedia:Wii Music|Wii Music]]''- The ''Super Mario Bros.'' theme is unlockable. When playing the theme on the Electro Stage, the background will be animated with SMB sprites in time with the playing instruments. Also, when playing the theme using the NES Horn, making the Mii jump will result in a Mario jump SFX.
==References in other games==
*''[[wikipedia:Wii Sports Resort|Wii Sports Resort]]'' - In Island Flyover, SMB sounds can be heard being played in one of the houses on Wuhu Island.
*''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'': For the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] release of this game, Mario's jumping sprite from ''Super Mario Bros.'' is used on the box art.
*''Strong Bads Cool Game For Attractive People:8-Bit Is Bad Enough'' - When 1st Visiting Peasentry In 8-Bit Is Bad Enough Strong Bad Says "Now Can I Bash Things With My Head To Get Coins? OW! Maybe Not..." Reffering To The Fact That Mario Can Bash Blocks With His Head And Get Coins.
*''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]'': For the NES release of this game, Mario's jumping sprite from ''Super Mario Bros.'' is used on the box art.
 
==References in later games==
{{main|List of references to Super Mario Bros.}}
 
==Alternate versions and re-releases==
[[File:SMB 25th W1-1.png|thumb|''25th Anniversary SUPER MARIO BROS.'', with all the question marks on the ? Blocks changed to number 25's.]]
[[File:25thBlock.png|frame|right]]
[[File:Marioduckhunttrack.jpg|thumb|upright=0.95|The 3-in-1 ''Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet'' cartridge.]]
[[File:SMB Masterpiece in Brawl.jpg|thumb|The playable demo in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''.]]
*1985 - Original [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] release (North America/Japan)
*1986 - Re-released on the [[Family Computer Disk System]] in Japan as one of the launch titles.
*1986 - Released for the arcade [[VS. System]] as ''[[VS. Super Mario Bros.]]''
*1986 - A [[Game & Watch]] titled ''[[Super Mario Bros. (Game & Watch)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' is released, but it is a completely different game.
*1986 - Ported into the arcade machine [[Nintendo PlayChoice-10]].
*1986 - Released on the Family Computer Disk System as ''[[All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.]]'' Most of the levels have been reused but the physics engine is from ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]''.
*1987 - Original Nintendo Entertainment System release (Europe/Australia)
*1988 - Re-released on the NES in North America as part of the 2-in-1 ''Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt'' compilation, packaged with the NES Action Set.
*1989 - A [[Nelsonic Game Watch]] titled ''[[Super Mario Bros. (Nelsonic Game Watch)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' is released, but it is a completely different game.
*1990 - Re-released on the NES in North America as part of the 3-in-1 ''Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet'' compilation, packaged with the NES Power Set.
*1990 - Re-released on the NES as part of ''[[Nintendo World Championships 1990]]''.
*1992 - Re-released on the NES in Europe as part of the 3-in-1 ''Super Mario Bros./Tetris/Nintendo World Cup'' compilation, sold alone or with the Top Loader.
*1993 - Remake available on the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] as part of the ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]'' compilation. Graphics and sound were updated, and many [[glitches]] were removed.
*1994 - Remake available on the SNES in North America as part of the ''[[Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World]]'' compilation, packaged with the SNES Mario Set.
*1997 - A special version is released as a [[Satellaview]] broadcast titled ''[[BS Super Mario Collection|BS Super Mario Collection - Dai-1-Shuu]]'', which is based on the ''Super Mario All-Stars'' version.
*1999 - Remake released on the [[Game Boy Color]] as ''[[Super Mario Bros. Deluxe]]''. The game featured the original game's graphics but loads of additional content.
*2001 - The original game is available as an unlockable NES game in ''[[nookipedia:Doubutsu no Mori+|Doubutsu no Mori+]]''. In Japan, it is obtainable only through the thirty [[Nintendo GameCube]] Memory Cards that were distributed as part of a sweepstakes in ''[[Famitsu]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite|date=December 1, 2001|uirl=n-styles.com/main/archives/2001/12/01-231800.php|language=ja|title=どうぶつの森+のゲーム内で遊べるファミコンソフトが判明|publisher=N-Styles|accessdate=May 4, 2024}}</ref> In the [[nookipedia:Animal Crossing|international release]], it can only be unlocked by using a cheating device. It was likely going to be released as an [[e-Reader]] card (as were ''Ice Climber'' and ''Mario Bros.''), but a ''Super Mario Bros.'' card was never released. In the Japan-only re-release, ''Doubutsu no Mori e+'', the game is removed altogether.
*2003 - In celebrating 20 years of the Famicom in Japan, Nintendo ran a "Hot Mario Campaign" from November 7, 2003 to January 15, 2004, in which the prize was a special edition of ''Super Mario Bros.'' alongside a Famicom-themed [[Game Boy Advance]].<ref>{{cite|date=October 27, 2003|url=dengekionline.com/data/news/2003/10/27/2b6c8d6b74ee05cd0c8d2629d3abee42.html|title=ファミコン生誕20周年記念第2弾、「ホットマリオキャンペーン」が11月7日より開始!|publisher=Dengeki Online|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Niizumi, Hirohiko|date=October 27, 2003|url=www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-puts-original-super-mario-on-gba/1100-6077433|title=Nintendo puts original Super Mario on GBA|publisher=GameSpot|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>
*2004 - The original game was re-released on the [[Game Boy Advance]] as part of the NES Classics / Famicom Mini collection, celebrating 20 years of the Famicom in Japan. It was also re-released on September 13, 2005, in Japan to celebrate 20 years of the original NES game.
*2006 - Available on the [[Wii]] as part of the [[Virtual Console]]. It requires 23 blocks (2.9 MB) to be installed.
*2008 - Available as a [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl#Masterpieces|playable demo in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'']].
*2010 - SNES version re-released with ''[[Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition]]''.
*2010 - Virtual Console port titled '''''25th Anniversary SUPER MARIO BROS.''''' with the question marks on the [[? Block]]s replaced with "25", exclusively bundled with a special, red [[Wii]].
*2011 - Released on the [[Nintendo 3DS|3DS]] as part of the Virtual Console. It is a free download for those who purchased a 3DS before the August 12th price drop. The full release version was released on January 5, 2012, in Japan, on February 16, 2012, in North America, and on March 1, 2012, in Europe and Australia.
*2013 - Released on the [[Wii U]] as part of the [[Virtual Console]] service via the Wii U eShop in Japan on June 5 and in Europe, Australia, and North America in September.  It requires 15 MB to be installed. The game was also featured in ''[[NES Remix]]''.
*2014 - Re-released in ''[[NES Remix 2]]'' as ''[[Super Luigi Bros.]]'' The game was also featured in ''[[Ultimate NES Remix]]'' along with the port of ''Super Mario Bros.'', ''[[Speed Mario Bros.]]''
*2014 - Available as a [[Super Smash Bros. for Wii U#Masterpieces|playable demo in ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'']].
*2015 - Available as a "highlight" in ''[[amiibo tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits]]''.
*2016 - Released as one of the 30 games included in the [[Nintendo Entertainment System#NES Classic Edition|NES Classic Edition]] and [[Family Computer#Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer|Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer]].
*2018 - Available as one of the 20 NES titles at the [[Nintendo Switch#Nintendo Switch Online|Nintendo Switch Online]] subscription service's launch in September 2018, and for the first time can be played with other players online.<ref>{{cite|url=www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/nintendo-entertainment-system-nintendo-switch-online-switch|title=Nintendo Entertainment System™ - Nintendo Switch Online|publisher=Nintendo Official Site|language=en-us|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>
*2020 - Released as ''[[Super Mario Bros. 35]]'', using the physics of ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'' and the "Taking damage as Fire Mario becomes Super Mario" system that was standardized in the Western ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' versions onwards.
*2020 - Released as ''[[Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.]]''
 
==Profiles and statistics==
*'''[[nwiki:Wii Shop Channel|Wii Shop Channel]]:''' "''One day, the Mushroom Kingdom was invaded by the Koopas, a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into stones, bricks, and even plants, and the kingdom fell into ruin. The only one who can undo the magic spell on the Mushroom People and return them to their normal selves is Princess Toadstool, the daughter of the Mushroom King. Unfortunately, she is in the hands of evil King Bowser. Mario, the famous plumber, learns of the Mushroom People's plight and sets out to free the Mushroom Princess from the Koopas and restore the fallen kingdom of the Mushroom People. Jump, kick shells, and throw fireballs through eight action-packed worlds in this iconic NES classic!''"
*'''[[Nintendo eShop]]:''' "''Rediscover Mario & Luigi's first great adventure! One day, the Mushroom Kingdom was invaded by the Koopas, a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into stones, bricks, and even plants, and the kingdom fell into ruin. The only one who can undo the magic spell is Princess Toadstool, the daughter of the Mushroom King. Unfortunately, she is in the hands of evil king Bowser™. Mario™ learns of the Mushroom People's plight and sets out to free the Mushroom Princess from the Koopas and restore the fallen kingdom. Jump, kick shells, and throw fireballs through eight action-packed worlds in this iconic NES classic!''"
 
===''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''===
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==Media==
{{main-media}}
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==Gallery==
{{main-gallery|Super Mario Bros.}}
<gallery>
Super Mario Bros JP cover.jpg|Japanese box art
Mario and mushroom SMB1 artwork.png|[[Mario]]
SMB Peach Calling for Help Artwork.png|[[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]]
SMB Toad Artwork.jpg|[[Toad (species)|Mushroom Retainer]]
SMB Goomba Artwork.jpg|[[Goomba|Little Goomba]]
BowserSMBart.png|[[Bowser]]
</gallery>
 
==Quotes==
*"''To make Mario jump extra high, hold the B button down while you run and jump.''" — ''Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!'', Card no. 7
*"''Even if it says "Game Over" you can hold A and press Start. You'll continue on Level 1 of the last world you were on.''" — ''Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!'', Card no. 13
*"''In every world, within invisible blocks, on extra life is concealed (possibly more). Keep your eyes peeled!''" — ''Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!'', Card no. 19
*"''You'll gain more points the higher you jump on a flagpole. Try accelerating first, the jump for all you're worth!''" — ''Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!'', Card no. 31
*"''We wanted to make a big Mario running around beneath a blue sky. We squeezed as much as we could out of the NES technology.''" — [[Shigeru Miyamoto]], ''[[Super Mario History|Super Mario History 1985-2010 Booklet]]''
*"''Developing this game was fun because it felt like we were solving a puzzle as we were making it.''" — [[Takashi Tezuka]], ''Super Mario History 1985-2010 Booklet''
*"''There was so much enthusiasm on this project because we were trying to create something that had never been done before.''" — [[Koji Kondo]], ''Super Mario History 1985-2010 Booklet''
*"''Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!''" — Mushroom Retainer, ''Super Mario Bros.''
*"''Thank you Mario! Your quest is over. We present you a new quest.''" — Princess Toadstool, ''Super Mario Bros.''
 
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=スーパーマリオブラザーズ
|JapR=Sūpā Mario Burazāzu
|Jap2=スーパーマリオブラザーズ1<ref>{{cite|date=November 13, 2020|url=topics.nintendo.co.jp/article/5d6e9160-06ba-4341-b081-331de6756497|title=『ゲーム&ウオッチ スーパーマリオブラザーズ』は本日発売。知っているとより楽しめる、”あそびのヒント”をご紹介。|language=ja|publisher=Nintendo|accessdate=November 14, 2020}}</ref>
|Jap2R=Sūpā Mario Burazāzu Wan
|JapM=Super Mario Bros.
|Jap2M=Super Mario Bros. 1
|Kor=슈퍼 마리오브라더스
|KorR=Syupeo Malio Beuladeoseu
|KorM=Super Mario Bros.
|ChiS=超级马力欧兄弟
|ChiSR=Chāojí Mǎlì'ōu Xiōngdì
|ChiSM=Super Mario Bros.
|ChiT=超級瑪利歐兄弟
|ChiTR=Chāojí Mǎlì'ōu Xiōngdì
|ChiTM=Super Mario Bros.
}}


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*The ''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe'' manual and the the [[Virtual Console]] page of this game state that Koopas used black magic to aid their conquest of the Mushroom Kingdom, though the only other occurrences of this is by the Koopalings in [[Super Mario Bros. 3]] and Bowser in ''[[Paper Mario (series)|Paper Mario]]'' (with the aid of the [[Star Rod]]) and in ''[[Mario Party (series)|Mario Party]]''.
[[File:SMBOriginalStory.jpg|thumb|300px|upright=2.2|The original story of ''Super Mario Bros.'' (with early character designs) as seen on a board game based on the game. An alternate set of pictures depicting the same events is in ''[[How to win at Super Mario Bros.]]'']]
*The game was placed 14th in the 100th issue of [[Nintendo Power]]'s "100 best Nintendo games of all time" in 1997.<ref>http://www.gamekult.com/communaute/forum/voirmessage.html?foid=13000909, retrieved 6/4/2009</ref>
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*This game was originally supposed to be updated and packaged with ''[[Super Mario Advance]]'', which would mean its sequels would have had the same side game.
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*''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' had Classic World 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, and 2-2. Only World 1-1 was released outside Japan.
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*The [[Super Mario Bros. Stamps]] set was released in Japan at the end of May, [[2007]]. The stamps feature sprites of characters and items from this game.
|footer=A comparison of the ''Super Mario Bros.'' and Mario Pikachu artwork
*In Gameinformer's "The Top 200 Games of All Time" in the 200th issue of the magazine, Super Mario Bros. placed 2nd out of 200. It was beat by "The Legend of Zelda", but beat out the PC version of "Tetris".
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*If the player manages to get 129 or more lives, they will receive an instant [[Game Over]] should they die again. The game somehow interprets this as the player having a negative amount of lives; this is likely due to data overflow.
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*Despite being unmentioned in the Japanese manual,<ref name=MushStory/> the [[Mushroom King]] appears in Asian-drawn strategy guide illustrations.
*The ''[[Guinness World Records|Guinness Book of World Records]] 2011: Gamer's Edition'' states that this game was also remade on the [[Nintendo 64]],<ref>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20201030143856/https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/slideshow/210299/guinness-world-records-gamer-edition|title=Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition|publisher=PC World from DG|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref> which is incorrect.
*In a 2011 {{wp|United States Supreme Court}} case, ''{{wp|Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association}}'' (which overturned a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children without parental supervision), the {{wp|Electronic Frontier Foundation}} submitted an ''amicus'' brief citing social research that declared ''Super Mario Bros.'' to be a violent video game. In the brief, it was stated that the game contained cartoon violence similar to that found in various Saturday morning television shows, the {{wp|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner|Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote}} cartoons, and the ''{{wp|Mighty Mouse}}'' series, which garnered little negative reaction from the public in their own times.<ref>{{cite|author=Hoffman, Gene|date=September 27, 2010|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20100930150915/http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/09/27/how-the-wrong-decision-in-schwarzenegger-v-ema-could-cripple-video-game-innovation|title=How the Wrong Decision in Schwarzenegger v. EMA Could Cripple Video Game Innovation|publisher=Xconomy|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite|url=www.eff.org/files/filenode/schwarzenegger_v/EFFPFFamicus.pdf|title=Supreme Court of the United States Docket No. 08-1448|publisher=EFF|format=PDF|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>
*A promotional artwork for the "Mario Pikachu" line of merchandise, based on the artwork for the Famicom release of ''Super Mario Bros.'', replaces the original game's characters and elements with [[bulbapedia:Pokémon (species)|Pokémon]] and elements from the ''[[bulbapedia:Pokémon|Pokémon]]'' series. The changes are the following:
**Mario is replaced by [[bulbapedia:Pikachu (Pokémon)|Pikachu]].
**Bowser is replaced by [[bulbapedia:Blastoise (Pokémon)|Blastoise]].
**Princess Peach is replaced by [[bulbapedia:Diancie (Pokémon)|Diancie]].
**The Toads are replaced by two [[bulbapedia:Foongus (Pokémon)|Foongus]].
**The Koopa Paratroopa is replaced by a [[bulbapedia:Wartortle (Pokémon)|Wartortle]].
**The castle is replaced by [[bulbapedia:Bell Tower|Bell Tower]].
**A flower is replaced by [[bulbapedia:Flabébé (Pokémon)|Flabébé]].
**The Goomba is replaced by a [[bulbapedia:Shroomish (Pokémon)|Shroomish]].
**The Bullet Bill is replaced by [[bulbapedia:Beldum (Pokémon)|Beldum]].
**The Super Mushroom is replaced by a [[bulbapedia:Big Mushroom|Big Mushroom]].
**The Blooper is replaced by an [[bulbapedia:Inkay (Pokémon)|Inkay]].
**The hill is now orange and the Warp Pipe has been replaced by [[bulbapedia:Slowpoke Well|Slowpoke Well]].
**The Koopa Troopa is replaced by a [[bulbapedia:Squirtle (Pokémon)|Squirtle]].
**The Cheep Cheep is replaced by a [[bulbapedia:Qwilfish (Pokémon)|Qwilfish]].
**The Hammer Bro is replaced by a [[bulbapedia:Psyduck (Pokémon)|Psyduck]].
**The cliff is now a [[bulbapedia:Cave|cave]].
**The Spiny is replaced by a [[bulbapedia:Ferroseed (Pokémon)|Ferroseed]], and the Lakitu is replaced by a [[bulbapedia:Landorus (Pokémon)|Landorus]].
*The South African release in 1993 reuses the European version's packaging, the only NES game to do so in the region; all other South African NES titles feature a red "South African Version" banner on the box art and cartridge label.<ref>{{cite|author=Rogers, Joshua Alexander|date=April 16, 2020|url=www.linkedin.com/pulse/video-games-around-world-south-africa-joshua-rogers|title=Video Games around the World|publisher=LinkedIn|archive=web.archive.org/web/20220925153658/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/video-games-around-world-south-africa-joshua-rogers|accessdate=March 23, 2024}}</ref>
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*[https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character/mario/en/history/smb/index.html Mario Portal Game Archive (EN)]
*[https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character/mario/history/smb/index.html Mario Portal Game Archive (JP)]
*[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/software/smb1/index.html Famicom 40th Anniversary site]
*[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Game-Boy-Advance/Super-Mario-Bros--267387.html Nintendo UK Game Boy Advance site]
*[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/ja/pdf/CLV-P-HAAAJ.pdf Japanese Famicom manual]
*[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/pdf/CLV-P-NAAAE.pdf North American NES manual]
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This article is about the video game originally published for the Nintendo Entertainment System. For further uses, see Super Mario Bros. (disambiguation).
"SMB" redirects here. For the game known in Japan and Europe as Super Mario Ball, see Mario Pinball Land.
"Super Mario Brothers" redirects here. For the microgame from WarioWare: Smooth Moves, see Super Mario Brothers (WarioWare: Smooth Moves).
"Mario 1" redirects here. For the level in Mini Mario & Friends: amiibo Challenge, see Mario 1 (level).
Super Mario Bros.
United States box art for Super Mario Bros.
For alternate box art, see the game's gallery.
Developer Nintendo EAD
Publisher Nintendo
Platform(s) Famicom/NES
Famicom Disk System
Nintendo PlayChoice-10
Game Boy Advance
Virtual Console (Wii / 3DS / Wii U)
NES Classic Edition/Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer
Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online
Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.
Release date Famicom/NES
Japan September 13, 1985[1]
USA October 18, 1985[2]
Europe May 15, 1987[?]
Australia July 1, 1987[3]
South Africa (1928-1994) 1993[4]
Famicom Disk System
Japan February 21, 1986[5]
Nintendo PlayChoice-10
USA August 1986[6]
Game Boy Advance
Japan February 14, 2004[?]
USA June 7, 2004[?]
Europe July 9, 2004[7]
Virtual Console (Wii)
Japan December 2, 2006[?]
USA December 25, 2006[?]
Europe January 5, 2007[?]
Australia January 5, 2007[?]
South Korea April 26, 2008[8]
Virtual Console (3DS) (Ambassador Program release)
Japan August 31, 2011[?]
USA August 31, 2011[?]
Europe September 1, 2011[?]
Australia September 1, 2011[?]
Virtual Console (3DS) (full release)
Japan January 5, 2012[?]
USA February 16, 2012[?]
Europe March 1, 2012[?]
Australia March 1, 2012[?]
South Korea February 3, 2016[?]
Virtual Console (Wii U)
Japan June 5, 2013[?]
Europe September 12, 2013[?]
Australia September 12, 2013[?]
USA September 19, 2013[?]
NES Classic Edition/Famicom Mini
Japan November 10, 2016[?]
Australia November 10, 2016[?]
USA November 11, 2016[?]
Europe November 11, 2016[?]
Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online
USA September 18, 2018[?]
Japan September 19, 2018[?]
Europe September 19, 2018[?]
Australia September 19, 2018[?]
HK April 23, 2019[?]
South Korea April 23, 2019[?]
Language(s) English (United States)
Genre 2D platformer
Rating(s)
ESRB:E - Everyone
PEGI:3 - Three years and older
CERO:A - All ages
ACB:G - General
USK:0 - All ages
ClassInd:L - General audience
RARS:0+ - All ages
GRAC:All - All ages
Mode(s) 1–2 players
Format
NES:
Game Pak
FDS:
Disk Card
Wii:
Digital download
Wii U:
Digital download
Nintendo Switch:
Digital download
Game Boy Advance:
Game Pak
Nintendo 3DS:
Digital download
NES Classic Edition:
Built-in
Input
NES:
Wii:
Wii Remote (horizontal)
Wii U:
Wii Remote (horizontal)
Nintendo Switch:
Joy-Con (horizontal)
Game Boy Advance:
Nintendo 3DS:
NES Classic Edition:
Serial code(s) Famicom:
Japan HVC-SM
NES:
USA NES-SM
Europe NES-P-SM
Australia NES-SM-AUS
FDS:
Japan FMC-SMA
Game Boy Advance:
Japan AGB-FSMJ-JPN (Special Edition)
Japan AGB-FSMJ-JPN-1 (Retail version)
USA AGB-FSME-USA
Europe AGB-FSMP-EUR
Australia AGB-FSMP-AUS

Super Mario Bros. is a video game released for the Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. It shifted the gameplay away from its single-screen arcade predecessor, Mario Bros., and instead featured side-scrolling platformer levels. While not the first game of the Super Mario franchise (the first being Donkey Kong), Super Mario Bros. is the most iconic, and it introduced various series staples, including power-ups, classic enemies such as Goombas, and the basic premise of rescuing Princess Peach from Bowser.

As well as kicking off an entire series of Super Mario platform games, the wild success of Super Mario Bros. popularized the genre as a whole, helped revive the North American gaming industry after the video game crash of 1983, and was largely responsible for the initial success of the NES, with which it was bundled as a launch title. Until it was eventually surpassed by Wii Sports, Super Mario Bros. was the best-selling video game of all time for nearly three decades, with over 40 million copies sold worldwide.

The exact day of the North American release of Super Mario Bros. is heavily disputed, with different sources giving different dates with no way to verify them. Regardless, Nintendo officially pinpoints the release date as October 18, 1985.[2]

A successor named Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan (later renamed Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels in North America) was released on June 3, 1986. Another successor sharing its English name with its predecessor's Japanese name was released on October 9, 1988. A third successor named Super Mario Bros. 3 was released on October 23, 1988.

Super Mario Bros. has been ported to many consoles. It was one of the NES games that could be played on the Nintendo PlayChoice-10 and NES Classic Edition, and it was released on the Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console and on Nintendo Switch's Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online.

Story

The following text is taken directly from the NES instruction booklet localization.

One day the kingdom of the peaceful mushroom people was invaded by the Koopa, a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into mere stones, bricks and even field horsehair plants, and the Mushroom Kingdom fell into ruin.

The only one who can undo the magic spell on the Mushroom People and return them to their normal selves is the Princess Toadstool, the daughter of the Mushroom King. Unfortunately, she is presently in the hands of the great Koopa turtle king.

Mario, the hero of the story (maybe) hears about the Mushroom People's plight and sets out on a quest to free the Mushroom Princess from the evil Koopa and restore the fallen kingdom of the Mushroom People.

You are Mario! It's up to you to save the Mushroom People from the black magic of the Koopa!

One day, the Mushroom Kingdom was invaded by the Turtle Tribe, whose king was capable of using powerful magic. This magic was used to transform all the Mushroom People into inanimate objects such as rocks, bricks, and even horsetails, thus spelling the kingdom's downfall. Only Princess Toadstool can undo the spell and restore her people to life, but she is being held captive by King Koopa himself. Mario hears of the princess's plight, and sets out on a quest through 32 stages to topple the Turtle Tribe and save the once-peaceful kingdom.[9]

Gameplay

Super Mario in World 1-1.

Super Mario Bros. is divided into eight worlds, each of them containing four levels. Mario[note 1] has to get to the end of the level by jumping over various gaps and avoiding the enemies on his way. He can use several platforms (some of them collapse when Mario lands on them), stairs in the level, as well as jumping boards. There are also pipes along the way, some of which Mario can enter to visit various secret coin rooms before returning to the level, a bit further ahead than when he left.

Enemies include Little Goombas, Koopa Troopas, Buzzy Beetles, Koopa Paratroopas, Bullet Bills, Hammer Brothers, and leaping Cheep-cheeps. All these enemies can be defeated when Mario jumps on them. Koopa Troopas and Buzzy Beetles cower in their shell when jumped on, which Mario can kick to defeat other enemies with. Koopa Paratroopas lose their wings and fall to the ground when Mario jumps on them. Other enemies include Piranha Plants, and the Spiny-throwing Lakitus, and Mario has to either shoot fireballs at them or just avoid them. Two levels take place underwater. In the water, Mario can swim freely from the top to the bottom of the screen. The enemies in underwater levels are Bloobers and Cheep-cheeps. Mario can only defeat these creatures by shooting them with fireballs.

Mario swimming in World 2-2.

If regular Mario takes a hit, falls down a pit, or if the Time Limit runs out, he loses a life and restarts the level. The point where Mario continues depends on how far he ran through the level before getting defeated; either from the beginning or at one of several invisible "checkpoints" throughout the level. After a Game Over, pressing Start Button while holding A Button on the title screen allows the player to continue from the start of the world.[10] In a 2-player game, if this is done by whoever got a Game Over second, both players will begin in the same world where the second player's game ended.

Mario can get special power-ups out of ? blocks or, uncommonly, bricks. Most of the ?s in which Mario can find these items are visible, but some are hidden and only become visible when Mario hits them from beneath. With the Magic Mushroom, he turns into Super Mario. As Super Mario, he can survive the hit of an enemy one time, at the cost of turning back to regular Mario. He may also destroy empty bricks by jumping beneath them. Additionally, he can also get the Fire Flower. With the Fire Flower, Super Mario turns into Fiery Mario, which allows him to shoot fireballs at enemies to defeat them from a distance. With the 1 up Mushroom, he gains an additional life; he can also get an extra life if he collects a hundred coins. With the Starman, which can only be found in bricks, Mario turns invincible for a short amount of time and can defeat enemies by simply touching them. With the exception of coins, only one item can appear on the screen, and when a new item appears, the previous one will disappear.

At the end of each level, a castle stands with a flagpole nearby. When Mario reaches the flagpole, he takes down the enemy flag and enters the castle, completing the level. The higher the spot that Mario hits the flagpole, the more points he receives. If two players are playing the game, Luigi's turn comes whenever Mario loses a life. Luigi has no special abilities in the game that are different from Mario's.

The fourth level of each world plays inside a castle. They are usually filled with Fire-Bars and Podoboos. At the end of a castle level, Mario is confronted with a fake Bowser in Worlds 1 through 7 and the actual Bowser in World 8. Mario ordinarily has no way to hurt the fake Bowsers or the actual Bowser and has to either use the ax to destroy the bridge, causing either the false or real one to fall into the lava, or pelt him with many fireballs, which produces the same result and reveals the true forms of the fakes. After defeating an impostor, Mario frees one of the seven remaining mushroom retainers from the castle, at which point they say their iconic phrase: "Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another castle!" At the end of the castle in World 8, Mario frees the grateful Princess Toadstool and completes his adventure, having the choice to continue playing in a "new quest." In this second quest, the player gets to choose a world, and replay some levels. However, all Little Goombas are replaced by Buzzy Beetles, all ground enemies are also considerably faster, some platforms and elevator-style lifts are shortened in length, and the level design is slightly changed for some levels (see below at "Hard mode").

Time clock

The game's levels have a Time Limit in the upper right, which counts down, with the background music speeding up when going below 100. If it reaches 0, the game declares "Time Up", and Mario loses a life. However, the in-game timer runs much faster than in real life; 400 seconds on the timer, which is the default when starting most of the levels, is 160 seconds in real time. The timer countdown speed is the same across NTSC and PAL versions.

amiibo tap: Nintendo's Greatest Bits starts with a real-time 180 second limit, which is sufficient to finish any level, presuming it is finished without losing any lives, and would have 32 timer seconds (15 real-time seconds) to spare for any follow-up levels. For its seventh scene, this is sufficient to see the game's ending.

Hard mode

Main article: Hard Mode § Super Mario Bros.

After beating the main game, the player is given the option to pick a world (by pressing B Button on the title screen to change the world counter in the upper right) to play in "a new quest"—a harder mode where all Little Goombas are replaced by Buzzy Beetles, and all enemies walk faster. Elevator-style lifts that were originally in their wide forms (Six holes wide) are now in their small forms (Four holes wide) that were used from World 5-1 onwards in the main game. Mario[note 1] gains no special powers in hard mode, and he receives no extra points when he defeats an enemy.

The story remains the same, as each of the first seven castles contains a mushroom retainer that needs rescuing, while the eighth castle has Princess Toadstool. If the player finishes the game on hard mode, they will not unlock anything new from the previous time the game was finished. However, points can be gained faster by jumping on a Buzzy Beetle and then running with the shell as it hits other Buzzy Beetles and Koopa Troopas. Earlier levels in hard mode that had harder versions later on the in the main game, now have the harder version used for both levels; for instance, 1-3, which is an easier version of 5-3 in the normal game, is identical to 5-3 in Hard Mode.

Controls

The controls can be customized on Wii U Virtual Console and to some extent in Nintendo Switch's system settings.

Action(s) NES Controller / NES Classic Controller / Nintendo Switch Online NES Controller Wii Remote Wii Classic Controller Nintendo GameCube Controller Game Boy Advance Nintendo 3DS Wii U GamePad / Wii U Pro Controller (default) Joy-Con (dual) / Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Joy-Con (sideways)
Move; change position on a beanstalk +Control Pad (left/right) +Control Pad left or right Classic Controller Left Stick (left/right) or +Control Pad left or right Control Stick (left/right) or +Control Pad Left-Right +Control Pad left or right Circle Pad (left/right) or +Control Pad left or right Control Stick (left/right) or +Control Pad left or right Control Stick (left/right) or Left or Right Buttons Control Stick (left/right)
Duck; enter Warp Pipe +Control Pad (down) +Control Pad down Classic Controller Left Stick (down) or +Control Pad down Control Stick (down) or +Control Pad Down +Control Pad down Circle Pad (down) or +Control Pad down Control Stick (down) or +Control Pad down Control Stick (down) or Down Button Control Stick (down)
Climb beanstalk +Control Pad (up/down) +Control Pad up or down Classic Controller Left Stick (up/down) or +Control Pad up or down Control Stick (up/down) or +Control Pad Up-Down +Control Pad up or down Circle Pad (up/down) or +Control Pad up or down Control Stick (up/down) or +Control Pad up or down Control Stick (up/down) or Up or Down Buttons Control Stick (up/down)
Jump; swim upwards A Button Two Button Classic Controller a Button A Button A Button A Button A Button A Button Single Joy-Con Right Button
Dash; throw fireball; restart the game at the end; select a world B Button One Button Classic Controller b Button B Button B Button B Button B Button B Button Single Joy-Con Bottom Button
Pause; confirm selected option on title screen Start Button Plus Button START/PAUSE Button Start Button Start Button Plus Button Plus Button Plus Button or Minus Button
Select number of players on title screen Select Button Minus Button Z Button[note 2] Select Button Select Button Minus Button Minus Button
Continue in the same world after the Game Over screen Hold A Button + press Start Button Hold Two Button + press Plus Button Hold Classic Controller a Button + press Plus Button Hold A Button + press START/PAUSE Button Hold A Button + press Start Button Hold A Button + press Start Button Hold A Button + press Plus Button Hold A Button + press Plus Button Hold Single Joy-Con Right Button + press Plus Button or Minus Button

Characters

Playable characters

Image Name Description
Super Mario's sprite from Super Mario Bros. Mario Mario serves as the main protagonist of the game. Luigi, Mario's brother, appears only as the second player and plays identically to Mario. While Luigi is differentiated by his colors, both Fiery Mario and Fiery Luigi have the same palette.
Sprite of Luigi from Super Mario Bros. Luigi

Non-playable characters

Image Name Description
Princess Peach in Super Mario Bros.. Princess Toadstool The princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser kidnaps her to prevent her from reversing the magic the Koopa used on the Mushroom People. She appears in the final course, 8-4 where she thanks Mario[note 1] for rescusing her and offers a "new quest" for him.
A Mushroom Retainer from Super Mario Bros. Mushroom retainers Seven Mushroom People that are servants of the princess and prisoners of the Koopa. They appear in every castle except for the final one. Mario can rescue a retainer by finishing a castle in World 1 to World 7. They'll say, "Thank you Mario/Luigi! But our princess is in another castle!"

Enemies and obstacles

Enemies

Enemies are generally listed in the order they appear in the instruction booklet. They are referred to as "bad guys" in-text.

Image Name Description Levels Pts.
First Last
Sprite of a Goomba from Super Mario Bros. Little Goomba Mushroom creatures that walk back and forth. Little Goombas are the most common enemies and can be defeated with any attack. World 1-1 World 8-4 100
Sprite of a green Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros. Koopa Troopa (green) Foot soldiers of the Turtle Empire. Stomping on Koopa Troopas make them recede into their shells, which can be kicked to hit defeat enemies. Like Little Goombas, green-shelled Koopa Troopas walk off ledges. World 1-1 World 8-3 100
Sprite of a red Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros. Koopa Troopa (red) Red-shelled Koopa Troopas turn around when the reach the corner of a ledge. World 1-2 World 7-3 100
Sprite of a green Koopa Paratroopa from Super Mario Bros. Koopa Paratroopa (green) Winged Koopa Troopas. The green ones bounce across the ground or fly back and forth in set paths. World 2-1 World 8-4 400
Sprite of a red Koopa Paratroopa from Super Mario Bros. Koopa Paratroopa (red) Red Koopa Paratroopas fly up and down in set paths. World 1-3 World 5-3 400
A Buzzy Beetle, from Super Mario Bros. Buzzy Beetle Small Koopas that retract into their shells when stomped. Buzzy Beetles are immune to fireballs and replace Little Goombas in Hard Mode. World 4-2 World 8-4 100
Sprite of Hammer Bro from Super Mario Bros. Hammer Brother Helmeted Koopas that toss hammers. Hammer Brothers periodically hop between rows of blocks. They always occur in pairs. World 3-1 World 8-4 1000
Sprite of a Spiny from Super Mario Bros. Spiny Squat, spiked Koopas. Stomping one damages Mario. World 4-1 World 8-2 200
Sprite of a Spiny Egg from Super Mario Bros. Spiny's egg The spiked eggs tossed by Lakitus. They hatch into Spinies when they make contact with the ground. World 4-1 World 8-2 200
Sprite of Lakitu from Super Mario Bros. Lakitu Cloud-riding Koopas. Lakitus toss Spiny's eggs. They appear towards the top of the screen follow Mario's position. World 4-1 World 8-2 200
Sprite of a Piranha Plant from Super Mario Bros. Piranha plant Carnivorous plants that sit in pipes. Piranha plants emerge and retract from pipes in set internals. If Mario stands directly next to or on these pipes, the plants do not emerge. World 1-2 World 8-4 200
Sprite of a red Cheep Cheep from Super Mario Bros. Cheep-cheep (red) Pudgy pufferfish enemies that swim through water. In some ground-themed courses, red Cheep-cheeps leap over bridges in large numbers. World 2-2 World 8-4 200
Sprite of a gray Cheep Cheep from Super Mario Bros. Cheep-cheep (grey) Grey Cheep-cheeps only occur underwater. They swim slightly faster than the red ones. World 2-2 World 8-4 200
Bullet Bill Bullet Bill Missiles launched from Turtle Cannons. They fly in straight lines. Bullet Bills are unaffected by fireballs. World 5-1 World 8-3 200
Sprite of a Blooper from Super Mario Bros. Bloober Underwater squid sentinels. They swim erratically to strike Mario. World 2-2 World 8-4 200
Sprite of Podoboo Podoboo Balls of lava that guard Bowser's castles. They leap straight up from pools of lava to strike Mario. World 2-4 World 8-4 X mark.svg

Obstacles

Image Name Description Levels
First Last
Sprite of a Fire Bar from Super Mario Bros. Fire-Bar Various fireballs stacked together moving either clockwise or counterclockwise. Their length may vary. World 1-4 World 8-4
Sprite of Bowser's Flame from Super Mario Bros. Koopa's fire Flames spewed by Bowser and his imposters. The fire travels horizontally and transcends walls. World 1-4 World 8-4
Sprite tile of lava from Super Mario Bros. Lava Pools of molten rock found within fortresses and castles. Direct contact makes Mario lose a life. World 1-4 World 8-4
Bill Blaster sprite. Turtle Cannon Cannons that launch Bullet Bills. Like the pipes that contain Piranha plants, Turtle Cannons do not fire when Mario is next to or on them. World 5-1 World 8-3

Bosses

Bowser's first appearance
Mario and Bowser in World 8-4.

A boss occurs in the fourth level of each world, specifically located within the final room of the castle. The boss is on a bridge suspended above a pool of lava. Touching the ax at the opposite corner of the bridge makes it fall away and defeats the boss, but striking one with five fireballs as Fiery Mario defeats it as well. Defeating it this way awards the player with 5000 points. Once defeated, Mario transitions to a narrow corridor where captive is held. In the first seven worlds, this captive is a mushroom retainer that directs Mario further along his journey. In World 8, Princess Toadstool is the one rescued, completing the game. As Mario progresses through the worlds, bricks and lifts appear in the boss rooms as well.

Intrinsically, the only boss in the game is Bowser, the fire-breathing King of Koopas who kidnapped the princess and turned her subjects into horsehairs and bricks. However, Bowser himself only appears at the boss of World 8-4. All of the proceeding "Bowsers" are his minions in disguise. They all exhibit the same behavior: the large Koopa shuffles back and forth along the bridge, facing Mario, and jumping in small arches. These arches are just high enough that Mario can move underneath Bowser if the opportunity presents itself.

In the first five worlds, the fake Bowsers spew Koopa's fire. In the sixth and seventh worlds, they toss hammers like Hammer Brothers. The real Bowser is the only boss that actively does both. Like Spinies, Bowser and fake Bowsers have spiked shells. Attempting to stomp them damages Mario.

Items and objects

Items

Image Name Description
SMB 1-up Mushroom Sprite.png 1 up mushroom Green mushrooms that give Mario an extra life when collected. 1 up mushrooms are within invisible blocks near pits. When one is struck, the mushroom travels across the ground in the opposite direction from Mario.
Sprite of a coin from Super Mario Bros. Coin Coins float in mid-air throughout levels and within blocks. Collecting one awards Mario 200 points. Collecting 100 awards him an extra life.
Green Shell SMB Redshell.png Koopa shell Stomping on a Koopa Troopa makes it recede into its shell. Its sent sliding when touched, defeating enemies on contact. Doing so causes the "bulldozer attack", where each enemy defeated grants Mario more points than the last. Launched shells ricochet off collided walls and can damage Mario on contact.
A Buzzy Shell Buzzy shell Stomping on a Buzzy Beetle yields a shell that works like the Koopa ones, but it cannot be cleared away with tossed fireballs.

Power-ups

Items that transform Mario's appearance and give him unique abilities called "power boosts" in the instruction booklet. All of these items are held within blocks and must be jumped under to be released. It is not inherently apparent which block contain which power-ups, and breaking them does not grant Mario their abilities. He must touch the power-ups directly once they are expelled. Touching any power-up also awards Mario 1000 points. Forms that share a column look the same for Mario and Luigi.

Power-up Form Description
Mario Luigi
N/A Small Mario sprite from Super Mario Bros.
Regular Mario
Luigi's death sprite in Super Mario Bros.
Regular Luigi
Mario is in this small-sized form when the player starts a new game. Regular Mario is incapable of breaking bricks and loses a life when he makes contact with an enemy or obstacle. However, he can run across narrow passageways without having to crouch. Regardless of the form he was in before losing a life, Mario reappears in the level in his regular form.
SMB Supermushroom.png
Magic Mushroom
Super Mario jumping in Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario
Sprite of Luigi from Super Mario Bros.
Super Luigi
The red Magic Mushrooms are within visible blocks and slide across the ground, similar to 1 up mushrooms. They bounce back in the opposite direction when they hit an obstruction. Touching one transforms Mario into Super Mario, a form twice as tall as his regular form and capable of breaking bricks. Subsequent encounters with blocks intended to contain Magic Mushrooms instead release Fire Flowers when struck in this form. Receiving damaging in this form reverts Mario back into his regular-sized state. He retains this form across levels if he reaches flagpoles as Super Mario.
Sprite of a Fire Flower from Super Mario Bros.
Fire Flower
SMB Fire Mario Sprite.png
Fiery Mario / Luigi
Making contact with a Fire Flower transforms Mario into Fiery Mario. In this form, Mario can toss projectile fireballs with A Button that bounce along the ground. Most enemies are defeated when hit. Fiery Mario also has all the benefits of Super Mario, and similarly retains this form if he completes the level in it. Mario reverts to his regular size if hit as Fiery Mario.
Sprite of a Starman from Super Mario Bros.
Starman
Invincible Mario in Super Mario Bros.
Invincible Mario / Luigi
Starmen are rare power-ups often hidden in invisible blocks. When released, they bounce in the opposite direction from Mario. When grabbed, Mario is transformed into Invincible Mario for thirty seconds. In this state, Mario is largely indestructible and defeats enemies on contact. Contact with the Starman does not wholly replace the form Mario was already in (i.e., Mario remains small if one is touched while in his regular form, and he can still toss fireballs if he is in his Fiery form.) Invincible Mario cannot be carried over to subsequent levels.

Objects

Objects are interactable elements of the environment that cannot be picked up or collected.

Image Name Description
Blocks
A static ? Block from Super Mario Bros. (Overworld palette) ? block Floating blocks that contain items. One releases its contents when jumped underneath. Some ? blocks are ten-coin blocks that release up to 10 coins if struck in rapid succession. Others are invisible. A struck ? block becomes an empty block that can be used as platforms. These are the only type of strikable blocks that regular Mario can open.
Sprite of a Brick Block from Super Mario Bros. Brick The most common blocks. Most bricks fall apart when struck, but some are secretly ? or ten-coin blocks. Regular Mario is incapable of directly breaking a brick block, but he can still use a shell if available.
Sprite of Coral from Super Mario Bros. Coral Coral form varyingly sized columns in underwater levels that obstruct Mario.
Sprite of a Cloud Block from Super Mario Bros. Small cloud Cloud-like blocks make up the terrain in Bonus Stages high in the sky.
Sprite of a Hard Block from Super Mario Bros. Stairblock Unbreakable blocks that appear on the ground. Some are stacked or laid next to each other to form climbable staircases or incomplete bridges.
Platforms
Jumping board Jumping board Jumping boards bounce Mario into the air. Pressing A Button when the the spring is fully contracted makes a jumping board launch Mario much higher than it would otherwise.
SMBPlatform.png Lift Thin, moving platforms. They are most common in athletic levels, above bottomless pits. Lifts are of varying widths and movements. There is a paired type of Lifts called Balance Lifts that are a seesaw-like pulley system, where standing on one Lift makes it fall and the other rise. There are also types of Lifts that fall shortly after being stepped on.
Sprite of a Warp Pipe from Super Mario Bros. Pipe Most pipes are columnar platforms of varying height, some of which contain Piranha plants. A few of them are Warp Pipes that bring Mario to a secret underground area by pressing down on +Control Pad.
A Mushroom Platform from Super Mario Bros. Super mushroom Giant mushrooms that occur in athletic levels, high above bottomless pits.
Goals
Sprite of an Axe from Super Mario Bros. Ax Touching an ax causes the bridge it is alongside to collapse. This defeats the boss that was on top of it and completes the level.
A flagpole from Super Mario Bros. Flagpole Flagpoles are the goals at the end of most levels. When one is touched, Mario slides to the base and completes the level. Touching one also rewards him bonus points. The higher he is on the flagpole, the greater the number of points. Grabbing the top rewards Mario 5000 points.
Other objects
Beanstalk Beanstalk Beanstalks rapidly grow from struck vine blocks, ascending skyward. Climbing one brings Mario to a hidden Bonus Stage in the sky.
Sprite of a Firework from Super Mario Bros. Firework Fireworks appear if Mario grabs a flagpole with 1, 3, or 6 as the last digit on the timer. The number of fireworks that go off correlates with this number, and each one rewards Mario 500 points.
A horsehair plant from Super Mario Bros. Horsehair plant Field horsehair plants appear in the background of ground-themed levels. According to the instruction booklet, Bowser transformed some of the Mushroom Kingdom's inhabitants into these plants.

List of levels

World Level Setting Enemies found
SMB Super Mushroom Screenshot.png
World 1
World 1-1 Overworld Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa
World 1-2 Underground Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Piranha Plant
World 1-3 Athletic Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa
World 1-4 Castle Fire-Bar, fake Bowser (Little Goomba)
SMB NES World 2-3 Screenshot.png
World 2
World 2-1 Overworld Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant
World 2-2 Underwater Bloober, Cheep-cheep, Piranha Plant
World 2-3 Athletic Cheep-cheep
World 2-4 Castle Fire-Bar, Podoboo, fake Bowser (Koopa Troopa)
World 3-1
World 3
World 3-1 Overworld Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Hammer Brother
World 3-2 Overworld Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant
World 3-3 Athletic Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa
World 3-4 Castle Fire-Bar, Podoboo, fake Bowser (Buzzy Beetle)
Lakitu throwing Spinies at Mario in World 4-1 of Super Mario Bros.
World 4
World 4-1 Overworld Piranha Plant, Lakitu, Spiny
World 4-2 Underground Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle
World 4-3 Athletic Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa
World 4-4 Castle Piranha Plant, Podoboo, Fire-Bar, fake Bowser (Spiny)
Screenshot of World 5-1 in Super Mario Bros.
World 5
World 5-1 Overworld Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Bullet Bill
World 5-2 Overworld Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle, Bullet Bill, Hammer Brother (Bloober, Cheep-cheep)
World 5-3 Athletic Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Bullet Bill
World 5-4 Castle Podoboo, Fire-Bar, fake Bowser (Lakitu)
SMB NES World 6-3 Screenshot.png
World 6
World 6-1 Overworld Piranha Plant, Lakitu, Spiny
World 6-2 Overworld Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle (Bloober, Cheep-cheep)
World 6-3 Athletic Bullet Bill
World 6-4 Castle Podoboo, Fire-Bar, fake Bowser (Bloober)
World 7
World 7
World 7-1 Overworld Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle, Hammer Brother, Bullet Bill
World 7-2 Underwater Bloober, Cheep-cheep, Piranha Plant
World 7-3 Athletic Cheep-cheep, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa
World 7-4 Castle Podoboo, Fire-Bar, fake Bowser (Hammer Brother)
World 8-3
World 8
World 8-1 Overworld Little Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle
World 8-2 Overworld Little Goomba, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Buzzy Beetle, Lakitu, Spiny, Bullet Bill
World 8-3 Overworld Koopa Troopa, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Bullet Bill, Hammer Brother
World 8-4 Castle Little Goomba, Koopa Paratroopa, Piranha Plant, Fire-Bar, Podoboo, Buzzy Beetle, Hammer Brother, Bloober, Cheep-cheep, Bowser

Glitches

Main article: List of Super Mario Bros. glitches

Minus World

Screenshot of Minus World, a Super Mario Bros. glitch.
The Minus World entrance screen
Minus World in the NES version
Main article: Minus World

The Minus World is an endless underwater level, identical to World 7-2, which is accessed through a programming glitch. There is no way to complete the level, as entering the pipe at the end will simply return Mario or Luigi to the one at the beginning. While there is no strategic advantage in performing this glitch, many find it intriguing. The glitch was removed in some remakes of the game, excluding the imports, the Virtual Console port, and Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. The Family Computer Disk System release has a different Minus World with three levels that can be beaten, and once -3 is complete, the player will return to the title screen as if they had beaten the game.

In World 1-2 of Super Mario Bros., Fire Mario runs, lands on the front of the exit pipe, and quickly crouches and jumps to reach a peak where the exit pipe crosses the ceiling. At that moment, Mario stops crouching and is ejected through the wall to reach the warp zone and ducks into the pipe to World 36.
Mario goes through the wall and enters World -1

To perform the glitch, Mario must go to World 1-2 and stand on top of the pipe that leads to the above-ground flag, without going in the pipe. Then he must break the second and third block from the pipe, but leave the one on the far right. Then he must stand on the left edge of the pipe (facing left) and duck. He then has to jump while in a ducking position and move right in mid-air (while still facing left). If done correctly, Mario will go through the block on the far right and the wall to the Warp Zone. Mario must then go through the pipe that would normally lead to World 2-1 or World 4-1, and Mario will enter the Minus World.

If World 2-2 or 7-2 is edited in a ROM editor so that it is possible to beat it during the underwater segment, there is a World -2, an underwater version of 3-4. If World 3-4 is edited in a ROM editor, then there is a World -3. It is also a version of 3-4, but with overworld graphics; beating World -3 takes the player to World -4, a level which is just a blank screen.

Over the flagpole

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The over the flagpole glitch from Super Mario Bros.
Over the Flagpole glitch in World 3-3

In some levels, it is possible to jump over the flagpole. Beyond the flag pole is nothing but an endless path. There is nothing to do; all that can be done is wait for the timer to get to zero. To do this glitch in World 1-1, right after the second pit, Mario needs to wait for the Koopa Troopa to about to fall into the pit and simultaneously jump at the top of the level right above the Koopa. After that, the Koopa will be stuck underneath the level, but the player will still be able to see it. When the Koopa starts to walk under the level, Mario should follow it to the end. Along the way, it is required to grab a Magic Mushroom. When the Koopa is halfway between the staircase and the flagpole, the player must do the glitch again and Mario will jump above the flagpole.

To do this glitch in World 3-3, at the end of the level the player must stand on the last lift until another one has completely lifted, before falling off. After that, the player must accelerate as fast as possible and jump from the far edge of the lift. The lift should not lower while doing so.[11]

There is a brick right after the fortress's or castle's first door, which stops Mario from going past the Fortress at the end of the levels.

In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, this is exploited to hide Warp Zones. In worlds 3-1 and A-3, there are warp zones placed beyond the goals. In other worlds, while it is possible to go over the flagpole, the edge of the world is a few steps past the fortress, and the player is not able to go far enough for the flagpole to scroll off the screen.

This glitch was fixed in the Super Mario All-Stars version.

Staff

Main article: List of Super Mario Bros. staff
Director
Original Music
Designers
Programmers
  • Kazuaki Morita
  • Toshihiko Nakago
Producer
  • Shigeru Miyamoto
Executive Producer

Development

Development for Super Mario Bros. began after Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka finished two other games together beforehand: Excitebike and Devil World. When designing Super Mario Bros., they wanted to use the scrolling screens of Excitebike and the large character sprites from Devil World, to make Super Mario Bros. stand out from other titles. Miyamoto and Tezuka wanted to fit various technologies into the game, comparing it to a puzzle. The name "Super Mario Bros." also came from Mario's new Super form.[12]

Super Mario Bros. was developed at the same time as The Legend of Zelda, and both shared numerous staff members: Miyamoto, Tezuka, Toshihiko Nakago, Koji Kondo, Kazuaki Morita, Yasunari Nishida, and Hiroshi Yamauchi. According to the developers, some aspects of Super Mario Bros. were taken from The Legend of Zelda; Fire-Bars were one example, as they were present in the dungeons in The Legend of Zelda. Miyamoto implemented Fire-Bars into Super Mario Bros. as an obstacle.

The main goal of Super Mario Bros. was to have a character travel through many lands with all different themes to each other and it would feature a diverse terrain, such as land, water, and sky. They also intended for the main character to be twice the size of the final one. At the beginning of developing the game, the placeholder playable character was a 16×32 pixel square.[13] The square could not even jump and as a result, Tezuka suggested making Mario the playable character instead of the square due to the popularity of Mario Bros., which Miyamoto accepted.[14]

Nakago and his team, Systems Research and Development (SRD), colored the background blue in some levels.[15] This was unusual, because video games released during this time usually had a black background, to avoid eye-strain and to avoid getting distracted by the bright colors. After coloring the background blue in some levels, Nakago then started designing maps for this game. Miyamoto wanted the levels to be around a minute long and he told SRD to do so. He then realized that it usually takes about a second to travel across a screen and that numerous screens would have been implemented in one stage. SRD first thought that Miyamoto had requested them to make 60 screens per stage, but Miyamoto then explained that obstacles in each screen would slow down the player's progress, which resulted in an average of about 12 screens per level. The stage with the most screens has only 32, which is about half of what SRD had originally expected.

When designing the stages themselves, because a level creating tool was not available to them at the time, Miyamoto and Tezuka would draw the levels on graph paper, and then Nakago and his team would design and program it into the game; if edits were to be made to the original drawings, a sheet of clear paper was placed over the original drawings.[16] Nakago has stated that a lot of documents were sent to his team every day to change some aspects of stages. Every day, the group would do all they could do of what was stated in the documents and would work until 10 at night.

In two Japanese interviews promoting The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Miyamoto gave insight into the original background for the connection between the story of Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros., stating that the among the pipes in Mario Bros., one of them leads to the Mushroom Kingdom where Super Mario Bros. takes place.[17][18]

According to Toru Iwatani, creator of Pac-Man, Miyamoto told him personally that Super Mario Bros. was influenced by Pac-Land, the pioneer of action games with horizontally running background.[19]

The "Ending" theme in the Famicom Disk System version of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels was first composed as the ending theme of Super Mario Bros., before being shortened due to storage limitations.[20]

Regional differences

The European version of the game adds one pixel to the hitboxes of Little Goombas, Spinies, Piranha Plants, Bloobers, Cheep-cheeps and Bullet Bills.[21]

Pre-release and unused content

Main article: List of Super Mario Bros. pre-release and unused content

The game was far more focused on action than platforming. The game was split between ground and sky segments, which had Mario shooting enemies. Mario could use weapons and the control scheme was different as a result, such as having the up arrow of the +Control Pad used as the jump button.

Reception and legacy

The Super Mario Bros. Avenue in Zaragoza, Spain
The Super Mario Bros. Avenue in Zaragoza, Spain

Super Mario Bros. received critical acclaim and is considered one of the best games of all time. One of the most-praised aspects of the game is the precise controls, which allow players to control how far and high the characters jump and how fast they can run. The game popularized side-scrolling video games, and the game has since received several sequels and spin-offs, and many different ports and alternative versions. All characters, enemies, and items found in the game have become core elements of the Super Mario franchise and the plot of Bowser kidnapping the princess has continued to be used throughout the core Super Mario series.

The game was placed 14th in the 100th issue of Nintendo Power's "100 best Nintendo games of all time" in 1997.[page number needed] It ranked the first spot in Electronic Gaming Monthly's "Greatest 200 Games of Their Time", named in IGN's top 100 games of all time lists in 2005 and 2007, and declared the second-best Mario game of all time. IGN also placed it 3rd in their Top 100 NES Games list.[22]

Super Mario Bros. sold 40.24 million units with its original release,[23] being the second best-selling Super Mario game and among the best-selling video games of all time. It has received several other works such as The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and the Super Mario Bros. film.

The game's impact on popular culture was so big that in 2010, a street in Zaragoza, Aragón (Spain), was named after it, with a ceremony being held in celebration.[24]

References to other games

References in other games

  • Donkey Kong: For the NES release of this game, Mario's jumping sprite from Super Mario Bros. is used on the box art.
  • Mario Bros.: For the NES release of this game, Mario's jumping sprite from Super Mario Bros. is used on the box art.

References in later games

Main article: List of references to Super Mario Bros.

Alternate versions and re-releases

World 1-1 in the 25th Anniversary Edition of Super Mario Bros. This edition was bundled with specially-marked Japanese and Australian Wii consoles, in which the question mark on the ? Blocks was changed to display the number "25".
25th Anniversary SUPER MARIO BROS., with all the question marks on the ? Blocks changed to number 25's.
The 25th anniversary block that replaced the ? Blocks in the special version of Super Mario Bros.("25th Anniversary SUPER MARIO BROS.")
The cartridge for 3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet
The 3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet cartridge.
Super Mario Bros. being played in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
The playable demo in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Profiles and statistics

  • Wii Shop Channel: "One day, the Mushroom Kingdom was invaded by the Koopas, a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into stones, bricks, and even plants, and the kingdom fell into ruin. The only one who can undo the magic spell on the Mushroom People and return them to their normal selves is Princess Toadstool, the daughter of the Mushroom King. Unfortunately, she is in the hands of evil King Bowser. Mario, the famous plumber, learns of the Mushroom People's plight and sets out to free the Mushroom Princess from the Koopas and restore the fallen kingdom of the Mushroom People. Jump, kick shells, and throw fireballs through eight action-packed worlds in this iconic NES classic!"
  • Nintendo eShop: "Rediscover Mario & Luigi's first great adventure! One day, the Mushroom Kingdom was invaded by the Koopas, a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into stones, bricks, and even plants, and the kingdom fell into ruin. The only one who can undo the magic spell is Princess Toadstool, the daughter of the Mushroom King. Unfortunately, she is in the hands of evil king Bowser™. Mario™ learns of the Mushroom People's plight and sets out to free the Mushroom Princess from the Koopas and restore the fallen kingdom. Jump, kick shells, and throw fireballs through eight action-packed worlds in this iconic NES classic!"

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Sticker
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. artwork sticker in the game Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Artwork from: Super Mario Bros.
Effects in The Subspace Emissary: [Arm, Leg] - Attack +15
Usable by: Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Peach, Bowser

Media

For a complete list of media for this subject, see List of Super Mario Bros. media.
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Audio.svg Underwater Theme - The underwater theme.
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Audio.svg Castle Theme - The castle theme.
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Audio.svg Starman - The Starman theme.
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Audio.svg Lose a Life - The Life Lost theme.
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Audio.svg Course Clear - Theme that plays at the end of the levels.
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Gallery

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

Quotes

  • "To make Mario jump extra high, hold the B button down while you run and jump." — Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!, Card no. 7
  • "Even if it says "Game Over" you can hold A and press Start. You'll continue on Level 1 of the last world you were on." — Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!, Card no. 13
  • "In every world, within invisible blocks, on extra life is concealed (possibly more). Keep your eyes peeled!" — Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!, Card no. 19
  • "You'll gain more points the higher you jump on a flagpole. Try accelerating first, the jump for all you're worth!" — Nintendo Game Pack with Top Secret Tips!, Card no. 31
  • "We wanted to make a big Mario running around beneath a blue sky. We squeezed as much as we could out of the NES technology." — Shigeru Miyamoto, Super Mario History 1985-2010 Booklet
  • "Developing this game was fun because it felt like we were solving a puzzle as we were making it." — Takashi Tezuka, Super Mario History 1985-2010 Booklet
  • "There was so much enthusiasm on this project because we were trying to create something that had never been done before." — Koji Kondo, Super Mario History 1985-2010 Booklet
  • "Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!" — Mushroom Retainer, Super Mario Bros.
  • "Thank you Mario! Your quest is over. We present you a new quest." — Princess Toadstool, Super Mario Bros.

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese スーパーマリオブラザーズ[?]
Sūpā Mario Burazāzu
Super Mario Bros.
スーパーマリオブラザーズ1[29]
Sūpā Mario Burazāzu Wan
Super Mario Bros. 1
Chinese (simplified) 超级马力欧兄弟[?]
Chāojí Mǎlì'ōu Xiōngdì
Super Mario Bros.
Chinese (traditional) 超級瑪利歐兄弟[?]
Chāojí Mǎlì'ōu Xiōngdì
Super Mario Bros.
Korean 슈퍼 마리오브라더스[?]
Syupeo Malio Beuladeoseu
Super Mario Bros.

Trivia

Back of the Korean edition of a Super Mario Bros. themed board game. Original Japanese version was produced by Bandai.
The original story of Super Mario Bros. (with early character designs) as seen on a board game based on the game. An alternate set of pictures depicting the same events is in How to win at Super Mario Bros.
A comparison of the Super Mario Bros. and Mario Pikachu artwork
A comparison of the Super Mario Bros. and Mario Pikachu artwork
A comparison of the Super Mario Bros. and Mario Pikachu artwork
  • Despite being unmentioned in the Japanese manual,[9] the Mushroom King appears in Asian-drawn strategy guide illustrations.
  • The Guinness Book of World Records 2011: Gamer's Edition states that this game was also remade on the Nintendo 64,[30] which is incorrect.
  • In a 2011 United States Supreme Court case, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (which overturned a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children without parental supervision), the Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted an amicus brief citing social research that declared Super Mario Bros. to be a violent video game. In the brief, it was stated that the game contained cartoon violence similar to that found in various Saturday morning television shows, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons, and the Mighty Mouse series, which garnered little negative reaction from the public in their own times.[31][32]
  • A promotional artwork for the "Mario Pikachu" line of merchandise, based on the artwork for the Famicom release of Super Mario Bros., replaces the original game's characters and elements with Pokémon and elements from the Pokémon series. The changes are the following:
    • Mario is replaced by Pikachu.
    • Bowser is replaced by Blastoise.
    • Princess Peach is replaced by Diancie.
    • The Toads are replaced by two Foongus.
    • The Koopa Paratroopa is replaced by a Wartortle.
    • The castle is replaced by Bell Tower.
    • A flower is replaced by Flabébé.
    • The Goomba is replaced by a Shroomish.
    • The Bullet Bill is replaced by Beldum.
    • The Super Mushroom is replaced by a Big Mushroom.
    • The Blooper is replaced by an Inkay.
    • The hill is now orange and the Warp Pipe has been replaced by Slowpoke Well.
    • The Koopa Troopa is replaced by a Squirtle.
    • The Cheep Cheep is replaced by a Qwilfish.
    • The Hammer Bro is replaced by a Psyduck.
    • The cliff is now a cave.
    • The Spiny is replaced by a Ferroseed, and the Lakitu is replaced by a Landorus.
  • The South African release in 1993 reuses the European version's packaging, the only NES game to do so in the region; all other South African NES titles feature a red "South African Version" banner on the box art and cartridge label.[33]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Unless explicitly specified otherwise, any mentioning of Mario is equally applicable to Luigi during his playthrough.
  2. ^ Only applicable by default on Wii Virtual Console. On Nintendo Switch Online the Z Button, X Button and/or Y Button buttons must be remapped in the system settings to Minus Button for this function to work.

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