Mario Brothers

Mario Bros.
American arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Nintendo Research & Development 1
Publisher(s)	INT: Nintendo JP: Hudson Soft (PC-88) NA: Atari, Inc. (Atari 2600, 5200) Atari Corp. (Atari 7800, 8-bit) EU: Ocean Software (European computers)
Designer(s)	Shigeru Miyamoto Gunpei Yokoi
Composer(s)	Yukio Kaneoka
Series	Mario franchise
Platform(s)	Arcade Famicom/NES, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, Game Boy Advance (as secondary game in Super Mario Advance series), GameCube (in Animal Crossing), ZX Spectrum, Game & Watch
Release	June 1, 1983 Arcade JP: July 14, 1983 NA: June 1, 1983 Famicom/NES JP: September 9, 1983 NA: June 20, 1986 EU: September 1, 1986 Atari 2600 NA: 1983 Atari 5200 NA: 1983 PC-88 JP: February 1984 Apple II NA: 1984 FM-7 JP: 1984 NEC PC88 JP: 1984 Commodore 64 NA: 1986 vgrelease: EU Amstrad CPC EU: 1987 ZX Spectrum EU: 1987 Atari 7800 NA: 1988 Atari 8-Bit NA: 1989 Game Boy Advance e-Reader NA: November 11, 2002 Famicom Mini JP: May 21, 2004 Virtual Console Wii NA: November 19, 2006 PAL: December 8, 2006 JP: December 12, 2006 Korea: KR Nintendo 3DS JP: May 8, 2013 EU: January 9, 2014 NA: January 30, 2014 Wii U JP: May 29, 2013 WW: June 20, 2013
Genre(s)	Platforming
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Cabinet	Upright
CPU	Zilog Z80 @ 3.072 MHz I8039 @ 0.73 MHz
Sound	DAC, samples
Display	Horizontal orientation, raster, 256 × 224 resolution

Review scores
Publication	Score
AllGame	(Arcade) (Atari 5200) (Virtual Console)
GameSpot	4.9/10 (Virtual Console)
IGN	4.5/10 (Virtual Console) 6/10 (e-Reader)

Mario Bros. (マリオブラザーズ, Mario Burazāzu^?) is a platform game published and developed for arcades by Nintendo in 1983. It was created by Shigeru Miyamoto. It has been featured as a minigame in the Super Mario Advance series and numerous other games. Mario Bros. has been re-released for the Wii's, Nintendo 3DS's, and Wii U's Virtual Console services in Japan, North America, Europe and Australia.

In the game, Mario is portrayed as an Italian-American plumber who, along with his younger brother Luigi, has to defeat creatures that have been coming from the sewers below New York City. The gameplay focuses on Mario's extermination of them by flipping them on their backs and kicking them away. The original versions of Mario Bros.—the arcade version and the Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System (FC/NES) version—were received positively by critics.

Mario Bros. features two plumbers, Mario and Luigi, having to investigate the sewers of New York after strange creatures have been appearing down there. The objective of the game is to defeat all of the enemies in each phase. The mechanics of Mario Bros. involve only running and jumping. Unlike future Mario games, players cannot jump on enemies and squash them, unless they were already turned on their back. Each phase is a series of platforms with pipes at each corner of the screen, along with an object called a "POW" block in the center. Phases use wraparound, meaning that enemies and players that go off to one side will reappear on the opposite side.