Mario Bros.

This article is about the original arcade game. For other uses, see Mario Bros. (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Super Mario Bros.

Mario Bros.
Player characters Mario and Luigi surround a green sewer pipe whilst being surrounded by a turtle (Shellcreeper), a fly (Fighter Fly) and a crab (Sidestepper), the latter of which is hiding inside the pipe.
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)Nintendo R&D1 (Arcade & NES)
Intelligent Systems (NES & FDS)[2]
Atari, Inc. (2600, 5200)
MISA (PC-8001)[3]
Choice Software (CPC, Spec)
Ocean (C64)
ITDC (7800)
Sculptured Software (Atari 8-bit)
Publisher(s)
    • NA: Atari, Inc. (2600, 5200)
Producer(s)Gunpei Yokoi
Designer(s)Shigeru Miyamoto
Gunpei Yokoi
Composer(s)Yukio Kaneoka
SeriesMario
Platform(s)
Release
1983
  • Arcade
  • Famicom/NES
    • JP: September 9, 1983
    • NA: June 1986
    • EU: September 1, 1986
  • Atari 2600, 5200
    • NA: December 1983
  • PC-88
    • JP: February 1984
  • FM-7
  • PC-8001
  • Commodore 64
    • NA: 1984 (Atarisoft)
    • EU: 1987 (Ocean)
  • Amstrad CPC
    • EU: June 19, 1987
  • Atari 7800
    • NA: July 10, 1987
  • ZX Spectrum
  • Atari 8-bit
    • NA: November 22, 1988
  • Nintendo e-Reader
    • NA: November 11, 2002
  • Game Boy Advance
    • JP: May 21, 2004
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Mario Bros.[a] is a 1983 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for arcades. It was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo's chief engineer. Italian twin brother plumbers Mario and Luigi exterminate creatures, like turtles (Shellcreepers) and crabs emerging from the sewers by knocking them upside-down and kicking them away. The Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System version is the first game to be developed by Intelligent Systems. It is part of the Mario franchise, but originally began as a spin-off from the Donkey Kong series.

The arcade and Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System versions were received positively by critics. Elements introduced in Mario Bros., such as spinning bonus coins, turtles that can be flipped onto their backs, and Luigi, were carried over to Super Mario Bros. (1985) and became staples of the series.

An updated version, titled Mario Bros. Classic, is included as a minigame in all of the Super Mario Advance series and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (2003). The NES version of Mario Bros. had been re-released through the Wii and Wii U's Virtual Console as well as Nintendo Switch Online; the original arcade version was released by Hamster Corporation on the Nintendo Switch as part of the Arcade Archives series.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Akagi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Works | Games | INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD". www.intsys.co.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 31, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  3. ^ "Video Games Densetsu". Archived from the original on May 13, 2022. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
  4. ^ Whitehead, Thomas (September 13, 2017). "Mario Bros. to Kick Off 'Arcade Archives' Range on Nintendo Switch". Nintendo Life. Retrieved September 10, 2024.


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