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(#19) Koji Kondo Designed the 10 Lives Crown
Is there anything Koji Kondo can't do? Besides composing the musical score for Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda, he also designed the little crown you get when you collect 10 extra lives.
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(#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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(#1) There Are 256 Glitched Levels in Super Mario Bros.
If you want to access the 256(!) extra glitch levels in Super Mario Bros. you need to go find yourself a top loading NES system and a copy of Nintendo Tennis. Put your Mario cartridge in, then take it out with the system still on. Put the Tennis cartridge in, then reset. Serve once, run around for a bit, and then take Tennis out with the system still on and put Mario back in. Reset Mario, then press both A and start at once and you’ll be on one of the 256 glitched out “secret levels."
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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. -
(#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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(#17) Mario Dies on the Super Mario Bros. Cover
This is actually kind of crazy that it made the cover, but once you see it you can totally tell that Mario is jumping into a lava pit while running into a wall. It's kind of the equivalent of your senior portrait being a photo of you sitting on the toilet.
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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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