Mario Bros.

1983 video game

This article is about the original arcade game. For other uses, see Mario Bros. (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Super Mario Bros.

1983 video game

Mario Bros.

North American arcade flyer

Developer(s)|

Nintendo R&D1

* Arcade, Famicom/NES
Nintendo R&D1
NES

* NA/EU: Intelligent Systems[1]

2600, 5200

* NA: Atari, Inc.

PC-8001

* JP: MISA[2]

CPC, ZX Spectrum

* EU: Choice Software

C64

* EU: Ocean Software

7800

* NA: ITDC

Atari 8-bit

* NA: Sculptured Software

Publisher(s)|

Nintendo

* 2600, 5200

* NA: Atari, Inc.

PC-88

* JP: Hudson Soft

Atari 8-bit, 7800

* NA: Atari Corporation

CPC, ZX Spectrum

* EU: Ocean Software

Director(s)| Shigeru Miyamoto
Producer(s)| Gunpei Yokoi
Designer(s)|

* Shigeru Miyamoto
* Gunpei Yokoi

Composer(s)| Yukio Kaneoka
Series| Mario
Platform(s)|

Arcade

*     * Atari 2600
* Atari 5200
* Atari 7800
* Atari 8-bit
* PC-8001
* PC-88
* FM-7
* Commodore 64
* Famicom/NES
* Famicom Disk System
* Amstrad CPC
* ZX Spectrum
* Nintendo e-Reader
* Game Boy Advance

Release|

March 1983

* Arcade

* NA: March 1983
* JP: June 1983[note 1]

* Famicom/NES

* JP: September 9, 1983
* NA: June 1986
* EU: September 1, 1986

* 2600, 5200

* NA: December 1983

* PC-88

* JP: February 1984

* FM-7

* JP: 1984

* PC-8001

* JP: 1984

* CPC

* EU: June 19, 1987

* 7800

* NA: July 10, 1987

* C64

* EU: 1987

* ZX Spectrum

* EU: 1987

* Atari 8-bit

* NA: November 22, 1988

* 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 turtle-like creatures and crabs emerging from the sewers by knocking them upside-down and kicking them away. The Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System version is the first game to be developed by Intelligent Systems. It is part of the Mario franchise, but it originally began as a spin-off from the Donkey Kong series.

The arcade, Famicom, and 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 the Nintendo Classics service; the original arcade version was released by Hamster Corporation on the Nintendo Switch as part of the Arcade Archives series.[3]

## Gameplay

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Mario is about to defeat a Shellcreeper (arcade).

Mario Bros. features two plumbers,[4] Italian brothers Mario and Luigi, having to investigate the sewers after strange creatures have been appearing down there.[5] The objective of the game is to defeat all of the enemies in each phase. The mechanics of Mario Bros. involve only running and jumping.[6] Unlike future Mario games, players cannot jump on enemies and squash them, unless they were already turned on their back.[7] Each phase is a series of platforms with pipes at each corner of the screen, along with an object called a "POW" block in the center.[6] Phases use wraparound, meaning that enemies and players that go off to one side will reappear on the opposite side.[8] Points are scored for defeating enemies and collecting the bonus coins that emerge from the pipes afterward.[9]

Enemies are defeated by kicking them over once they have been flipped on their back.[10] This is accomplished by hitting the platform the enemy is on directly beneath them.[11] If the player allows too much time to pass after doing this the enemy will flip itself back over and recover.[10]

There are four enemies which emerge from the pipes:

1. Shellcreeper;[12]
2. Sidestepper;[6]
3. Fighter Fly,[11] which moves by jumping and can only be flipped when it is touching a platform
4. Slipice, which turns platforms into slippery ice.[13]

A fifth enemy, fireballs, floats around the screen instead of sticking to platforms.[14] The "POW" block flips all enemies touching a platform or the floor when activated, but can only be used three times before disappearing.[13] The game additionally contains bonus rounds.[10] In later rounds, icicles begin to form on the underside of the platforms and fall off.

One life is lost whenever the player touches an un-flipped enemy, fireball, or fully formed icicle. The game ends when all lives are lost.

## Development

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Shigeru Miyamoto (pictured) and Gunpei Yokoi collaborated on the design of Mario Bros.

Mario Bros. was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, two of the lead developers for the video game Donkey Kong. In Donkey Kong, Mario dies if he falls too far. For Mario Bros., Yokoi suggested to Miyamoto that Mario should be able to fall from any height, which Miyamoto was not sure of, thinking that it would make it "not much of a game". He eventually agreed, thinking it would be okay for him to have some superhuman abilities. He designed a prototype that had Mario "jumping and bouncing around", which he was satisfied with. The element of combating enemies from below was introduced after Yokoi suggested it, observing that it would work since there were multiple floors, but it proved to be too easy to eliminate enemies this way, which the developers fixed by requiring players to touch the enemies after they've been flipped to defeat them. This was also how they introduced the turtle as an enemy, which they conceived as an enemy that could only be hit from below.[15] Because of Mario's appearance in Donkey Kong with overalls, a hat, and a thick moustache, Miyamoto thought that he should be a plumber as opposed to a carpenter, and designed this game to reflect that.[16] Another contributing factor was the game's setting: it was a large network of giant pipes, so they felt a change in occupation was necessary for him.[5] The game's music was composed by Yukio Kaneoka.[17]

A popular story of how Mario went from Jumpman to Mario is that an Italian American landlord, Mario Segale, had barged in on Nintendo of America (NOA)'s staff to demand rent, and they decided to name Jumpman after him.[18] This story is contradicted by former NOA warehouse manager Don James, who has stated that he and then-NOA president Minoru Arakawa named the character after Segale as a joke because Segale was so reclusive that none of the employees had ever met him.[19][20] Miyamoto also felt that the best setting for this game was New York due to its labyrinthine subterranean network of sewage pipes.[5] The pipes were inspired by several manga, which Miyamoto states feature waste grounds with pipes lying around. In this game, they were used in a way to allow the enemies to enter and exit the stage through them to avoid getting enemies piled up on the bottom of the stage. The green coloring of the pipes, which Nintendo late president Satoru Iwata called an uncommon color, came from Miyamoto having a limited color palette and wanting to keep things colorful. He added that green was the best because it worked well when two shades of it were combined.[15]

Mario Bros. introduced Mario's brother, Luigi, who was created for the multiplayer mode by doing a palette swap of Mario.[16] The two-player mode and several aspects of gameplay were inspired by Joust.[21] To date, Mario Bros. has been released for more than a dozen platforms.[22] The first movement from Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik is used at the start of the game.[23] This song has been used in later video games, including Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix[23] and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.[24]

## Release

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Arcade cabinet of Mario Bros.

Game Machine magazine reported that the game made its North American debut at the Amusement & Music Operators Association show during March 25–27, 1983, and entered mass production in Japan on June 21.[25] The book Arcade TV Game List (2006), authored by Masumi Akagi and published by the Amusement News Agency, lists the release dates as March 1983 in North America and June 1983 in Japan.[26] However, former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said in a 2013 Nintendo Direct presentation that the game was first released in Japan on July 6, 1983.[27][28]

Upon release, Mario Bros. was initially labeled as being the third game in the Donkey Kong series. For home video game conversions, Nintendo held the rights to the game in Japan, while licensing the overseas rights to Atari, Inc.[29]

## Ports and other versions

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Mario Bros. was ported by other companies to the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 7800,[30] Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum. The Commodore 64 has two versions: an Atarisoft port which was not commercially released[31] and a 1986 version by Ocean Software. The Atari 8-bit computer version by Sculptured Software is the only home port which includes the falling icicles. An Apple II version was never commercially released,[32] but copies of it appear to exist.[33]

A port by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was released in North America in June 1986. Another NES port was released in August 1993 exclusively in Germany as part of the Classic Series.[34]

A port for NEC's PC-8001, unrelated to the Hudson Soft-developed Mario Bros. Special and Punch Ball Mario Bros., was developed by MISA and published by Westside Soft House in 1984.[35]

A modified version titled Kaettekita Mario Bros.,[b] was released only in Japan on November 30, 1988, for the Famicom Disk System through the Disk Writer service.[36]

In Taiwan and Mainland China, the game is sometimes nicknamed as Pipeline (管道) or Mr. Mary (瑪莉) due to the fact that pirated copies of this game were distributed widely, and pirate companies could not use the real name of the game and characters to bypass copyright.[citation needed]

The NES version of Mario Bros. was ported via the Virtual Console service in North America, Australia, Europe and Japan for the Wii,[37] Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U.[38][39] The original arcade version of Mario Bros. was released in September 2017 for the Nintendo Switch as part of the Arcade Archives series.[40] The NES version was a launch title for the Nintendo Classics service.[41]

Nintendo included Mario Bros. as a bonus in a number of releases, including Super Mario Bros. 3 in the form of a two-player minigame,[42] and as a single-player mode in the Game Boy Advance's Super Mario Advance series[43] as well as Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.[44] The NES version is included as a piece of furniture in Animal Crossing for the GameCube, along with many other NES games, though this one requires the use of a Nintendo e-Reader and a North America-exclusive Animal Crossing e-Card.[45]

In 2004, Namco released an arcade cabinet containing Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. and Mario Bros. The latter was altered for the vertical screen used by the other games, with the visible play area cropped on the sides.[46]

## Reception

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Reception

Review scoresPublication| Score

|

Atari 2600| GBA| NES| Wii
AllGame| | | 4.5/5[50]|
Computer and Video Games| 82%[11]| | 83%[11]|
GameSpot| | | | 4.9/10[47]
IGN| | 6/10 (e-Reader)[48]| | 4.5/10[10]
Mean Machines| | | 80%[49]|
Power Unlimited| | | 80%[51]|

Mario Bros. was initially a modest success in arcades,[52] with an estimated 2,000 arcade cabinets sold in the United States by July 1983.[53] It went on to be highly successful in American arcades.[54][55] In Japan, Game Machine listed Mario Bros. as the third most successful new table arcade unit of July 1983.[56] In the United States, Nintendo sold 3,800 Mario Bros. arcade cabinets.[57] The arcade cabinets have since become mildly rare and hard to find.[58] Despite being released during the video game crash of 1983, the arcade game was not affected. Video game author Dave Ellis considers it one of the more memorable classic games.[59] To date in Japan, the Famicom version of Mario Bros. has sold more than 1.63 million copies, and the Famicom Mini re-release has sold more than 90,000 copies.[60][61] The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) version went on to sell 2.28 million cartridges worldwide.[62] The Atari 2600 version also sold 1.59 million cartridges, making it one of the bestselling games of 1983.[63] This brings total Atari 2600, NES and Famicom Mini cartridge sales to 3.96 million units sold worldwide.

The NES and Atari versions of Mario Bros. received positive reviews from Computer and Video Games in 1989. They said the NES version is "incredibly good fun" especially in two-player mode, the Atari VCS version is "just as much fun" but with graphical restrictions, and the Atari 7800 version is slightly better.[11]

The 2009 Virtual Console re-release of the NES version later received mixed reviews, but received positive reviews from gamers.[10] In a review of the Virtual Console release, GameSpot criticized the NES version for being a poor port of the arcade version and that retains all of the technical flaws found in this version.[47] IGN complimented the Virtual Console version's gameplay, even though it was critical of Nintendo's decision to release an "inferior" NES port on the Virtual Console.[10] IGN also agreed on the issue of the number of ports. They said that since most people have Mario Bros. on one of the Super Mario Advance games, this version is not worth 500 Wii Points.[10] The Nintendo e-Reader version of Mario Bros. was slightly more well received by IGN, who praised the gameplay, but criticized it for lack of multiplayer and for not being worth the purchase because of the Super Mario Advance versions.[48]

The Super Mario Advance releases and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga all featured the same version of Mario Bros. (titled Mario Bros. Classic). The mode was first included in Super Mario Advance, and was praised for its simplicity and entertainment value.[64] IGN called this mode fun in its review of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, but complained that it would have been nice if the developers had come up with a new game to replace it.[65] Their review of Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 criticizes it more so than in the review of Super Mario Advance 2 because Nintendo chose not to add multiplayer to any of the mini-games found in that game, sticking instead with an identical version of the Mario Bros. game found in previous versions.[66] GameSpot's review of Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 calls it a throwaway feature that could have simply been gutted.[43] Other reviewers were not as negative on the feature's use in later Super Mario Advance games. Despite its use being criticized in most Super Mario Advance games, a GameSpy review called the version found in Super Mario Advance 2 a blast to play in multi-player because it only requires at least two Game Boy Advances, one copy of the game, and a link cable.[67]

## Legacy

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Screenshot from Mario Clash (1995) for the Virtual Boy

In 1984, Hudson Soft made two different games based on Mario Bros. Mario Bros. Special[c] is a reimagining with new phases and gameplay. Punch Ball Mario Bros.[d] includes a new gameplay mechanic: punching small balls to stun enemies.[68] Both games were released for the PC-6001mkII,[69] PC-8001mkII,[70] PC-8801, FM-7 and Sharp X1.[68]

A version of the game was announced alongside the Virtual Boy hardware itself at Nintendo Space World 1994. Footage demonstrated showed a faithful recreation of the game, albeit with the Virtual Boy's trademark graphical qualities of monochrome red and black graphics and a slight stereoscopic 3D effect. Its demonstration was generally poorly received by video game publications, which lamented the selection of a decade-old game to demonstrate the technology of the new Virtual Boy hardware. Mario Bros. VB, as demonstrated, was never released, but some gameplay concepts were utilized in Mario Clash (1995), a much more creative reimagining of the original Mario Bros.[71][72][73][74][75]

Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U contains a version of Mario Bros. starring Luigi: Luigi Bros. This version, based on the NES port and included as a part of the Year of Luigi celebrations, replaced Mario with Luigi in his modern color scheme; the second player's sprite retains the original Luigi colors.[76][77]

### High score

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On October 16, 2015, Steve Kleisath obtained the world record for the arcade version at 5,424,920 points verified by Twin Galaxies.[78]

## Notes

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1. ^ Sources for the Japanese release date are conflicting and list it as somewhere between June and July 1983.

Japanese titles

1. ^ Japanese: マリオブラザーズ, Hepburn: Mario Burazāzu
2. ^ Japanese: 帰ってきたマリオブラザーズ, Hepburn: Kaette kita Mario Burazāzu
3. ^ Japanese: マリオブラザーズスペシャル, Hepburn: Mario Burazāzu Supesharu
4. ^ Japanese: パンチボールマリオブラザーズ, Hepburn: Panchi Bōru Mario Burazāzu

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## External links

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* Official website (in Japanese)
* Official Nintendo Famicom Mini minisite (in Japanese)
* Official Nintendo Wii Virtual Console minisite (in Japanese)
* Official Nintendo 3DS eshop minisite (in Japanese)
* Official Nintendo Wii U eshop minisite (in Japanese)
* Official Nintendo Wii minisite (in English)
* Official Nintendo 3DS minisite (in English)
* Official Nintendo Wii minisite (in English)
* Mario Bros. on the Famicom 40th Anniversary page (in Japanese)
* Mario Bros. can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive (ZX Spectrum version)
* Mario Bros. at the Killer List of Videogames

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Game series|

| Main|

* Super Mario
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By genre|

* Educational games
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* Sports games
* racing games

Connected series|

* Donkey Kong
* Luigi
* Wario
* Yoshi

Other games|

* LCD games
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* Mario Paint
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Cancelled games|

* Super Mario's Wacky Worlds
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Universe|

| Characters|

* Mario
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Enemies|

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Music|

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* List of video games featuring Mario
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Other|

* Mario Is Missing!
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Related|

* Mario Bros.
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Designer|

* Sheriff (1979)
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* Sky Skipper (1981)
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* Popeye (1982)
* Mario Bros. (1983)
* Donkey Kong 3 (1983)
* Baseball (1983)
* Tennis (1984)
* Golf (1984)
* Devil World (1984)
* Excitebike (1984)
* Hogan's Alley (1984)
* Wild Gunman (1984)
* Duck Hunt (1984)
* Kung Fu (1985)
* Super Mario Bros. (1985)
* The Legend of Zelda (1986)
* Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987)
* Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988)
* Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
* Star Fox (1993)
* BS Zelda no Densetsu (1995)
* Star Fox 64 (1997)
* Pac-Man Vs. (2003)
* Super Mario Galaxy (2007)
* Steel Diver (2011)

Director|

* Donkey Kong (1981)
* Donkey Kong Jr. (1982)
* Popeye (1982)
* Mario Bros. (1983)
* Donkey Kong 3 (1983)
* Devil World (1984)
* Excitebike (1984)
* Hogan's Alley (1984)
* Wild Gunman (1984)
* Duck Hunt (1984)
* Kung Fu (1985)
* Super Mario Bros. (1985)
* The Legend of Zelda (1986)
* Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (1986)
* Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
* Super Mario 64 (1996)
* Super Mario Run (2016)

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Fire Emblem|

* Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
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* Path of Radiance
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* Three Houses
* Engage

Paper Mario|

* Paper Mario
* The Thousand-Year Door
* Super Paper Mario
* Sticker Star
* Color Splash
* The Origami King

Pushmo|

* Pushmo
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* Pushmo World
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Puzzle League|

* Tetris Attack
* Pokémon Puzzle Challenge
* Nintendo Puzzle Collection
* Planet Puzzle League

WarioWare|

* Mega Party Games!
* Twisted!
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Wars|

* Famicom Wars
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Other games|

* Alleyway
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* Card Hero
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* Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.
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* Mario Paint
* Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge
* Metroid
* Soccer
* Super Metroid
* Tennis
* Wild Gunman
* Wrecking Crew
* Yakuman

Technology|

* Super Game Boy
* Game Boy Player

People|

* Shouzou Kaga
* Yuka Tsujiyoko

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