Regardless, Nintendo officially pinpoints the release date as October 18, 1985. is heavily disputed, with different sources giving different dates with no way to verify them. The exact day of the North American release of Super Mario Bros. was the best-selling video game of all time for nearly three decades, with over 40 million copies sold worldwide.

Until it was eventually surpassed by Wii Sports, Super Mario Bros. popularized the genre as a whole, helped revive the North American gaming industry after the video game crash of 1983, and was largely responsible for the initial success of the NES, with which it was bundled as a launch title. is the most iconic, and it introduced various series staples, including power-ups, classic enemies such as Goombas, and the basic premise of rescuing Princess Peach from Bowser.Īs well as kicking off an entire series of Super Mario platform games, the wild success of Super Mario Bros. While not the first game of the Super Mario franchise (the first being Donkey Kong), Super Mario Bros. It shifted the gameplay away from its single-screen arcade predecessor, Mario Bros., and instead featured side-scrolling platformer levels. is a video game released for the Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. Virtual Console ( 3DS) (Ambassador Program release) Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online

NES Classic Edition/ Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer Super Mario Bros.įor alternate box art, see the game's gallery. This article is about the video game originally published for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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