History YMMV / SuperMarioBros1

* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: The princess is in world 8. When this game was new, players might have wondered how many times Mario must go to another castle. Since then, several more Mario games have kept the princess in world 8 or chapter 8. So now players expect to find her in world 8.

* AntiClimaxBoss: The final Bowser is basically unchanged from every other one. Like the fake Bowsers in worlds 6 and 7, he tosses hammers, but that's it.

* PolishedPort: ''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe'' on GameBoyColor has a number of features that make it worth keeping: being able to save your progress and select any stage you've completed so far (even in it's Lost Levels port, which is necessary given [[PlatformHell how difficult it is]]) a Challenge mode for each level, and a 1 and 2-player race mode. Unfortunately, the screen resolution was significantly cropped to fit the handhelds small screen (and to keep from squishing the sprites down), which can make gameplay more frustrating than the original. The port ''does'' have [[AntiFrustrationFeatures some tweaks to make up for this]], such as allowing you to reorient the screen to look above or keep the view locked ahead of Mario, in addition to slightly tweaking the RatchetScrolling to compensate for the smaller view, but it only helps so much.

* PolishedPort: Despite the smaller screen size, ''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe'' has a number of features that make it worth keeping: being able to save your progress and select any stage you've completed so far and a 2-player race mode.
* PortingDisaster: To an extent, ''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe'' on the Game Boy Color. Mario's handling is VERY slippery-slidey, even moreso than his brother in the sequel. The reduced screen size also becomes a massive hindrance.

* PortingDisaster: To an extent, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe on the Game Boy Color. Mario's handling is VERY slippery-slidey, even moreso than his brother in the sequel. The reduced screen size also becomes a massive hindrance.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The manual states that the Goombas are what happens to traitorous Toads. If Princess Peach has great magic powers like the above entry suggests, who do you think is carrying out their sentences?

* ItWasHisSled: The princess is in world 8. When this game was new, players might have wondered how many times Mario must go to another castle. Since then, several more Mario games have kept the princess in world 8 or chapter 8. So now players expect to find her in world 8.

* FirstInstallmentWins: Sort of. While future games in the Mario series are just as, if not even more so, beloved in the fandom, this first one is undoubtedly the most famous.

* PortingDisaster: To an extent, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe on the Game Boy Color. Mario's handling is VERY slippery-slidey, even moreso than his brother in [[''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels''|the sequel]]. The reduced screen size also becomes a massive hindrance.

* EarWorm: Come on. Don't play that game. YouShouldKnowThisAlready.

* UnfortunateImplications: Basically, as some players noted, Mario's design resembled Soviet leader JosefStalin, Mario is the hero of the game, and the ending of a level basically depicts Mario putting down a flag that slightly resembles the peace sign and hoisting a flag that has the Soviet Red Star, causing many unfortunate implications on Soviet support. In one ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' issue, this subject was discussed in the mailbag section, although the staff denied the resemblance, noting that Mario collects coins and is saving a monarch, even trying to put Mario's moustache on the Russian boxer/soldier from ''Rocky IV''. It's much clearer in later games with more advanced graphics: the symbol of the flag that Mario pulls down is supposed to be a Bowser skull. In its 8-bit form, it resembles a human skull or a Koopa shell.

* UnfortunateImplications: Basically, as some players noted, Mario's design resembled Soviet leader JosefStalin, Mario is the hero of the game, and the ending of a level basically depicts Mario putting down a flag that slightly resembles the peace sign and hoisting a flag that has the Soviet Red Star, causing many unfortunate implications on Soviet support. In one ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' issue, this subject was discussed in the mailbag section, although the staff denied the resemblance, noting that Mario collects coins and is saving a princess, even trying to put Mario's moustache on the Russian boxer/soldier from ''Rocky IV''. It's much clearer in later games with more advanced graphics: the symbol of the flag that Mario pulls down is supposed to be a Bowser skull. In its 8-bit form, it resembles a human skull or a Koopa shell.

* UnfortunateImplications: Basically, as some players noted, Mario's design resembled Soviet leader JosefStalin, Mario is the hero of the game, and the ending of a level basically depicts Mario putting down a flag that slightly resembles the peace sign and hoisting a flag that has the Soviet Red Star, causing many unfortunate implications on Soviet support. In one ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' issue, this issue was even addressed in the mailbag section, although the staff denied the resemblance, even trying to put Mario's moustache on the Russian boxer/soldier from Rocky IV. It's much clearer in later games with more advanced graphics: the symbol of the flag that Mario pulls down is supposed to be a Bowser skull. In its 8-bit form, it resembles a human skull or a Koopa shell.

* UnfortunateImplications: Basically, as some players noted, Mario's design resembled Soviet leader Josef Stalin, Mario is the hero of the game, and the ending of a level basically depicts Mario putting down a flag that slightly resembles the peace sign and hoisting a flag that has the Soviet Red Star, causing many unfortunate implications on Soviet support. In one ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' issue, this issue was even addressed in the mailbag section, although the staff denied the resemblance, even trying to put Mario's moustache on the Russian boxer/soldier from Rocky IV.
** Though it's much clearer in later games with more advanced graphics, the symbol of the flag that Mario pulls down is supposed to be a Bowser skull. In its 8-bit form, it resembles a human skull or a Koopa shell.

* DemonicSpiders: Hammer Bros. and Lakitus. The former throws hammers at an ''abusurd'' rate that makes it hard to dodge and attack them, especially since touching the hammers ''at all'' counts as a hit, and jump a lot making it hard to hit them. Their jumping can often make jumping on them a risk, because unless you hit the top of them, then you get hit instead. They can also jump downward from platorms, meaning if they're on a set of blocks, trying to hit them from below can easily result in them killing you. Lakitus... oh boy... those bastards are on clouds at the top of the screen, and it's extremely rare to come across a point that lets you get high enough to hit them. For attacks, they drop spinies, which you can't jump on. So to recap, you, for the most part, can't hit them, and they drop a constant supply of enemies you can't kill unless you have a fire flower.

* DemonicSpiders: Hammer Bros. and Lakitus. The former throws hammers that make it hard to dodge and attack them, especially since touching the hammers at all counts as a hit, and jump a lot making it hard to hit them. Their jumping can often make jumping on them a risk, because unless you hit the top of them, then you get hit instead. They can also jump downward from platorms, meaning if they're on a set of blocks, trying to hit them from below can easily result in them killing you. Lakitus... oh boy... those bastards are on clouds at the top of the screen, and it's extremely rare to come across a point that lets you get high enough to hit them. For attacks, they drop spinies, which you can't jump on. So to recap, you, for the most part, can't hit them, and they drop a constant supply of enemies you can't kill unless you have a fire flower.

* GameBreakingBug: Trying to exploit InfiniteOneUps? Don't go over 127 lives or your next death will result in a GameOver.[[labelnote:Details]]The game stores your remaining lives in an 8-bit signed integer (which has a range from -128 to 127), and going past 127 lives overflows your remaining lives back to -128. At that point, you'd need 130 more extra lives (unlike in most other games, a life counter of 0 is a GameOver) to have a spare life once again.[[/labelnote]]

* GameBreakingBug: Trying to exploit InfiniteOneUps? Don't go over 127 lives or your next death will result in a GameOver.[[labelnote:Details]]The game stores your remaining lives in an 8-bit signed integer (which has a range from -128 to 127), and going past 127 lives overflows your remaining lives back to -128.[[/labelnote]]

* GameBreakingBug: Trying to exploit InfiniteOneUps? Don't go over 127 lives or your next death will result in a GameOver.[[labelnote:Details]]Or rather, don't get more than 127 and less than "256" extra lives. The game stores your remaining lives in an 8-bit signed integer (which has a range from -128 to 127), and going past 127 lives overflows your remaining lives back to -128.[[/labelnote]]

* GameBreakingBug: Trying to exploit InfiniteOneUps? Don't go over 127 lives or your next death will result in a GameOver.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Or rather, don't get more than 127 and less than "256" extra lives. The game stores your remaining lives in a signed integer, and going past 127 lives overflows your remaining lives back to -128.[[/labelnote]]