Super Mario Bros. & Duck Hunt -cartridge for the Nintendo Entertainment System
date: label: date made
content: ca 1988
name: label: Associated Name
content: Huynh, Richard
label: maker
content: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: The Nintendo Entertainment System was one of the highest selling video game consoles, released in the United States in 1985. These materials are two games for the system on one grey cartridg abd a plastic sleeve. The games are Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros., which had originally been released individually. To increase sales of the Nintendo Entertaiment, System, Nintendo sold these two games in one cartridge. Nintendo offered different packages at different prices that would included different software and accessories. This cartridge was included in the Action Set package which sold starting in 1988. Super Mario Bros. was often packaged with the system making it most popular games of all time. This led to Mario becoming a global icon recognized by children and parents alike.
label: Description
content: The materials were donated to the Smithsonian by the Chinese Vietnamese American Richard Huynh, whose sister Annie Huynh served as a volunteer with the computer collections some years ago.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard Huynh
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0344.04
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0344.04
label: accession number
content: 2003.0344
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Video Game Cartridge
label: Object Type
content: Video Game
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: silicon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.5 cm x 12.4 cm x 1.9 cm; 5 5/16 in x 4 7/8 in x 3/4 in