Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros.
North American packaging artwork
Developer(s)	Nintendo R&D4
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Shigeru Miyamoto
Producer(s)	Shigeru Miyamoto
Designer(s)	Shigeru Miyamoto Takashi Tezuka
Programmer(s)	Toshihiko Nakago Kazuaki Morita
Composer(s)	Koji Kondo
Series	Super Mario
Platform(s)	Nintendo Entertainment System Arcade, Disk System, Game Boy Color, Game & Watch, PC-8801, PlayChoice-10, Super NES, X1
Release date(s)	September 13, 1985 NES/Famicom JP: September 13, 1985 NA: 1985 EU: May 15, 1987 AU: 1987 Famicom Disk System JP: February 21, 1986 Arcade JP: 1986 NA: 1986 Game Boy Color NA: May 10, 1999 EU: July 1, 1999 JP: March 1, 2000 Game Boy Advance JP: February 14, 2004 NA: June 2, 2004 EU: July 9, 2004 20th Anniversary JP: September 13, 2005
Genre(s)	Platformer
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Review scores
Publication	Score
AllGame	NES:
GameSpot	Wii VC: 8.3/10

Super Mario Bros. is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System home console. Released as a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan and North America in 1985, and in Europe and Australia two years later.

It is the first game in the Super Mario series of games. In Super Mario Bros., the player controls Mario and in a two-player game, a second player controls Mario's brother Luigi as he travels through the Mushroom Kingdom in order to rescue Princess Toadstool from the antagonist Bowser.

In 2005, IGN's poll named the "pioneering" and "highly influential" title as the "greatest game of all time", considering it to have aided in resurrecting the crashed American video game market of the 1980s. The game's mid-1980s release served to further popularize the side-scrolling subgenre of the already popular platform video game genre of the early 1980s. In addition to its definitive features, the game has also sold well, and was the best-selling game of all time for a single platform for approximately three decades at over 40 million units, until Nintendo's Wii Sports took that title. The commercial success of Super Mario Bros. has caused it to be ported to almost every one of Nintendo's major gaming consoles. Nintendo released special red variants of the Wii and Nintendo DSi XL consoles in re-packaged, Mario-themed limited edition bundles in late 2010 as part of the 25th anniversary of the game's original release.

The player takes on the role of the main protagonist of the series, Mario. Mario's younger brother, Luigi, is only playable by the second player in the game's multiplayer mode and assumes the same plot role and functionality as Mario. The objective is to race through the Mushroom Kingdom, survive the main antagonist Bowser's forces, and save Princess Toadstool. The player moves from the left side of the screen to the right side in order to reach the flag pole at the end of each level.