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NES, Atari 2600
Mario Bros.
Mario Bros
Developer(s) Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Platform(s) Arcade Cabinets,

NES, Atari 2600

Release date(s) 1983
Genre(s) Platformer
Players 1-2 players
Rating(s) {{{ratings}}}
Media Arcade cabinets, NES Cartridge, Atari 2600
Input {{{input}}}
Predecessor Donkey Kong]](1981)
Successor Super Mario Bros.(1985)
Mario Bros. at Nintendo.com

Mario Bros. is an arcade game published and developed by Nintendo in 1983. It was developed by Shigeru Miyamoto , the creator of the Mario franchise. It is a follow-up to Donkey Kong, which starred Jumpman, who was a carpenter at the time. He was eventually renamed to Mario. To date, Mario Bros. has been re-released more than 20 times across more than a dozen platforms. It has been commonly featured as a mini-game in the Super Mario Advance series and other titles as well. Mario Bros. has been re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console service in Japan, North America, and some PAL regions.

Story[]

In this game, Mario is portrayed as a plumber who, along with his brother Luigi, has to defeat creatures that have been coming from the sewers below New York. The gameplay focuses on Mario having to exterminate pests in the sewers by flipping them on their backs and kicking them away. The original versions of Mario Bros., the arcade version and the Nintendo Entertainment System version, received positive reception. In Japan, the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Mario Bros. had sold more than 1.63 million copies.

Luigi Bros.[]

For The Year of Luigi, on the disc of Super Mario 3D World was Luigi Bros, a repackaged Luigi version of Mario Bros.

Luigi Bros

The startpage of Luigi Bros.

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