Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. is the first game in the Super Mario series, originally released for the Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. It shifted the gameplay away from its single-screen arcade predecessor, Mario Bros., instead being a horizontally sidescrolling 2D platformer with 32 obstacle courses. Super Mario Bros. introduced staple characters, items, and enemies to the Mario franchise, as well as the recurring premise of Bowser kidnapping Princess Toadstool.
The game features eight worlds with four courses each, ending in one of Bowser's castles where the player fights a Fake Bowser to rescue a mushroom retainer. The other courses take place across land, sky, and sea (with swimming based on the controls of Balloon Fight), establishing recognizable course themes such as the underground. Some courses have secret Warp Zones that allow the player to skip ahead.
Super Mario Bros. is widely credited with helping revive the North American gaming industry from the , and was the best-selling videogame for decades until Wii Sports outsold it. It has since also been outsold by Tetris (Electronic Arts), Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto V, and PUBG: Battlegrounds. Super Mario Bros. lives on as a popular game in speedrunning; hundreds of runners have completed the game in under five minutes.
The game was adapted into VS. Super Mario Bros., a two-player arcade game, and a simplified Game & Watch version (and later, a full port with extra features, Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.). It has also been edited into All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. and a 25th anniversary edition. Super Mario Bros. is also considered to have two sequels, both titled Super Mario Bros. 2 in their respective regions. There is also Super Mario Bros. Special, an officially licensed Hudson Soft sequel for Japanese and Korean PCs. Decades later, the game was reworked into a limited-release battle royale, Super Mario Bros. 35.
==Related articles==
===Locations===
*Mushroom Kingdom
===Characters===
===Items and objects===
*Coin
*Magic Mushroom
*Fire Flower
*Starman
*1 up Mushroom
===Enemies===
*Bloober
*Bullet Bill
*Buzzy Beetle
*Cheep-cheep
*Hammer Brother
*Koopa Paratroopa
*Koopa Troopa
*Lakitu
*Little Goomba
*Piranha Plant
*Podoboo
*Spiny
==Fanon content==
Included in
*Retrovia (rerelease)
*Another Castle (remake)
*Super Mario Bros. Rewarped (remake)
==Gallery==
Category:Super Mario (series)
Category:1985