Super Mario Bros.

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Super Mario Bros.
Vector version of the in-game logo
Developer(s)	Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Shigeru Miyamoto
Designer(s)	Shigeru Miyamoto
Composer(s)	Kōji Kondō
Series	Super Mario
Platform(s)	Famicom/NES Famicom Disk System Game & Watch GBA SNES (part of Super Mario All-Stars) GBC (as Super Mario Bros. Deluxe) Virtual Console
Release	NES JP: September 13, 1985 NA: October 1985[1] EU: May 15, 1987 AU: July 1987 Arcade EU: January 1986 NA: February 1986
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system	Nintendo VS. System

Super Mario Bros. is a video game made by Nintendo in 1985. It is played on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The game is the sequel to the game Mario Bros. In Super Mario Bros., Mario goes to the Mushroom Kingdom. There, he must save Princess Toadstool from Bowser. Players can also use Luigi in two-player mode. The game was made by Shigeru Miyamoto. The music was made by Kōji Kondō.

Super Mario Bros. was a very important game because it quickly changed how games were made. It was the best-selling video game ever before being beaten by Wii Sports in 2009.^[2] It turned Mario into a famous symbol. It also made the NES successful. This game greatly helped the video game industry.

1. ↑ "The history of Super Mario". Nintendo. Archived from the original on February 1, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2021. Released: Oct. 18, 1985
2. ↑ "Getting That "Resort Feel"". Iwata Asks: Wii Sports Resort. Nintendo. p. 4. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2009. As it's sold bundled with the Wii console outside Japan, I'm not quite sure if calling it "World Number One" is exactly the right way to describe it, but in any case it's surpassed the record set by Super Mario Bros., which was unbroken for over twenty years.