Mario Bros.

Mario Bros.
Mario Bros.
	North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Nintendo R&D1 Famicom/NES; Nintendo R&D1; Intelligent Systems; 2600, 5200; Atari, Inc.; PC-8001; MISA; CPC, ZX Spectrum; Choice Software; C64; Ocean Software; 7800; ITDC; Atari 8-bit; Sculptured Software;
Publisher(s)	Nintendo 2600, 5200; Atari, Inc.; PC-88; Hudson Soft; Atari 8-bit, 7800; Atari Corporation; CPC, ZX Spectrum; 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; ; Famicom/NES JP: September 9, 1983; NA: June 1986; EU: September 1, 1986; ; 2600, 5200 December 1983; ; PC-88 JP: February 1984; ; FM-7 JP: 1984; ; PC-8001 JP: 1984; ; CPC EU: June 19, 1987; ; 7800 July 10, 1987; ; C64 EU: 1987; ; Spectrum EU: 1987; ; Atari 8-bit November 22, 1988; ; Famicom Disk System JP: November 30, 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 of New York City 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 and the first spin-off of 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 as part of the Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch in 2017.^[3]

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^ "Works | Games" (in Japanese). Intelligent Systems. Archived from the original on August 31, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
^ "Video Games Densetsu". Archived from the original on May 13, 2022. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
^ 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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[2] "Works | Games" (in Japanese). Intelligent Systems. 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.

[5] 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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