History VideoGame / SuperMarioBros1

''Super Mario Bros.'' is a 1985 PlatformGame and the first game in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, though [[OlderThanTheyThink not the first]] to star Mario, as he appeared in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' first, as well as ''VideoGame/MarioBros'', ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew'', and a few Platform/GameAndWatch titles, after all of which he moved on to this game. One of the most famous video games in MediaNotes/The8bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames and the TropeCodifier for the 2D platformer (it wasn't the TropeMaker--see ''VideoGame/PacLand''), it was released for the Family Computer on September 13, 1985 in Japan, and for the Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem on October 18, 1985 in North America.[[note]]The NA release date has been subject to debate; this is the one given by Creator/{{Nintendo}}.[[/note]]

This game was highly formative for the later series. Most notably, it introduced the basic storyline of Mario rescuing Princess Toadstool (Peach in Japan, later also adopted in the west) from Bowser that later games would copy, modify, subvert, deconstruct and reconstruct again and again. In addition, it introduced Toadstool and Bowser's characters, alongside the Toads, the Mushroom Kingdom, the basic system of powerups -- including the iconic Super Mushroom, Fire Flower and Starman -- that would become central to later installments' gameplay, and a number of classic enemy types such as Goombas, Koopa Troopas and Paratroopas, Hammer Brothers, Spinies, Lakitus, Cheep-Cheeps and Bloopers.

* EasterEgg: If you wait long enough on the title screen, then a brief demo will start to play.

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: The Minus World on any version except the Famicom Disk System release, thanks to this version being an endlessly-looping water level (the FDS version is a proper world, albeit with 3 levels instead of four). Also, there are some places where you can jump on the ceiling in a castle level (i.e. x-4 level) and get stuck because there's no way down, and you have to let the timer run out.

* DropTheHammer: The game marks the debut of the Hammer Brothers, elite-class Koopas that throw hammers at Mario and Luigi while jumping between spots. [[BigBad Bowser]] also has the ability to throw hammers at Mario/Luigi in a similar fashion to the Hammer Bros.

''Super Mario Bros.'' is a 1985 PlatformGame and the first game in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, though [[OlderThanTheyThink not the first]] to star Mario, as he appeared in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' first, as well as ''VideoGame/MarioBros'', ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew'', and a few UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch titles, after all of which he moved on to this game. One of the most famous video games in UsefulNotes/The8bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames and the TropeCodifier for the 2D platformer (it wasn't the TropeMaker--see ''VideoGame/PacLand''), it was released for the Family Computer on September 13, 1985 in Japan, and for the Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem on October 18, 1985 in North America.[[note]]The NA release date has been subject to debate; this is the one given by Creator/{{Nintendo}}.[[/note]]

* First things first, there was an UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame version called ''VS. Super Mario Bros.'', which had a number of [[https://www.mariowiki.com/VS._Super_Mario_Bros differences]] to make it harder, including six new levels mixed in with the classic ones. This version would later get a port on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch as part of Hamster's ''Arcade Archives'' series.

* ''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe'', a UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor [[UpdatedRerelease port]] with a bunch of extra content. This included a Challenge Mode where you had to get a high score, collect five Red Coins, and find the Yoshi Egg in each stage; a two-player race mode; badges and other images awarded for achievements; a high-score table; extra utilities and printables; a hidden "You vs. Boo" mode (a one-player version of the two-player game); and a hidden conversion of ''The Lost Levels'', but only Worlds 1-8.
* While this first game didn't get a remake on the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance like the other 2D ''Mario'' platformers up to that point, it ''was'' re-released in its original form (with squished sprites) as part of the Classic NES Series.
* For the 35th anniversary, a UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch containing the game was released, as well as an online BattleRoyaleGame version for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch called ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros35''. Tropes specific to ''35'' can be found on its page.

* AchievementSystem: Though absent in the original version, it features an achievement system in the Deluxe version for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy Color, in the form of the album. By doing various tasks, like finishing the game or defeating enemies, you can complete the album with pictures or medals related to your achievement that you can even comment and print thanks to the Game Boy Printer! However, the print option has been removed in the 3DS Virtual Console release due to the obvious incompatibility with the Printer. Also in the Virtual Console version, due to the removal of Multiplayer, 2 pictures have been permanently locked, making 100% completion legitimately impossible on 3DS.

** Sega's ''VideoGame/AlexKidd in Miracle World'' was not such an obvious clone, but still fits the trope (and was correspondingly packaged with or built in later models of the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]]).

** In official artwork, Mario wears a red cap & overalls with a blue shirt, yet wears a brown shirt in-game. Meanwhile, Luigi has no official artwork, and consequently wears white with a green shirt to match his artwork from the UsefulNotes/Atari2600 port of ''VideoGame/MarioBros''. ''Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.'' would riff on this by featuring a number of sleep mode screens where Mario and Luigi are colored identically to their in-game sprites.

** ''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe'' on the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor, which also had ''The Lost Levels'' as UnlockableContent.

''Super Mario Bros.'' is a 1985 PlatformGame and the first game in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, though [[OlderThanTheyThink not the first]] to star Mario, as he appeared in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' first, as well as ''VideoGame/MarioBros'', ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew'', and a few UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch titles, after all of which he moved on to this game. One of the most famous video games in UsefulNotes/The8bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames and the TropeCodifier for the 2D platformer (it wasn't the TropeMaker--see ''VideoGame/PacLand''), it was released for the Family Computer on September 13, 1985 in Japan, and for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem on October 18, 1985 in North America.[[note]]The NA release date has been subject to debate; this is the one given by Creator/{{Nintendo}}.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioAllStars'' has a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of this game with [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] graphics and music. It also has the aforementioned ''Lost Levels''[[note]]In fact, this is where ''Lost Levels'' got its name; it was previously known as ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', not to be confused with the game listed next[[/note]], ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''. Tropes specific to ''All-Stars'' can be found on its page.

This game was highly formative for the later series. Most notably, it introduced the basic storyline of Mario rescuing Princess Toadstool (later Peach) from Bowser that later games would copy, modify, subvert, deconstruct and reconstruct again and again. In addition, it introduced Toadstool and Bowser's characters, alongside the Toads, the Mushroom Kingdom, the basic system of powerups -- including the iconic Super Mushroom, Fire Flower and Starman -- that would become central to later installments' gameplay, and a number of classic enemy types such as Goombas, Koopa Troopas and Paratroopas, Hammer Brothers, Spinies, Lakitus, Cheep-Cheeps and Bloopers.

''Super Mario Bros.'' is a 1985 PlatformGame and the first game in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, though [[OlderThanTheyThink not the first]] to star Mario, as he appeared in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' first, as well as ''VideoGame/MarioBros'', ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew'', and a few UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch titles, after all of which he moved on to this game. One of the most famous video games in UsefulNotes/The8bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames and the genre-establishing platformer (though it is preceded by earlier games like ''VideoGame/PacLand''), it was released for the Family Computer on September 13, 1985 in Japan, and for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem on October 18, 1985 in North America.[[note]]The NA release date has been subject to debate; this is the one given by Creator/{{Nintendo}}.[[/note]]

* JumpPhysics: The game has very well thought out jump physics, and the level designs were tailored around it. Mario can jump five times his height, can jump farther when running, and he maintains just enough midair control to cut short a forward jump. Mario holds his momentum for a bit when he's in mid air or lands, even if the D-Pad is released. Even if he bumps into a wall in motion, he still holds his momentum and maintains mid air jump control. If he bumps his head into something, it quickly knocks him back down (the cramped castle levels are specifically designed to use this against you) but it won't stop him from moving.

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* ''VideoGame/AllNightNipponSuperMarioBros'', a [[LicensedAddedGame license-added]] remix that replaces the Toads and certain enemies with caricatures of personalities from Fuji TV's ''All Night Nippon'' radio program. The game is rebuilt using the engine of ''The Lost Levels'', and includes the GoombaSpringboard, Luigi's jump physics and a few stages from ''The Lost Levels''.

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%%* BaldOfEvil: Bowser. Averted in both the artwork and ''All-Stars''.

* FinaleProductionUpgrade: Intended, but ultimately averted. This game was intended to be this for the original cartridge-based Famicom hardware, representing the pinnacle of what could be achieved on the system; Nintendo assumed that, following the release the game, most developers would shift their focus over to the Famicom Disk System (FDS), whose higher capacity floppy discs would allow developers to create games that were more impressive than cartridge based ones. However, thanks to advances in mapper chips and ROM capacity, this ended up not being the case, with later cartridge-based games able to match or exceed what FDS games could do. Because of this, in addition to [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil rampant piracy]] the popularity of the FDS faded, to the point that it was never released outside of Japan.

* NeverSayDie: Averted; the English instruction manual uses the words "kill" and "die" throughout, even in places where it ''wasn't'' used in the Japanese manual.

* TogglingSetpiecePuzzle: Though the original version averts the trope, the Vs. game and its single-player variant You vs. Boo in the ''Deluxe'' version for Game Boy Color include red and white blocks that appear throughout the levels. Each of these blocks are solid for one player but not the other, and can be toggled by hitting blocks with faces on them. In the more advanced Vs. levels, there are blocks that become damaging spikes instead of disappearing, as well as levels in which the blocks flip automatically on a timer rather than solely when a player hits a face block (though the timer blocks can be hit to flip them early).

'''''[[TropeCodifier The]]''''' PlatformGame.

''Super Mario Bros.'' is the first game in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, though [[OlderThanTheyThink not the first]] to star Mario, as he appeared in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' first, as well as ''VideoGame/MarioBros'', ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew'', and a few UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch titles. ''Then'' he moved on to this game, singlehandedly kicking off UsefulNotes/The8bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames and setting loads of gaming standards in the process. Not just for platformers, either -- quite a few genres use conventions established in this game. It was released for the Family Computer on September 13, 1985 in Japan, and for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem on October 18, 1985 in North America.[[note]]The NA release date has been subject to debate; this is the one given by Creator/{{Nintendo}}.[[/note]]

* {{Expy}}: Koopa Troopas stand in for Shellcreepers, the turtle enemies from the original ''VideoGame/MarioBros''.

*** In official artwork, Mario wears a red cap & overalls with a blue shirt, yet wears a brown shirt in-game. Meanwhile, Luigi has no official artwork, and consequently wears white with a green shirt to match his artwork from the UsefulNotes/Atari2600 port of ''VideoGame/MarioBros''. ''Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.'' would riff on this by featuring a number of sleep mode screens where Mario and Luigi are colored identically to their in-game sprites.
*** Princess Peach is depicted with blonde hair and a pink dress in official art, but is a redhead with a white dress in-game. This would go on to affect her depictions in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' thanks to the production staff having only a limited amount of reference material to go off of. [[VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld Twenty-eight years later]], Peach's white with red trim dress would be acknowledged by making it her Fire Form.
*** Bowser is depicted in much of the game's Japanese artwork with blue skin and a yellow mohawk, but is green-skinned and bald in-game. Later artwork would update Bowser's skin color to match his sprite, while his initial blue-skinned look would be carried over to his brother, who appears as an enemy in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels''.

* ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: In official artwork, Mario wears a red cap & overalls with a blue shirt, while Luigi wears white, with a green shirt. Contrary to popular belief, Luigi's colors matched his sprite at that point in time, but in-game, Mario wore a brown shirt. Luigi would not appear in-game with a green hat/overalls and a blue shirt until the game was remade on Super Mario All-Stars.

ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: In official artwork, Mario wears a red cap & overalls with a blue shirt, while Luigi wears white, with a green shirt. Contrary to popular belief, Luigi's colors matched his sprite at that point in time, but in-game, Mario wore a brown shirt. Luigi would not appear in-game with a green hat/overalls and a blue shirt until the game was remade on Super Mario All-Stars.

* SpringJump: The game marks the first appearance of the trampolines in the series, debuting specifically in 2-1. One is used to reach the exit due to it being obstructed by a tall brick wall instead of the usual brick staircase.

* First things first, there was an UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame version called ''VS. Super Mario Bros.'', which had a number of [[https://www.mariowiki.com/VS._Super_Mario_Bros differences]] including six new levels mixed in with the classic ones. This version would later get a port on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch as part of Hamster's ''Arcade Archives'' series.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels'', the game's much more infamous MissionPackSequel (which also had all the levels in the ''VS.'' version). Tropes specific to ''The Lost Levels'' can be found on its page.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioAllStars'' has a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of this game with [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] graphics and music. It also has the aforementioned ''Lost Levels''[[note]]In fact, this is where ''Lost Levels'' got its name; it was previously known as ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', not to be confused with [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 the other one]], which is also in ''All-Stars''.[[/note]], ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''. Tropes specific to ''All-Stars'' can be found on its page.
* There was also a UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor [[UpdatedRerelease port]] called ''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe''. This included a Challenge Mode where you had to get a high score, collect five Red Coins, and find the Yoshi Egg in each stage; a two-player race mode; badges and other images awarded for achievements; a high-score table; extra utilities and printables; a hidden "You vs. Boo" mode (a one-player version of the two-player game); and a hidden conversion of ''The Lost Levels'', but only Worlds 1-8.

* For the 35th anniversary, a UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch containing the game was released, as well as an online BattleRoyaleGame version for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch called ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros35''. Tropes specific to ''35'' are found on its page.

The original game was [[VideoGameRemake remade]] with [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] graphics along with the other [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] titles in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioAllStars''. There was also a UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor [[UpdatedRerelease port]] called ''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe''[[note]]which, as a result, prevented the All-Stars version from getting a GBA remake, though that somehow didn't stop Nintendo from directly porting the original [=NES=] version to the [=GBA=] instead[[/note]]. This included a Challenge Mode where you had to get a high score, collect five Red Coins, and find the Yoshi Egg in each stage; a two-player race mode; badges and other images awarded for achievements; a high-score table; extra utilities and printables; a hidden "You vs. Boo" mode (a one-player version of the two-player game); and a hidden conversion of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels'', but only Worlds 1-8. There was also an UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame called ''[[http://tinyurl.com/qzubrj6 VS. Super Mario Bros.]]'' and a port for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance was released as part of the Classic NES Series. For the 35th anniversary release, a Game & Watch version was released as well as an online battle royale version for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch called ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros35''. Lastly, in both ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2'', there's a game style based on this one, allowing players to create their own [=SMB1=] levels (including recreations of World 1-1, though one such version is already present in the games proper among the pre-installed levels). The ''VS.'' edition would later get a port on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch as part of Hamster's ''Arcade Archives'' series.