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(#11) Luigi's Name Is Making Fun of Him a Little Bit
Poor Luigi, he always gets the short end of the stick (except for Luigi's Mansion, that game was dope). Coincidentally, his name is based on a Japanese word that means "similar" and is spelt Ruij. In the early games, Luigi is almost exactly the same as Mario in appearance, so the name was a little joke on the sidekick.
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(#10) Super Mario Bros. Only Takes Up 256 Kilobits
If you don't know why this is a big (or not so big) deal, 256 kilobits translates to 32 kilobytes. This means it would take around three Super Mario Bros. cartridges to store one JPEG of a photo from the game. -
(#8) Super Mario Bros. Took a Few Moves from the Legend of Zelda
Even though they were released years apart in the states, Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda were actually developed in tandem. That not only meant that creator Shigeru Miyamoto was able to compartmentalize two games, but that he simultaneously spearheaded two franchises that would change gaming forever.
While Super Mario Bros. was still in the development stage, much of Zelda was completed, which meant that whenever Miyamoto needed an element for his game about a brick smashing plumber, he would grab it from the world of Link. Specifically the firebars in Bowser's castle were originally created for Zelda, but later appropriated into Mario Bros.
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(#13) Mario Has a Super Dark Backstory
Have you ever read the backstory for Super Mario Bros.? It basically reads like what would have happened if Lord Voldemort actually killed infant Harry Potter. Basically, everyone in the Mushroom Kingdom has either been turned into blocks or goombas by King Koopa (who is a wizard by the way), and every time Mario stomps on a goomba or breaks a block, he's killing a peasant from the kingdom. Talk about collateral damage. -
(#4) Mario's Design Is Based on Graphical Impossibilities
We live in a world of almost infinite possibilities when it comes to graphics in video games, but when Shigeru Miyamoto was creating Super Mario Bros., he had to come up with interesting ways around his very real limitations. Mario was given a mustache in order to get around drawing a mouth, and he sports a hat because it was almost impossible to portray hair.
What about the overalls? Those ensured that players could tell that he was swinging his hands back and forth as he was walking or running.
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(#20) There Was a Super Mario Bros. Computer Game
Mario has lent his recognizable visage to numerous educational computer games over the years (Mario's Time Machine, anyone?), but did you know that there was a follow up to Super Mario Bros. released on the PC called Super Mario Bros. Special? It looked an awful lot like the NES game but lacked any of its other good qualities.
Odd colors aside, the physics of SMBS are a nightmare, and the music sounds like someone trying to learn the Mario theme on a broken Casio.
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Super Mario Bros is a famous clearance game developed by Nintendo and released in 1985. It was first launched on consoles. With the continuous innovation and transformation of the game, many follow-up visions have been widely welcomed all over the world. In the development of "Super Mario Bros." for more than 30 years, many game producers have made important contributions to the popularity of the game series.
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