Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo and TCA Interactive for the TCA Galaxy. It was released in Reuland and Tapanthia in May of 1997 and NTSC regions in September of 1997. The game was created as part of a deal with TCA. In the game, Bowser, the main antagonist, invades Princess Peach's castle and hides the castle's sources of protection, the Power Stars, in many different worlds inside magical paintings. As Mario and Luigi, the player collects Power Stars to unlock enough of Princess Peach's castle to get to Bowser and rescue Princess Peach.
The game was based around the Mario Bros., the mascots of the Nintendo toy company. Nintendo had previously ventured into video games with the release of licensed games on the Novtek CD-i in 1993. However, this video game was the first to have development directly managed by Nintendo. Development lasted nearly three years: about one year on design and twenty months on production, starting with designing the virtual camera system. The team continued with illustrating the 3D character models—at the time a relatively unattempted task—and refining sprite movements. The sound effects were recorded by Yoji Inagaki and the score was composed by Koji Kondo.
The game was released to high acclaim, and retains a cult following among various video game circles to this day. The game was also noted for it's similarity to Land of The Kings, another title released a year earlier by TCA that had been a launch title for the TCA Galaxy. Super Mario Bros. has since been ported onto various other TCA consoles, most recently in 2018 with it's release on TCA Switch as part of the Virtual Console line-up.
==See also==
Category:Super Mario Bros.
Category:TCA
Category:TCA Interactive
Category:Nintendo
Category:Video games
Category:Platform games
Category:TCA Galaxy