Mario Bros. · RAWG · Courtesy of RAWG
Game data
- Released
- 2006-11-19
- User rating
- 3.71 / 5
- Genres
- Platformer, Adventure, Action
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Wii
- ESRB
- Everyone
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Game details · IGDB
Mario Bros. is an arcade game published by Nintendo and developed by Shigeru Miyamoto. The platform puzzle which first introduced Luigi to the world has both single and multiplayer action with two differing game types, but with the same objective. Crabs, turtles and fighter flies must be cleared out by jumping underneath the platform they sit on, then kicking them away. Each level is cleared when a set number of coins is collected. For the two player mode, the first to collect the set amount of coins wins.
- Released
- 1983
- Genres
- Platform, Arcade
- Platforms
- Arcade
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Franchise
- Mario Bros., Mario
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D1
- Publisher
- Nintendo
Key facts
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D1
- Publishers
- Nintendo 2600, 5200 Atari, Inc. PC-88 Hudson Soft Atari 8-bit, 7800 Atari Corporation C64, CPC, ZX Spectrum Ocean Software
- Director
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Producer
- Gunpei Yokoi
- Designers
- Shigeru Miyamoto Gunpei Yokoi
- Composer
- Yukio Kaneoka
- Series
- Mario
- Platform
- Arcade NES , Atari 2600 , Atari 5200 , FM-7 , PC-88 , Amstrad CPC , Commodore 64 , ZX Spectrum , Famicom Disk System , Atari 7800 , Atari 8-bit , Nintendo e-Reader , Game Boy Advance
- Genre
- Platform
- Modes
- Single-player , multiplayer
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Encyclopedic overview
Mario Bros. 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. Players control Italian twin brother plumbers Mario and Luigi as they exterminate turtle-like creatures, giant flies, and crabs emerging from the sewers of New York City by knocking them upside-down and kicking them away. The Famicom/NES version was the first game to be developed by Intelligent Systems. It is part of the Mario franchise and the first spin-off of the Donkey Kong series.
The arcade and Famicom/NES versions were received positively by critics. Elements introduced in Mario Bros., such as floating coins, enemy turtles, and Luigi, were carried over to Super Mario Bros. (1985) and became staples of the Mario series.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mario Bros.” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.