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Super Mario Bros. is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo.
Mario is a fictional character in the Mario video game franchise, owned by Nintendo and created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.
Super Mario is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by Nintendo and featuring their mascot, Mario.
Platform games, or platformers, are a video game genre and subgenre of action game.
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The successor to the 1983 arcade game, Mario Bros., it was released in Japan in 1985 for the Famicom, and in North America and Europe for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985 and 1987 respectively.
An arcade game or coin-op game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.
The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced, released, and marketed by Nintendo.
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Players control Mario, or his brother Luigi in the multiplayer mode, as they travel the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Toadstool from Bowser.
They must traverse side-scrolling stages while avoiding hazards such as enemies and pits with the aid of power-ups such as the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Starman.
In video games, a power-up is an object that adds temporary benefits or extra abilities to the player character as a game mechanic.
The game was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka as "a grand culmination" of the Famicom team's three years of game mechanics and programming.
Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer and producer for the video game company Nintendo, currently serving as one of its representative directors.
Mechanics is the area of physics concerned with the motions of macroscopic objects.
The design of the first level, World 1-1, serves as a tutorial for first-time video gamers on the basic mechanics of platform gameplay.
The aggressively size-optimized profile was intended as a farewell to the Famicom's cartridge medium in favor of the forthcoming Famicom Disk System, whose floppy disks temporarily became the dominant distribution medium for a few years.
A floppy disk, also called a floppy, diskette or just disk, is a type of disk storage composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic enclosure lined with fabric that removes dust particles.
The Family Computer Disk System, commonly referred to as the Famicom Disk System, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer home video game console, released only in Japan on February 21, 1986.
In musical terminology, tempo is the speed or pace of a given piece.
Super Mario Bros. is frequently cited as one of the greatest video games of all time, with praise on its precise controls.
It is one of the bestselling games of all time, with more than 40 million physical copies.
It is credited alongside the NES as one of the key factors in reviving the video game industry after the 1983 crash, and helped popularize the side-scrolling platform game genre.
The video game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of video games.
Koji Kondo's soundtrack is one of the earliest and most popular in video games, making music into a centerpiece of game design.
Koji Kondo is a Japanese music composer, pianist, and sound director who works for the video game company Nintendo.
The game inspired an expansive franchise including a long-running game series, an animated television series, and a feature film.
Re-releases and cameos of the game are on most of Nintendo's following systems.
Alongside Mario himself, Super Mario Bros. has become prominent in popular culture.
Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century.
