Mario Bros 🦀 1983 Arcade Port To NES

Описание: Mario Bros is a 1983 arcade game by Nintendo, developed by Intelligent Systems. It is a spin-off of Donkey Kong (1981) and prequel to the Super Mario Bros series. It is the first game dedicated to Mario, without the presence of Donkey Kong or his son, and introduces Mario's brother, Luigi.

The arcade game was available as an upright unit or as a cocktail table.


MARIO BROS GAME FUNCTION:

The object is to navigate through levels (called phases) and to flip over turtles and other creatures.

The goal is to eliminate all baddies and progress to the next phase. Coins are collected for extra points, these coins and the harmonic sound they emit when collected later became a staple in the Super Mario Bros series.

Unlike Donkey Kong (or DK Jr) there is no rescue objective, Mario's girlfriend Pauline is not present in this game, and like Donkey Kong, Mario Bros does not take place within the Mushroom Kingdom, but in the underground of NYC. In the 1983 Donkey Kong cartoon (which ran for two seasons) Mario had a Bronx accent.


ANTAGONISTS IN MARIO BROS:

❶ — Shellcreeper (Turtle)
❷ — Sidestepper (Crab)
❸ — Fighterfly (Dragonfly)
❹ — Slipice (Iceberg)
➎ — Icicle (!)
❻ — Fireball (two types)


PHYSICAL PORTS TO HOME CONSOLE UNITS (AS WELL AS DEVELOPER INFO):

— Famicom/NES (Nintendo R&D1, Intelligent Systems)
— Atari 2600/5200 (Atari Inc, Sculptured Software)
— NEC MISA 8001 (MISA)
— Amstrad CPC/ZX Spectrum (Choice Software)
— Commodore 64 (Ocean Software)
— Atari 7800 (ITDC)


BASIC TIMELINE OF MARIO, 8-BIT/16-BIT EVOLUTION FROM PROTAGONIST TO ANTAGONIST, PROTAGONIST TO LEXICON SUPERSTAR:

1981 — Donkey Kong
1982 — Donkey Kong Jr
1983 — Mario Bros
1985 — Super Mario Bros
1988 — Super Mario Bros 2 (USA/Canada)
1989 — Super Mario Bros 3
1990 — Super Mario World (1991 NA, 1992 EU AU, 1993 BR)


ORIGIN OF THE MARIO CHARACTER:

Mario was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and eventually became the symbol and mascot of Nintendo. Mario evolved for the Super Mario Bros series with help from animator Yōichi Kotabe.

Mario is named after Mario Arnold Segale (April 30, 1934 – October 27, 2018), a real estate developer from Seattle Washington, who was at one time the landlord of Nintendo of America.


ENGLISH SPEAKING ACTORS TO HAVE PORTRAYED MARIO OUTSIDE OF VIDEOGAMES:

PETER CULLEN (1983) —— Canadian voice actor known for Gremlins, as well as the voices of Optimus Prime and "The Predator".

LOU ALBANO (1989) —— American wrestler, WWF/WWE alumni, Cyndi Lauper's fictional dad.

WALKER BOONE (1990/1991) —— Canadian actor known for The Last Chase, Visiting Hours, The Littlest Hobo.

BOB HOSKINS (1993) —— British actor and director known for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Pink Floyd — The Wall, Tales From The Crypt.


MARIO AS A CHARACTER HAS APPEARED ON THE FOLLOWING GAMING PLATFORMS, AS MARIO OR AS SUPER MARIO:

Arcade, Atari 2600, Intellivision, NEC's MISA 8001, ColecoVision, ZX Spectrum, Coleco Tabletop, Game & Watch, Commodore 64/128, Gemini, Amstrad CPC, Atari 5800, NES, Famicom Disk System, Famicom Box, Atari 7800, Atari XE, Gameboy, PlayChoice-10, Super NES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Gameboy Advance, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, plus several other platforms as homebrew projects such as Vectrex.


ABOUT NINTENDO:

Nintendo, based in Kyoto Japan, was founded in the 1880s by Fusajiro Yamauchi as a playing card company.

Nintendo produced their first arcade machines in the 1970s, almost a century after the company's beginnings. They released their first home game console (Color TV-Game) in 1977 as five separate dedicated game machines, Nintendo sold 6 million of these 1970s units, making it the highest selling first generation game console.

Nintendo revolutionized the handheld market in 1989 with the release of Gameboy. The company previously produced Game & Watch titles in the early 1980s which were single and dual screen pocket-sized LCD games, some of which starred Donkey Kong, Mario and his brother Luigi. Game & Watch also introduced the D-Pad control configuration which revolutionized game controllers and has since become the industry standard.

Nintendo are one of only a handful of publishers to survive the videogame crash of 1983-1985, and debuted their new console(s) in Japan and in America at the end of this crisis.

Nintendo demand 100% creative control over their intellectual property, a major factor in preventing partnerships with Sony and Philips to jointly produce a home console unit.

As of 2025 Nintendo has shipped nearly 900,000 console units and 6 billion individual games.


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