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Mario Bros.
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Nintendo Year: 1983 Class: Wide Release Genre: Platform Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Either Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player Controls:
Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp) |
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Mario Bros. DescriptionTurtles, crabs, and flies come pouring out of the waterworks. Hit the floor beneath them to flip them over, then kick them into the water. Collect coins for bonus points.Cabinet InformationThe game was originally released in the dedicated wide-body cabinet seen above. Many later games were built as conversions, often using other Nintendo cabinets like the orange Donkey Kong Junior cabinet shown on the right.ConversionThe conversion kit came with the control panel assembly, front plexiglass, marquee, sideart, hardware to re-orient the monitor, the PCB and the wiring harnesses. It was designed to quickly convert Donkey Kong and similar Nintendo series cabinets.Game IntroductionMario Mario and Luigi Mario (the Mario Brothers) must try to get rid of Shellcreepers (turtles), Sidesteppers (crabs) (need to be hit twice), and Fighterflies (flies)(can only be defeated while they touch the platform) who come pouring out of the waterworks.Hit the floor beneath them to flip them over, then kick them into the water. Collect coins for bonus.Later, the Slipice will come out and freeze the platforms making your traction very poor. As the game progresses water drops hang below the platforms and freeze into deadly icicles which fall soon after. Keep track of the green fireballs as they will appear more frequenly. The red fireball can also be a menace. If you have to you can hit the fireballs from below when they touch the platform. Beware of hitting the red fireball. It rapidly reappears and moves much faster. Hit the POW platform to knock over your enemies and destroy fireballs. Be wise, you only get three per level. Each difficulty level begins with three POW's and a bonus wave which coins are collected Game PlayThe first player controls Mario (blue) and the second player controls Luigi (green). You can either work together to kill all the opponents, or compete by putting the other player in a position to be killed.Hacks
VAPS Arcade CensusThere are 6,975 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 4,013 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 65,105 machines (3,796 unique titles).Very Common - There are 187 known instances of this machine owned by Mario Bros. collectors who are members. Of these, 119 of them are original dedicated machines, 28 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 40 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 10 VAPS members with Mario Bros. machines for sale. There is one VAPS member with an extra Mario Bros. circuit board for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts. Wanted - Popular - There are 22 VAPS members currently looking for Mario Bros.. This game ranks a 80 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 51 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TriviaThe idea that this game would be for two players did not come about until Shigeru Miyamoto was inspired by Williams' Joust.The name for Mario's brother, Luigi, who is introduced in this game, came from a pizza parlor nearby the then-new Redmond, Washington headquarters of Nintendo of America called "Mario and Luigi's." LegacyManuals
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