History Trivia / SuperMarioBros3

** The international release of the game was delayed by over a year due to a ROM chip shortage affecting the entire electronics industry as well Nintendo wanting more breathing room between ''Mario'' games, since they had released ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' outside of Japan in 1988 (shortly before ''Mario 3'''s Japanese release), and the first handheld game in the series (''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'') was on the way as well. Nintendo took advantage of the extra wait to advertise the game overseas with ''Film/TheWizard''.

* BadExportForYou: Because the e-Reader flopped in North America, half of the ''Super Mario Advance 4'' cards never made it out of Japan, which left "World-e" incomplete with only one of the mini-game houses open and a rather empty e-Coin castle. Even worse in Europe where the eReader never got released at all, so no eReader levels can be played with normal means on European versions, even if everything is indeed present and translated. All missing levels are available for the UsefulNotes/WiiU UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole release, though.

* ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' is the first PlatformGame on the NES to be able to scroll in every direction, including diagonally. Previous NES platformers were limited to straight up-and-down or straight left-to-right.[[note]]Nintendo actually had to get creative with their own hardware with this as the NES did not natively support diagonal scrolling or even multiple scrolling modes at once. Nintendo would essentially put the system into vertical scrolling mode to allow vertical camera movement and update the name table (the part of memory that stores the tiles as arranged to be displayed on screen) on the fly as Mario moves left and right to simultaneously enable horizontal camera movement, which is the reason why there is some weird artifacting to the right of the screen, but the result is a camera system that can follow Mario in any direction.[[/note]]
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** This also applies to Miyamoto's inspiration for Chain Chomps, coming from a fearful childhood memory of a dog chasing him but being held back by a stake it was tied to.

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* ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' is the first PlatformGame on the NES to be able to scroll in every direction, including diagonally. Previous Platform Games were limited to straight up-and-down or straight left-to-right.[[note]]Nintendo actually had to get creative with their own hardware with this as the NES did not natively support diagonal scrolling or even multiple scrolling modes at once. Nintendo would essentially put the system into vertical scrolling mode to allow vertical camera movement and update the name table (the part of memory that stores the tiles as arranged to be displayed on screen) on the fly as Mario moves left and right to simultaneously enable horizontal camera movement, which is the reason why there is some weird artifacting to the right of the screen, but the result is a camera system that can follow Mario in any direction.[[/note]]

* ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' is the first PlatformGame to be able to scroll in every direction, including diagonally. Previous Platform Games were limited to straight up-and-down or straight left-to-right.[[note]]Nintendo actually had to get creative with their own hardware with this as the NES did not natively support diagonal scrolling or even multiple scrolling modes at once. Nintendo would essentially put the system into vertical scrolling mode to allow vertical camera movement and update the name table (the part of memory that stores the tiles as arranged to be displayed on screen) on the fly as Mario moves left and right to simultaneously enable horizontal camera movement, which is the reason why there is some weird artifacting to the right of the screen, but the result is a camera system that can follow Mario in any direction.[[/note]]

* RefittedForSequel: The game's underground theme was originally intended for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2.'' before it was scrapped from it and then later redone for this game.

* FanNickname: Many fans still use "[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3 Doom Ship]]" to describe not just the airship levels, but the ships present in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' and other future ''Mario'' games.

* EndOfAnAge: ''Super Mario Bros 3'' was the last major game EAD would make for the Famciom/NES. Immediately after it was released, the EAD team would move on to [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] and begin development on ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''VideoGame/FZero'' and ''VideoGame/{{Pilotwings}}''.

* EndOfAnAge: ''Super Mario Bros 3'' was the last major game EAD would make for the Famciom/NES. Not logn after it was released, the EAD team would move on to [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] and begin development on ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''VideoGame/FZero'' and ''VideoGame/{{Pilotwings}}''.

* EndOfAnAge: ''SuperMarioBros3'' was the last major game EAD would make for the Famciom/NES. Not logn after it was released, the EAD team would move on to [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] and begin development on ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''VideoGame/FZero'' and ''VideoGame/{{Pilotwings}}''.

*** America was supposed to get all four series of e-Reader cards, but when the e-Reader just wasn't selling, Nintendo of America gave up on those plans.

* LateExportForYou: The international release of the game was delayed by over a year due to a ROM chip shortage affecting the entire electronics industry as well Nintendo wanting more breathing room between Mario games, since they had released the [[DolledUpInstallment Dolled Up]] version of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' outside of Japan in 1988, shortly before ''Mario 3'''s Japanese release.

* NoExportForYou: North America and Australia didn't receive all of the ''Super Mario Advance 4'' e-Reader levels until its Wii U Virtual Console release, and Europe didn't receive ''any'' of them until then.

* ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' is the first PlatformGame to be able to scroll in every direction, including diagonally. Previous Platform Games were limited to straight up-and-down or straight left-to-right.

* BadExportForYou: Because the e-Reader flopped in North America, half of the ''Super Mario Advance 4'' cards never made it out of Japan, which left "World-e" incomplete with only one of the mini-game houses open and a rather empty e-Coin castle. Even worse in Europe where the eReader never got realeased at all, so no eReader levels can be played with normal means on european versions, even if evrything is indeed present and translated. All missing levels are available for the UsefulNotes/WiiU UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole release, though.

* BadExportForYou: Because the e-Reader flopped in North America, half of the ''Super Mario Advance 4'' cards never made it out of Japan, which left "World-e" incomplete with only one of the mini-game houses open and a rather empty e-Coin castle. All missing levels are available for the UsefulNotes/WiiU UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole release, though.

** Creator/IdSoftware [[https://vimeo.com/148909578 created a demo]] as proof-of concept for their proposed DOS port of the game. While Nintendo of Japan was impressed, they declined as they had no interest in releasing games outside of their own platform. id instead used the technology to create ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen''.

* IKnewIt: Fans guessed that the game was all a play performed by the characters, going by the curtain screen intro, the bolted in platforms, and the fact that you end each level by literally "exiting stage right". [[WordOfGod Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu2DnTd3dEo that this was indeed true]].

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Shigeru Miyamoto based the Boos' famous "shy when you're looking, mean when you're not" quirk on the wife of fellow developer Takashi Tezuka. Specifically, her frustration at him working long hours.