Mario Bros. (Game Boy Advance)

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Mario Bros.
A title screen for the game in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
Developer	Nintendo Research & Development 1
Publisher	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance/e-Reader, Virtual Console (Wii U), Game Boy Advance - Nintendo Switch Online
Release date	Super Mario Advance Game Boy Advance: Template:ReleaseVirtual Console (Wii U): Template:ReleaseGame Boy Advance - Nintendo Switch Online: Template:Release Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 Game Boy Advance: Template:ReleaseVirtual Console (Wii U): Template:ReleaseGame Boy Advance - Nintendo Switch Online: Template:Release Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 Game Boy Advance: Template:ReleaseVirtual Console (3DS) (Ambassador Program Release): Template:ReleaseVirtual Console (Wii U): Template:ReleaseGame Boy Advance - Nintendo Switch Online: Template:Release Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Game Boy Advance: Template:ReleaseVirtual Console (Wii U): Template:ReleaseGame Boy Advance - Nintendo Switch Online: Template:Release Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga Game Boy Advance: Template:ReleaseVirtual Console (Wii U): Template:ReleaseGame Boy Advance - Nintendo Switch Online: Template:Release Standalone: Template:Release[?]
Language(s)	English (United States)
Genre	Platformer
Rating(s)	ESRB: - Everyone[?] PEGI: - Three years and older[?] CERO: - All ages[?] ACB: - General[?]
Mode(s)	Up to 4 players simultaneously
Input	Wii U: Wii U GamePad Wii Remote (horizontal) Classic Controller Wii U Pro Controller Nintendo Switch: Joy-Con Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Game Boy Advance: Gamepad

Mario Bros. is a Game Boy Advance game included in every Super Mario Advance game, as well as Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (only in the original Game Boy Advance iteration, making it no longer included the 3DS remake).

Gameplay

4 Player Battle in Super Mario Advance

All of the Super Mario Advance games and the original Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga game can connect to each other to play Classic or Battle mode with up to four players. Classic is based on the co-op mode from the original and uses the Japanese arcade phase system. Battle is based on the Battle Game from Super Mario All-Stars. The remake also uses the Game Boy Advance's Single-Pak multiplayer feature. It can connect and play with other Game Boy Advance systems without the game, although Battle is the only multiplayer mode that can be played in this way.

Mario Bros. enhances the graphics to take advantage of the Game Boy Advance's 32-bit capabilities, including adding backgrounds to the stages. Music is added where it was originally absent, and voice clips are added in single-player mode. Jumping onto floors has been made easier; mid-air turning is allowed, as opposed to the original where Mario or Luigi had to stay in one direction during jumping. The Power Squat Jump from Super Mario Bros. 2 has been added, and the Bonus Stages are now noticeably easier than they were originally. There are also two POW Blocks per phase set, and they can be picked up much like in Super Mario Bros. 2. Players can also pick each other up and throw them.

Characters

Playable

Image	Name	Information
	Mario	The main protagonist. The red one is player one, green one is player two, the yellow one is player three, and the blue one is player four. Prior to the initial release, the player three was purple with yellow overalls and the player four was orange with red overalls, with the latter resembling Fire Mario and Fire Luigi's appearance from the original NES version of Super Mario Bros. 3.

Enemies

Target enemies must be defeated to clear the phase while other enemies should be defeated by the player's discretion. Each phase consists of one or two types of targets with a maximum of six targets. Spinies and Sidesteppers appear together only in Phase 6. The last target enemy will always move at its fastest pace unless said enemy is a Fighter Fly.

Image	Name	Debut	Information and abilities
	Spiny	Phase 1	The first enemies in the game, replacing Shellcreepers.
	Sidestepper	Phase 5	Crab creatures that are trickier to defeat and have appeared in various games. The first time the player hits them, they will gain an angry expression and walk faster. The player thus needs to hit them twice before kicking them off. They are the most common target enemy in the game.
	Fighter Fly	Phase 7	Flies that jump up and down and are the hardest to defeat. The player can only hit them while they are on the land. After the second bonus stage, all subsequent non-bonus phases will have one or two of them.
	Bowser	Round 4 (Battle only)	Bowser possesses the ability to breathe fire on enemies. He patrols the central floor and cannot be defeated but can be stunned by bumping him from below.

Other enemies

Image	Name	Debut	Information and abilities
	Freezy	Phase 10	Ice creatures that possess the ability to "self destruct" and cover the floor they are on with ice. Ice-covered floors give the Marios less traction.
	Icicle	Phase 17	Icicles that at first appear as droplets of water, before forming into a sharp icicle. The icicle will eventually fall over, defeating any Marios underneath.
	Fireball	Phase 1	Gigantic balls of fire that come in two varieties. Red ones bounce diagonally around the stage while Green ones travel horizontally. They can be defeated by bashing them from underneath, just as they hit the ground. The player can also use a POW Block to defeat them as well.

Items

Image	Name	Effect
	Coin	Coins that appear each time an enemy is defeated, with the exception of the last one defeated. They also make an appearance every five stages in a "Test Your Skill" event. If the player collects all of these coins, they will receive a point bonus.
	POW Block	POW Blocks always appear in the center of the level, knocking over all enemies on-screen when a brother hits it. They can only be used three times; after the third time, the block disappears and does not reappear until later stages. They appear to be colored blue in all modes with the exception of Battle, where they are colored red.